Applying a playback template

Dorico First Steps

Product
Dorico
Version
5.1
Language
English
Document type
Webhelp
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Before you can hear your music played back, the project must have sounds loaded. Dorico uses playback templates to load all the required sounds for the instruments in your project.

Prerequisite

You have downloaded and installed the sounds provided with your Dorico version. You do not have to install them to run Dorico, but because they come with playback templates and expression maps set up, they are often the simplest way to hear your music played back.

Procedure

  1. Choose Play > Playback Template to open the Apply Playback Template dialog.

    Apply Playback Template dialog

  2. Select the playback template that best corresponds to the sounds available on your computer.

    For example, if you downloaded all the sounds provided with your product version:

    • Dorico Pro users: select Iconica Sketch, HSO, HALion Sonic Sel., Olympus, GASE.

    • Dorico Elements users: select Iconica Sketch, HALion Sonic Sel., Olympus, GASE.

    • Dorico SE users: select HALion Sonic Selection.

  3. Click Apply and Close.

Result

The selected playback template is applied to the project. If it was already applied, it is re-applied, resetting the playback template back to its defaults.

In the VST and MIDI panel on the left of the window, a plug-in instance is loaded with sounds for the piano.

VST Instruments section of the VST and MIDI Instruments panel

If you want to open the VST instrument window, click Edit Instrument Edit Instrument button.