The ARIA Engine is the sample-playback and synthesis engine that has served Plogue and our business partners well since 2005 — solid, mature, and still actively maintained, including a recent Linux port. Our active engine development moved on to its successor, the Fermata engine, which has shipped in every Plogue product since 2018. ARIA lives on as the heart of sforzando, our free SFZ player; if you came here to download or update it, that's where to grab it today, at no cost.
About sforzando Download sforzando (free)The free ARIA Engine sound sets are still available. You can grab the “ARIA Engine Free Sounds” packages — along with sforzando and its user guide — from our Downloads page.
Get the free soundsThe ARIA Engine also powers the ARIA Player that runs Garritan libraries — Personal Orchestra, World Instruments, Jazz & Big Band, Harps, ARIA for ACID and others — along with the Garritan sounds bundled with Finale. These are owned and supported by MakeMusic, not Plogue. MakeMusic has wound down the Finale notation application, but Garritan libraries and the ARIA Player remain available: installers, registration keycards and activation are still provided through MakeMusic, and existing authorizations continue to work. Their guide below walks through downloading, installing and activating your library.
Download & activate Garritan librariesWe have retired the old ariaengine.com website and folded everything into plogue.com, so there is now a single, well-maintained home for the engine. Old bookmarks should land you right here. Still stuck? Reach us through the Contact page or the Plogue forums.