In autumn 2008, I was presented with a problem which I’m sure you’ve come across yourself: I encountered a situation in which I needed to create a “realistic” audio mock-up of some of my existing scores, but found Sibelius Sounds to be too unrealistic to achieve this. For me, the solution was to purchase a third-party sample library; but I quickly found, to my horror, that connecting my score to my samples was more difficult than a simple plug-and-play solution. I spent a fe