It’s a piano piece, I began to add dynamics and tempo markings and it was sounding ok, then suddenly, in a section with a repeated crotchet chord accompaniment, Dorico suddenly plays some chords louder, then quieter, does a decrescendo where there isn’t one etc…sounds awful. I thought I’d make peace with marking it up so it sounds ok but would look ridiculous to a player, but that didn’t work either.
I’ve tried re-writing the affected parts but it makes no difference.
Has anyone else experience of this? was there a solution?
You could try experimenting with the options on the Dynamics page of Library > Playback Options. Try disabling pitch contour emphasis and/or polyphonic voice balancing and see if that helps.
Disabling the pitch contour emphasis made no difference, disabling voice balancing had the chord accompaniment fff no matter the dynamic written, and when disabling them both it responded the same as just disabling the voice balancing.
I’ve turned them both back on and I’m left with chords sticking out and no adherence to dynamic markings and what’s also weird is that if I continue the piece in playback to where I’d not yet attempted any dynamic markings it reverts to “normal” ie playing at an even tempo, no sticking out chords, it’s as if the dynamics I had written, but then changed but it sounded unsatisfactory, have remained in the memory somehow…?
Are you able to attach the project here? Perhaps you could cut it down to just the affected bars and then attach that version here. It’s much easier to diagnose these kinds of things if we can look at the project itself.
Then try to upload the cut down project with its original playback configuration, if the resulting file size is not bigger than 4MB. Otherwise you could upload your file to a cloud service and post here just the link to it.
Sound ok here with Noteperformer, I think. (nice piece) Don’t have any other Libraries. You might want to enable Independent Voice Playback in the left panel in Play mode.
I’m confused, and this may not be the source of your problem, but your playback is set to use “HALion”, where it should be “HALion Sonic”. (HALion requires a different paid licence). Did you install the correct Sound Libraries with Dorico?
Your score plays back perfectly with standard Dorico.
Perhaps you could upload your diagnostics so someone from the team can see your sound setup
(Do Help>Create Diagnostic report and upload the zip file that appears on your desktop)
I’m rather embarrassed to say “I don’t know know” to your question of whether I installed the correct sound libraries, I’m not actually aware of installing any…
I have purchased Halion 7 but whether that’s what you’re referring to I don’t know.
I found the Auto Playback Template and see this, I changed it to the first setting, Halion Sonic, and the anomalies remained, could you say what the Dorico Auto Playback Template is please? thank you
I’ve tried to attach the diagnostics report and it says it’s too big, I’ve tried the suggestion earlier as to how to reduce the size but it didn’t make any difference, do you know what I could try next?!
