What is your Dorico-to-Cubase workflow? For users who use NotePerformer

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Hello,
First, I would like to appreciate the great results you can achieve with NotePerformer with no setup. It’s actually amazing that it works so well, and that the base NotePerformer (with it’s original sounds) it’s finally the one that gets the best results (I’ve tried the NotePerformer Engines and they end up being underwhelming).

The problem with this way of writing things is that with Noteperformer you are not going to achieve a commercial result and porting the score to Cubase and tweak and tinker the MIDI with VI is mandatory. But If I do so, I have to delete every little programming thing that NP added, and the velocity as well.

I have thought of switching to Iconica Sketch, but it does not sound as close to the real performance as NP sounds (which can be distracting if you are testing things while composing and arranging, no so much if you are working as a copyist).

For those who work using Dorico and NotePerformer and then porting the result to Cubase, what is your workflow? Any tips to make the journey more pleasant and fruitful?

Have you guys from Steinberg though in integrating something like the performative capacity of NotePerformer inside Dorico (or Cubase) to make a first draft of how the performance should sound? Like the auto-master from Izotope, but for performance.

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Are you talking about transferring the MIDI data from Dorico to Cubase or rendered audio?

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Mainly MIDI data, I’ve edited the first message to clarify it

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I think you got this bit wrong: When you transfer the MIDI source data from Dorico to Cubase (or anywhere else), NotePerformer is not involved in this process at all. What you will end up with is just the basic data that Dorico produces itself, not any of the Magic that will be done by NotePerformer.

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I think the point is you would need to have NP set up in Cubase for that particular MIDI (created by the NP expression map) to be intelligible. This has been discussed recently on another thread.

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No, NP is not involved but it needs the MIDI to have certain data in order to make its magic. So you get MIDI data full of Program Changes and other events you are not going to use in your MIDI in Cubase. If you want a clean transfer, you have to change the Playback Engine before exporting or delete the midi channel data in Cubase or any DAW (that’s what I used to do). However, doing so it is when you lose time and momentum. And then it goes my thoughts again.