Modartt user forum - sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

Re: sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

null@example.com (dtoub) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:34:44 +0000

Philippe Guillaume wrote:

dtoub wrote:
Philippe Guillaume wrote:
If you export the MIDI file of your Dorico project, and then play the MIDI file in Pianoteq standalone, is the issue still there?
Good idea, and yes, the issue is still there.
Good and interesting. Next step is to send the midi file to the support https://www.modartt.com/support?direct=1

Will do. Thanks!

Re: sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

null@example.com (Philippe Guillaume) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:31:29 +0000

dtoub wrote:

Philippe Guillaume wrote:
If you export the MIDI file of your Dorico project, and then play the MIDI file in Pianoteq standalone, is the issue still there?
Good idea, and yes, the issue is still there.

Good and interesting. Next step is to send the midi file to the support https://www.modartt.com/support?direct=1

Re: sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

null@example.com (dtoub) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:29:04 +0000

Philippe Guillaume wrote:

If you export the MIDI file of your Dorico project, and then play the MIDI file in Pianoteq standalone, is the issue still there?

Good idea, and yes, the issue is still there.

Re: sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

null@example.com (Philippe Guillaume) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:36:23 +0000

If you export the MIDI file of your Dorico project, and then play the MIDI file in Pianoteq standalone, is the issue still there?

sustain and half-sustain pedal stops working in Dorico after repeats

null@example.com (dtoub) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:19:43 +0000

I have a work that involves a half-sustained pedal held throughout the work, and there are multiple repeated measures at the beginning. Oddly, the half-sustained pedal goes up in the middle of a repeated measure (eg, after the eighth repeat of a measure to be repeated 10x). Same if I have a fully sustained pedal invoked. Doesn't change if I delete all automation. My fix was to add hidden half-sustain pedal marks before the measures that are affected, but it seems to be a Pianoteq 9 issue, since if I use Noteperformer's (inferior) piano, which only supports a fully sustained pedal, that doesn't happen. Again, it happens in Pianoteq even if I have a fully sustained pedal as a marking.

To replicate:

Create a work in Dorico where each measure gets repeated several times (I compose minimalist music, which is why this comes up)
Have a sustain or half-sustain pedal marking at the beginning and continue it throughout (so it's depressed half-depressed the entire time)
Play it back: in my case, the half-pedal disappears after the 8th iteration of measure 10, and a fully sustained pedal happens in the middle of a repeat of measure 6.

Dorico support has no idea what is going on since they don't have Pianoteq.

Just wanted to report this; it's very odd, but admittedly a specific use case.