MAKING NOTES
Dorico 5.1.60 update now available
We're pleased to announce the availability of a new maintenance update for Dorico Pro 5, Dorico Elements 5, Dorico SE, and Dorico for iPad, bringing them to version 5.1.60. This update introduces official support for macOS 15 Sequoia, restoring support for Quick Look...
Dorico 5.1.51 update now available
Updated 7 August 2024: We have today released a hotfix that brings Dorico to version 5.1.51, fixing a handful of bugs reported in last week's release. Check out the updated Version History PDF for more details. We are pleased to announce the availability of another...
Dorico 5.1.40 update released, introducing contextual help
We're pleased to announce the release of the latest update for Dorico 5, version 5.1.40, which is free for all Dorico Pro 5, Dorico Elements 5, Dorico SE 5 and Dorico for iPad users. This update includes more than 20 bug fixes, a number of useful improvements to...
SHOWCASE
Rodrigo Ruiz’s Venus & Adonis: A Shakespearean Tribute Crafted with Dorico
Composer, conductor, and mythologist Rodrigo Ruiz has just released his latest project, Venus & Adonis, on Friday September 27, 2024. This innovative album features a song cycle inspired entirely by the eponymous poem by William Shakespeare, marking a distinctive...
Mastering Film Music: Adam Mathieson’s Dorico Journey at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe
In this Dorico Showcase we’re excited to feature Adam Mathieson, a composer based in Glasgow, UK. His work spans the concert hall, the stage, and the screen, demonstrating versatility in writing for diverse ensembles—from 110-piece orchestras to soloists and fully...
Orchestral Insights: Orchestrator Rolf Gustavson on Arranging for Anna Puu and Vantaa Pops Orchestra Concert
In this interview, we spoke with Rolf Gustavson, a talented orchestrator, composer and arranger, who orchestrated songs for the Anna Puu and Vantaa Pops Orchestra concert to a sold-out crowd at Helsinki's Music Centre in May. Rolf shared insights into his background,...
TUTORIALS
Translating Finale projects to Dorico using MusicXML
Since the news that Finale has been discontinued, the main questions we've received from Finale users looking to migrate to Dorico concern what to do with their existing Finale projects, and how to move them over to Dorico. In this tutorial, we'll talk about when it...
Learn Note Input in Dorico: New series of tutorial videos released
I love Dorico, but then I have a rather special relationship with it. Not only am I in the extremely fortunate position to help present it to the world—by helping to shape the features and designing the user interface—I also have the great honour of showing it off to...
Tip: Fix page layout and edit Flow Headings in Dorico Elements 4
Overwriting text tokens to add titles and other information can lead to layout issues. In Dorico Elements...
OPINION
Female composers in the Dorico manual: centenary edition
The Dorico 4 manuals now contain music by over 100 different female composers.
In this post, Dorico’s documentation author Lillie looks at ten of these and invites you to listen to some excellent recordings.
Women composers and the Dorico Operation Manual
As of this moment in time, there are excerpts of music by sixteen different women composers spread throughout the Dorico 2 Operation Manual. There are a few by some ‘typical’ names from the canon too of course, like Debussy, Mozart, and Brahms, but I wanted to make a...
Classical Music in the Age of #MeToo
In recent years, the issue of sexual harassment has sent shockwaves reaching from the film industry to national governments – and the world of classical music has not been immune from revelations. Earlier this year, the Washington Post published the results of its...
NEWS
Dorico 5.1.60 update now available
We're pleased to announce the availability of a new maintenance update for Dorico Pro 5, Dorico Elements 5, Dorico SE, and Dorico for iPad, bringing them to version 5.1.60. This update introduces official support for macOS 15 Sequoia, restoring support for Quick Look...
After sunset: your path from Finale to Dorico
Steinberg and MakeMusic have today announced a strategic partnership to provide a pathway for users of Finale to make the transition to Dorico Pro, following MakeMusic's decision to sunset Finale. To read the official announcement from MakeMusic, click here. How we...
Dorico 5.1.51 update now available
Updated 7 August 2024: We have today released a hotfix that brings Dorico to version 5.1.51, fixing a handful of bugs reported in last week's release. Check out the updated Version History PDF for more details. We are pleased to announce the availability of another...
Productivity improvements in Dorico 2.2
Flow headings in Dorico 2.2