Synth V 2.1.2 Beta 2 question and comment

Dorico
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I watched Johns’ wonderful Synth V video a few days ago, and immediately purchased Synth V and started playing around in Dorico. It looks like an amazing tool, one that I have dreamed about for years. I transcribe a lot of guitar/vocal music, and some old folk/rock songs. Using piano or oboe, etc. for the vocal line is OK, but not optimal.

One question I have, though, is why we have to suppress playback on the vocal staff, when the playback of the vocal staff has be re-routed to Synth V (and not a piano, for example). In other words, why is Dorico playing both a piano AND Synth V? Not a big deal to suppress playback, but I’m curious why.

Secondly, I want to alert Dorico/Synth V users (and the Dorico developers) that there seems to be a bug in the Synth V XML import regarding the element - it is currently ignored. This causes my Synth V singer to sing an octave high!

    <clef number="1">
      <sign>G</sign>
      <line>2</line>
      <clef-octave-change>-1</clef-octave-change>
    </clef>

I have submitted a bug with the Synth V team.

Dorico (of course!) emits the correct music XML element.

Tom Kearney

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Well, SynthV has its own “timeline” and plays from that, only syncing the playback along with Dorico, as it were.

It’s not like a typical VST that interprets data streaming out from Dorico. Toontrack EZDrummer does something akin to that, if you want its full playback capabilities, that is!

B.

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You are responding to the “why suppress playback” question? I’m still not sure I understand! But that’s fine, I guess - grin!

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I guess I am, sorry for not being clearer… :smiling_face:

So: SynthV is not playing your notated score, but the MIDI or XML information that was transferred into it. So if your notation changes, you need to update SynthV manually and separately, or transfer the XML again.

This also means, that for playback, your actual score is not the source anymore, but SynthV plays the vocal staves independently. So the easiest way to avoid hearing both is to mute the notation. Makes more sense?