I have an issue whereby changing the VST assigned to one staff/voice automatically makes the same change to another voice / staff in the same instrument.
Is this a known issue?
Is this a grand staff instrument?
If so, you would have to use independent voice routing and send each staff to a different VST.
Hi Janus, no it’s not a grand staff instrument.
Can you upload the project (or the bit affected)?
Regardless of whether it’s a grand staff instrument, by default all voices on an instrument will be played back by the same channel on the same VST instrument, unless you enable independent voice playback in Play mode.
Yes, that’s turned on.
I can attach a project, if it would help, but I’m not sure it would, as the cello instrument uses Noteperformer/NPPE/BBCSO, Spitfire solo strings and Spitfire chamber strings for different voices.
Would a video be more helpful?
By all means attach a project, and specify what you are changing in the Routing section of the Track Inspector panel in Play mode, what you expect to happen, and what you see happening.
Hi Daniel,
can I send you a link to a copy of the file, or send directly to you? Because of the multiple VSTs involved I can’t get it down to a 4MB zip file.
What’s happening is twofold:
In the first flow, for the cello, for the last two voices (staff b, downstem 1 and staff b, downstem 2), changing the midi channel on either one changes it on the other too.
Secondly, midi is being sent to the Kontakt VSTi in slot 12 on the wrong channels as well as the right channels.
This project has had a lot of changes to playback so if anything can get confused in Dorico, this project could well do it!
To start from scratch, I tried applying the silence playback template. I added NP as a VST in slot 2, and assigned various voices to it. But when I start playback, nothing is added to the Noteperformer mixer as it’s supposed to be.
Is it possible that what’s happening with the midi channels is also somehow preventing NP from doing what it should do?
Many thanks
Rich
You can send the project to me by email if you wish, at d dot spreadbury at steinberg dot de.