This has been bothering me for quite some time. I’ve been trying to ignore it, but I’d really like to get to the bottom of it now. Maybe I’m just missing something obvious.
When I set up a new score with the VSL Dorico Wizard, why doesn’t a simple crescendo work out of the box?
Up to now, I’ve had to manually adjust every Synchron Player instance by setting the Expression CC to 2 and enabling Vel.XF manually to get any noticeable dynamic change.
Am I missing a step, or is there a better way to make the expression maps work as intended?
one reason – various errors being another —why I don’t use the VSL Dorico wizard maps for the Studio libraries is because they decided for whatever reason (@mducharme reckons it was to avoid overloading ancient laptops) to use velocity as the controller, this disabling VelXF. Basically, you either edit the maps to make them work properly which is what you seem to have done or create your own ones from scratch which is what I did – though with the newer Synchron libraries I tend to start off with the VSL ones to save time and then modify and add missing articulations as required..
I’m barely using the old ones (Synchron-ized, Studio Series). Mostly using the newer Synchron Libraries (Strings, Brass, Wind, Percussion) but still the same problem.
Also the new ones for Synchron libraries use velocity for dynamics and CC2 for modulation for WW and Brass and CC1 for strings and percussion. So expression has to be at 127 for these settings. What is important to mention, if you also use their presets in VE Pro, they use CC1 exclusively So also for WW and Brass. So if you use them in conjunctions with the wizzard EMs, you should change either the WW and brass EMs to CC1 or the presets in VEP. to CC2.
What you can also do if you use these presets is to activate the VelXF button at the left of the CC2 fader (it turns blue). I have the feeling that dynamics work better with this activated.
