Do you see the little green MIDI indicator in the bottom right-hand corner of the Dorico project window flash when you play notes on your keyboard, LWestendorf?
I have the same problem. My Casio Privia PX-160 has played sometimes, but other times there is NOTHING I can do to get the keyboard to register notes in Dorico 3. When it has worked, the lower right corner showed the notes and the notes came up on Dorico. Now neither happens.
Check whether or not the keyboard shows up as a MIDI input device in the MIDI Input Devices dialog, accessed via the Play page of Preferences.
I can see my APC Key 25 (AKAI) but still not playing the notes
Can you be a bit more specific about the issue you’re experiencing, @nikdsv24. Do you see the MIDI input indicator in the very bottom right-hand corner of the project window light up green when you play notes on your keyboard?
Hello, this issue is happening to me all of a sudden. I’ve been using a Dorico Pro 6 free trial for a month, and then I was trying out a Dorico Elements 6 free trial to compare the difference. Then my MIDI keyboard stopped working.
Now I have purchased Dorico Pro 6 and reinstalled the whole thing. Still no MIDI keyboard. It works in Sibelius and Cubase, but no longer in Dorico Pro. Didn’t have any problems with it the whole time until today.
Welcome to the forum @benjamin.payne .
Please choose from the Dorico menu Help > Create Diagnostic Report and send the corresponding zip file to u dot stoermer at steinberg dot de
Hi @benjamin.payne , thanks for the data.
According to the logs Dorico detects the MIDI device SL STUDIO Port 1/2, I presume that is the one you are talking about. On the other hand, in the Dorico logs I can see that you don’t have MIDI Input enabled. So go to Edit > Preferences and there choose the Play tab. In there scroll down to the Recording section and where the first option is Enable MIDI Input. Make sure that one is tick marked. I think that’s it.
That was it! I’m not sure how that got turned off! Thank you very much!
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It is worth noting that Dorico includes the functions “Toggle MIDI Thru” and “Toggle MIDI Input” , which are relevant to this topic. These functions can only be executed via key command assignments, and users may unintentionally activate them by confusing them with other features. As a result, the MIDI keyboard may appear to stop working, even though the issue is simply due to one of these toggles being enabled or disabled.
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That is not true (as @TonH shows).
Dorico does not have factory key commands set for those functions. So if key commands do exist, the User would have created them.
Most of us (I suspect) set the option we need in Preferences and never think about it again.