Hi there, I’m working on a score with lots of two-note tremolos. In one particular spot, in the violin, the tremolo plays at the written for the first half of the tremolo and then drops down to very quiet playback for the second half. This continues over the course of several bars, which diminuendo…

Here’s the clip that’s giving me trouble… tremolo playback issue.dorico.zip (2.2 MB)

now there’s a co-incidence. I’ve also had lots of problems with two note tremolos – very often in the way you described with the second half of the tremolo behaving differently to the first–and was planning to do a bit more research on them. It seems to happen with all string libraries I use I’ll l…

I think the problem here is that Dorico is processing the dynamics before it processes the tremolo, so it’s creating the dynamics as if there are only two notes, each half a bar in duration, and then it’s creating all of the notes for the tremolo at that point, so the dynamics are not properly taken…

That makes sense — I thought it might be something along those lines. Thanks Daniel!

Not what I’d expected! Using the Halion default, I can confirm with slowing things right down to be sure, that there are only half the number of notes I would expect in the tremolo passages. Using NotePerformer, the playback is correct. Secondly, in the last bar the violin has two lines drawn which …

Could be related to this bug: [image] Two-note tremolo playback Dorico Tremolo playback bug: The two-note tremolo is a notational anomaly in that both note-values take the full duration of the tremolo. The notation is correct but the playback duration is only half the val…

yes, I think it’s pretty likely – in fact I was thinking of drawing the comparison myself. Thanks for drawing my attention to the other thread which I hadn’t seen.

Two-note tremolo playback issue

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patrom August 24, 2021, 3:28pm 7

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