Hi Ulf, I reistalled Dorico Pro 3.1 the way you suggested, which was quick and with no issues. Unfortunately this did not fix the problem and the Setup Device Form still showed no value for the output ports (with the dropdown menu still inactive), even though the Form showed “Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO” in the ASIO Driver textbox.
As previously, the only value I was able to change was the sample rate (default 8000), but changing to 41100 had no effect.
At the end I discovered, almost by chance, that the problem could simply fixed as follows:
In my previous tests, I activated the ASIO driver drop down menu, to check if there were other drivers available. The YS USB ASIO was the only one (correct, since no other ASIO driver was installed). However, I NEVER EXPLICITELY CLICKED on the YS USB audio menu entry to select it. As soon as I did it, the sample rate instantly changed from 8000 to 41100 and I was able to see the available UR242 ports in the Output Ports dropdown menu. Also the “Device Control Panel” button worked, opening a tabbed window with the ASIO driver parameters.
Between the two ports proposed by the form for Stereo Output (“UR242 Mix L/R” and “UR242 FX Bus L/R”), only the FX one produced sound: I assume tis is OK and in any case the sound from Dorico came back!
The only remaining issue was that the guitar instrument was played back with a kind of synthesized sound. I believe this is a known (different) issue that I found in “Toubleshooting Playback Issues in Dorico” tutorial by Anthony Hughes, who suggested to fix it using the PLAY->play->Apply Default Playback Template. I believe this was a Dorico 2 command, which is not present any longer in the Dorico 3 (3.0 and 3.1) PLAY->play command menu.
Anyway, this is a separate issue for which I will create a separate post, unless I get a kind comment from you or someone in the Dorico Team.
As far as the no-audio problem, I missed the simple solution because I assumed that Dorico Device Setup should automatically load the only available ASIO Driver, which was found, as shown in the setup form.
In any case any comment from you will be very welcome.
I attach 3 images of the device setup form, with the steps I went through.
Thanks,
Massimo
good to hear that you can now get sound out.
Seems that you’ve found a bug in our software, that, if there is only one sound driver available, it is not properly selected.
I’ll enter this to our bug database and we’ll further investigate.
In regards to the audio ports, that is also unexpected. You should get sound out of any pair of ports that are listed.
What if you choose L/R, close the dialog and reload the current project, does then sound come out via L/R?
And yes, the menu item changed, it is now just called “Playback Template”, so please choose that one instead.
I have the same/a similar issue. I upgraded to Elements 3 from 2. Audio worked perfectly on 3 … until now. I use Mac CatalinaOS. Instead of Audio output, I now receive these 2 notices:
The first error is nothing to worry about and can be fixed by going to Play > Playback Templates and re-applying the ‘HSSE (Elements)’ playback template, but this won’t help the second problem, which is that it appears the audio engine is not able to run.
Please make sure you’re definitely running Dorico 3.1, and if not, download the update. Otherwise, please do Help > Create Diagnostic Report and attach the resulting zip file here so we can take a look and see what might be going on.
Thank you, Daniel. I got it to work finally by downloading the update. But still no sound until I toggled “Dorico Beep,” then re-toggled to “HALion Elements SE.” Now the problem is that the timbre of the HALion is not satisfactory. Is that the only timbre available? Can I access sounds that are clearer and not “string-like” in nature? Thanks again. Steve88
Depending on what kind of music you’re writing, you might want to take a look at NotePerformer, which is an inexpensive but very highly-regarded virtual instrument designed specifically for notation software like Dorico. See its website for more information.
Pro includes HALion Symphonic Orchestra, which is a step up from HSSE (bundled with Elements). Neither one holds a candle to NotePerformer for most classical score playback (NP is not so great for jazz).
I wonder if you are running into a specific problem here where only the ‘First Contact’ patch gets loaded? HALion Sonic SE does come with a decent quantity of different sounds.
Can you try this? Create a new Solo Piano project, enter some notes and then press play - do you hear a piano or a slow whooshing electronic string sound?
HI Paul. Thanks for this. So, I tried a quartet jazz combo. You’re correct! The timbres are quite acceptable! The only hitch is that I must toggle the HALion Elements SE to “on” each time I make a project. The setting does not “stick” as a default. Is this normal?? Thanks, Steve88
That shouldn’t be required. Dorico does some automatic playback mapping, and if you’re not sure how it works and you change things in Play Mode then you can get into a mess. If you do Play > Playback Templates and choose the HALion Sonic SE option then that should usually get you back to a known good state with instruments set to something sensible. You can then choose alternative sounds within HSSE if you wish.
Can anyone tell me what has happened to this file to prevent playback? This is my first file which is silent, but I can’t find any differences between this one and the ones which play back normally. Silent file.dorico.zip (590 KB)
I donwloaded your file and it also did not play back. NotePerformer did not load the proper sounds, so I did Play > Playback Template. That solved that but still no playback. Went to the mixer, no signal on the output channel. I soloed and unsoloed the output channel and sound was back. Please try it out.
I still can’t get it to work. I tried the same things you did, except I have no idea how to ‘solo and unsolo the output channel’. I can see in the NotePerformer mixers that there is output but there’s still no playback sound. If it weren’t for the fact that all my other files play back fine, I’d think it were a system problem. Even if and when I get this file fixed, the question remains, how did it get this way from one day to the next?
