Duplicated percussion kit loses NotePerformer links

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I do have here a very strange thing going on:

I have a player holding a percussion kit; the kit consists of a concert drum, a triangle, suspended cymbal and tam tam. Everything plays back fine.
Now, when I duplicate the player in Setup mode, the instruments of the newly created player sound differently: while the triangle still is correct, all other instruments do sound like a concert drum.
And when I re-apply the NP playback template, it gets even crazier, with the concert drum and the suspended cymbal now playing back as a flute.

It looks to me as if duplicating the player resulted in Dorico getting its playback routings mixed up, with the player’s instrument going to the wrong NP instances: When I switch to Playback mode and click the newly created percussion player, it says “04 - NotePerformer”, with port 1 on channel 2, but the suspenden cymbal the player holds links to “02 - NotePerformer” (another instance), port 1 channel 2 (which is the Flute).

Has anybody seen something like this?

  • The file has been created in Dorico, no XML import.
  • The problem is reproducible in this file here which I can happily send to Daniel for investigating.
  • I could not reproduce the problem in a fresh file though. (Good for you out there :wink: )

Thanks!

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I have had instances when individual NP4 native percussion sounds that played fine when I started, suddenly became flute notes instead of drum or cymbal sounds. No idea why and not sure when the switch occurred.

It has happened in multiple files.

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Yeah, sounds just like what is happening here.

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Ditto… I’ve even had it happen with non-percussion instruments. Reseting the playback template fixes it, but then I have to recreate all my custom mixer settings, reverb, etc.

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Now you can save the reverb settings (at least on the fx track) thanks to the spaces feature.

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NP explicitly disables spaces.

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