I am trying to export midi from Reaper and import into Dorico.
It ignores tempo changes and plays at a ridiculous speed.
I can see the tempo changes in to imported midi (in the midi editor). dorico plays back at q = 500. Marvelous!
It shows the tempo markings in the score too. Even if I delete these and add new markings they are still ignored.
There’s a little thing to open “Used in this flow“. These show what is visible in the midi view - but as a list.
So is it actually possible or will I have to transcribe the thing note by note?
Thank you. There was an initial setting of q = 600 (in the midi) - with this present it didn’t matter about the tempo indicator being blue. Then I imported into cakewalk sonar, removed it and exported again. Dorico now plays back OK but where Reaper’s tempo “envelope” had a simple slope for a ritard in Dorico this awful mess appears. There’s probably a way of fixing it…
No. When the initial setting of q = 600 was included anything tempo setting after that were ignored and it did not matter whether the tempo indicator was blue or not.
Maybe just create a new flow with the same instrumentation then copy and paste the notation into the new flow. I find that this has solved the occasional issues that can arise with MIDI or musXML imports.
For information: I tried some more experimentation - thinking that perhaps the issue was with Reaper. I exported from both Sonar and Reaper with and without the q=600 tempo setting. Export from either without the setting and Dorico behaved as we should expect. With the setting Dorico did indeed ignore any subsequent tempo settings.
If I had found the problem was with Reaper I would have said so here and informed Cockos Inc.
This is a bug. I know about it now so it’s simple enough to avoid.
