Tempo track export troubles

Hello there
It feels really dumb when you have troubles that no one else has.

Exporting the tempo track is a nightmare for me.
My music should be recorded acoustic somewhere and the musicians need .mid format.
I have the hardest time with this.
When I import the dorico .mid in cubase, the tempo track is empty! yes, empty!
Then try out with .xml and there is a tempo track, but with a mistake, a tempo change missing.

I correct it in cubase and export in xml (.mid would be empty tempo track) and tada! empty tempo track again.

It’s driving me crazy and I feel totally stupid.

Why so much misery and what should I do, please? (apart from an audio tempo track, that would be humiliating in 2023)

Thank you.

Hi! Just wondering whether you’ve explored the RTFM route, have you tried this?

Or

Edit: I remember now that I had to do exactly what @dspreadbury just described in the following post. That is the solution you were looking for!

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In Cubase, you need to set your MIDI import options such that tempo items will be imported from MIDI files:

Specifically, make sure Ignore Master Track Events on Merge is switched off.

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Hi Marc, thanks.

This is what I did in the first place but it’s not a .mid file, it’s a .smt.
The musicians at the other end could not open it.
I can’t find a way to export a tempo track in .mid, can you?

Yes! It works!
Thank you so much. I would never have thought about something like this.
It’s a big relief.

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