I’m perplexed by the playback of an exposed chord (isolated in the attached audio), which sounds noticeably uncoordinated.
The VST in use is VSL’s Yamaha CFX. All notes have identical velocity values (38), and I’ve triple-checked that every note is precisely aligned with the beat in Key Editor (playback durations).
I’d be very grateful for any advice on how best to resolve the issue. At present, I’m unsure whether the cause lies with Dorico or with VSL.
well, I can’t imagine it’s VSL as I’ve never come across anything like with my three VSL pianos (don’t have the Yamaha admittedly). Have you made sure you’ve disabled all the timing humanisation in Dorico’s playback options and reset playback overrides just in case something got in accidentally? Is there still an issue if you remove the fermata – or ensure just the default fermata settings? I could easily check if you were to post this little sample as a project.
I checked it with the VSL D-274 and do not get the broken chord. Neither with nor without fermata. Even with humanize start and end notes 30% which is the default I think.
You could try if a forced non arpeggio works by putting a square bracket (under ornaments) over all notes.
If that still does not work I would re-enter the notes once more with the carret and pressing q for mutliple note input low to high.
Many thanks for taking an interest in the issue. I’m in recording sessions today, but I’ll be back in touch tomorrow once I’ve had a chance to try your suggestions.
I have a couple of audio files generated from the same flow that don’t exhibit the VSL timing issue with the final chord, although I am aware of some slight inconsistencies elsewhere earlier in that flow with the same instrument… but nothing nearly so obvious.
For reference, I’m running the VSL CFX directly from Dorico, alongside Steinberg’s Electric Bass, Toontrack’s Superior Drummer, Soniccouture’s Crotales and Sharine’s Tambourine with Kontakt 8, and various other libraries in NPPE 4.1 (Spitfire, BBCSO and Cinematic Studio). I’m not detecting any comparable timing issues with the other instruments.
VSL libraries tend to have better timing than most so I’d be astonished if there was a specific issue with this piano - though of course it’s not impossible. At any rate, using the Steinway, everything works as expected trying to replicate your screenshot. No doubt we’ll get to the bottom of it tomorrow.
