Cubase to Dorico

Cubase → Dorico. Drop a Cubase .cpr project and get a MusicXML score Dorico imports: every MIDI track engraved as a part.

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§ What transfers

What comes across

Every MIDI track engraved as a part Dorico imports: barred, spelled, tied and beamed.

Parts one per MIDI track Notes & rhythm barred, tied, beamed Chords & rests Key & clefs Tempo & sig Tempo changes opening tempo Audio tracks not in a score Dynamics & slurs not invented Mixer & plugins no place in a score
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§ Honesty

Told straight, never silently dropped

Every MIDI track becomes a part with its name, its notes engraved on one timeline at the project’s tempo and time signature: barred, spelled for the key, with chords, rests, ties across bar lines, dots and beams by the beat, and the clef each part’s range needs. A score has no mixer, so plugins, levels, sends and automation have no place in it and aren’t written; the report names what stayed behind. Audio tracks aren’t written, since a score can’t hold audio. Dynamics, articulations, slurs and lyrics aren’t invented: a DAW project has no model for them. A swung part is written as it was played (dotted pairs) rather than marked “Swing”, and a tempo change partway through isn’t written yet: the score takes the opening tempo. Nothing is silently dropped: every conversion comes with a report of what changed.

§ Privacy

Your music stays yours

Local conversions stay right in your browser: your session never leaves your computer, nothing uploaded, nothing stored. Uploaded sessions move over an encrypted connection into your own private space, with access only you control, and yours to delete anytime.

§ Questions

Cubase to Dorico: common questions

Can Dorico open a Cubase .cpr file?

Not as a native Dorico project. Doseedo converts it: upload your .cpr on its own (a score needs only the MIDI, so the audio can stay behind) and it engraves every MIDI track as a part in a MusicXML score (.mxl), the file Dorico opens through its MusicXML import.

What do I upload from Cubase?

The .cpr: every MIDI track in it becomes a part of the score. A .dawproject exported from Cubase 14 or later converts the same way.

How do I export or transfer a Cubase project to Dorico?

People describe the same job five ways (export Cubase to Dorico, import a .cpr into Dorico, transfer the project, open a Cubase project in Dorico), and none of it needs retyping a note. Upload the .cpr and it converts to a MusicXML score Dorico imports with every MIDI track as a part and the tempo and time signature intact; audio tracks aren’t written, since a score can’t hold audio.

What carries over from Cubase to Dorico?

Every MIDI track becomes a part with its name, its notes engraved on one timeline at the project’s tempo and time signature: barred, spelled for the key, with chords, rests, ties across bar lines, dots and beams by the beat, and the clef each part’s range needs. A score has no mixer, so plugins, levels, sends and automation have no place in it and aren’t written; the report names what stayed behind. Audio tracks aren’t written, since a score can’t hold audio. Dynamics, articulations, slurs and lyrics aren’t invented: a DAW project has no model for them. A swung part is written as it was played (dotted pairs) rather than marked “Swing”, and a tempo change partway through isn’t written yet: the score takes the opening tempo.

Do my plugins transfer from Cubase to Dorico?

A score has no mixer, so plugins, levels, sends and automation have no place in it and aren’t written; the report names what stayed behind. Nothing is faked: whatever doesn’t cross the Cubase–Dorico boundary is named in the conversion report.

Can’t Cubase export MusicXML itself?

Cubase Pro can, from its Score Editor (File › Export › MusicXML); Cubase Artist and Elements can’t. This page needs no Cubase at all: upload the .cpr and every MIDI part comes out engraved.

Why do I get MusicXML and not a .dorico?

A .dorico is Dorico’s own format, which isn’t publicly documented, and a file we can’t be sure opens would only look like a conversion. MusicXML is the notation format Dorico imports in full (MuseScore, Sibelius and Finale read it too), so the download is one .mxl you open through Dorico’s MusicXML import.

Is my project private?

Your project is uploaded over an encrypted connection into your own private space, converted, and is yours to delete anytime.

How many conversions are free?

3 conversions a month with no account; a free account gets 120 credits a month and Pro 2,000 (a conversion is 1 credit), every plan at full fidelity. No watermark, cancel in one click. One conversion is one project translated one direction; a round-trip is two.

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