I’ve recently downloaded the 30-day trial for NotePerformer 3.2 and have been testing the product. Both HALion Sonic SE and Kontakt 5.8 libraries are playing slightly out of sync with NP on playback in Dorico 2.2. I know that NotePerformer has a one-second delay as part of its design, but this out-of-sync-ness is definitely not a full second - it’s a matter of milliseconds.
There has been a fair amount of discussion in various forums about non-NP libraries functioning just fine alongside NP, and any delay being properly and automatically accounted for by Dorico.
Per the trouble-shooting suggestions I’ve researched on this Dorico forum, I’ve set my playback template to NotePerformer, and then changed particular instruments to Kontakt and Halion. As suggested, I’ve also tried closing and reopening Dorico, as well as restarting my computer. I’ve looked for solutions via the forums on the Dorico, Kontakt, and NP Facebook pages, but haven’t found any solutions yet.
The instruments from Halion and Kontakt libraries I’ve been auditioning are mostly pianos and percussion instruments, instruments that don’t have a wide envelope or naturally sound behind the beat because of their legato scripting. Also, I’m running MacOS 10.14.2.
This is scant consolation, but I have exactly the same issue. If my metronome math is correct, it’s about 120 ms. That’s with the buffer set as low as possible.
For the record, 20 ms of latency is the typical threshold of mild irritation, I think. Anything less is imperceptible.
The reason I suggested that was “About NotePerformer” in the top right hand corner menu says “delay 48000 samples,” and the difference between 48000 and 44100 would be about 0.1 sec, if Dorico was compensating using the wrong value.
I must have done something wrong when I tried this yesterday. Today the delay is there, the same as you get.
I get the same delay exporting audio and playing “live”. (I tried this again to export the audio just to prove it was working for me - oops, no it wasn’t!)
Hmmm - so maybe it WAS working with no delay for me yesterday, if today’s result is still different from yours.
I don’t have any particular reason to use NP and another VST together, so I’m not going to try and investigate it further. At least we have some “recorded” evidence that it’s a real issue.