As I have been bouncing my tracks to a DAW and raised the volume, I realized that there is an unpleasant white noise lingering across all tracks. After realizing that it’s not an issue within the DAW and backtracked to the Dorico project, I realized that the white noise is already present within Dorico - when I raise the Output volume in the mixer in Dorico, the white noise is super loud and clear.
After trying to disable the Notepermormer engine which I use in this project, I heard that the white noise was completely gone, which identifies the culprit.
So this is not something that I have heard before, and I’m wondering how I can prevent the Noteperformer Engine to create this white noise?
It’s quite weird, because the white noise is not created by the instruments (because I tried to set all noteperformer instruments to 0 and the white noise was still there), the white noise is only present in the actual output channel, and it’s only there if I turn on the Noteperformer Engine.
So, it’s not about certain libraries, but rather the Engine itself it seems and how it interacts with dorico?
How can I solve this?
To give some additional info, I’m using Berlin Orchestra with Noteperformer.
Yeah, this thing bit me exactly the same way a few weeks ago.
I also don’t know how this annoying noise would ever count as “gentle room tone” anywhere.
Haha right, it was anything but “Gentle”. Since NP is quite low when working in dorico, when you raise the level to normal it becomes huge and super obvious, sounds like loud white noise that you put in electronic music. Definitely not fitting for classical in my personal opinion. However, glad the fix was easy.
there’s nothing gentle about this pointless feature in my view and I get annoyed if I accidentally make an audio export with it not switched of by mistake.
Caught this thread as I’m getting tired of the white noise which apparently defaults to 100%.
Otherwise it’s a good idea, it’s a bit of a dither being added. Noise is everywhere; the universe likes noise and mess from a quantum level all up. When rendering to digital its often a good idea to add some dither (noise), such as when CD mastering.
Anyhow 100% is way too much, put to zero it does sound a little artificial, 25% sounds quite good. You see that noise just helps connects everything, these notes are completely artificially separate recordings being stitched together.
