I am on Windows 10 and just upgraded to Dorico 4.0, and I cannot get NotePerformer to play. I tried it again in Dorico 3.5.1.32 and it worked grand.
I’m not sure if this is a Audio Engine issue or a VST issue. NotePerformer64 is listed in the VST Rack, but I cannot get the NotePerformer mixed to show up when I try to launch it.
I’ve tried resetting the cache, the audio engine, changing ASIO drivers, changing bitrates, running VSTAudioEngine5.exe separately, making sure NotePerformer is whitelisted and not blacklisted and deleting VSTAudioEngine5_64 and Dorico 4 AudioEngine_64 from my Roaming directory.
I don’t believe VSTAudioEngine5.exe is seeing NotePerformer, as when I run it, NotePerformer does not flash by as it is loading.
Also, every time I run VSTAudioEngine5.exe then try to run Dorico Pro 4.0, it hangs on “Audio engine: Waiting for connection” and won’t progress, requiring me to cancel the process and restart Dorico.
Welcome to the forum Adam.
It’s a little weird and I:m not quite sure, but it could be because Dorico’s audio engine “sees” NotePerformer double, namely first in C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\NotePerformer64.dll and the second in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2\NotePerformer64.dll.
Try to take out one of the paths from the VST2 Search Path list in the Dorico Preferences dialog. Then restart Dorico and try again. If it still fails to load, please make a new diagnostics report. Thanks
No Joy. Every time I close Dorico Pro 4.0 and re-open it, it rebuilds the default VST Plug-in Paths, so I delete NotePerformer64.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2\NotePerformer64.dll and it still did not fix it.
No, that other folder is only relevant if you start the audio engine by itself, something that users normally should not do. It doesn’t do harm, but also does not do anything good
But please try again with a new project from scratch and apply the NotePerformer playback template. Does that do then?
Deleted the files again, opened a new project, input a few notes, loaded the template, and still no joy… this is very strange. Dorico Diagnostics4.zip (440.0 KB)
SOLVED! Ulf and I believe that the folder Dorico is installed in must be called Dorico 4, otherwise it breaks!
When I installed Dorico, I installed it directly to a directory I called X:\Steinberg where I had another folder X:\Steinberg\Dorico 3.5 from my previous Dorico installation . After pulling \Dorico 3.5 out from that folder, copying X:\Steinberg and renaming it Dorico 4 , the dependencies were met and NotePerformer started as expected!
EDIT: Interestingly, I cannot delete X:\Steinberg as ...\fonts\DoricoIcons-Regular.ttf and ...\fonts\SourceSansPro-Semibold are being called by Windows on startup. I deleted the rest of the contents of the folder and Dorcio 4 still runs as expected from X:\Dorico 4
@Ulf
Not sure if this is related. I start a file created in 2021 updated and saved in the latest version of Dorico Pro (Windows 10/64) and get a “Some instruments are missing” message.
Restarting the Audio Engine causes the program to skip notes, whereas before everything seemed normal.
Will restart and try to post a crash dump, but suddenly they all disappeared and Dorico will not start, just seems to hang on the splash screen.
Hi @Derrek,
that crash was in HALion Sonic SE. I filed it in our bug tracking system so that the HALion team can have a look at.
But Dorico still does not start up even after a reboot of your machine? If so, then you can’t create a diagnostics report, which I would like from you. Instead please run the batch file that you can download from here. It will create an equivalent diagnostics report, also on your desktop. Please send me. Thanks
I have been able to restart Dorico, and the problem only seems to affect the file in question. The Diagnostic Report is over 4MB, too big to attach here, and I am not sure how I should reinterpret an umlaut to recall your e-mail address.
Should I try deleting these files from /VSTAudioEngine5_64 as well?