In the future, Dorico will load sounds in a background thread, so in general switching between two documents should be faster (the time taken to load the sounds would be the same, but you’ll be able to work while it does the loading), and we do still plan to actually make the button on Dorico’s toolbar to activate a project work as well, but for the time being you can use a special “Silence” playback template to prevent Dorico from doing any sound loading at all.
Take the contents of the attached zip file and put them in the following folder:
Mac: /Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 2
Windows: %APPDATA%\Steinberg\Dorico 2
You should have two folders, one called PlaybackTemplateGenerators and another called PluginPresetLibraries, in there, each of which should contain a further folder called Silence.
When you start Dorico, you’ll then find ‘Silence’ as a choice in the list of playback templates in the Preferences dialog: you can make this the default playback template for new projects there. You can also choose Play > Playback Template and set ‘Silence’ there. To get playback back again, do Play > Playback Template and choose one of the other playback templates.
silence-playback-template.zip (5.36 KB)