That is, so long as you were only using Garritan instruments...

Respighi uses 'I. solo' in Fontane di Roma (with 'gli altri' for the others that are playing at the same time); Vaughan Williams uses 'one player' in Flos Campi ; Sibelius has '2 Viol. I soli' in En...

It's entirely possible, I'm missing something, but I think these are the COMB cymbals. COMB and GPO are the only ones that have patches called 'n-cymbals'; and if you look at the attached, the COMB...

Ah, well, that answers my questions about whether Finale 25 was going to improve percussion at all. Not that I expected to, I was just curious. The percussion oddities are always going to remain the...

I'm used to seeing '1 solo' in circumstances like that (think R. Strauss, Mahler, etc.). More precision is never a bad thing (well, okay, in some circumstances it can be), and there's warrant for it...