I have my VSL sound (Synchron Piano) loaded. In play mode everything works fine but in write mode I don´t hear a thing when inputting notes via midi or just when pressing any key on my midi keyboard (and even the virtual keyboard in the lower zone does not produce any sounds). Clicking on any of the notes does produce sounds though…And yes, I have the box for “sound on input” checked in the dorico preferences…please help it turns me crazy!
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Welcome to the forum.
And have you also switched on MIDI input in the preferences?
I have! I checked again (and this time all the MIDI-boxes like MIDI thru etc.). I will restart the software now…
Miracle! It´s working now. You´re an angel, thank you!
One more thing: is it normal that I do NOT see the notes while recording the midi? I suppose it is…
Thanks again for your help!
M,
You are welcome 
And yes, that is normal that you don’t see the them while recording.
…and while I am here: can you recommend a good tutorial for playback templates? They are a rather hard to grasp subject for me.
Thx again,
M.
Sorry for that topic I am the wrong guy.
But do you want to build up from ground your own templates or just tweak existing ones?
I want to build a very simple one for sketching stuff. I work mainly with orchestral scores and all those digital sounds (Halion or others like Noteperformer) just don´t get anywhere close to what I want to hear. So I just want to have my VSL Steinway Model D als default sound for ANY instrument I am using. Been doing it manually until now because I didn´t get the concept of playback templates (even though I watched tons of videos on it…). VSL also not helping, their stuff sounds good but is super clunky and not very user friendly…
Thanks and warm regards,
M.
If so simple, why don’t you just build up an initial project to your liking and then save it as a template? There is a menu entry File > Save As Project Template
True, I will do that!
Thanks for your help and have a great Weekend!
M.