Importing MIDI Orch with Percussion

Dorico
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First, the good news. I was surprised how well Dorico imported a complex MIDI orchestral score. I had to change a few staves from player to section, but that was simple.

Issue with percussion (as I feared):
1-I had three MIDI perc tracks:

  • Triangle
  • Cymbals (clash hits and suspended roll)
  • Drums (bass drum, snare drum, tambourine)

2-Triangle came in OK.
3-Cymbals came in on one track, but I don’t think Dorico understands that one pitch represents hand-held clash cymbals, and one is a suspended cymbal roll.
4-Drums came in on one track but Dorico doesn’t know it is orch bass, orch snare, and tambourine.

QUESTION 1: Is there an easy fix? Or…
QUESTION 2: Would it be easier to separate each MIDI track, import again, and re-import? Once I do that, will be be able to combine staves so both cymbals are on one track, and both snare and bass are on one track?

Sorry for the long post. Thanks.

Konrad

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Perhaps import the percussion tracks separately into a new flow, make any fixes, and then copy/paste them into your main orchestral flow?

I’m guessing you already know about the Library > Library Manager, and of course you could try configuring it differently when you import just the percussion tracks.

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Thanks. I am not up on Library Manager but I will find out. I have purchased both Groove 3 and MacPro training, and the Steinberg Help is great, so I will check it out.