At present there is no way to begin playback within a repeated section, except by beginning on the first pass. If that pass has some notes suppressed on the first pass, the scrub playback behaves peculiarly. The cursor freezes and refuses to sweep over suppressed notes.
Clearly we need the ability to begin playback on other than the first pass, but that is a non-trivial request, with many combinations possible. Lacking that, it seems like it would be wise to patch the software to cause scrub playback to disregard any suppression on passes, if that is an easy thing to do.
Yes, I have seen some of those posts, and I agree. This one is a little different, in that the behavior is confusing. If you have some notes suppressed on the first pass, you can see them (slightly gray), but as far as scrub playback is concerned, these notes don’t exist at all. Not only can you never play them in scrub playback, if you try to pull the scrub cursor over the notes, Dorico refuses to move the cursor. It is as if the program is momentarily locked up.
I jumped to the conclusion that it might be simple to tell scrub playback to disregard the suppression, but I am now suspecting that there is an internal map of the notes used by playback that simply doesn’t include those notes at all. So my suggestion is probably not a simple solution.
Nonetheless, it is worth mentioning because this behavior can be confusing.
Yes, indeed, scrub playback uses the calculated playback data, so any notes that have been suppressed are excluded. As such it’s non-trivial to restore them when scrubbing. As and when we have the functionality to play back from a specific pass through the music, we should in theory be able to use that for scrubbing as well.
Thanks. Yes, it makes sense. I wonder if there might be some possibility of allowing the mouse to progress over the suppressed notes (without playing them). As it is, it feels like the program is locked up, whereas the program is actually just indicating there are no playable notes where the mouse is scrubbing. The first time it happened to me. I closed everything down and rebooted my computer because I thought something had gone badly wrong. Then it started making more sense of what must be happening.
Or maybe the mouse could change to a different icon when the user is trying to scrub where no notes are present in the calculated playback. That would at least indicate the program was still alive and coherent.
The scrubbing feature is brilliant, and it has already raised my productivity and quality measurably. I’m just trying to look out for the new users who might find this confusing.