Everything is sounding about one tone too high

Dorico
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Hi,

Since today, for a reason I ignore, everything on Dorico is sounding about one tone too high. I checked in the Playback options and my A is tuned at 440 Hz. It’s the same issue for all my project with any VST. It’s the same if I create a new project. Everything else in my computer is fine, including Sibelius playback (I have an iMac 2029 with Mojave). When I export audio the tuning is fine.

Hope it’s something we can fix…

Francis

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What is your sample rate set to: 44100 or 4800? That’s the usual culprit.

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Dan is right. Most likely some other app changed the sample rate in the background and Dorico did not get notified about it. To fix this, go to Edit > Device Setup and change the sample rate to some other value, wait 3 seconds and change it back to the value before. After that playback shall be “in tune” again.

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It’s working! Thank you both!

What should be the default setting for this option?

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Good to hear.

There is no general advice, the default value is whatever you prefer it to be, but “factory setting” would be 44.1kHz.