NOTATIO

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.

Here's an article I've written for Scoring Notes, giving a brief history of some of the highlights of computer-based music scoring and engraving.

https://www.scoringnotes.com/opinion/a- ... computers/

Some of it was inspired by some of the threads here.

Me too! I was commissioned to typeset a new composition for a Cathedral choir in 1994. The choir school had a little Mac SE (with the 9-inch 512 by 342 pixel screen!) and a copy of MusicProse 2.1, which was a cut-down version of Finale. Of course, the manual was missing, and there was no internet He...

It does seem to be a modern trend towards completely avoiding 'staff-line hypotenuse'.

I just came across this video demonstration of Mockingbird, which it turns out is the first "WYSIWYG' notation editor, created by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1980. They even hooked up a synth, before MIDI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dxaEDKoTys The beaming might be a bit suspect, but it's...

Any reason for the small noteheads?

The website newnotations.com redirects to https://musicsoftwareonline.co.uk/index.php, but they don't have it listed. New Notations has been a leading UK engraving house for many years, using SCORE, and they are still going. In fact, the About page of the new site says that they 'are' the European ...