This question is nearly as old as Dorico is and the Answer nearly always was “not in the near Future” since “the Cubase Score-Editor is a completely different kind of Software”.
Nevertheless the hope, and whishes Dorico would contribute to a complete Steinberg -Ecosystem remain reasonable. So even if I know that I am not the first who ask, after I saw the Score-Editor in Cubase has become much more Dorico-like in the latest Cubase-Version, (not to talk about how much Dorico has included many important Cubase-Features in the last years) the demand also seem to become more and more interesting:
“Please work for - and as soon as possible provide - an direct exchange of Dorico and Cubase-Projects!”
Thank you
The Cubase 14 score editor can now import and export Dorico projects. However, it is very unlikely that Dorico and Cubase will have a common file format, or that you will be able to ‘round-trip’ between both applications because they have a completely different data model, and some of the data in each model can’t be represented in the other application. We would like to find ways of keeping Dorico and Cubase projects in sync (ie if changes are made in one application then we can apply some of the changes in the other) rather than exporting projects between Dorico and Cubase multiple times.
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Different Software are made for different tasks. So it is not that surprising, that they don’t work paralel in each aspect. However exactly it is the different strength of both which would make it attractive to “sync” both.
I think Adobe has understood that very well in the world of grafic- and video Software. No one expects nor wants, that you can do exactly the same with different software.
What we need is just to make use of what one software is not able to in the other.
The only Data which should be able to be synced is what Cubase would need from Dorico to programm the sound of a project, as Dorico would only need to understand, the programmed Data which is relevant to appear in a printed score of the programmed music.
So it seams to me as user of both at least a bit redundant, to see how much the functionality of both more and more overlap, while it would be much more attractive to see them cooperate.
So why for instance must Dorico have the better developed Expression-maps (with the long demanded track-delay per articulation), while I would appreciate this feature much more in Cubase, since the programming environment is there much richer.
It would be imho presumably much more attractive, if Cubase just shares the Understanding for the Articulation written in a Dorico-score and Dorico knows how to write a certain in Cubase chosen Articulation in its much better designed scores.
Just my thoughts. - I am sure Steinberg and their customers are likewise interested in a good cooperation of both, and that will remain an attractive direction of development for both Softwares.
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