NOTATIO

How do you play music in? I thought it was all text? And it does automatic condensing of parts?

I agree that it is the user who decides when the work is finished, and a good engraver can be exacting in any software. But computers are here to do the work for us, not to provide us with more work. Consider Dorico's new star feature: playing in chords to several different parts at once, and having...

Highlights include automatic "Condensing" of parts in Full Score; note input of chords to multiple staves; notation for Guitar Tab, Harp pedalling, harmonics; improvements to Lyrics, Fingerings; a variety of new Playback features and capabilities; adding comments to scores; and a whole slew of produ...

Dorico is holding a "live-streaming event" on Thursday 5 September at 2pm BST / 3pm CET / 9am EDT / 6am PDT, for an announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WmKauJ4OQ Given the recent sighting of an advert for Dorico 3 on the back of UK music magazines Autumn issue, 'it's not rocket salad' to...

Does anyone still have a copy of this old Mac software? You have two problems: finding someone who has the software, and finding a way of running it on modern Mac hardware. It's likely that it's written for Classic Mac OS, not even early OS X, whose PPC apps won't run on Intel Macs from MacOS Lion ...

Last time I tested Dorico, after 32 measures of a relatively simple quartet of single line instruments there were far too many basic notational errors that I simply could not overlook. Having to repeatedly fix really basic note, rest, and beaming issues would drive me absolutely insane and slow my ...

So, what does this community recommend? Is the current version of Dorico adequate for producing high-quality engravings that don’t require SCORE-level amounts of tweaking? Yes. In terms of "effort-to-result ratio", I'd say Dorico leads the field. I've used Finale for over 20 years, but I find Doric...

One for John: a friend of mine has just published a paper about the use (or lack) of pedalling marks in Beethoven's piano music. It seems to suggest that he only marked it where it varied from existing convention, and an absence of markings doesn't mean an absence of pedal. The article might be 'beh...

Octo, you talk about being competitive, but the one thing you don't mention is price! Cost savings in commercial printing are all about "the run-on", which is every copy you print after the first one. The unit cost keeps going down, the more copies you print. "Digital" printing (which is actually st...

I notice that Apple's support documents now say: Legacy suitcase TrueType fonts and PostScript Type 1 LWFN fonts might work but aren't recommended. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201749 (Updated 29 October 2018). Apple confirmed to me only a few years ago that Type 1 fonts were still supported, w...