Split Grand Staff to separate MIDI channels

Dorico
#1

Hi!

How can I setup a piano grand staff and export to a MIDI file which has treble and bass staff on different channels?
I want to write scores in Dorico and use them in Yamaha Smart Pianist App, which requires SMF with left/right hand and secondo on different channels.
Up to now I used Capella Software, which has a checkbox for that task in MIDI export.

Btw, sorry if my question was already discussed before, but the forum search does not allow to search for “+channel +staff”, the word “channel” is ignored and I get tenthousends of results just with “staff”…

#2

There isn’t an option to do this, but you should be able to get the same effect by enabling Independent Voice Playback, which will then route each voice to a separate channel:

https://steinberg.help/dorico/v3/en/dorico/topics/play_mode/play_mode_tracks_instruments_independent_voice_playback_enabling_t.html

#3

That works, thank you very much!

However something is confusing me:
I created a basic piano grand staff and in Play-Mode I can choose “Voice 1 Upstem” or “Voice 2 Upstem”
But when I’m in Write-Mode, all notes in G-Staff and F-Staff are “Voice 1 Upstem” (at least the status bar tells me when I click on any note).

For investigation I added an additional Upstem Voice with Shift-V (showed +2 and the Upstem Symbol). Selected note in status bar shows “Voice 2 Upstem”, as expected. But in Play-Mode I can now select a “Voice 3 Upstem” :confused:

Can somebody pls help me to understand?

#4

It’s a rough edge, I’m afraid. Write and Engrave modes use separate voice numbering per stave, but Play mode uses a single set of voice numbers across the whole instrument (as it has no way of representing different staves, cross-staff notes etc.). You’ll need to use your eyes and ears to work out which Write/Engrave mode voice corresponds to which Play mode voice.

#5

If I recall correctly, the latest version of Dorico will immediately show you in Play mode the notes you select in Write mode.