doublebass bug still in Dorico 2.2 and a wish

Dorico
#1

The doublebass octave-bug ist stille there in Dorico 2.2, right?
It´s not a problem, because my workaround is ok, just for information.

My wish: please create an doublebass in D, a solo-doublebass for Bottesini and so on.

So much workarounds to write for this instrument with this range and tuning.

Best regards
Timo

#2

Hi Timo.
If I understood things clearly, next paid update (Dorico pro 3) will be about fretted instruments. There should be a lot of new things available for those instruments, maybe we will find an instrument editor… Just guessing, though.

#3

Hi Marc,

thanks, an instrument editor should be the best, I think.

Best regards.
Timo

#4

Are you referring to this problem?
https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=246&t=109026&p=667724&hilit=doublebass+octave+bug#p667724

I wish I had seen that earlier because I have been going crazy thinking I was entering notes into the wrong octave, or maybe hearing the pitches in the wrong octave (sometimes the low pitches can be deceptive).

I am curious about your “work-around”. The only suggestion I see in the linked thread is to ignore what you hear. That’s not exactly a “work-around”.

#5

Choose a violoncello instead a doublebass, after that go to Halion and change the instrument from violoncello to doublebass!

Of course you have to rename the instrument and so on…

#6

Perhaps change the expression map in the settings of halion.

#7

Does this only happen with Halion or would the same thing happen with any VST having a contrabass or electric bass voice?

#8

Yes!!! I would love to have a double bass option in solo tuning (1 whole step higher).

#9

I don´t know, but it´s a bug of Dorico not of the VST, so it could be.

#10

My workaround is to choose a trumpet in D instaed a doublebass. Then go to Halion and change the trumpet into a doublebass. And now you must change the expressionmap of the instrument into a doublebass or violoncello or so. Otherwise you hear different artikulations as you´ve written.
If you want to hear the whole range of the solo-doublebass, you can try to use a doublebass, a violoncello and a violin on the same midichannel in Halion. You can limit the section of each instrument in Halion. It works and you can hear a whole Bottesini.

#11

For the record, the problem in this thread was fixed in Dorico 2.2.10.