I have a score with 18 staves, battery and pit percussion. On one part, I have a Grover 9 inch triangle playing a pattern and for some reason the volume, or velocity (I can't figure out which or what) is turned down very very low. I have a volume controller keeping the instrument at 100/127 (~C7,100), and the volume is still very low. I tried turning things up from KP2 and from the Sibelius mixer as well, the volume just wants to stay low. Different dynamics won't help either. Putting fff causes the velocity to sound at about p, while pp (the dynamic I mean to use) makes it virtually silent. This is only instrument in the entire score that is behaving like this, and I have at least 50 instruments (not sure exactly how many, but there are multiple instruments on most of the staves with instrument changes). I've been able to figure out every single playback issue on my own up until now. Please help!

My setup:
Sibelius 6.2.0
Virtual Drumline 2.5.2
Kontakt Player 2
AMD Turion II P250 Dual-Core 2.3GHz
4GB RAM
64-bit Windows 7

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

-Eric

Did you perhaps use the Crescendo/Decrescendo plugin and use CC11 instead of CC7 perhaps? If so, try entering ~C11,127 and see what happens.

Bryan, that did the trick, thanks so much!!

I don't understand why this solved the issue though because there were no C11 controllers on that part until many bars later. This triangle sounds the first bar of the piece. Is it possible that if I had C11 controllers written there in the past and deleted them, the effect stayed the same? I think what I did was replace the crescendo/diminuendo plugin with playback just from hairpins only.

If you don't mind filling me in, just to be clear, C7 is for volume and C11 is for velocity correct?

Glad that got you squared away. C7 is for Volume and C11 is for Expression.

[quote author=realdealpeel link=topic=3862.msg20354#msg20354 date=1289528632]
I don't understand why this solved the issue though because there were no C11 controllers on that part until many bars later. This triangle sounds the first bar of the piece. Is it possible that if I had C11 controllers written there in the past and deleted them, the effect stayed the same?[/quote]Deleting the commands should delete their effect. However, if Sibelius plays through a piece and encounters a command near the end, and then you restart playback, the controller change might still be in effect. That's why, as soon as a staff gets a CC7 or CC11 message, it's a good idea to go to the beginning of the piece and insert a ";CC7,100"; or ";CC11,100"; message (or whatever default value you desire) to make sure that playback always starts normally.