I’m trying to transcribe a score in Dorico and, though the other couple of instruments sound fine, the Tuba patch is playing one half-step higher than written, both in inputting and playback. I’ve got it set to Concert Pitch, so that shouldn’t be a problem (not to mention the tuba is Bb instrument, so if anything, it would be sounding a whole step lower).
I’ve tried deleting the player, changing the instrument, re-creating the player. No luck. This doesn’t make sense. Has someone had this issue before? Does anyone have a fix? Thank you in advance.
It might be a mismatch in sample rate playback. Go to audio devices (or press alt/option+,) and change the sample rate. You can set then again to the original sample rate, it will stay “in sync”.
Thank you for your quick response. I tried that before and it didn’t helped, but I tried it again just in case. Edit → device setup → sample rate. Also, if that were the issue, wouldn’t it affect all instruments, not just a single one? The others are on-pitch, it’s just this one that’s off.
Every file has a playback template applied, even if by default. It is not optional. Go into the Play menu, Playback Templates, and hit apply to reapply it.
The reason why reapplying the playback template fixed things is that it basically unloads all of the loaded VST’s and settings and re-sets everything up from scratch as though it was a new Dorico project file. Any wrong settings or data that were mucking things up get deleted.
Well, it’s back. I closed the program because my mouse pointer was registering 2 inches below where I clicked; which was fun. And when I reopen the program, the automatically transposed tuba sound – which has no business being transposed by a half step, is back. I tried running the steps again, to no avail, and finally deleted all the entries in the expression map for the tuba, which made it not play at all. In the end, I’m done messing with this buggy, stupid program. I just want to transcribe my music, not fight with a program over the most basic things. I need a refund for it; can you help me with that, please?
If you have deleted the stuff from the expression map you can get it back with one of the buttons at the bottom - with the map selected clicking “reset to library defaults” ought to put all the slots back the way they should be. Deleting the entries from the expression map is not the proper procedure - assuming you’re using the factory instruments with the factory maps, those are set up correctly. People who were advising checking the expression map previously were probably suspecting you might have manually loaded some other tuba and manually chosen an expression map for it that was wrong. This is almost certainly not the problem.
The fact that this keeps happening suggests that you might have some other device that is sending MIDI pitchbend data, such as a MIDI keyboard. Do you have a MIDI keyboard? If so, which one?
As usual, I appreciate your help. No, there are no midi devices connected. Where the “reset to library defaults” should have reset to library defaults, it just didn’t. The entries are still gone. I could probably put them back; but at this point I’m so disenfranchised with this buggy, stupid software — when all I want is to open a song and transcribe some notes — that I’m done with it. It’s not worth my time and I’m sad that I blew $100 on it. What a waste.
It isn’t a buggy piece of software in general, or there wouldn’t be so many users.
I’m not sure the best way to recover the expression map. If you make a new Dorico project with a Tuba and the map is present in there with all entries, you could export it the tuba map from there and import it into the project at hand (with the export library/import library buttons on the bottom of the expression maps dialog). If the map is empty in a new file too, you might have to reinstall to get the map back, or get someone (like me) to send you the map again. Which map specifically was it? There might be a few different Tuba maps bundled with Dorico depending on which one you are using (Iconica Sketch, HSO, etc.).
For the project you are working on now, was it started in Dorico or was it imported (via MIDI or MusicXML) from another software program?
Thank you for your help, Michael. I started a new score fresh and had the same issue. I do appreciate your persistence and assistance, but I’m just done with a software that has this basic an issue malfunctioning. Back to Sibelius for me.
This. Please do! Load the offending project, then use the create diagnostic function and post both the result and the project here, please. Someone very knowledgeable will take care of it!
