When I enter music via MIDI keyboard (pitch after duration) quite often it stalls suddenly.
That means the latest entered note is playing permanently and the sound changes to the sound of the top staff. Funny enough I can still enter music however the transposition changes to the transposition of the top staff. So when I have a standard orchestra and enter music in a horn in F staff, the sound changes to flute in C. It occurs in the current project I’m working on but also in a new created file.
Does anybody encounter this behavior and is there any “hard reset” of the sound engine? A different playback template and changing the playback template to something else and back doesn’t fix the issue.
I’m on Mac, latest Sequoia version / Dorico 6.1 and NotePerformer 5 (also latest version)
Same here - I’m working on a score with piano and vocals, and when typing piano lines, I’ll get like two notes or chords typed and they’ll sound like the piano, but then it jumps to the “vocal” line’s sound. If I get out of note input mode, click somewhere, click on the piano staff again, and hit shift+n, it’ll usually stay on piano for the rest of that input session, until I do something else for a while (chord symbols, dynamics, etc). Rinse and repeat.
Version 6.1.10.6078 (Oct 8 2025) [Windows 10]
Dorico 6 AudioEngine Version 6.1.0.13
Thanks for reporting this problem. Next time you encounter it, can you please immediately do Help > Create Diagnostic Report and attach the resulting zip file here, along with a note of the rough time at which the sound used for auditioning unexpectedly changed?
I can sort of imagine what might be happening here, but it would be very helpful to see the application logs from within the diagnostic report to try and pin down the situation (or situations) under which the MIDI monitor endpoint is changing unexpectedly.
Thanks for the diagnostics. It doesn’t show me what’s going on, unfortunately, but I would welcome any further diagnostics from other users experiencing this problem.
The current time is 13:52 UTC+1. It occurred about 5–7 seconds after entering note input in a 41-staff score jumping to the sound of the topmost staff.
But this 5–7 sec delay is random. Sometimes it doesn’t occur at all. And if a remember properly it doesn’t occur until I’ve played something back with P or SPACE.
Thanks. This also shows that the endpoint for auditioning is indeed changing, but not what prompted it. I will add some more logging to the software so that we can hopefully trap the condition that causes this to happen. When I have a build that includes this additional logging, I’ll let you know.
I just caught it myself (tail application.log) but strangely, there was no MIDI thru endpoint changed: […] entry. Next time, I’ll note the exact time stamp and create diagnostics.
Good morning,
I am in contact with Steinberg for the same reason.
Both on my Intel i9 10 Core iMac with 48 GB of RAM and on my Mac Mini M4 Pro with 32 GB of RAM, both updated (unfortunately) to Tahoe, I continue to encounter problems with stuck notes and sound changes while I am writing any part.
I use the updated Noteperformer and I am a composer who writes dense orchestral scores.
I discovered by chance that on the Mac’s extended keyboard, I can mute the stuck note by pressing the 0 key on the keypad, but it does not return to the timbre I was writing with.
The incredible thing is that it’s a random problem and, even though it happens all the time, I haven’t been able to find a way to reproduce it scientifically.
I realised that the timbre always switches to the flute because it’s the first note in the score (MIDI channel 1).
I seem to remember, but I may be wrong, that once, in order to hear the sounds when the piece was loaded, you had to open the caret in a track, whereas now, as soon as Noteperformer loads, you can immediately play, but always with the sound of the first instrument in the score (flute MIDI channel 1).
Another strange thing happens: if I select and open the caret on any track and hear the timbre as I enter the notes, if, with the caret still active, I press the keys at the bottom left to switch from the score to real or transposed sounds, the sound switches to the flute.
I’ve been stuck with this for weeks.
Steinberg has been helping me almost daily with great kindness, but to date, they haven’t been able to resolve the issue.
Best regards,
Stefano
Not only does it switch to the instance of the top-most instrument, but you can see it switches to some seemingly random instance that isn’t used in this flow.
EDIT: it would also be interesting to know what those identifiers actually represent. They can’t be endpoint IDs, a I only have 8 endpoints (VEP instances) loaded, but yet:
It migrates to that strange 8(336) endpoint. I don’t have all string divisi expanded (IVP is enabled) so it could be one of the split-section port+channel. MIDI through definitely seems to have a mind of its own.
One more tidbit of information. It seems, at least in my case, that the same two (wrong) endpoints are chosen instead of the correct one: 3073 and 8336
This was entering note input and extending the caret across bassoon 2&3. It switches the bassoon 2 to flute and bassoon 3 to 2nd divisi of the contrabasses. But it’s always the same (wrong) two that it switches to.
