New Instrument won't sound

And all other instruments, except the synths and samplers make sound when you hit play?

While that project is loaded, you could also do from the Dorico menu Help > Create Diagnostic Report which creates a zip file on your Desktop. Please attach that to a reply here. From the contained data I can check the internal routing of the plug-ins and instruments.

And to answer 2 earlier questions:

e.g. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase exempli gratia, which means “for example” or “for instance”. It is used in writing to introduce one or more examples that illustrate a general statement.

In audio engineering,-∞dB (negative infinity decibels)represents absolute silence. Because decibels measure on a logarithmic scale rather than a linear one, scaling an audio signal to an amplitude of zero yields an output of-∞dB, meaning no signal or sound is passing through.

If you could copy your Dorico file, delete all bars except the first, and post the one-measure Dorico file here (or post it on a Dropbox-style site and post the link address here if the file is too large), that might help folks see what is happening.

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.3 MB)

Here you go.

Also, should I go back and number each track from top to bottom as channel 1, 2, 3 etc?

It seems to be that the only channels not sounding are those linked to Pigments. Everything else seems to work fine.

We’re getting closer. I just created a new Analog Lab VST (8), assigned it a preset, connected it to Sampler, and it sounds in Play. So the problem is definitely in Pigments.

Hi @donaldskoog1 , I’ve sent you a private message via this board, please check.

I found it. The reason only Pigments didn’t sound was because I had switched its MIDI channel from 1 to 2 in order to accommodate a two-keyboard set up in MainStage. As soon as I switched it back to 1 it began to work. So this wasn’t a Dorico problem at all. Thanks for all the suggestions tho. I learn something every time up here.