I’m getting to a section in my score where I’m using many divisi in the string sections to the point that every player has their own part. I’ve been overriding the playback so Noteperformer uses the “solo section member” sounds. At first I thought there was some kind of humanizing thing going on with pitch but now it’s getting so bad, it would be a little insulting to suggest that’s what section members sound like…
I don’t have any instruments plugged into my computer; I read somewhere that dust could affect this kind of problem.
That appears to be referring to when a midi controller has dust collected in the pitch-bend wheel, which could over time make it stick causing unwanted pitch issues.
You don’t have instruments plugged in but do you have any kind of midi or usb controller?
Tuning sounds perfectly OK here, even if I slow it down.
(OT your solo parts are virtually unplayable by real players - double stopping tremolos and the Vln 1 in bar 10 needs finger extensions to stretch those intervals!)
Thanks for looking into it! (Those “solo” parts are still divisi! Of course I wouldn’t demand that from a single player. I will make sure to make the labelling clear but the important thing is that each voice is just played by one player.)
Here is how it sounds on my end. Does it sound the same in your computer?
When I play back your project on my own system using NotePerformer 4, I don’t experience the same tuning problems. If you re-apply the playback template so that any custom sound choices you’ve made in NotePerformer are reset, do you still experience the problem?
Your comment made me realize that I was using an old version of NotePerformer (3.3) but I just installed the latest version (4.4) and opened the project again.
Unfortunately the tuning problems persist. Just to check my ears I pasted some of those violin bars into the flute and was relieved to hear that suddenly everything sounds like I would imagine it. So it really is specific to solo strings.
Thank you. Just tried that out and the result is that all the string parts accross the the score are played back as tutti… (Tutti sounds in tune)
When I override the sounds again so they sound like solo instruments, it is out of tune again.
EDIT: Very strange observation: Every time I open the project and play my two reference bars it sounds a little out of tune but not shocking. Then I play it a second time and it sounds really out of tune. Then I play it a third time and it’s completely out of control bad… Maybe that’s a clue?
The Steinberg Built-in Driver is newer and better than the other driver, because it can do sample rate conversion on the fly, so sample rate problems should not occur any more
Yes, I’m on windows. I think I found the place although it looks like it is showing the sample rate of my headphones? (If that’s a thing…)
Thank you Ulf, I changed it to Steinberg built-in driver and for one, I notice that when I click on any note it sounds immediately as opposed to delayed. Unfortunately the solo strings are still out of tune…
If I wasn’t using the default expression map, that would have changed back to default when I re-applied the playback template as Daniel suggested, wouldn’t it?
Possible tinkering would have been:
Setting A to 442 (which I’ve set back to 440)
overriding tutti sounds with solo sounds
calibrating the noteperformer mixer slightly (I found horns and timpani to be unrealistically soft so I set those to 110)
In playback options overrides I set staccato to 75% note duration instead of 50%
Something screwy is definitely going on. I suggest you create a Diagnostic report from the Help menu and upload it here, after the problem has occurred.
Maybe try reinstalling Noteperformer, in case you’ve altered the Expression Map.
Of course I wouldn’t demand that from a single player. I will make sure to make the labelling clear but the important thing is that each voice is just played by one player.)
