Does the first half of the video show step-time input? To be explicit: I press enter on the staff, the carat appears, I hit notes on the MIDI keyboard and notes matching my pitch and the duration value selected on the left.
In the video, I do this type of input, then follow up with an attempt to MIDI record- you can hear the VST make the correct pitches in both sections, however, no notes appear in the record section.
Thank you for the clarification, Derrek! I wasn’t sure of the feature names which is why I was explicit in the actions I was taking. I’ll try step-time input.
EDIT: I just watched a video for pitch-before-duration input, and that is not what input I was using. I was using the same input that existed from v1 in Dorico, which didn’t have those previews of the notes before duration.
I had duration selected as a latch, and then the pitch wrote to the staff as I played.
Also @dspreadbury, I would say it appeared “as I expected it”, but there was no intelligent splitting of staves on piano input. But I assumed that was a different problem.
If step-time input is working, then it’s pretty odd that real-time input is not. Could you please try the steps again that you showed in your video, then do Help > Create Diagnostic Report and attach the resulting zip file here so I can take a closer look?
The way MIDI recording works in Dorico is that Dorico buffers everything you play, then it saves the MIDI data to a file in a temporary location, and then it imports that MIDI file at the appropriate position in the project. So I think the next step would be to get a look at the MIDI file that Dorico is capturing.
Please run the Terminal app on your Mac, and at the command prompt type:
open $TMPDIR
This should open a new Finder window onto a folder called T. In here you should find a folder called Dorico 4, and inside there should be a folder called MIDI captures. Zip this folder up and attach it here.
Well, there’s a single MIDI file in there, and it definitely includes notes, so I would expect the music to appear. I’m not sure what could be going on here – I’ll ask my colleague Paul if he has any ideas.
Step input doesn’t get captured to file in the same way: Dorico handles that directly as each note arrives. Only real-time input is captured to a buffer and then imported in one go when you stop recording.
