Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to see if anyone could offer any advice or approaches for tackling large MIDI orchestration jobs in Dorico. In particular, regarding poor performance which (I think…) is due to the (necessarily ) high number of “players” involved when distilling down the composer’s MIDI. I’m running a 2010 Mac Pro with dual quad core Xeons and 64gb of ram. Dorico is running of an SSD and the playback template is set to silence. Not the latest and greatest, and I’m not opposed to planning an upgrade, but the performance is pretty frustrating when I have to work on the large orchestra MIDI sessions, especially when compared to my other programs (which I obviously detest for various other reasons…)
I clean the MIDI first in DP and then import a SMF into a template.
My old method in ‘the other programs’ was to bring in the cleaned midi to a dump file and copy the notes into the finished template file. Unfortunately there is a horrible lag when switching between two open files using Dorico, which is kind of prohibitive to this approach after a while.
I think all the constant layout calculations are what is slowing it down right? It seems utterly primitive but I’d love to turn them off while I’m in galley view and just moving the notes onto the right staves… Wondering what you all do to handle this kind of task in Dorico? It’s downright wonderful when it comes to producing the finished engravings but I’ve just gotten so frustrated with the performance on big jobs that it’s really starting to do my head in!
Looking forward to any solutions there may be.