I am copy/pasting parts from a Sib 7 score that was sent to me into my VDL template (Sib 8.) and the marimba parts are defaulting to a tremolo sound regardless of note head, note length, articulation, etc. Not sure what's going on...

This seems to occur regardless of if I copy/paste the original part, or try and re-write the part from scratch.

Any advice?

Thanks!

I've definitely experienced this numerous times as well. I'm not sure what causes it, but maybe the guys at The Write Score might. I usually end up entering in a manual ~C1,1 into the marimba part to force the mod wheel down which seems to help.

Yeah, there's no telling what can be pulled in from another score. Go with Jim's ~C1,1 fix.