@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?

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

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?

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

Great. Thanks.

@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.

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\“Adminname”\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5 and copy the three subfolders DefaultLibraryAdditions, EndpointConfigs, PlaybackTemplateSpecs into the directory C:\Users\“Username”\AppData\Roaming
\Steinberg\Dorico 5

I'm back - I've been distracted from composing lately. So if I buy studio percussion, studio drums I think, it's actually synchronised VI percussion and contains my rototoms, and, it will work with the wizard?

Hello Rangi!

That's correct. "Studio Percussion" is the library that has formerly been known as "SYNCHRON-ized Percussion". "Studio Drums" is a subset of this library. It can be purchased individually and includes roto toms. "Studio Percussion" is available in Dorico Wizard.

Best regards,
Andi

awesome, I'm gonna "See my baby Jive"! (who's old enough to get that pop culture reference???)

Solo strings are working well with Wizard, still some occasional timing issues with fast short note patterns, but much better than the old templates. I also have Synchronised Appasionata and Dimension (studio) libraries, but I can't see them on the wizard list. Is it correct, that they are not supported?

That's correct. We don't have Dorico settings for Studio Appassionata Strings and Studio Dimension Strings.

Best,
Andi

Thanks Andi, and my last question. I've already had an answer from Danial at Dorico that the notation perspective, creating a custom staff is relatively straightforward, but what about the VSL perspective please?

" I’d like one percussionist to have three snares (of varied tones and tunings), plus wires on/off options. Can I do it in a single staff, a 3 line staff perhaps? I want to use my Vsl snares, is the wizard going to help? Because I also want all the articulations. Or should I make it 3 Dorico, single-line stave instruments, that are grouped together?"

Hello Rangi!

Three single-line staves will work. A custom 3-line staff might work, but I'm not sure what steps are exactly necessary to make it work. It will probably not work out of the box. You might need a custom percussion map too. So it will not be straight forward.

Best regards,
Andi