MAKING NOTES
Development diary, part 14
When we finally announced Dorico's name last month, and let you know when you will finally be able to use it for yourself, we were inundated with responses on Facebook, Twitter, on the new dedicated Dorico forum on our web site, and by email. Knowing that there are so...
Development diary, part 13
Since the last diary instalment just before Christmas, another three months has very nearly sped past, and as winter finally gives way to spring here in London, we can reflect on the progress we have made over the dark and cold months now behind us, and look forward...
Development diary, part 12
It's been a long time since the last entry in this diary, and as the year draws to its close, I know there is an appetite for news on how our project is progressing. I hope this update will bring you some festive cheer and excitement for the year ahead. The past...
Development diary, part 11
After the last instalment's detailed discussion of beam grouping and sloping, today's development update is going to focus on some of the issues around laying out a page of music, in particular working in the horizontal dimension, including casting off and...
Development diary, part 10
As a wise man once said, there are as many rules of music engraving as there are music engravers. This is a joke, of course, but perhaps only half of one: although there are certain aspects of how music notation should be presented that more or less everybody can...
Development diary, part nine
As the year draws to a close, thoughts naturally turn to the events of the past twelve months, and indeed to the promise of the year ahead. For us, the past year represents a lot of forward progress on our project, but the year ahead will bring more milestones on the...
Development diary, part eight
As summer gives way to autumn here in London, it's time for another update on our progress. As the photo above shows, there is great satisfaction to be gained from lining things up just so. In this post, I'm going to discuss two of the areas in which we have expended...
Development diary, part seven
It's been almost three months since the last instalment in this series, so it's high time for another update on our progress. In this update, as promised I will share some information about our music font, Bravura, and the project we have been leading to standardise...
Development diary, part six
In the last update, we started discussing some of the individual engines that are under development to handle atomic notation and engraving tasks, and I described the engines for note and rest grouping, and positioning rests in multiple voices. Let's take a look at...
Development diary, part the fifth
All of a sudden, over the past week I have received lots of requests for an update on our progress, so here we go. My last update was at the start of November, on the occasion of the first anniversary of our team joining Steinberg. This new update comes more or less...