In the current halve/double operation, Dorico is not offering Time Signature transformation, and is not handling tuplets, which I am assuming for now, must be a bug/misfeature:
This operation creates a copy score in a separate window, in which the entire score shrinks to half its size, including Time Signatures, Triplets etc, preserving text and slur attachments:
The converse applies for Double Score. Currently as workaround, I am exporting as MusicXML the score I want transformed from Dorico to Sibelius, running Halve Note Values in Sibelius, and then re-exporting the transformed score as MusicXML from Sibelius back to Dorico.
It would be great to be able to perform this Halve Score or Double Score operation, including tuplets and preserving slur and text attachments, in Dorico directly.
Yes. This is one of the “Holy Grail” features, and not yet available.
You can do it, but it must be done in several steps, removing the tuplets, doubling using insert mode, and then reapplying the tuplets.
Bumping this thread as we look forward to future development cycles and Dorico 7 planning.
After wrestling with this limitation across several more large-scale projects, I want to reiterate that a native, global Halve/Double Score function remains at the very top of my wishlist.
As shown in my original examples above, Dorico’s current implementation still breaks tuplets into tied notes and leaves time signatures untouched. The standard workaround of destroying tuplet brackets or round-tripping the project through Sibelius via MusicXML is an immense friction point. It completely stalls the workflow precisely when you need momentum.
If the development team can introduce a true “Transformation Engine” in Dorico 7 that can mathematically scale the note stream, time signatures, and nested tuplets simultaneously, it will be an instant, day-one purchase for me.
This is one of the last true “Holy Grail” workflow utilities separating Dorico from its legacy competitors. For composers and engravers managing complex, multi-layered data—particularly when translating dense, unquantized MIDI streams from DAWs like Cubase into a formal notation space—the lack of an automated global transformation utility is a profound workflow bottleneck. The necessary workaround (exporting via MusicXML to invoke Sibelius’s geometric transformation plugins before round-tripping back to Dorico) introduces unacceptable data degradation risks.
Implementing a dedicated transformation engine in Dorico 7 that can simultaneously intercept the timeline, scale note positions, re-evaluate nested tuplet ratios, and proportionally compress metric filters would resolve one of the final systemic workflow disparities between Dorico and legacy software.
