Various Playback issues

Dorico
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I’m getting various playback and rendering issues in version 6 (in addition to the problem I raised a couple of days ago with strange CC1 jumps).

  • when I have divisi, only one of the staves renders during audio export - intermittently.

  • there seems to be a disconnection, intermittently, between the mixer and the audio during playback. Music will play, but the mixer tracks corresponding to the sounds do not show anything, and do not affect the audio if I move faders etc. Another time, all is well. Exiting Dorico, and restarting it, fixes the issue.

  • First notes of a flow not sounding in a very few cases. I’ve not changed any delays in any expression maps, so far as I remember, but I increased the humanization of start notes from 9% to 17%. The workaround is to set the playback start offset to 10.

Before I delve deeper, and try to find out what the triggers are for these, I’m wondering if anyone else is experiencing these issues, or similar ones?

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What VSTs are you using? Standard Note Performer, of course, (and some other VSTs) uses its own mixer to control playback and feeds everything to channel 1 of the Dorico mixer.

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I’m using a fairly complex setup involving NP 4.5.1 with NPPE and various libraries, plus some BBCSO, EW Opus and synth patches hosted in Dorico.

It’s the locally-hosted BBCSO instances that I’ve noticed to be missing, but it might actually be everything except the effects channels (which are definitely working all the time).