Feature Idea - Import Audio (.wav .mp3 etc.)

[Damiendoubled]

Hi guys i’m sure this idea isn’t new but would be a massive upgrade for those who compose and produce on top of existing music or soundtracks.

At the moment I have to use a work around where I convert an Audio file to a Video file however it gets confusing lining it up with the FPS of the file.

Massive love to the Team

[Frigolito]

It has indeed been suggested before:

Sync mp3 with score - Finale user

OK. So I am a longtime Finale user saddened to hear Finale development has stopped. I will need to move on. I was eager to look to learning Dorico… until… My favorite capability from Finale… my key workflow item is to be able to import audio (mp3, WAV) and be able to notate against the sync’d audio track. Ex 1: composed guitar/vocal on mp3 - needing to notate other instrument accompaniment and hearing real time live playback. Ex 2: including sampled audio sounds in new composition Ex 3…

Import audio files

Will Dorico be able to import audio files in the future?

Importing audio into Dorico

Are there plans to make importing audio into Dorico a real, usable feature in Dorico 4.0? A good amount of my work involves creating arrangements on top of existing audio. At the moment, the only way I can get audio into my project is by creating a “fake” video file that I can then import into Dorico. However, this method is cludgy and imprecise. While it is possible to adjust the timing of the “video” file within Dorico, it does NOT seem to be possible to make the video start SOONER than the …

Importing WAV or MP3 into Dorico

I understand the import feature of audio has been requested several times. Is there a roadmap in place for this feature? It’s been asked since at least 2016 on this forum and the answer then was ‘it’s in development’. I’d like to invest money into Dorico, but this is quite bad. Is there any time-commitment to this feature request?

Audio file in Dorico

Huy Guys! ULF!!!..are you there? Is there a way I can add audio file in Dorico…tell you why… I am doing and enactment of the SS Mendi, a ship with Black South African troops who perisher in the English channel in 1917. My boss wants to hear some WWI sounds as the music plays in dorico. Sound FX I can get, but how do I add it at places…even the sounds of the icy, foggy ocean as they are drifting in the water? Can Dorico handle wav of mp3 audio tracks…or do we have to trick dorico by adding a…

Perhaps the video feature will some day metamorphose into a “sync medium” feature, including tools for syncing the Dorico project to almost any type of digital media format with a time parameter, including but not limited to audio and video?

[Damiendoubled]

Thanks for linking those threads, I’m looking forward to that day

[john.nichols4321]

As am I. I have made progress since my earlier post working through the suggestions to achieve a similar outcome with Dorico. But the workflow with Dorico does makes for unhappy time spent executing multiple steps in multiple programs.

Two key pieces needed to go faster:

1. Enabling media other than MP4. The obvious would be MP3 and WAV files. I have found tools and method to generate an MP4 from an MP3, but these just feel like the long way around.
2. A recordable TempoTap function. Need the ability to quickly and easily create a midi tempo track which syncs bars/beats in notation to audio with variable tempos. This was something Finale had built in.

An alternative for Steinberg here might be to port over a little Cubase functionality: port the function allowing manual alignment of bar/beat lines to transients in visual track representation and have that generate the series of tempo adjustments needed in a midi tempo track.

Ideas, ideas… anyone else looking for this capability?

[reberclark]

To be able to import wav files (or mp3 in a pinch) would be a great feature to have.

[PP92]

Same file format support as cubase would be nice to have, like ogg file format.