Playback Stops

Dorico
1

Why does the playback of my project suddenly end in the middle and then restart 10 bars later? Yesterday the playback of my project worked fine. I did not change anything overnight!

2

Ahh! But did the gremlins? Have you tried closing Dorico and reopening, and/or rebooting? Sometimes things just need to be reinitialized. :wink:
— Jim

3

I rebooted my Mac but still no sound for 9 measures. When I look at the Velocity window, there are no vertical bars for those 9 measures. (See screenshot). Is there a way to contact Steinberg about this? Or, how can I restore the missing sounds without re-writing the music for those 9 bars?

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4

Maybe select those bars, and check that the velocity isn’t zero in the properties panel. Otherwise, share the file.

Jesper

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5

The velocity for bars 24-35 is 64. I have attached the file.

Sym. Dom.dorico (3.0 MB)

6

You have suppressed playback on those bars. Hopefully fixed here. You can tell by the notes are gray, not black.

Jesper

Sym. Dom_edit.dorico (1.7 MB)

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7

Thank you for your time and solution. How could I have done that? I didn’t even know that could happen.

8

Don’t know how, you might have accidentally hit the property, or have a shortcut for that.

Jesper

9

You already did! The Steinberg Dorico team reads this forum and will respond if you don’t get an answer from another user — sometimes they beat us to it!
Also, please check the “solution” box on @jesele ‘s post that identified the solution to your problem. It helps other users find answers to similar issues. :wink: