“While only relevant to Dorico’s hosting architecture, NotePerformer 5 will support routing sounds to different audio outputs, where you can add your own effects or EQ.”
Wow! This is kind of a gamechanger for creating mockups/demos. We’ll no longer need to export audio files out to a DAW from Dorico if we want to further improve the already pretty excellent NP instrument output.
Just add some processing to an instrument right in Dorico! Thank you NotePerformer.
@davy Might this be of interest for you? If this bypasses Dorico’s master stereo out, it looks to me like you could use it. Maybe you can contact Wallander about this.
I seriously doubt that is possible. Noteperformer is still a VST and as such, exposes outputs to a host not the underlying operating system. If Noteperformer were somehow adapted as a stand-alone program (like most VSTs offer), then direct outs via the sound sub-system would be possible. I don’t see that coming anytime soon–but who knows.
Well, I do not own NotePerformer (yet) so everything I can write is just an uneducated guess. It just made @davy 's post from yesterday pop up in my head.
I get it. But currently Noteperformer only exposes 1 stereo output to notation software (NPPE versions, I hear offer more, up to 16 I think). So even though Dorico shows a mixer channel for every instrument, only the first instrument (usually the first mixer strip) in the first Noteperformer instance outputs any audio to Dorico. What @davy really needs is Dorico to implement groups , busses and and multi-output functionality. Can’t say I wouldn’t make use of that new functionality
I personally use NPPEs (with the multi output option) so I guess we have already sort of had that, since they can then be re-routed to individual channels. Currently the max is 16 channels though, I do hope they will extend this to 32 or so.
@klavierpunk Many thanks for the heads up. I was not aware of NotePerformer. Just had a quick look at the manual and noticed a screenshot of what looks like outputs to 16 stereo pairs. The manual is a bit thin on technical details, but might be worth checking out. The 1 second delay in playback could be a showstopper though as I work to picture. I could slip the video by one second I suppose, and hopefully that one-second NP delay is constant and exact.
I also work to picture and this hasn’t been the case for me. I am not certain but I believe that’s something more like a “lookahead” delay as in all playback is delayed by a second after starting the transport (i.e., playback has a lag while it “gathers its marbles” so to speak), but maybe someone knows better than me about this specific technical aspect. I just finished a short film where I was hitting exact edit points in a large session and it was working precisely for me, combining both NP + additional libraries over VEPro!
Thanks for the info, that’s good to know. I’ll have a look at NP later as it is yet another layer to for me to reason with. For now, I’m just trying to work out why my attached video does not play during recording.
For me video will play during live recording BUT there is a crazy sync issue! Maybe the aforementioned delay has something to do with that, but it’s essentially useless for me because it throws sync wayyy off and I’ve been meaning to report it. What I discovered recently as a workaround is the retrospective record feature - basically I start normal playback and then just play in from my midi keyboard to picture, and immediately after use retrospective record to capture what I just played. Doing so the sync has been consistent and accurate. Not sure why that is working differently.
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