Hello. I want to ask. I am not so often work with a notation. But sometimes I need to give my parts to musicians… and honestly the Score editor in Cubase 13 works not so good. You need to change many things by hands before it will be looking OK. But does Dorico works better in this way? For example, if I will import midi from Cubase how clean it will be on notation?
Nobody? Really?
If you want to create parts for musicians, Dorico is definitely a good choice for that. But going from MIDI to readable PDF -parts will usually require some work - how much work exactly depends on what is being imported. I think the best option for you is just to try it out!
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There is a 60-day trial version of Dorico one can use to evaluate the program.
Not totally painless to achieve, but the results are great. With a little practice it’s not too hard/lengthy. You have some workflow options.
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Do rudimentary stuff in the Cubase Score editor, Export as XML. Do just enough to ensure the notes/rests fall where they are supposed to fall on a stave (beat and duration wise). I usually work with ‘alternate copies’ of the project tracks that I wish to port over to a scoring app (sometimes even clone the entire project and attack the copy headed to a score with new approaches). I don’t even connect the ‘scoring’ staves to an ‘instrument’ to hear them play. Strictly for visual work. Include stuff like dynamic changes, note articulations, hair pin dynamics, and so forth. Double check that your time/key signatures and such are in shape. Don’t worry about the details on stuff like spacing, collisions, etc. You should find that exporting an XML from Cubase yields pretty good results when imported into Dorico. Dorico will take care of the score formatting from there out according to your global settings therein, and your custom tweaks.
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You can try exporting straight MIDI and see how it imports in Dorico. If it’s too off…do a grid align in Cubase to clarify where beats should be (Cubase will vary the tempo so it sounds the same despite having fudged the grid about) and try again.
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Either quantize or grid align (or a combination of both) a copy of the tracks in Cubase that you intend to ‘score’ in Dorico. Get rid of any exotic ‘groove’ that might be going on in your Cubase project so it is as straight on the beat/upbeat/etc. as you can get it. Quantize note durations too for a bit more precision. Export MIDI.
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To some degree you can drag parts back and forth between Dorico and Cubase. I haven’t spent much time exploring how well it works, and how much control you get over where stuff ends up. Something to explore though.
When you export MIDI, there is little to no extra data one would expect for Notation. I.E. Dynamic markings, note articulation markings, etc. You’ll have to poke those in yourself once the MIDI file is imported into your Scoring suite of choice. With that in mind, I usually go for XML, and do a bunch of the prelim marking in Cubase before I send it over.
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Thanks 
You might find this video helpful:
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Thank you very much!