NOTATIO

The Dorico team have released Dorico 4.0.10, which includes a large number of bug fixes and improvements to the original 4.0.0 release. In Daniel's blog (link below), he states that a second 'small' update is expected before the end of February, before a 'large' 4.1 release later in the year. A upda...

I'd love to get a set of engraving tools. I suspect many have just been thrown away.

Aleatoric boxes are still not implemented natively, though the userbase has created some clever workarounds, using custom lines or fonts. Cut-away scores are also not yet implemented.

Penderecki is not my area of expertise!

I've been obsessing too much over the shape of rectangular breves recently. I use them in a lot of 17th-century music, where they are more in-keeping than the "Tie-fighter" winged-semibreve style. This music frequently has an organ part, which can have chords of rectangular breves. There i...

I'd prefer the traditional multi-bar rest.

It's fair to say that Dorico can effectively deal with only a subset of all Common Notation, and if your needs are outside that set, then things are going to require 'workarounds' (dread word!) or even be impossible. But that subset is increasing in size with each new version. Several discussions in...

And here we go! There's a bunch of videos on the Dorico YouTube channel already. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoyaeouPUsdtadsUSGhK4V7Ghkst92MOs Most visibly obvious are the changes to Piano Roll, MIDI editor, Mixer and Play mode; The new piano keyboard (or fretboard, or drum kit) makes not...

Given that it is on a reduced size staff, it's essentially a kind of Cue. It's a nice idea.

Dorico's YouTube channel has a Live Event of "Big News" scheduled for Wednesday at 1400 GMT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2_ij8vYk-s Daniel has previously said that Dorico 4 would be released 'early' in 2022, slipped from December, so that's where the smart money is. Other comments hav...

Ciao Danilo.

Thanks for that. I'm sure it will be useful.