Not sure why this happens, when Dorico is open and I am doing something else for a while, Dorico often sounds two high Ab’s. Is this something designed to remind me that the program is open, or is it just a fluke?
It’s not part of the piece, playing back at a certain part of the score is it? You have these sounds when Dorico is not playing?
And you are sure it comes from Dorico?
Is it possible that these errant notes existed in an extra or divisi staff that was deleted but not silenced from an earlier version of this piece or perhaps even an earlier project that has been overwritten?
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Hi @Frank_Bozak, adding to the previous suggestions, if the unwanted sounds are caused by a deleted divisi or a removed extra staff that had those notes in it, you are able to see anytime the offending notes in Play mode (so you can identify and delete them).
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Just a thought… Could that be that you’re receiving some message through your phone and it’s connected to your desktop (mine certainly is, and it rings like that when I receive a message)?
Hi @Frank_Bozak ,
does this happen with any project you have? Or does it even happen when no project is loaded into Dorico at all? And what if you create a new project from piano template, don’t enter any notes, just leave it as it is and wait, do the Abs still occur?
Although it occurring when you are not playing or auditioning anything is not common, this could also be a key switch in the playable region in an expression map of one of your instruments. It is not necessarily the one on the staff you are working on. So if the case and you have many instruments it may take some time to find.
It may e.g. occur when you switch to another library for an instrument and forget to switch the expression map.
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It normally happens when I have Dorico open and I haven’t entered anything in about fifteen minutes or so. Sometimes, they occur more rapidly. The notes are not available on my midi controller, unless I change the settings. They are the highest Ab on the piano. I rarely have two projects open at the same time. all lot of my writing is for big band. I have never gotten under the hood and changed any key switches or expression maps. I’m a Finale convert, who is loving Dorico except for this one strange quirk that has been happening almost this long has I have been using Dorico. It was just an annoyance until the actually enter into my score the other day while I was inputting notation. Thanks for all of your help and suggestions
It seems to me that maybe your midi controller is sending those to Dorico.
Can you check if this happens also after deactivating all midi input devices in Preferences? (And keeping working for a while with just mouse and computer keyboard).
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Do you have any demo VSTs? Sometimes demos introduce random audio every once in a while.
Probably not your problem, but I just wanted to mention the possibility!
Tom Kearney
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Thanks for the tips. It is just an odd thing that happens after I have been working for about two hours or so. I will have to see if my Arturia KeyLab is sending a random midi signal.
There are tools to examine the MIDI stream coming off the Arturia. Dust in the controller wheels? I have heard that this can happen. (a tiny touch of WD-40?)
Thank you Andro
