EastWest Solo Trumpet in Opus playing legato unevenly

Dorico
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In measures 112 and 113 (with the rectangle) below the rhythm plays back like a 16th note on the first eighth note in each circled set of notes. For some reason in measures 114 and 115 this does not happen and the notes play back correctly with straight rhythm. I’m using EastWest solo trumpet. I want all the notes to play evenly in straight rhythm. I’ve tried a lot of the suggestions in other similar posts but nothing has helped.

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So far I’ve tried:

  1. Smoothing out the CC11 and CC1 curves
  2. Changing the notes to a different pitch and back
  3. Switching between ‘Monotrue Legato’ and ‘Legato’ in the Opus player
  4. Adjusting the min/max values for the CC11 to 64/64 and back to 1/127.
  5. Adding a crescendo just for testing
  6. I tried changing the audible length of the notes (not actual length)

I noticed there’s a ‘Monophonic Legato’ checkbox in the expression map. I tried with/without to see maybe if it’s fighting with the Opus ‘Monotrue Legato’ setting.

Also, I’ve noticed it’s mainly happening on the leaps (a third or more). Please ignore the second circled set of notes; the rhythm here is playing back evenly.

I temporarily created a large leap at a lower overall pitch level and the legato played evenly. It appears it’s only happening on leaps at the limit of the instruments range. BBC SO Pro handles this a little better, but the high note seems to be played with more velocity and a little shrill. With EastWest I don’t get that, but I get the rhythm issue.

I don’t want to go back to BBC because they only have Bb trumpets and this is for a symphony orchestra where they primarily use Trumpet in C.

I’ve decided to go back to the BBC Trumpet in Bb. I changed the instrument Dorico thinks it’s playing to Trumpet in C to make sure it doesn’t transpose when switching to the part sheet. Now I can have the trumpet playback in straight rhythm and use whatever trumpet plugin I want. Fyi, I’m using a concert score where everything the conductor will see is at the actual pitch. Then, of course, in the part sheets everyone sees the correct transposition.