Hi all,
I am working on a project arranging some parts for a chamber group to play along with an artist who is performing existing songs. I have the audio tracks of the exact version of the songs that they will perform, and was hoping to be able to write the string parts to the audio track in Dorico. I know that Dorico doesn’t have the option (hopefully some day) to directly import audio, so I have tried to convert the audio tracks to video in order to import to Dorico. However, I have had some difficulties in getting the start of the video track to line up with the Dorico playback. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to making this more effective? Or should I just cut my losses and score to the audio in Logic and then transcibe/export to Dorico for engraving?
It would be great to have the ability to import audio tracks; could be useful for arranging (like this), transcribing, or composing new music with fixed audio recordings. I know Staffpad (see video below) has this feature, and I really like how it also displays the audio that is imported graphically, which would be a good visual indicator/cue for performers playing a new music piece with a backing track. Unfortunately I do not have an iPad, so I am unable to try Staffpad, but would love for something like this to come to Dorico. Hopefully this is on the developer’s radar for a future update!