Playback of my arrangement

Dorico
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This is my first complete big band chart I have done with Dorico 6 Pro. Everything is all entered, finally. Now, my problem is I cannot get a decent playback of my arrangement. It sounds like the playback is skipping some of the parts, for a few seconds on playback. I am running the playback through my Dell Optiplex with Windows 11, Intel Pentium current processor with onboard sound card, with 16 gigs of ram. I listen through some small Bose computer speakers. Here are my playback setting in Dorico:

Steinberg Built-in ASIO driver
Sample rate of 48000

I have tried other settings, and nothing seems to help my playback. Help!

Denver “Denny” Seifried

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I think we’ll need a little more information in order to help you.

Can you upload your project file here, and describe where you think playback is skipping bars?

Do you hear the same thing if you export an audio file and play that?

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Aaron, I am new to this Dorico Forum. I don’t see the normal “paper clip” used to attach the Dorico file I need to send on my post.

Thanks for your help.

Denver “Denny” Seifried

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Pentium? For real? The Pentium is obsolete. Surely you don’ mean that? I guess the last gasp was 2023, but still, by todays standards and needs, very underpowered.

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There’s an ‘Upload’ icon on the bar in the compose window.

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As @Andro indicates, there’s an upload icon in the toolbar.

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Or you can just drag the file directly into the edit window.

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I am sorry, it is a little newer than a Pentium. It is an Intel Core 7 9700 3.00Ghz.

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CARIOCA.dorico (3.3 MB)

On my computer playback, it will leave blank space in the playback with notes/beats being skipped.

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Go to the Help menu and request a Diagnostic Report. Then take the resulting file from your desktop and attach it to a post here.

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I just played about 30s worth and it played back fine. Is there a specific place where notes are being dropped or is it random? As @Derrek says Help → Create Diagnostics Report would help as well.

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I had to switch my playback template to NotePerformer (because I have nothing else installed) but then everything plays back just fine.

I think this is very much worth testing. 16GB of RAM isn’t the most generous amount, especially if you have other things running in the background too..

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First off, let me tell all of you who have been helping me with this issue, I appreciate so much and thanks for your time you have spent with your assistance.
Some more information you have requested:

  1. #1 desktop computer is a Dell Optiplex small tower with a Intel (R) Core i7-9700CPU@3.00GHz with 16 gigs of Ram, with a 1 T SSD drive about 1/4 storage used.
  2. I have been using this to make this score and playback. On playback, it will play through the repeat section well, then the skipping and distortion happens. Runs Windows 11 Pro
  3. I have played back some of the large orchestrations from the samples when you open Dorico 6 Pro. Same things happen on a playback. A lot of distortion and missing notes, just like my arrangement.
  4. I have a second desktop with, I assume, a little faster set-up. For identification’s sake, we will call this desktop computer #2. This computer is also running Windows 11 Pro, a AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 7745-8 Core Processor at 3.80 with 32 RAM and a 1 T SSD drive, with about 1/8 space filled.
  5. I tried running my arrangement on this one and it is about 98% perfect. It plays almost flawlessly, with just very slight audio performance issues.
  6. Looks like the big issue is with Computer #1, probaby lack of RAM?
  7. I did Export a sound file into WAV from Computer #1 and, and it performs flawless, with a perfect rendition of my arrangement.
  8. I will furnish a Diagnostic Report from Computer #1 of my arrangement.
  9. BTW, this is not my arrangement. I am putting old, difficult to read, handwritten parts, done by a great Latin arranger from the USA, Paul Lopez, into Dorico 6. I know there are a few mistakes in it. Some by me and very few by Paul. I have not added articulations, phrase marks, a DS al Coda, or dynamics. This is how I am learning Dorico. I was a Finale user since around 1996. I learned Finale this way. I get difficult to read arrangements from the big band I perform with (Dayton Jazz Orchestra) and transcribe them to Finale, now learning Dorico by the same process. This has made me learn Dorico! Keeps me using the software on a continuing basis.
    Thanks for your help.

Denver “Denny” Seifried
Bass Trombone-Dayton (OH) Jazz Orch.

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Dorico Diagnostics.zip (623 KB)

This from computer #1, from my Dorico arrangement copy job, Carioca

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FWIW, I also have a Core i7 with 16GB RAM, and your file plays back for me with no issues.

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Aaron, I was wondering if you could send me your…"Device Setup Settings. Mine are listed in the very first post in this thread.

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I had some more time, today, to do more listening to the not-so-good playback on Computer #1.

  1. It looks like a lot of the misses start after the first 5 measures, then missed notes start happening. For some reason a lot of the misses happen on pick-up notes and notes on the “and’s” of beats or on pickup entrances of the ensemble.
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I’m using the Steinberg ASIO driver with a sample rate of 44100.

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Aaron, I used your settings (44100) sample rate, and it performed worse than my 48000-sample rate. I did try one sample setting higher that 48000, and it was bad for playback.

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One way I learned Dorico a decade or so ago was to import XML files from Finale and format them in Dorico. That relieved me of much of the note entry, which is fairly straightforward, and let me concentrate on the aspects of Dorico that were most different from Finale.