Is there a way to preview instruments?

Dorico
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Is there any way during the setup phase to listen to a sample of an instrument playing before adding it to the score? There are a lot of instruments to choose from, and many which I don’t recognize.

If not, it might be useful in future versions of Dorico to add a ‘preview’ button to the Add Player screen that will play a short arpeggio or drum pattern or some other representative sample of what the instrument sounds like to make it easier to decide if you wish to include it.

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Once you’ve added one player to your project, you can go to Play mode and open the HALion Sonic SE plug-in, and start loading different sounds in there to preview them by clicking on the keyboard at the bottom of the window. It’s a nice idea to allow you to preview the sound from Setup mode, though, and I’ll make a note of that.

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I would like to have this, too. I use the “Test” button in Sibelius quite a bit.

**Leigh

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