Organteq with Dorico

What an interesting project and accomplishment. The score looks and sounds great.

Patrick,

Thank-you for nudging this interesting thread forward, as I hadn't read as far back as this in the Forum, as yet. As it raised a whole load of interesting possibilities and ideas, I went off to read about Dorico, only to discover that it did not run natively on Linux; a disappointment I am resigned to. There is, however, an interesting thread on the Dorico Forum about if/when the application will be ported to Linux, whether they should bother doing so, and can you run it under Wine

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/dorico-o...127533/137

At the end of the discussion,  the user snakeeyes021 does demonstrate a method of running Dorico through Wine, but it seems to be a rather more complicated solution to the question than I required.

As a back of an envelope calculation, one could configure each of the stop change settings to a different combination button. Each combination button could then be assigned to a different midi event, thus allowing you to quickly change your stop settings, whilst re-playing a midi file, by pressing a single key. Now, if I remember correctly, you can edit a midi file, through Reaper, for instance, to include midi control events on the score, which would mean that, when re-playing the midi file, the score would pass the midi event through to Organteq and thus change the combination button and hence the stops pulled. The stop changes could be written onto the score as text to help explain what was happening and the midi command listed as a text item, Cn, to indicate the change of combination.

I'm sure that it is not going to prove to be quite as straight forward as the above sequence of steps would suggest, nor as elegant a solution as JesterMusician proposed. However, it does give me something more to experiment with in the early hours, when I should be sleeping.

Michael

Stephen,

I suppose the simplest answer is that I have no idea which is the better notation editor, as I can't run Dorico on my Linux system, therefore I cannot make a comparison between the two applications. I have Musescore running on my DAW although I haven't played with it enough to make it jump through my required hoops with any great facility.

As I can't compose for, but rather re-create music in Organteq I am mainly interested in manipulating midi files to give me greater control over the final performance. For instance, one might look at separating out the various voices of a fugue onto different staves, so that each stave can be assigned a different midi channel and to a different manual, when playing in the four keyboard mode.

I tend to use the now unsupported NtEd to import the midi file and then to manipulate the subsequent score. It allows you to independently manipulate the midi values for each stave ie channel, tempo, chorus, reverb, transport, volume and pan, as well as the program number of the instrument. The changed music score is then exported as a new midi file and can be then loaded in Organteq and be played with the new settings.

Unfortunately, NtEd does have its limitations, which is understandable given its age, but it does what I need it to do very quickly and efficiently and one cannot ask for more I suppose. If I want to be creative and start embedding combination changes into the midi score, then I am probably going to have to vanish into the thickets of Reaper for a while to achieve it.

Working out how to change individual stops or manuals, on the fly, with embedded midi commands, which is what this thread was originally about, until I went off track, is a more complex problem than I really want to get lost in at the moment. However, one never knows when the eureka moment may strike now the problem is implanted in the back of my head.

Michael

Very nice idea and project. There is only one drawback to this - it's the music from the machine. You can hear and feel that it is not a human playing.