The attached project has 7 instruments, each assigned a different channel, but all voices are playing through channel 1. If I mute Channel 1, everything is muted. If I solo any other track, I get no sound. What’s up?
TwoForward.dorico.zip (991 KB)
For whatever reason, all your output channels in the HALion mixer are assigned to “Main.” Changing them to different outputs in the Mix tab gets them to show up in separate channels in the Dorico Mixer. You may have to fiddle with the assignments to match instruments to faders; the settings in my diagram were just to verify my suspicions and offer “proof of concept.”
The same idea would affect outputs to the Dorico Mixer from Kontakt or the Aria Player, which would also need to be directed to separate outputs by the VST.
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For some reason, HALion Sonic SE 3 is set to output every channel through the ‘Main’ output, i.e. the first output, rather than each channel being routed to a separate output. You can either manually fix this on the ‘Mix’ page of HSSE3, or you could try reapplying the default playback template.
I suspect that you have manually loaded HALion and loaded the sounds by hand. If you do this then HALion’s default state is that everything plays back through Main. We would generally recommend using the HSSE/HSO playback templates as a starting point (you still have the option of choosing alternative sounds), but it ensures that the output routing gets set up correctly.
Thanks guys - there are still a whole lot of nooks and crannies that I haven’t yet discovered in Dorico.
Hello there, came across this thread, as I’m having the same issue as @brownium did 5 years ago! I have a choral piece (SSATTB) which is playing through NotePerformer. All the voices seem to be on one channel, and I can’t find any way to separate them. I need to be able to hear all voices, but export 6 different tracks (each favouring a different voice for learning purposes). Can anyone help? Thanks!
Noteperformer has its own mixer that returns to Dorico through one channel.
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Thanks… so any tips on how to fix? I can’t even see a way to open NotePerformer’s mixer…
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Nightingale:
I have a choral piece (SSATTB) which is playing through NotePerformer. All the voices seem to be on one channel, and I can’t find any way to separate them
Noteperformer has its own mixer that returns to Dorico through one channel.
In Play Mode click the little e button…
There is a thread on how to set up NP to work on multiple channels. I don’t use it, but if you search you should find it.
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There are two ways to have NP sounds assigned to separate tracks. David Tee posted a way to have a separate instance of NP for each voice.
If one uses the relatively new NPPE, one can assign individual NPPE instruments to specific channels, but not the legacy NP sounds.
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Thanks all… pretty labour intensive set-up!
Now you can select a note in Write mode and press F1 to show its playback VSTi. Really faster than having to change modes and press that edit button
[Edit] Read Daniel’s message after my post…
Congrats to the team for this great command! 
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Just to say that F1 is not the default shortcut for this command: Show VST Plug-in Window for Selected Staff is the command in question, and can be found in the Play category on the Key Commands page of Preferences.
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I’m having the same problem. Thanks for your answer but I have no idea how to “use the HSSE/HSO playback templates as a starting point”. I also don’t see any output column in the Halion instrument that can be set to different channels.
When you apply one of Dorico’s default playback templates, all of which use HALion Sonic, you will find that Dorico also applies a specific configuration file to HALion Sonic such that each channel is automatically assigned to successive outputs. It should also be the case that when you instantiate HALion Sonic manually, Dorico will also load that same configuration for you – but the simplest way to work with playback in Dorico is always just to use one of the factory playback configurations, as everything is handled automatically for you.