It’s interesting to me that even in this excellent video on using Dorico to score films directly with BBCSO:
Roland at some point in the video acknowledges that while it should be possible to achieve DAW-like playback, in his examples even he actually started by adding expression (CC1, CC11, etc.) in Logic first, and then exporting the MIDI to Dorico before continuing. I similarly have found that it’s much easier to operate this way (even with Expression Maps and all the Play Mode functionality of Dorico) because it’s so much easier to manipulate the all-important expression parameters like CC1 and CC11 in Logic editing-wise.
Part of the problem I’ve found is the slight confusion I experience from the hierarchy of the “Dynamics Lane” in Dorico vs. (the somewhat hidden access to) the underlying CC11 and CC1-type data in Play Mode, and in figuring out which takes precedence to control expression at any given moment (depending upon what was entered first and how the notes were originally entered, etc.)…Automatic Expression Map-based Dorico playback requires this sort of additional expression tweaking I’ve found, and so you also end up having to negotiate both the Expression Map programming (to interpret the notated symbols), PLUS still tweak the underlying MIDI further…So still sorting this out…
- D.D.