Cannot update routing for a player

Dorico
#1

I have a player called Keyboard 2 with IRV on. As you can see in the screenshot below, it is routed to Bank 03, Port 1, Channel 9:

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Now I would like to route “Staff (b)” to another endpoint in another Bank - only for the current flow. So I just select the item from the list:

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It then quickly jumps to Bank 04 before “something bad happens” and I end up on top of my player list:

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The routing is not changed. So I cannot change the Bank at all.

There is other strange behaviour, when I only try to change the Channel (not the Bank), this leads to another Staff being added in Play mode:

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However changing the channel works eventually. Changing the Bank never does. This is reproducible on other instruments in my project.

I fiddled around with a new project and it seems to be buggy if:

  • IRV is turned on
  • “This flow” is selected
  • You try to change Bank

If “All flows” is selected, it works as expected.

I’m using the latest version Dorico 4.0.20.

#2

Unfortunately I’m still in 3.5 so won’t be much help. But in general I found that to change the routing of a different staff of an instrument you need to create a new voice, either upstem or downstem. Otherwise Dorico will stubbornly persist on using the same VST for both staves.

#3

Thanks for your reply, @Bollen. What you describe might work, but it’s not really feasible for my work. I’m really wondering if this is a bug or somehow intended behaviour. Maybe @dspreadbury could tell more?

#4

It really shouldn’t be a problem, once you change the very first note on that staff it’ll persist for the rest of the score and it will have the same appearance. However, I will point out that I have now moved to version 4 and have encountered a bug that produces similar strange behaviour.