Hello! I’ve just proudly made the upgrade from Dorico 3.5 to 6 after learning of the more recently implemented midi pitch-bend exporting when using alternative tonality systems (microtonality, JI, etc).
I can find a few threads in relation to this via Dorico 5 (e.g. this or this) though cannot relating to Dorico 6. How do I export MIDI for a JI/non-12EDO work and receive pitch bend MIDI or better yet—wishful thinking—MPE output?
Thanks so much for any tips/advice!
Go to Library > Expression Maps…, and on the top of the window that opens, press Expression Map Data. Set Microtonality Playback to Pitch bend. Make sure that the Pitch bend range is the same in Dorico as in your synth. Alas, Dorico doesn’t support MPE. This is monophonic pitch bend so you can’t have chords (where the notes have different microtonal inflections) on a single track. Each voice has to be on its own MIDI channel.
This works! Exactly what I was looking for!
Too bad to hear about MPE though might attempt to make a simple python compiler that receives monophonic midi tracks with pitch bends and converts them into a polyphonic MPE track. We’ll see…
Thank you so much, Juhani/kaleva, so great to see you here!
— Richie (Greene)