I was working on a score for marching band in Sibelius 7.5 and I wanted to switch from marimba to 18"; Constantinople suspended cymbal. I made the change correctly and suspended cymbal sounds were being made, so I hit Eb5 on my MIDI controller to enter a sustained roll muted at the end. However, when I played it back, it started playing a long crescendo roll (allowed to vibrate at the end). I double checked the note head type and position with the VDL Template map for suspended cymbals, and it was all correct. When I checked Kontakt Player, it had just loaded in a 15"; Zildjian cymbal.

This was all on my laptop (specs in my signature). When I switched over to my desktop with 10GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, and an Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz processor, I opened the exact same .sib file and the sound played back exactly as intended - a sustained 18"; Constantinople SusCym roll with a muted release.

Any ideas why my laptop would never play the correct sample?

Hmm... if re-installing did not solve the playback issue, I do not know what to do at this point. It played back correctly on my machine and on your other one.

If I do think of something, I'll let you know.

Thank you, Hugh, for all your help, and everyone else who replied. I've just solved the problem, and to be frank, I feel like quite an idiot, but I'll post what happened anyway so people with a similar problem can see.

Early on, I set all the instances of Kontakt to what I believed to be the ";VDL Soundset"; referenced initially. However, it was the ";Virtual Drumline 2.5"; soundset, which consists of the small selection of samples Sibelius has by default. I double checked the list and realized that the ";VDL SoundSet 7.0a"; was the correct one, the one I'd totally skimmed over the first time around.

Ah yes, that'll do it. And for the record, I apparently forgot to ask you to post a screen shot of your Playback Configuration. (I'm usually good about that. :( )

Also, if anyone else is curious, the ";Virtual Drumline 2.5"; sound set that ships with Sibelius (since Sib 5.2) [i]is[/i] for the full version of Virtual Drumline 2.5.[u]0[/u]. Keep in mind though, today's [url=https://www.thewritescore.com/product/sibelius-vdl-template/]VDL Template[/url] is designed to work with [b]VDL 2.5.5[/b], which has a much different / custom sound set included - as well as all the other cool tweaks I've made since the first iteration of the Template.