Good morning, what would you think if Dorico could have the MIDI CC function directly on the staff?
I’m OK with that but it would need granular editing capabilities. Key editor is challenging enough because there are not granular controls for accurately moving changes in time or in value with ease.
Which MIDI CC? Volume, expression, articulations, etc?
It could get quite messy, don’t you think? 
(Sorry if that sounds a bit snarky — not meaning to be!) I’m currently playing a wind controller and use many CCs to control all kinds of features on the various “instruments” it can emulate — anything from bow speed, pressure, and direction, to brass mutes, tonguing, breathiness, to woodwind flutter-tongue, growl, pitch bend, legato, portamento, and glissando. Even using different colors for each CC could create quite a mess!
So with that in mind, what did you want to show or manipulate in the score? (I, for one, need to learn how to use the Play Mode better, which would probably help me with some of those simple edits I would like to make… )
— Jim
One problem is that the x-axis in music notation is not linear. Even within a series of quarter notes the distance from the last note of a bar to the one on the next downbeat can be significantly larger. So when you draw a line spanning multiple bars, while it may look exactly linear, it actually isn’t,
That’s a good question. So, perhaps, allowing one to choose which automation, as Dorico defines it, and to limit each staff to only one automation (excluding dynamics, volume, MIDI pitch bend and tempo) that one might find it useful for a control specific to that particular instrument. Maybe an ability to choose which automation could display and manipulate could be done with the right mouse click if there are more than one automation defined for that instrument.
So, yes, just putting that into words was a bit messy…good point.
Frankly, I do like the concept, but Dorico is primarily a music notation application. Most conductors and players do not have a need for additional data in the form of a MIDI stream (or several of them) added to the score. At least I wouldn’t want it added to my part! If we’re writing for a machine to read the part, then the piano roll would probably be a better “notational” format. (Isn’t that a representation of sequenced data anyway?) Maybe I don’t see the point outside of playback —which is certainly possible! But for me, I’d rather focus on learning how to do those kind of manipulations as an actual MIDI stream in the piano roll or within a DAW.
Maybe sometime in the future we will have an app that will allow us to do anything that remotely touches music in one place and be completely intuitive despite our differences in learning, experience, and personality types! (Maybe it’ll even include a “theory of everything” for physics.)
Again, sorry if this sounds snarky! I do like the idea of having some way of manipulating MIDI CC data that would be easy to use and graphically appealing. I just think it belongs elsewhere.