New Dorico 5 user on a Windows PC. I have a flow setup with a Jazz Guitar Player but when I play the flow I get a piano sound?? Dorico shows the Player as Jazz Guitar and Halion shows the Jazz Guitar instrument but I hear piano. Any help is appreciated.
First thing to try would be to re-apply the playback template via Play > Playback Template: re-select the chosen playback template and click Apply and Close.
If this doesnât help, please attach the project itself here so we can take a look.
Thanks for your reply. The template looks OK but I still hear piano. File is attached
Practice-Workbook.dorico (660.8 KB)
Hm ⌠I clearly hear a Jazz Guitar when I open your project. So I canât say whatâs wrong on your side.
Can you give me some things to check?
Well, when I do what Daniel wrote, I still hear a Jazz Guitar. So if you definitely hear a piano (and not a Jazz Guitar that sounds like a piano maybe) then Iâm sorry I canât help.
Same here as well. HALion Sonic loads a guitar sound and plays that. Well, one can debate about how nice the sound is and if it really resembles a guitar sound, but it is not a piano sound.
The jazz guitar on my DX7 is somewhat percussive; in fact I use it in place of any of the DX7 keyboards and have for decades.
Thanks for your help but I have some kind of setup issue. If I change the instrument to Tuba, I get the same piano sound.
Have you re-applied the appropriate Playback Template?
Yes, It didnât help
Can you post a screenshot of the HALion window?
Thanks. But HALion shows clearly that it has the FM Jazz Guitar loaded.
When you press the Play button, does the 1 in front of FM Jazz Guitar start flickering for every MIDI note coming in?
And if you click on FM Jazz Guitar a browser window will come up where you can choose other sounds. If you choose something else there, does the playback sound also change?
I can change the Playerâs instrument in Dorico Settings and in Halion but I always get a very crappy piano sound. I tried âTubaâ and it still sounded like piano.
Okay, I have an idea now, if you go to the Play mode and select the Track Inspector, how does that look like? Is the routing similar to my example?
Hm, okay, but then again, what if you open the HALion Sonic window, the first slot shows âFM Jazz Guitarâ with you, right? And when you then start the playback, does the â1â in front of that slot start flickering with every played MIDI note?
Yes it does. And thanks for all your help.