Exporting midi from Dorico to Cubase

Dorico
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Hello guys!

I have worked on a score in Dorico and I want to import it in Cubase, in order to match it with an audio file.

I make a midi export in dorico and I import this midi file into Cubase. Disaster!

Although the whole project appears in Cubase, the layout is terrible.

There are notes (in Cubase) that do not exist in the edited Dorico project, notes that have different length (i.e. eighth notes that appear as 16th notes with rests), notes that are marked at the beginning as they should and then as the neighbour notes with double sharp (ie. you see a d note and in the same bar you see it as c##)! When you try to change these notes, one by one, then for no reason other notes are changing automatically and this has no end…

This is very disappointing. I really hope that it is me who have done something wrong and that the two programms are meant to cooperate as they should. My Dorico verion is Dorico 3 Pro and my Cubase is 14 Pro.

I would appreciate any help from you to overcome that issue.

Thank you

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Hi @Jiorgy, and welcome to the Forum. In Cubase there is an Import Dorico Project function, under menu File>Import>Dorico Project… You can then drag the regions to the correct tracks (that you have set up with all the vst etc…) for a correct playback.

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Thank you very much my friend! That was it!

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Dorico 3 is quite old, and the licence software has expired. I’d strongly recommend upgrading if you can.

Cubase 14 can import Dorico files directly!

MIDI is very basic – it represents notes as numbered pitches, so a D and C double-sharp are the same in a MIDI file.