Unwritten second note heard yet unwanted

Hello,

I’m having trouble with some notes that are playing unwanted when they are not even written. For instance, in my opening bar, my trumpets play a single note, yet an unwanted second note can be heard playing at the same time. It is also another trumpet sound. I’ve also caught the sound of an oboe later on, when a tuba is playing.

I’ve checked my expression maps, my Opus channels, the end-point, but still cannot find out why. I don’t really know what else to check.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks

Did you ever use the Add Staff Above/Below commands, enter some music on that staff, and then remove the staff? Removing a staff does not remove the notes on the staff. If this is your situation, try adding a staff to the trumpet and oboe staves and looking for notes.

Ok, I’ll try that tomorrow. I don’t remember doing it, but I may well have done.

Also, see this thread from July 22:

I read that other entry, which was really useful, but it’s not working.

So having checked things out, I now know I never used add staff below/above command.

This phantom sound has only appeared since adding 12 bars at the beginning of the piece, and copying a flute part onto the trumpet line.

The quickest way for others to diagnose the problem is to post the Dorico project here. If confidentiality is a problem, use Save As… to save a copy of the file with a new name. Open the new file, check that the problem still occurs, delete all the notation you can see, check that the “phantom” notes are still sounding then save the file and post it here.

I’m trying to upload the project, but even having reduced it down, I can’t get it below 19mb.

Can you put it in Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. and post the link here?

Here’s the link. I hope it works.

It is asking for a sign-in. Is it possible to configure the link to not need an account or a password?

Try this:

Good. Thanks. Got it. I’ll have a look and see if I can find the cause of the problem. This might take a while.

Thank you, really appreciate this.

Because I don’t have the Playback Template which you used in the project, I had to apply one of the factory ones. I could not hear any extra notes in the Trumpet or Tuba parts.

Your Oboe (SO) expression map has C3 for Natural. Typo, I guess, it should be C0. That C3 is emitted at the start of playback.

Is it possible to share playback templates? I’ve exported mine, but when trying to upload it, it doesn’t let me do so.

@derAbgang
Hi. Thanks for joining the investigation. Can I leave this one with you, please? I have not yet needed to explore the intricacies of expression maps. It looks like the cause of these extra sounds might lie therein, so I would be of no help there.

Put it in a zip file.