Thanks for your help on the mod wheel, it really helped me out.  I have another question.  When I play back, the rhythms sound kind of choppy, like triplets and some rolls when I use the diddle on the eight note.  Do you know what might be causing the playback to be choppy like that?  Thanks in advance.  

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This may have something to do with the soundcard latency setting within VDL2. Can you list your system specs and available options from the Soundcard setup window in VDL2?

Do you hear the same rhythm when you play back a single instrument?
I had Sibelius swinging horn 8th notes for a jazz piece I did a while back, and I was getting some weird playback for drum notes (it would try to swing the 16ths as well). That was a Sibelius issue, and I never found a good solution for it.

I was experiencing the same issue but had the latency wrong.  I'm with Jim in that it is probably a latency issue (at least based on my experiences)...

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Do you hear the same rhythm when you play back a single instrument?
I had Sibelius swinging horn 8th notes for a jazz piece I did a while back, and I was getting some weird playback for drum notes (it would try to swing the 16ths as well). That was a Sibelius issue, and I never found a good solution for it.
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Is there a way in Sibelius to set certain staves to swing, and others to not swing? I've had to play with going back and forth (i.e., 4 bars swing, next 4 bars straight), but wasn't sure if there was a way to mix and match. If the answer's not on the tip of your tongue, don't sweat it. Mainly just a curiosity for me...

I never found a good way, though I tried. (it was a couple of years ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, and Sibelius might have changed since then)

I was adding the style via 'tempo' text (which affects all staves), which allowed me to change the style at the beginning of a bar. I tried matching the text to the actual location in the bar where I wanted it to change, but it didn't work - it would still change at the barline.

I also couldn't figure out a way to swing the horns, but keep the drums straight, which was the real goal. I wrote all of the percussion parts as triplets anyway, but I didn't want to convert all of the horn parts by hand, so I left them as 8ths. That combination matches up correctly in the ";swing"; feel, so it worked for most of the song. However, I ran into trouble when the drums would have to play something in duple...

I'd be happy to heap praise upon someone that has figured out a better way to do it though... :)

I have a pentium 4, 2.60 Ghz and 1.5 gigs of RAM.  The sound card settings are: 
Interface: ASIO
Sample rate: 48000
Output device: Creative ASIO
and Latency: 50ms

What does the latency do anyway?  Thanks.

Try dropping the latency to 40 and see if it helps.  If it is still choppy, try 30.  I wonder if that might help rememdy the problem.

Let us know if this works.

Also, you definitely want to lower your sample rate to 44100. That should help a lot. This is the default setting, so I recommend not changing from it.

I changed the latency to 40, but I can't change the sample rate,  I try to click the drop down menu, and it only has 48000, and i can't manualy change it.  What am I overlooking? 

Hmm...this must have something to do with your soundcard itself. Do you have a Creative Lab control panel, or software that allows you to adjust the settings for the soundcard itself? If you can't seem to find anything, I'd suggest checking in with tech support from Creative, and asking them if there is a way to globally change the sample rate to 44100. They may refer to this as ";16 bit";.

I would like to hookybob into this thread, if I may.��
I have a couple questions:
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[li]How do successful VDL2 users set up their scores for full marching band?�� I set up the VDL2/Sibelius template with wind parts for a fulll band.�� Fourty bars into the tune Sibelius is choking and gasping and now it will not play back at all.�� It's like it locks up for 30 seconds and then acts like I never hit the play button.[/li]
[li]Is my score too large?[/li]
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Here is my set up: Mac OS 10.4.7; G4 1.5 mHz power book with 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM.�� Sibelius 3.1.5, VDL2 and Kontakt Gold 6.3

1.5 gigs won't handle a full band score.  Depending on the instruments used, it would have problems on some percussion scores as well.

What most of us do is do our writing in Sibelius/Finale, make the file as perfect as we can, then save that as a MIDI file and open it in Sibelius/Logic/Cubase, or any of the other sequencer programs out there.  From there, we tweak the playback to what we are exactly looking for and make the recordings.  It will take a few passes to get everything recorded since many computers can't handle that many samples at once.

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1.5 gigs won't handle a full band score.�� Depending on the instruments used, it would have problems on some percussion scores as well.

What most of us do is do our writing in Sibelius/Finale, make the file as perfect as we can, then save that as a MIDI file and open it in Sibelius/Logic/Cubase, or any of the other sequencer programs out there.�� From there, we tweak the playback to what we are exactly looking for and make the recordings.�� It will take a few passes to get everything recorded since many computers can't handle that many samples at once.
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That is [b]exactly[/b] what I needed to know.�� Thanks for the prompt response.