dorico maxes out volume

Dorico
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hi there,

I’m on a Mac running OS 10.9.5, which I realize isn’t officially supported, but nonetheless I wonder if anyone else is having this –

I’m using the default “Built-in Output” audio. Each time I switch back to the Dorico window I find that my output volume is at 100%. Immediately, playback is insanely loud. I turn it down (using the OS volume slider at top right), and continue working – but if I switch out of Dorico to another window then come back, volume returns to 100% until I manually turn it down again.

Super annoying – is this just an OS issue? Is this a feature or a bug?

Thank you!

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Go to Edit > Device Setup, click the Device Control Panel button, and switch off the option ‘Set Device Attenuation to 0dB’, and that should take care of it.

3

Thanks! But why is this “feature” checked on by default? Can’t see the practicality of it…

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I absolutely agree. A week or two ago ago I thought I had permanently damaged my hearing when this happened. My ears rang for days afterwards. It took a while to figure out that Dorico was the culprit (as I had Logic and other things running at the time and I kept muting my outputs before I felt able to put anything through my system) and then some Googling to find someone with Daniel’s answer/solution above who had this problem using Cubase in 2012.

http://www.apogeedigital.com/knowledgebase/duet-firewire/when-using-apogee-interface-with-cubase-output-volume-level-goes-to-max/

This option should definitely be unticked by default. If there are users who want this feature on then they can easily go and tick the option. This is a really dangerous feature and someone is going to have damaged eardrums at some point if it isn’t fixed.

Mac OS Sierra
Apogee Quartet

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This may be an issue specific to class-compliant audio interfaces when using any of Steinberg ASIO applications for macOS.
There is a reason why ‘Set Device Attenuation to 0dB’ is ticked on by default, but I agree that this should be ticked off.

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I would love to have it turned of by default too…

7

I just had the same thing happen to me. Almost blew my ears out. Very dangerous, should be off by default. (Apogee Symphony audio interface)

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Yes, and it has been already announced in another thread, from Dorico 4 onward the default will be off.

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9

What a relief to discover this! Still a problem in Dorico 5. My ears are grateful!

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Since Dorico 4, as Ulf says, the default for this option has been to be disabled, i.e. that your system volume level will not be set to 0dB by default.