I load my first piece with Noteperformer and a soprano solo, I then go through all the Cantai steps, and the soprano comes up fine. The next piece I do the same setup only this time it’s a tenor solo instead of the soprano solo and I don’t get a vocal sound, even though it renders in Cantai. Does an…

When I first downloaded Cantai, I tried it out for a measure or two by itself, and it produced vocal with lyrics. Today, I created a Cantai + NP Playback Template, assigned it to a real song, and only heard sine tones. On restarting Dorico and re-opening the song I could see the voices loading […

In the playback template you have Cantai on the top?

Make sure the pre-roll setting on the Timing page of Library > Playback Options is set to 0.

I think there was some reference to having a bar or two before the first bar/first beat your singer sings, if this is relevant. (Might related to pre-roll now I think about it, as Daniel has mentioned.) Also I do not know if the Cantai singers can sing out of a normal range, just check your tenor n…

The pre-roll has been set to zero from the start. I cannot change singers; the voice just pops back to Violetta no matter what I choose. It’s a mystery.

I think what’s throwing things off slightly for me is the registers the voices are written in. I had written a tenor part and normally the tenor is written in treble clef and sounds an octave lower. Cantai couldn’t deal with that so once I put the part down an octave to be written where it sounds, t…

I tried another song (for Tenor and only one voice) and it did produce sung lyrics. I can see what some have mentioned about moving end consonants from the end of one syllable to the start of the next. I also note consistent difficulty with -ing endings. Still, what Cantai can do at this stage is …

[image] leeholdridge: But that is incorrect notation in solo vocal writing. So, there is a tenor clef which is the G-clef with an 8 below it. You notate in the treble clef but it plays an octave lower.

Oh, I know that, but it doesn’t look too good on a finished score.

No judgment here. I was trained to use that clef because most choral literature uses it. If you do use that clef, I was just clarifying that Dorico plays the tenor in the appropriate octave. Best of luck.

Cantai works on one piece but not the other

Dorico

arco May 29, 2026, 7:10am 17

There is information here to send Cantai files so they can analyze, if you do not know how to do this already.