I wish so badly that this Sibelius feature was in Dorico. 1 click and you can transform your midi recording into something almost perfect every time.
Re-notate Performance is a Sibelius feature that acts like an automatic “clean-up” tool for MIDI data. It analyzes sloppy, raw musical performances (like those recorded on a MIDI keyboard) and converts them into neat, readable, and visually accurate sheet music.
Here is exactly what it does to your notes:
Rounds Off the “Messy” Timing: When you play live, you never play perfectly on the beat. Re-notate Performance looks at your notes and rounds them to the nearest standard rhythm (like 16th notes or 8th notes) based on a minimum duration you set.
Cleans Up Lengths (Ties and Rests): It removes microscopic gaps between notes caused by natural playing hesitation and replaces them with standard rests. It also adds ties across bar lines so that notes spilling over the measure line are notated correctly according to music theory. It also splits treble and bass clef almost perfectly every time
Hello Robert,
welcome to the forum.
You can easily use the Sibelius file, export to music.xml and import into Dorico.
xml files generated by the Dolet plugin of Sibelius will import almost 100% reliably into Dorico.
Dorico itself has a more sophisticated MIDI import, but you can also use that to your benefit.
There is a detailed video which is worth watching: Smart MIDI import
This bit from the manual might also be of interest:
It does exist in Dorico, where it is called Quantization…
You can set the parameters for your initial MIDI recording, and if you are dissatisfied, change the settings applied to any selection of your MIDI performance using Edit>Re-quantize…
Yes, thankyou, I’ve tried that and I never get as good of results as I can get by just using Sibelius for my live note entry, and then using Re-notate performance. 1st of all, Dorico is terrible at splitting the right and left hand. Even If I play my right hand an octave higher than it should be played, it still screws up sometimes. Thanks for your help though. I love Dorico, I just wish it could split right and left hand and tidy up your performance as easily as Sibelius does.
I don’t think one needs to repeat the same message three times. If one wants to call the attention of three contributors to virtually the same message, one can tag all three in one message. Vis: @Robert_Moyle
Yes, Thankyou. I do that after I use Sibelius. I just want to be able to use Dorico to take care of all of it, so I don’t have to use Sibelius and Dorico.
I will tonight. I just came across this today while searching for information on my split point problems. I have just been using the default piano that Dorico uses for the piano grand staff. Maybe it is categorized as an electronic instrument like this article says:
“Keep in mind the following details regarding the split function:”
The “Instrument Family” Matters: The automatic split point relies on the instrument being assigned to the “Keyboards” family. If a keyboard instrument is improperly categorized (e.g., in both “Keyboards” and “Electronics” families), the split algorithm may fail.
Robert, could you upload your Dorico Diagnostics file, and also an example project that you’ve input (just one containing the four bars shown above will be fine)?
