Dorico has a feature that allows you to set the timing and note value of the performance separately from the visible note, which I think is a great feature, but sometimes the timing is obviously off. The data is converted from a MIDI file, so is this a known bug? Even if it looks normal on the sheet music, it’s clearly a performance that is out of sync, so it’s off when viewed in the Key Editor.
No, this is not a bug. When you import MIDI that is being visually quantized in the score view there are several options in the properties panel that retain the original values of the midi. You can remove the offset by deactivating these options.
Thank you for your quick response. There is a “Suppress playback” option in the properties section. If you change it, the out-of-range notes will fall within the range. If you set the playback start offset and playback offset to the correct ones, the out-of-range will disappear, but I wonder if there is an option to set before loading the midi file. It is inefficient to load and correct each time. The original data is just a normal note input, so why is there an offset? If it is not a bug, what is the meaning? Not all notes are like that.
Usually the supress playback option does not interfere with octave offsets or out of range notes etc. so I’m not really sure what is going on in your file. Can you be a bit more specific and maybe provide an example?
Select the whole document and click on “Reset Playback Overrides” in the Play menu.
This will remove any variation from the notated durations.
“Suppress Playback” turns OFF playback for that note, which is not what you want. It changes the colour of the note, and obviously a note can only be one colour.
Thank you for your advice. When I reset the playback overwrite information as you pointed out, the strange lag seems to have been resolved. The original MIDI file was simply music entered by a friend using Cubase, so I wonder why this happened? It doesn’t make sense. Do useful things have side effects? Anyway, thank you. Dorico seems to be the strongest tool for music notation, but the lack of information in Japanese is a drawback. I look forward to working with you again.
If they played in the notes, and didn’t quantise it, then the notes would have all the ‘human’ variation away from the beat.
Dorico has to quantise the data to produce the notation – but it keeps the underlying MIDI data, so you can playback the “looser”, human feel, but still have the exact notation.
Since it’s basically sheet music input, it’s step input and doesn’t require quantization like real-time input. I leave the performance to Note Performer. Another thing I’d like to see in Dorico is a vocal recording function. If that happens, it will be close to being complete as a sheet music DAW.