Hanging notes with Dorico and Opus?

Dorico
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Hi everyone,

Does anyone else ever get hanging notes with Opus and Hollywood Choirs? It’s really annoying to keep quitting Dorico to silence the offending notes. I suspect the problem is probably with Opus.

Thanks,

Mike

2

You should find that simply stopping and restarting playback is sufficient to silence any hanging notes. If that doesn’t work, chances are there could a problem with the Opus plug-in, and it might be worth checking for any updates to the plug-in.

3

Yes, I’ve had it happen with Opus and Hollywood choirs. No promises about whether it was the same issue though.

I’ve done things where I made the “green circle” in the upper right corner of Opus spin - loading instruments or whatever - and I was impatient enough to go ahead and start working with what was already loaded. Usually it is not a problem, but I’ve occasionally seen that circle just hang, and Opus seems to be in a partially functional state. Those couple of times when it happened with Hollywood choirs and a note hung might have been coincidence. Stop/start playback actually did work for the note - but the only way to “un-hang” the plugin was to restart Dorico.

I’ve had something similar happen if I say yes to the “a new version is available and do I want to download” Opus popup.

The best solution in my case seems for me to be not so impatient. And never update the Opus VST from inside Dorico - use the EWQL updater.

4

Thanks for your input, Daniel and gdball. Yeah, I think it’s Opus itself. This has been going on for a while. By the way, both Dorico and Opus are up to date. I suppose I should contact them, but I’m leary that their customer support will be helpful.

Mike