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Until now, I’ve been using dorico5 comfortably. Yesterday I installed dorico6. And when I started it, I got an error message.on my windows11 pc and ASIO driver is working properly
“Required components used for playback cannot be found.”
Therefore, run Steinberg DownloadAssistant (SDA) and install HALionSonic7-Instrument (HS7).
So I ran SDA and installed it. And it’s now installed.
However, when I start dorico6, I get the same error message as before. There is no sound when I play it. Also, HS7 is not in the playback tag of dorico6.
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Error message: Non-existent font appears at startup
Why does this message appear in dorico6 when it doesn’t appear in dorico5 in the same environment as dorico5?
Welcome to the forum. Sorry you’re having trouble. From the Help menu, can you create a diagnostic report, and post it here?
That will help the team figure out what’s happening on your system.
Are you on Windows? Is this a Missing Fonts dialog? Have a careful look at what it is saying. It’s probably saying that the style you’re using doesn’t exist, e.g. an Italic style for a font that has no Italic font file. Choose a Replacement, and that should fix it.
Yes, you can see other topics in the forum about fonts and version 6. V 6 has tightened up the rules about only using ‘proper’ fonts and not fudged ones that Windows lets you make. You are not alone. But when you think about it, it’s a really good move, as I pointed out in another topic. Obliges one to have things more correct. Even if it may be initially annoying.
Extended font family support on Windows. In previous versions of Dorico, font families
with multiple weights were handled quite differently between macOS and
Windows. A family like Minion Pro with multiple weights, such as Bold, Semibold,
Condensed, Bold Condensed, and so on, would appear as a single family Minion Pro
on macOS, with each of the weights listed as separate styles. On Windows, however,
styles were limited to four standard values: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic, so
font families with multiple weights would instead be listed as multiple families:
Minion Pro, Minion Pro Semibold, Minion Pro Condensed, and so on. In Dorico 6,
this limitation has been removed, and font families appear in the same way on
Windows as they always have done on macOS.
One consequence of this is that when you open existing projects for the first time in
Dorico 6, any extended weights in use in your project will be reported as missing in
the Missing Fonts dialog that appears during project opening. This dialog has been
enhanced such that each choice you make in the dialog will be remembered and
automatically populated when opening future projects, so you need make the
mapping from the old font name to the new once.
The Version 6 release notes are long but well worth at least glancing at.