No, neither EWQLSO nor Symphonic Choirs are as easily integrated into
Sibelius as GPO are.
Firstly, no sound sets are currently available for either of these
products, so you would have to either develop a sound set yourself, or
use the Manual Sound Sets page of Play > Playback Devices to tell
Sibelius which sounds are loaded (look under the subheading 'Using a
multi-channel virtual instrument without a sound set' on page 321 of
Help > Sibelius Reference for the basic procedure).
Secondly, Sibelius cannot load the EWQLSO or Symphonic Choirs sounds
automatically, so you will have to load the sounds manually into the
supplied Kompakt player. (Note that if you're on Mac, the supplied
Kompakt player isn't a Universal Binary and so won't work with Sibelius
5 at all on Intel, so you would also need to purchase the full Kontakt
sampler to use those sounds in Sibelius on an Intel Mac.)
Thirdly, the sounds are much, much larger than the GPO sounds and hence
you can load fewer sounds simultaneously. A keyswitches violin or cello
sound may take up several hundred megabytes of memory, meaning that you
may only be able to load a handful of sounds before you run out of
memory. Certainly you won't be able to run a full orchestra using
EWQLSO on a single machine: users who need to do this tend to have
several computers all ganged together, either using MIDI or a special
VST plug-in called FX Teleport to run the data from their main machine
to their slaved sample-playing PCs.
Fourthly, there are several different configurations of keyswitches etc.
for each sound, and without a sound set, you would have to trigger these
keyswitches yourself in the score using text like ~Nx,64, where x is the
number of the MIDI note you require to trigger the keyswitch.
Fifthly, you cannot use the Symphonic Choirs WordBuilder application
directly with Sibelius, so you will be limited to basic ah, oo, eh etc.
vowel sounds from that library.
The EWQLSO sounds do sound great, but don't expect them to be a simple
drop-in replacement for GPO.
You may also want to consider VSL Special Edition, which does work
somewhat more seamlessly with Sibelius, though it has many of the same
challenges (e.g. the sounds are much larger than GPO).
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