This is another divisi playback thread.
I have a project (well, several projects) with multiple flows and divided strings. Because of the current situation with divisi playback, every time a section is divided into solo and tutti players, the solo stave(s) must be manually reassigned to a different voice and sound patch.
I’m finding that every time I reopen the project after closing Dorico, or sometimes even simply after saving the file and then leaving it in the background for a couple of days, the sound patches have undergone inexplicable changes that I didn’t make (so that some solo staves/voices have been somehow reassigned to tutti instruments and vice versa), or are completely silent for no obvious reason. In the current case for example, I have two soloists divided from a section, assigned to channels 7 and 13 in the HALion player, and the one assigned to channel 7 simply doesn’t play—whereas the one assigned to channel 13 plays back with the sound patch assigned to channel 7. This is perhaps because that particular voice (“Up-stem Voice 3” or whatever) was assigned to channel 7 in a different flow.
As a related subject, the voice assignments I’ve made for these solo staves don’t seem to be sticking either. I have tried to assign the soloists in one flow to new up-stem voices at least three times and each time I reopen the project they’re back in voices 1 and 2 (which they shouldn’t be, because those voices are assigned to tutti staves in other flows).
What am I doing wrong here? My current plan is to reset the playback template, see if I can come up with consistent voice assignments across every flow, and hope it stops happening, but this has been a recurring issue.
Have yet to upgrade from 3.5.12, if this has been fixed in 4.