Hi Folks!
I’ve been working on my string quartet writing, and I discovered a glitch in playback in the viola part. When I start using triplets, the system begins playing each note as an 8th note triplet, even if it’s a quarter note in the triplet or a quarter outside of it! I attached audio and visual to give a better idea of what I’m talking about.
How do I fix this and avoid it in the future? Thanks!
I think we’ll need to see the project itself, Ethan. Something appears to be triggering an unmeasured tremolo sound, but from the little snippet of a picture you’ve posted, I can’t tell what that might be.
Hi Daniel, thanks so much for your reply. I’m still new to the forum (in fact, this is the first forum I’ve ever been on) so I’m still getting used to the guidelines and best practices. I deleted the bars in question and the issue went away, although it’s been happening every so often since then. Now when it happens the entire Viola part plays back with tremolo. My “fix” is to close the project without saving and cut my losses. Next time it happens, I will remember to save that version of the project and post it here.
Hi Daniel! Going way back on this issue. I am again writing for strings, and this issue came up again. Interestingly, it only happens in the Viola (same as my last issue) and it only happens around the E4-G4 range (same as my last issue as well). Looking at Viola bars 2-8.
Here’s the project file:Orchestration Assignmnet #3.dorico (3.1 MB)
@dspreadbury hello,
I did try to replicate the problem, but here everything works fine. I did it with NotePerfomer and BBC SO Pro. With BBC SO Pro I’m having another issue, which I suppose is caused by the automatics in Dorico?! At the end, when the performance finishes I’m getting a loudness level pop-up.
Something forces CC 11 to jump up to 127 and CC 1 to 0
I’m experiencing this issue even with Kontakt instruments.
Here is the file:
Increasing of the Loudness at the End.dorico (430.8 KB)
I hope this could be fixed! 
Thank you very much in advance!
Best regards,
Thurisaz
Ethan, I think what you’re hearing is that the solo viola patch in HSO is a bit tentative at a dynamic of piano, to the point that on some of the pitches it sounds as if the player is actually playing two attacks for a given note. If you pump up the dynamic to forte, I think you’ll find it sounds quite different.
You might also find that you prefer the “Legato” rather than “Fast Legato” sound for the Viola Solo Combi patch, in which case you can edit the HSO Viola Solo Combi expression map so that the various Natural… playback techniques are mapped to key switch F0 instead of F#0.
