Modartt user forum - Strange pulsing sound

Re: Strange pulsing sound

null@example.com (Andro) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:15:20 +0000

Well as a new user I confess to being very stupid. The music is of the New Complexity School, by a colleague. It turns out in the dense score there is a repeating tied F above middle C which I has a pulsing rhythm. I failed to notice it before posting. So no fault of Pianoteq or Dorico, just me being dumb. [I would have deleted the post but the forum seems it wont let you.]

However, thank you for all the good sugdestions and I will bear them in mind for the future. Especially re delay.

Re: Strange pulsing sound

null@example.com (Coises) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:33:30 +0000

Andro wrote:

New Pianoteq user, immediately upgraded to Standard. I got three instruments. For my piece there is a strange background pulsing sound in any instrument. There was a very old post here suggesting to turn down the sympathetic resonance but that has no effect. It really ruins the playback. I do not know how to troubleshoot this. I am using Pianoteq in Dorico 6.

Just in case... try Pianoteq standalone and verify whether the same problem occurs there.

If it only occurs in Dorico, the first thing I would do is make sure you aren’t applying Dorico’s reverb to Pianoteq.

Re: Strange pulsing sound

null@example.com (dikrek) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:01:32 +0000

Andro wrote:

New Pianoteq user, immediately upgraded to Standard. I got three instruments. For my piece there is a strange background pulsing sound in any instrument. There was a very old post here suggesting to turn down the sympathetic resonance but that has no effect. It really ruins the playback. I do not know how to troubleshoot this. I am using Pianoteq in Dorico 6.

Turn off delay

Strange pulsing sound

null@example.com (Andro) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:20:51 +0000

New Pianoteq user, immediately upgraded to Standard. I got three instruments. For my piece there is a strange background pulsing sound in any instrument. There was a very old post here suggesting to turn down the sympathetic resonance but that has no effect. It really ruins the playback. I do not know how to troubleshoot this. I am using Pianoteq in Dorico 6.