Hello. I prefer to input my parts live with my midi keyboard and then tidy things up. I’m surprised that Dorico is not recording my dynamics when I play. Am I doing something wrong?
thanks
normally the dynamics are always recorded when playing live, irrespective of what your Expression Map has set for the volume dynamic (which may well vary depending on the instrument) and will show in the velocity lane plus the volume dynamic lane if different. First question is if you can see the differences in dynamic in the Key Editor velocity lane but not hear them or if you cannot see or hear them. That will then narrow things down.
see: Program Settings/Playback/Record-> Adopt Velocity.
Well what do you know. Preserve note velocities wasn’t checked! Fantastic and thank you!
that was it!
that wasn’t my first port of call as I’ve never known anyone to disable “Preserve Note Velocities”. But of course this was the obvious next step as @Janus and @_derBertram spotted.
I do, because I just cannot get the hang of the weighting of MIDI keyboards!(Give me a way to get MIDI out of my Bluthner model 1 and I’ll bite your arm off)
I naively assumed that everyone who who likes to record live (I don’t as a rule, anyway) has a keyboard with at least useable weighting. Clearly an unwise assumption!
For me, MIDI keyboard is simply a way to get notes input quickly…
fair enough. But I find step input is usually faster than quantizing and correcting the inevitable mistakes. Perhaps you don’t make any!
New to Dorico, I had this exact same problem. No idea why “preserve note velocities” was unchecked. Took some hunting to find this answer, but glad I found it! Thanks to all who answered.
Hey Folks, I have this problem, although “Preserve Note Velocity” is actually checked! So I have the right velocity in place, and I hear it too on the playback, but unfortunately the score has no dynamics at all, making my composition useless when printed!
Any suggestions?
I could be wrong, but I don’t think Dorico will add printed dynamics to your score based on the Velocities that you played.
If you actually want notated dynamics, you’ll have to add them.
Indeed, Ben is right: Dorico doesn’t (at the moment, at any rate) try to automatically add dynamics based on the velocities you have played during recording or when importing MIDI. This represents an interesting thresholding problem, as it would be very easy for Dorico to end up too sensitive, adding different dynamics on practically every note or chord in response to the natural variation in your performance, or for it to be not sensitive enough, resulting in it producing too few dynamics.