Hi, I’m sure I’m missing something simple. But I’m working on a woodwind quintet, just to get used to Dorico. When I’m entering notes with my midi keyboard, it will always sound like the flute (channel 1). Once I select the note I want it will briefly play the note with the correct sound - clarinet, oboe, etc. And playback works fine. I’m guessing there is a playback setting I’m missing. Thanks.
@westla, if you attach a blank project that exhibits this issue, attach it here and (at least) I will take a look for you and see if it happens on another computer.
Ok, nevermind. I just created a new project to attach, and its working correctly now. I must have been doing something wrong.
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No, I don’t think you were doing anything wrong. This happens to me sporadically and I can confirm it’s often with flute (when I know for a fact I have my piano staff selected, say). All I have to do is unselect the staff it should be playing and reselect it, or move my cursor up and down one, and it will re-engage the correct sound. It’s probably a bug. I’m using NP FWIW.
If one wants to “noodle around” to try out possibilities, one can choose a measure in a staff and then click on a neutral part of the page to deselect it. At that point one can use one’s MIDI keyboard without entering notes and one will hear the notes in the sound of the last staff/instrument selected (and then deselected).
So it is happening again. Here is a file. Am I doing something wrong? No matter what staff a select to add notes, I just hear the flute sound.
Test Trio.dorico (620.3 KB)
Your file is working fine here. Did apply the noteperformer playback template though since I don’t have the Halion stuff installed.
Jesper
Interesting. So when you are in Write mode add are adding notes to the flute line - the flute sample plays. Then if you switch to add notes to the sax or piano part - the sax or piano sample plays?
Did you try to reapply the playback template. I’m afraid I’m not sure which one you should use since I don’t have them.
Jesper.
I did.
In Finale I would look at the midi/audio window to see if a specific channel was selected, instead of “smart” - where whichever instrument staff you select, its sound plays.
Just opened a new project using the woodwind quintet setup from the Dorico template, and the same thing is happening.
UPDATE: I’ve figured out that Dorico seems to get “stuck” on whatever instrument I begin “Start Note Input” with. If I start with flute - enter some notes, then change to the oboe part, it will keep the flute sound. To get it to change sounds, I need to unselect “Start Note Input”, select the new instrument, and then select “Start Note Input”.
UPDATE 2: If I use the arrow keys to select the staff to enter notes - it works as expected. But if I use the mouse to select a staff, it doesn’t change sounds.
I honestly only want to hear a Piano whenever I touch my MIDI keyboard. In Finale, I just used MIDI Thru / Fixed so it always was assigned to the Piano sound.
There’s nothing like that in Dorico, so the easiest way to do that is to turn MIDI Thru off, then open a standalone Piano VST. I still get a Piano whenever I touch the keyboard, instead of whatever the last instrument was (or Flute) but the full complement of NP sounds can still play back.
It sounds like you actually do want to hear the last instrument and it just isn’t working correctly, but if that’s driving you mad and you’d rather just hear a Piano, I just thought I’d present this alternative.
YES! That is exactly how I also worked in Finale. I just want to hear a piano as I’m composing. I did the exact same thing, but I didn’t see the option on Fixed Channel in Dorico, so I thought the next best thing was to hear the instrument I was inputting.
So how would I open a standalone VST piano in Dorico?
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Assuming your keyboard is only a controller and has no sounds of its own! …
Todd (Fred) posted his method here.
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