Hey Dorico-Team,
although Dorico is great, I can’t understand why you just can attach a Video file and no Audio???
I would think that is one of the most basic functions?
Imagine you want to transcribe an existing piece. At the moment you always have to go to an extern audio player or you need to go the annoying detour and create a video file.
Thanks!
It is a frequently requested feature, for sure. It’s not simple to add, because we need to unlock more of the functionality of Cubase’s audio engine in order to make these features available in Dorico. This requires us to work in concert with members of the Cubase development team, who have their own priorities and roadmap that they need to deliver on. When we can align our own developers and the Cubase developers together to work on this, we will deliver this functionality. I’m afraid it’s not going to be in our next major release, but it is a high priority for us to add in future.
This is good news Daniel, thanks. When you do get around to it, could you please ask the Cubase team to include the ability to create a tempo map in Dorico, like in Cubase. Or, if that’s difficult, at least give Dorico the ability to import a tempo map from Cubase. This will enable syncing of the bar lines in Dorico with the audio. Thankyou.
In Dorico go to file>export>tempo track
Hope this helps.
Audio tracks (only a few needed) in Dorico are a long awaited and very important feature that will turn Dorico into an awesome score oriented music production platform .
Thankyou Emmanuel. I want to be able to Import a tempo map into Dorico, not export one.
A lot of my work involves transcribing audio recordings to make arrangements for different groups and bands. Having the audio recording and the new notation playing together is really useful, but I need to be able to line up the beats and bar lines in the notation to sync with those on the recording. Very frequently the recorded music does not have a consistent tempo.
File>Import>Tempo Track…?
Yes Janus, thankyou, I was aware of that. I was replying to Emmanuel’s suggestion to export one. I could create a tempo map in Cubase and import it if I could justify the cost of buying it, but I can’t, so I use Reaper to calculate the beat positions and tempos and then enter each tempo change into Dorico one at a time. In one project I had to enter over 100 of them!
You could also export a midi file from any Daw. In your DAW, make a midi clip spanning the whole duration of the piece, with a note at the start and another note at the very end. Export that as a midi file and import into dorico (to a new flow). From there you can copy all the tempo information you need with ”filter” or ”select more”
(that way you can copy the tempo map from the daw to dorico, I understood that is whar you wanted to do)
Thankyou, that’s a great idea which I hadn’t thought of.
The purpose of this is to enable playback to synchronise with an audio recording. I do this in Finale very frequently. Unfortunately, as Dorico has no audio track function, there is little point in importing a tempo track or MIDI file. I really hope that adding an audio track and the ability to create a tempo map from it will be added to Dorico in the not too distant future, before using Finale becomes impossible.
The normal workaround is to convert your audio to a video, which Dorico can handle.
Also more complicated, but possible is to sync dorico and the daw with txl -timecode plugin. But I don’t know if it works with reaper.