Dorico’s interpretation of the Logic data seems to be starting the measure with two sixteenth-note triplets instead of one eighth-note triplet with sixteenth notes in the middle.
I think because Dorico thinks triplets with long-short and short-long are more common than triplets with long-short-short-long. You’ll need to delete the two 16th note triplets in Dorico and then re-tupletify those notes.
Engage Insert mode (I). Select the tuplet brackets/numbers and delete. Select the first note of your new tuplet and invoke the tuplet popover (;). Choose your new tuplet parameters. (Insert mode simply ensures that notes will not be over-written as they change duration during the process)
It’s worthwhile experimenting to see what happens in different scenarios as you add/remove tuplets.
It would be great if Dorico had a way to import tuplets like these. Not sure how to do it, but its the type of rhythm I use a lot when working in Logic.
Thanks for the idea. It didn’t work as far as I can tell, probably because of limitations with Logic score notation. So problem is on the other end? Seems for now I just need to avoid exporting these more complex duplets, or just simplify them down in Logic then re-create in Dorico. I guess that is best for now?
If we can’t find a way to import them right, I think the approach I would take is to work with the score you’ve already imported, copy a corrected triplet, paste it over subsequent wrong ones, and repitch.
The correct one stays on the clipboard until you copy something else, so you can keep pasting it. Where multiple instruments have the same pitches, you can Alt-click to copy those over without losing the original clipboard contents. (Otherwise of course you have to remember the pitches you’re pasting over.) If you don’t have a hundred of them, this is the most efficient way I can think of.
Good idea! Usually though… there are tons of these at all different pitches… so may be best to clean up in logic first?.. I think I may be able to find a way to select them quickly in logic and shift to another track or delete before I make a midi file for import to Dorico. Thanks for the ideas!! I appreciate it.
Midi is good when you have entered automation for CC1, CC1, etc. in Logic as it will be imported.
You will also get the articulations imported as key switches (notes outside the range of the instrument). So it will sound right in Dorico. However the generated score will only show a very limited number of the articulations (e.g. staccato dots). In general I end up deleting those keyswitch notes and adding the correct articulation designation as per the expression map in the dorico score.
MusicXML versions Logic and Dorico are using unfortunately also do not transfer a lot of info on the articulations and dynamics. Info eventually added manually in the Logic score is just interpreted as text above and below the staffs. Logic in fact also does not interpret dynamics entered in its own score editor I think (Cubase does)
