Hi,
I’ve been doing scores with Sibelius since 2010, and one feature I wouldn’t live without, is their famous “Renotate Performance”.
Before knowing about this feature, I used to quantize my midi files in Cubase/ProTools/Logic, then export a midi file, then correct the score in Sibelius.
The day I discovered “Renotate Performance” in Sibelius was the best day in my copyist carrer. I saved me so much time, one click and the part was clean.
How do I do the same in Dorico ?
I am about to score a big one (next week), and I’m still planning to use Sibelius, but one day I want to make the jump to Dorico… Time is money, so I don’t want to quadruple my working time by correcting the notes one by one.
Big score meaning 7 minute piece, with Drums, piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Mallets, + 4 vocals.
Thanks !
Hmmm…
It does some cleaning, but far from performing like Sibelius’s Renotate performance…
Perhaps a script ?
Are you exporting MIDI or MusicXML from Sibelius? If you are using MusicXML then I would suggest switching to MIDI. We’ve done a lot to improve the appearance of the score during a MIDI import (and this is the technology that has now found its way into the Cubase 14 Score Editor). There are lots of MIDI import options you can tweak to get better results.
If you have an example of something that isn’t importing well then please post an example here (or DM me privately).
Before requantize
After requantize
Even though it is much better, it’s still not to the level of Sibelius.
I played this part as a test. So I hit record then requantized.
I’d play around with the quantization settings. If you aren’t already doing so, rather than try to quantize the entire score, you might want to apply different settings to different portions of the score. Unfortunately there is no way to change the split-point for keyboard players after importing midi (or xml).
Can you attach or send me the project?
Ok but it was just a test !
test piano clean.dorico (848.9 KB)
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For interest sake, did you attempt the experiment with Sibelius and run a ‘renotate performance’.? A similar pictorial result post would be good… No big deal… leave it if you like…
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I’m looking at the original MIDI by exporting to Cubase, and I can see that most of it isn’t aligned with the beat, which explains a lot of the awkward rhythms, eg
It looks like the positions are out by about 50ms (though some bars are more in time). Try setting the Latency Compensation value to a few values (eg -50, 0, 50) and record straight quarter notes to the click, then look at the positions in Play Mode to find the best value for your system and playing style.
For the voicing, I can see that the voice separator hasn’t coped too well with the octave bass from b20-23. I’ll make a note of that.
It would be helpful if you can show some of the output that you are expecting to see from this project with the Renotate plugin.
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