Although the attached file is a MusicXML import, it played back correctly, including the instrument sounds, but in Halion. My preferred VST is NotePerformer (indeed I have it listed in Preferences as such), so I switched to it, in Play mode. However, both instruments now play back with a trumpet sound, and I can’t find a way to get the NP sounds back. Any advice much appreciated - especially as this is meant to be a demo - but also I would really like to know how to make NP my default player, given that I’ve already set it as my preferred one.
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you need to reapply the NotePerformer playback template to make sure the sounds are correctly allocated. I’ve done that and the attached sounds as expected on my system.
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by the way, to make NotePerformer your preferred playback library, go to Edit/Preferences–> Play and from there select NP as your default playback template.
Many thanks. The thing is, though, I had - many projects ago - set NP as my default playback template, and I have to say that I’d assumed that that would be the template that Dorico would apply to a new score. Maybe the fact that it was a MusicXML import had something to do with the issue?
it did sound from what you were saying that you had already set NP as default so I was a little uncertain! I’m also unsure of why if NP is definitely your default that it didn’t apply the template correctly to a MusicXML import. I also have NP set as my default and it worked fine with a MusicXML import I tried just now, correctly loading NP as expected. Did you have any other file open in Dorico? I only tested straight from initially opening Dorico.
I didn’t have another file open in Dorico, but now that I think of it I must admit that Sibelius was also running at the time. It was the source of the MusicXML file, and usually I never have both programs running at the same time, because - up to recent updates - that caused trouble with Dorico being able to access the audio engine.
Awhile back, when I first started using the (excellent) Scoring Express Chamber Music templates, they would also sound like a trumpet, no matter what the instrumentation was supposed to be. I had already selected NotePerformer as my preferred playback template.
I remember that I reapplied the playback template to NotePerformer for each of the Scoring Express files, and saved them again. Since then I haven’t had any trouble. Just now I had to do the same thing with Gareth’s file. Weird! But reapplying the NotePerformer playback template in Play mode fixed it.
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yes, I suspect the audio engine couldn’t initialise correctly. I rarely use Sib. these days but in the past when I tried to run both at once, I’m pretty sure only one of them had access to the audio engine.
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