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    Anyone else seeing this... The new naming convention to "Studio Special Edition" seems to have confused the Dorico Wizard. This is what appears at the top of my wizard list, but I suspect this is actually my VI instruments, not my synchronized SE.

    Lower down on the list is this, which MIGHT be my formerly "Synchronized Special Edition" but both are now listed as Studio Special Edition, and there's no strings here:

    And lower down still is this - which includes more instruments and could also be the new Synchronized SE, but still no strings! Who knows what's going on here?

    Thanks in advance for any solutions.
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    @ariacat said:
    but still no strings

    I don't understand - your first screenshot showed Strings at the very top but you say "still no strings"? Is there something for the strings missing you are expecting to see?

    The Dorico Wizard has never supported any of the VI series, so I doubt it is getting mixed up with this.

    What are you expecting to see or not see that you are seeing or not seeing? And what special edition volumes do you own?
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    @mducharme said:
    @ariacat said:
    but still no strings

    I don't understand - your first screenshot showed Strings at the very top but you say "still no strings"? Is there something for the strings missing you are expecting to see?


    The Dorico Wizard has never supported any of the VI series, so I doubt it is getting mixed up with this.


    What are you expecting to see or not see that you are seeing or not seeing? And what special edition volumes do you own?

    Thanks for jumping on so quickly! Knowing that the wizard doesn't support VI help. I'm wondering why there are 3 sets of Woodwinds and Brass, 1, 1-2, and 1-4. And 2 sets for Percussion, 1 and 1-2. There seems to be a lot of overlap here. Are these just different articulation sets?
  • andiA
    VSL Team
    andiA

    Hello ariacat!

    I have seen in our records that you have registered Studio Special Edition volumes 1 to 4. Everything on your screenshots looks as expected. You have different sets of the sections to choose from according to which instruments you prefer to load. Some selections only load instruments from volume 1, some load instruments from volumes 1 and 2. Some load instruments from volumes 1 to 4. You are free to unselect points that you don't need. It does no harm to keep all selected.

    Best regards,
    Andi

    Vienna Symphonic Library
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    Thanks for the reply, Andi. On closer look, what seems to be missing are the articulations from Vol. 3. Are those not supported in Dorico?
  • andiA
    VSL Team
    andiA

    The Dorico expression maps for Studio Special Edition Vol. 1 Strings also works with the strings sections from Studio Special Edition volumes 2, 3 and 5. All you have to do is load the preset in Synchron Player.

    Best,
    Andi

    Vienna Symphonic Library
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    Great. Thanks.
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    Hello,

    I'm sorry, I'm going to ask a silly question, but I can't find the solution.

    I use Dorico Wizard in Vienna Assistant, I select the desired instruments from Synchron Prime Edition and I click Save Template.

    However, when I open Dorico, the template does not appear.

    What's the problem? I thought about importing the template using the Import option in Dorico, but I don't know where Vienna Assistant saves the file. Worse: Windows Explorer does not find any file of that name on my SSD.

    I should point out that I'm using Dorico SE 5. Is it the SE version, which is free, that doesn't allow the use of the template? In which folder is the .dorico_pt file downloaded by default?

    Thank you for your help.
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    @Compo said:
    What's the problem? I thought about importing the template using the Import option in Dorico, but I don't know where Vienna Assistant saves the file. Worse: Windows Explorer does not find any file of that name on my SSD.

    I should point out that I'm using Dorico SE 5. Is it the SE version, which is free, that doesn't allow the use of the template? In which folder is the .dorico_pt file downloaded by default?

    I spoke to a helpful Dorico manager on their forum and he told me that another solution would be to download the Playback Template file for Synchron Prime (Strings, Woodwinds, World Winds, Brass, Percussion) and load it with the Import option in Dorico > Play > Playback Template.

    Knowing that Dorico Wizard is currently not working for me, would it be possible for a VSL Team Member to send me a zip version of this file, either here on the forum or by email, to the address associated with my account? That would be greatly appreciated.

    Dorico Wizard is a fantastic tool. If I can make a suggestion, I think it would be interesting to have an option in Dorico Wizard to download the template to the directory of our choice. In my case, Windows Explorer does not find the file, even using a search from the .dorico_pt extension, which suggests that the file has never been saved on my SSD, perhaps for a "Destination Folder Access Denied" problem.
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    Thanks to the strong help of the Dorico Team, I found the origin of the problem and a temporary solution:

    On Windows, I use an Administrator account and a User account. On a daily basis, I use the User account. In the Vienna Assistant preferences, it is possible to indicate the path of the User account for the installation of VSL softwares and libraries. Strangely, Dorico Wizard does not take into account the preferences by automatically and saves the templates in the Administrator account folder. This is a bug.

    While waiting for a fix for this bug, here is a temporary solution:

    With File Explorer, open C:\Users\ā€œAdminnameā€\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5 and copy the three subfolders DefaultLibraryAdditions, EndpointConfigs, PlaybackTemplateSpecs into the directory C:\Users\ā€œUsernameā€\AppData\Roaming
    \Steinberg\Dorico 5