I have a project with “everything” loaded. Sometimes after editing notes and I hit the play button the edited instrument is like muted. And if I click the notes there’s no sound either. If I close the project and reopen it, the issue has disappeared. As far as I know I’ve done nothing differently from the other projects I’ve been working on, besides the number of instruments. Any suggestions?
Hi @Tomas_E, not sure if this would help, but did you try to reapply your desired Playback Template for menu Play/Playback Template… > Apply and close.
Which Playback Template are you using?
Generally for such issues is also useful to upload a Diagnostics Report that you can create from the Help Menu, for the Team to see what is going on.
If the problem appears to be specific to a particular project, we probably need to see the project itself, together with the steps we need to take to reproduce the issue.
There have in the past been some bugs that exhibit a little like this: you make an edit to an instrument, and when you play back, one or more instruments are unexpectedly missing. This happens because Dorico invalidates the playback data for the edited instruments, but doesn’t then recreate the playback data for all instruments. However, we’ve fixed all such problems that we have ever found, so there may be something else at play. We would need to see the project and understand what edits you’re making to find out.
I’m not at my computer at the moment, so I’m not able to try this out for myself right this minute, but can you please be clearer about what you’re doing in steps 4 and 5. Are you talking about the Edit Name dialog for the instrument in Setup mode, or Library > Instruments, or something else?
Here comes the file. It’s a file I intended to use for learning Dorico and Vienna Prime Edition. It’s the Timpani track that has no sound. (FWIW the issue might have appeared when I was comparing the score to the player adding left and right hand, since you can play using both left and right hands in the Timpani player. But then if you enter notes in the score that way, the right hand ends up one octave higher. So I put them back to the same octave again.)
I don’t have any of the sounds you are using in this project, so unfortunately there’s nothing I can practically do to advise why you’re not hearing anything from the VSL timpani you’re using, but there’s nothing wrong with the instrument or the music entered onto it: if you reset the playback template to one of the factory templates, they play back just fine. The issue is therefore somewhere in the expression map, the patch you’ve got loaded, or the way the plug-in is configured.
I opened your project. No sound on the timpani. Opened its synchnon play instance: CC11 was at 0. Give it some value : sound is back. Make sure you put some value in there (it’s not handled by the expression map). Maybe create a cc11 lane in the key editor and apply whatever curve you see fit your music best.
