A very useful app
Steinburg’s Dorico is a very useful application that can be used to compose sheet music
Some awkward steps much out-weighed by clever intuitive actions
Having used Sibelius for many many years, moving to Dorico was not easy. There are habits that one gets into that are hard to break, and Sibelius is easy and quick when you are used to it.
However, there have been too many problems with re-installing Sibelius when your computer crashes, or you get a new computer. So, I started to use Dorico, and stuck with it until I understood it sufficiently to not return to Sibelius. The difference between them is slight, and a matter of taste, really, but the way Dorico can guess what to do when you add or delete lyrics or rhythms is very satisfying. You also have complete control of the final look of the score on the page. The xml files that come from Dorico work very well with voice producing programs.
I still have to use Sibelius for the hundreds of scores created within it, but I use Dorico for all my new scores. Very lucky to have both, I reckon.
Cheers,
John D’Arcy OAM
However, there have been too many problems with re-installing Sibelius when your computer crashes, or you get a new computer. So, I started to use Dorico, and stuck with it until I understood it sufficiently to not return to Sibelius. The difference between them is slight, and a matter of taste, really, but the way Dorico can guess what to do when you add or delete lyrics or rhythms is very satisfying. You also have complete control of the final look of the score on the page. The xml files that come from Dorico work very well with voice producing programs.
I still have to use Sibelius for the hundreds of scores created within it, but I use Dorico for all my new scores. Very lucky to have both, I reckon.
Cheers,
John D’Arcy OAM
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Disappointing
kudos to Dorico for providing a free 7/day trial. That gave me a chance to try it out. It is not good at capturing live piano at all. The notation it produces is full of mistakes. The interface is very cumbersome , and imo it is overkill , so trying to clean up the poor engraving is so time consuming that it is not worth using this app.
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Very buggy
The app crashes randomly and then I have to restart because it doesn’t save it when it crashes.
Too Hard
This program is not as user friendly as Finale.
