Not with NotePerformer!
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I’m afraid NotePerformer went years ago. Awful restrictive piece of software. NP is not a DAW. I need a true DAW like Cubase in the studio … together with Dorico, Wavelab and SpectraLayers.
That may be true for you, but the OP is using NotePerformer.
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You should still be able to hear this. It is a change of 4.15 dB. To my old ears, this is at the low end of what I find acceptable / perceivable as the change in loudness between adjacent dynamic markings.
Totally understood … but a lot of Dorico users do not know about the Dorico integration in Cubase 14/15 and are pleasantly surprised when I mention this on the Dorico Facebook Group. What Michael is struggling with is all in Cubase so that was my point. 
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(a delayed reply)
Totally understood … but a lot of Dorico users do not know about the Dorico integration in Cubase 14/15 and are pleasantly surprised when I mention this on the Dorico Facebook Group. What Michael is struggling with is all in Cubase so that was my point.
The origin of this thread is about NOT going to a DAW to get better audio from a score.
In the last 40 years I’ve learned 4 or 5 notation programs and 4 or 5 DAWs. (Anyone remember Southworth’s Total Music or Opcode’s Vision?) And I’ve discovered that the music I make in a score is very different from the music I make in a DAW - they are very different tools that approach creativity differently.
Me, personally? I’m a score guy because of my classical background (though I of course acknowledge that great orchestral writing from others comes out of DAW work without the use of notation.) But creating some of my work in a DAW has felt like a painter in front of a canvas holding wood-working tools in his hands.
I’m sure Cubase is up there with my present DAW of choice (Logic) and probably better in some ways. But I’m not sure I want to learn another major piece of software just to more easily put some volume adjustments into my Dorico playback.
I’m just hoping that Dorico as a Steinberg product will not be hampered in the growth of its audio options just because Cubase has them already.
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Hopefully you are now using NP with its separate outputs and the Dorico mixer?
Yes, I upgraded to the latest NP and instruments are finally playing through their proper Dorico channels. I’m not sure what that does for me however.
Right now drawing CC 7 values have no effect on the volume of the NP instrument, nor do they move the Dorico mixer. The expression map has the following:
Because I’m not really working with velocity in Dorico, perhaps I should replace the secondary dynamic with CC7 and start every instrument with a default value (someone above mentioned that Dorico defaults to 100 for CC7.) Then I could use CC7 for little tweaks that won’t change the timbre (as changing CC11 will do.)
But I really wish that Dorico’s faders responded to those CC7 messages so I could see the present state at any spot. Otherwise I’m not sure what help the Dorico mixer is beyond an overall volume tweak for an instrument (which I usually do in the VST itself.)
NP is a self-contained system with its internal algorithm. Mess with its expression map at your peril, unless you really understand how it works. (just saying)
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