Export audio for custom score layout

Dorico
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Good morning,

Is anyone aware of a way to export audio from a specific Custom Score layout without creating a new flow? I got some suggestions from a colleague about moving the desired layout to the top of the Layouts list, but even so, I only ever get the default Full Score layout.

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!

Neil

Dorico Version 2.2.0.1108
MacOS 10.14.4

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Hi Neil,

By default, all players are exported in the audio mixdown. You’d need to open the mixer and mute the channels you didn’t want included.

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Hi Dankreider:

I am having the same problem. I tried muting the tracks I didn’t want to export and, within Dorico, it played only the instruments I wanted. When I tried to export the audio, however, all the instruments in the score were exported.

Any ideas?
Thanks,

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Are you using NotePerformer? If so, you need to open the NP mixer in the Play menu and mute or solo tracks there - not using the Dorico mixer.

I suppose as a workaround you could select the unwanted staves, Edit-Select to End of Flow, delete everything in those staves, export audio, and Undo. Easy enough, though a little inelegant!

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Thanks Dan.

I am not using NotePerformer, just the interface that comes with Dorico. I see how the instrument erase approach would work but I am always leary of relying on the computer to undo multiple steps in case it crashes.

I will probably create a copy of the project then remove the unwanted instruments for recording purposes. Yes it is inelegant but it will get the result I want.

Thanks,

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Sorry for the delay in reply here and thanks for everyone chiming in. I, too, had the same issue with muting tracks. I’m using a mix of Kontakt instruments and the built-in Halion instrument.

The deleting of material/undo is a possibility (and actually what I used to do with Sibelius), but I was hoping for a cleaner solution here.

Thanks, all!
Neil

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Muting in the mixer window works fine here on audio export for single instruments.

Inside Noteperformer I mute the single instruments in NPs own mixer window.

For multi instruments it’s the best to mute individual channels/instrument-slots in the instrument plugin that contains more than one instrument (like Halion or Kontakt) if the single instruments of the multi are routed into a single mixer channel. Sounds complicated but you just have to open the Halion and deactivate the instruments you don’t want to hear.

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Thanks Saxer. You pointed me in the right direction.

I had assigned in playback different MIDI channels for each instrument and in HalionSonic separate sound patches for each of these channels but I hadn’t noticed that HalionSonic was only showing one audio output to the mixer. Once I increased the number of outputs that the mixer saw to cover all instruments, the muting of the individual parts worked both for playback and for audio export.

Many thanks,