Cubase 14.0.20 now imports Dorico files!

And that is really good news!!!

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@MarcLarcher
Yes!
This update is really useful!

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Thank you, @MarcLarcher. :slight_smile:

More here: Cubase 14 release notes (including Dorico things)

Soā€¦ Does anybody know how this works?
I created an empty project from scratch, imported a Dorico file, and nothing happened. Itā€™s still an empty project.

Thatā€™s weird. I tried it, with a really huge project (12 minutes long, 40 players) and after a while, everything turned out perfectly laid out. Maybe you need to wait a little bit more ?

Most files work, at least 2 of them donā€™t. All have similar size (both length and players), all have recently been edited (so are Dorico 5 file format).
And none of them play back - I suppose this is because I use NotePerformer in Dorico?

Maybe projects that donā€™t import are useful to devsā€¦

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I donā€™t think Cubase will be able to load the VST instruments according to Doricoā€™s Play routing now. But it would really be very convenient if it could.

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Hi - there was this response from SB staff, to your similar post in the Cubase forum, inviting you to send along any ā€˜problemā€™ files for examinationā€¦ Did you see it yet.?
Cubase 14.0.20 Maintenance Update - Cubase - Steinberg Forums

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Logic flags NP as ā€œnot validā€. Check whether Cubase actually allows you to use it. I think Arne deliberately prevents its use in DAWs somehow.

Iā€™ve already sent him a message :slight_smile:

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Yeah, I had really hoped I could now skip the step of bouncing out stems from Dorico and importing them for mixing into Cubase :wink:

I opened a Dorico Pro 5 file in Cubase 14.0.20 but only the first flow is imported, not the following ones.
Has anybody experienced the same issue?

Can Cubase handle flows? That may be deliberate. (Also bear in mind that successive updates may bring a steady stream of improvements.)

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The Cubase import of Dorico projects does only import the first flow, and it also only imports the notation it supports, no endpoint configurations or playback templates and expression maps at all. This will be refined in future, but we hope this new feature does enable certain cross-application workflows already.

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I see. A dialog option to decide which flows are imported to Cubase from a Dorico file would be necessary. Until then this new import is not much useful. Just for single-flow Dorico projects.

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Thank you!

You can export any single flow from Dorico to a new file.

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I know.
That is an additional step, it would be better to import directly the flows needed from the original Dorico project.
Maybe in the future.

Yes, sure. While we discover all this, Iā€™m quite confident that the Team already knows all thisā€¦ and as usual, it will come in due time. Whatā€™s showing us is that things are really going forward, and thatā€™s a very good sign.

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