MAKING NOTES
Dorico for iPad 2.2 opens projects directly from iCloud Drive, Dropbox and more
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico for iPad 2.2, the latest update to the top-rated music notation and composition app for iPad, which supports opening and saving projects to and from their original locations, making it much easier to work...
Dorico 4.0.30 update brings return of tempo editor
Update (24 March 2022): We have today issued a hotfix for Dorico 4.0.30. More details here. Following hot on the heels of the Dorico 4.0.20 update just three weeks ago, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 4.0.30, a third maintenance release...
Dorico 4.0.20 update brings Key Editor improvements, Quick Look, and more
We're pleased to announce the release of a second maintenance update for Dorico 4, version 4.0.20, and a complementary update to Dorico for iPad, version 2.1, bringing another tranche of useful new capabilities, and some 90 fixes addressing issues reported since...
SHOWCASE
Dorico Showcase: Preparing a 600 Pages Full Score for Merlin Ballet Performance
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. Northern Ballet is a UK based company best known...
Dorico Showcase: Composer Austin Jaquith on “Heldenleben 2020”
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. It might have seemed perverse even two years ago...
Dorico Showcase: Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet,...
TUTORIALS
Tip: User-defined Project Templates
Dorico 4 allows you to save any project as a template. Add your desired instruments and add any useful...
Tip: Multiple lyric words on a single note
Start lyric input by pressing the Lyrics button on the Notations toolbar, or with the key command Shift+L....
Tip: Undo and redo selections
If, when making a complex selection, you make a mistake, you can undo the latest change and carry on. Selections can be...
OPINION
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...
The Art of Practice – How to Hone Your Skills as an Amateur Ensemble
Playing as part of an amateur ensemble can be a fantastically rewarding experience
NEWS
Dorico for iPad 2.2 opens projects directly from iCloud Drive, Dropbox and more
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico for iPad 2.2, the latest update to the top-rated music notation and composition app for iPad, which supports opening and saving projects to and from their original locations, making it much easier to work...
Dorico 4.0.31 hotfix restores effects list in Mixer
It was discovered after the release of Dorico 4.0.30 yesterday that the update contained a bug that prevented the list of VST effects from appearing in the Inserts section of the Mixer. We're very sorry for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and have today issued a...
Dorico 4.0.30 update brings return of tempo editor
Update (24 March 2022): We have today issued a hotfix for Dorico 4.0.30. More details here. Following hot on the heels of the Dorico 4.0.20 update just three weeks ago, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 4.0.30, a third maintenance release...
Productivity improvements in Dorico 2.2
Flow headings in Dorico 2.2