![]() ![]() I am a little amazed at the size of the files. I have no idea if it will have the guitar/ukulele features that were added this summer, but I’ll very much enjoy finding out. So, this news of the SE version is of great interest to me. Dorico does offer a 30 day trial but I don’t like working under those conditions as I’m never sure how much time I’ll get to play with a software package in 30 days. Dorico offers some wonderful educator discounts, but even the educator pricing still represents serious money (such as more than one of the aforementioned Fender Telecaster ukuleles) so I want to be able to see what it’s all about before I go further. To be honest, my Sibelius and MuseScore time is pretty limited (MuseScore more than Sibelius) because I’ve never owned Sibelius, and Notion and Finale handle all of my needs for notation.ĭorico promises to be a whole new experience–I’m not sure what it’s going to be like. I have used Finale for a long time, and I’m pretty used to creating music in measures that are empty, such as with Finale and Notion and I struggle with programs that have existing rests that turn into beats (Sibelius, MusicScore, Noteflight, and flat.io). I have been procrastinating with Dorico, because it hasn’t been able to do what I needed it to do until this summer…when guitar (and ukulele) chord fonts and tabs became available. So, I’m back at my hotel and I’m downloading it. On my way to Michigan, Dorico dropped the news that it was now making a new version of Dorico…a light version entitled “SE” available for download. There are some new Fender ukuleles coming out that look like little Telecasters…and I quite like the look of them…but that’s neither here or there for the “Tech In Music Ed Blog.” I will try and find out more over this next month, but I'd welcome second+ opinions.While I am over in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Michigan Music Conference (Hello, any visitors from Michigan!), NAMM is under way–always of double interest to me for music technology and ukulele news. The back story, as I have understood it, and I may be wrong, is that it's developed by many of the team who were developing Sibelius at Avid, but Avid got rid of them (I think) and they moved to Steinberg (home of Cubase) to begin work on Dorico.Īpparently its control over page layout gives you a lot more freedom. I have managed to import one file using Music XML and am exploring what comes out differently at the other end (no extraneous text for instance, and a pedantic habit of turning a minim in the middle of a 4/4 bar into two crotchets (Nanny knows best?) and am gradually getting used to how to put that right. I now have a 30 days free trial running, which is both fun and stressful because I do have some self-imposed deadlines on Sibelius and I want to get as much out of this trial period as I can - already learning how to do things differently - it can be frustrating when you're used to most of your commands beginning with Ctrl and now they're much the same but with Shift. I was given the suggestion (on a Sibelius forum - a bit brave?) that Dorico can handle these things better, so I high-tailed it over there to have a look. Has anyone here come across, or better still tried out, this notation package? I've been using Sibelius for years and have got fast at it, but it still has its problems with layout, to my mind.
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