I must be missing something here, but I just purchased Cubase 14 specifically so I could work with Dorico 6 projects but when I select “Import/Dorico Project” it opens Finder, allows me to select the project, but when I do, it closes that Finder window, and opens yet another one at the root of my Documents folder. It won’t let you select a .dorico file from the second window, and if you just click open, it generates a new Cubase project with the title of the Dorico project… but with zero tracks or any other content.
What am I getting wrong here?
The second chooser window is to set the project directory, so you need to select a directory at that point.
Thanks for the reply! You mean a new directory for the Cubase project or select the project directory for the .dorico file? I have tried both with no success.
I just tried this too and you have to select a folder where the cubase project will live. Import worked, and I see all the tracks, but Cubase created midi tracks, not instrument tracks, so I can’t play anything.
Steinberg: Is that intentional ? (seems like at least you could have created instrument tracks upon import)
I have tried everything suggested here… but am still getting nothing. Here is a video of me undertaking this task. Can you tell me where I am going wrong please? Youtube Screen Video
Really? They are just taking the exporting step out of exporting and importing Music XML? That sounds quite lame.
When it is empty like this, I believe it is almost always because of the flow that is being used. It can only import the first flow from the Dorico project, and it imports it based on the default ID number the first flow will have in a new Dorico project. As a result, if you had made a new flow as the first flow and deleted the original default first flow that was in the Dorico project, then you end up with an empty import like this (because now the first flow has a different ID number than the default first flow ID number).
You can work around it by making a new Dorico project with the same instruments where the default flow is still present and copy-paste the music into that default flow in the new Dorico project, and import that.
It is intentional. The current import doesn’t bring in any playback information except the notes themselves and possibly some note velocities. You retain most of the visual appearance of the score (like dynamics etc if present, if you look at the score in the Cubase Score Editor) but markings in the score like dynamics and playing techniques are only visual, having no playback effect at the moment. Dynamics will have to be manually redone by drawing the CC lanes in the Cubase piano roll, etc.
Ah yes, of course, Michael is correct – this is a bug in 14.0.20 which will be fixed in the next update.
All the playback information for notes are imported: velocities, positions and durations (ie taking staccato, legato, accents into account).
We hope to extend this further in the future.
Hi Paul, thanks for the reply. I assume the CC info from Dorico (CC1, 11 etc.) is also passed along? Any idea when the actual instrument assignments are going to be included?
The CC data isn’t yet exported. I can’t say anything about any future timescales, but we know that transfer of plugin data is an important use case.
Right, I knew some velocity and length and offset stuff was in there, but didn’t remember the details.
Does the velocity and the note length offsets follow the rules specified in the expression map in Dorico? (ex. the expression map for that library may specify a certain length percentage for tenuto or whatever that is different from the Dorico default - or specifying the dynamic range which is by default -6 to 6 I think, or the dynamic curve power, or the ability to constrain things like velocity or CC’s to a certain range instead of the default 0 to 127)
I imagine most of these probably follow the Dorico defaults from the playback options, and any overrides in the Dorico expression map for these types of things are probably ignored at the moment?
As I recall, it should use the combination of note property overrides, playback options and the Dorico Expression Map.
Oh, good to know, thanks!
No.. the Dorico import works fine, but only if when you created the Dorico project you entered your music/notes into the flow that is there in the Dorico project by default. This will be the case most of the time, so most of the time it will work.
The problem happens if instead you make a new Dorico project, delete the flow that exists so that you have no flows, and then make a new flow to replace the default flow that was deleted, and then you enter your music into this new flow. In this case, it will try importing the default flow which does not exist (because you deleted it) and will not import anything.
It doesn’t bring all the MIDI that you would get if you were to export MIDI from Dorico and bring the MIDI into Cubase. You lose the MIDI controllers like CC1 and CC11 and also lose keyswitches that triggered the articulations.