Monphonic input only

[CharlieM22]

I am in the middle of a mostly-insrurmental piece (using Dorico 6) and need to add a short section for piano. However, I have somehow gotten my setup in a state such that, although polyphonic/chordal input from my MIDI keyboard shows up correctly in the score and plays back correctly (using NotePerformer 5), all I hear when I press the MIDI keys is the top note of the chord played by a sound other than the piano. I’m sure I must have inadvertently changed some setting somewhere without realizing it, but I haven’t a clue where to look to see how to fix the problem. Any suggestions?

[derAbgang]

Perhaps you’ve been bitten by this?

Very strange playback issue during note input since the Dorico 6.1 update

When I enter music via MIDI keyboard (pitch after duration) quite often it stalls suddenly. That means the latest entered note is playing permanently and the sound changes to the sound of the top staff. Funny enough I can still enter music however the transposition changes to the transposition of the top staff. So when I have a standard orchestra and enter music in a horn in F staff, the sound changes to flute in C. It occurs in the current project I’m working on but also in a new created file. …

Input monitoring jumps from input instrument to the top-staff instrument. You aren’t hearing the whole chord probably because the chord is out of range for the top-staff instrument.

[CharlieM22]

Actually, things seems to be going downhill. I thought I would try opening an older file in Dorico 4 and when I click on a note, I can hear hit, but I can no longer start playback by hitting P. So I really have a mess….

[CharlieM22]

And everything is grayed out in the Play menu (in spite of a reboot),

[derAbgang]

@CharlieM22

And everything is grayed out in the Play menu

That leads me to believe the Dorico 4 project is not activated. Check the activation button in the transport (big and blue when activated):

Once you get it active, reapply the playback template.

[CharlieM22]

Thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate it!

Here’s the latest: I restarted my Mac and opened first Dorico 6 and then Dorico 4 (after closing 6) and made sure the Activation button was bright blue. Dorico 6 now playsback without difficult BUT when I try to do MIDI input on ANY staff in my score, I get notes but no sound.

You mentioned having the right playback template in place. I confess that I have never done anything with that side of Dorico, but it would seem to my naive perception of things that if the score playsback, that problems with hearing MIDI notes (that are clearly making their way into Dorico as evidenced by the fact that notes are correctly placed in the appropriate staff) wouldn’t be related to playback templates. (Also, Scrub works as expected). Any ideas?

[derAbgang]

@CharlieM22

Any ideas?

See my first response and linked topic.

[CharlieM22]

So, a bigger problem than just me…I guess I’ll watch the Forum for updates…and I’m not sure if I should or shouldn’t update to 6.1. I was actually planning on doing that tomorrow after my current project is finished.