Dear community!

We have just released Dorico Expression Maps and Playback Templates for our SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions. All settings can easily be installed with our "VSL for Dorico" installer. Dorico 3.5 is required.
https://www.vsl.co.at/Notation_Related

We have prepared some tutorial projects, videos and a manual. More information can be found here:
https://www.vsl.info/tutorials/guides/dorico-integration/introduction

In addition John Barron from the Dorico team will make a live session on YouTube explaining these playback templates today at 5 pm CET.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMh5LcnLOGc&feature=emb_title

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Andi,

Thanks for this great and long waiting news, and thanks for your effort giving us the opportunity to use Synchronized SE instruments with Dorico 3.5! Can't wait to try them and the youtube stream!

Do you think these expression maps can be used as a foundation for full instruments expression maps? I mean by ourself, even if VSL is providing expression maps for full instruments (like the one for Synchron Strings I available at the Dorico forum) would be tremendous :) ?

Regards,

Gil.

Hi there,

the Dorico instruments sound superb. Really looking forward to trying these out with my Dorico program.

Steve

Thanks a lot Andi ! If you have time, please add some of your percussion pieces to DORICO , they are outstanding !

A release giving Dorico an authoritative voice!

Paolo

Vielen Dank!

Originally Posted by: Marcabru

Strings: some odd things here, thanks to Dimension Strings. This score has solo violin/viola/cello, but no divisi (so far). What's loaded is Dimension violin 1 player 1 for the solo -- I would have expected Solo Strings violin 1+ -- and then both section violins load with group 1 enabled, rather than the full ensemble. No solo double bass, but it loaded with only player 1 enabled.

There's no support in the Expression Maps for string divisions so there would be no point putting them in the score. Arguably, there should be entries for all the different solo players as well but that was a step too far for me.

I also prefer CC2 +CC11 but with the secondary scaled, otherwise the dynamic range is far too high. The chosen method seems to work OK for the demos, though.  The comment on the horns is interesting as there are a lot of ways you could call this including allocating an ensemble to one part (and then just mute the others in the score)

Hello Marcabru!

Thanks for your input. Here are the answers to the things you have brought up.
We thought about using Vienna Ensemble or VE Pro too in the playback templates. This would have the drawback that some instruments would be loaded even though they are not included in the score. Furthermore not all users have Vienna Ensemble installed. So these users would get an error message about the missing plugin. That's why we have decided to go with Synchron Player without Vienna Ensemble (Pro). If you want to, you can make your own playback templates with Vienna Ensemble (Pro) and our expression maps.

>> Flute 2+ loads with CC11 set significantly lower than 127.

=> I cannot reproduce this problem. Flute II loads with CC11 value 127 here. Which playback template did you apply?

>> Instrument Eb clarinet loads a Bb clarinet patch.

=> That's true. Unfortunately Dorico doesn't differ between the keys the instruments are in as far as playback is concerned. For the Clarinet in Eb, please load the Clarinet in Eb preset manually. The expression maps doesn't have to be changed.

>> Horn 1+2 loads the Vienna horn, 3+4 loads the triple horn. I wonder if it should go 1+3, 2+4?

=> Horn 1 and 3 load the triple horn, horn 2 and 4 load the Viennese horn. Which playback template did you apply to get the result you have described?

>> Trumpets load C, Bb, C; I'd prefer C, C, Bb

=> Dorico doesn't differ between the keys the instruments are in as far as playback is concerned. If you prefer a different order of the trumpets, please re-assign the plugins or load different presets in Synchron Player.

>> Strings: some odd things here, thanks to Dimension Strings. This score has solo violin/viola/cello, but no divisi (so far). What's loaded is Dimension violin 1 player 1 for the solo

=> The playback template "VSL SYzd Special Edition Vol 1-7 PLUS (Dimension instruments)" loads dimension instruments. If you would like to have solo strings loaded instead, please use the template "VSL SYzd Special Edition Vol 1-4 PLUS".

Best regards,
Andi

Hello Gyprock!

Trills are included in the Special Edition PLUS expression maps for strings and wind instruments. They are working fine here. It's true that if you have other commands earlier in the score, they may not work together and it may be necessary to add an "ord." command before the new command.

Best regards,
Andi

Originally Posted by: andi

Hello Gyprock!

Trills are included in the Special Edition PLUS expression maps for strings and wind instruments. They are working fine here. It's true that if you have other commands earlier in the score, they may not work together and it may be necessary to add an "ord." command before the new command.

Best regards,
Andi

perhaps just to clarify that vol5 Dimension Strings don't include trills, (though I've borrowed them from elsewhere in my own setup). However the trills seem to work otherwise fine for me