I’m working in Play. I clicked on Enable Independent Voice Playback and I set the various VST instruments to what I want. The problem is that when I click on “m” to mute staff (b) it also mutes downstem staff (a). I want to carefully listen to staff (a), both upstem and downstem, but not staff (b).
When I click on “m” for staff (a) downstem the mute on staff (b) is also removed.
How do I listen to staff (a) and not (b)?
Are you using the Aria Player that lets one assign separate outputs for each slot. If not, all your sounds form that Aria VST will use the same output, and muting one will mute them all.
In Finale I understood its interaction with the Aria Player quite well. In Dorico it seems I was given a separate instance of the Player for each staff and voice. I’m not sure what you mean by “separate outputs for each slot.” By slot do you mean channel? I went to all the Endpoint Setups and expanded the number of channels for each (can you tell I don’t know what I’m doing?).
The Endpoint Setup for Player 4 looks like this:
Part of the Aria Player for 4 looks like this (and for 3 it looks the same):
Clicking on the Staff (b) mute button continues to also turn on the Staff (a) downstem mute button.
Notice on this most recent image that the second column from the right is 1/2 for all three Handbell instruments. That column lists the stereo output channel for the instrument and tells Aria to send everything to the same fader in Dorico’s mixer.
Some versions of the Aria Player (a VST2 player in Windows and --I think-- a newer VST3 player on Mac) allow one to “pull down” the 1/2 column to set the outputs to different output channels (3/4 or 5/6).
See if your Aria Player will allow you to do that.
The Aria player does open a pulldown menu when I click on the “1/2”…
but the only option I’m allowed to select is “1/2”.
I have no idea what I can do to change that.
Thanks for the help so far.
You need to download the Aria Player Multi.
I did a bit of online research. The Makemusic Aria page says nothing about Multi. Some Steinberg forums talk about Multi being for Mac only (I’m on Windows) or they mention the Multi version is VST2, not VST3.
What in that talk is correct and where do I find the Multi?
The Multi version for Windows is VST2.
