Tutorials – Dorico

Tip: Quickly input a passage of dotted rhythms

To quickly input a passage of dotted rhythms, input the music using straight rhythms. This can be quicker than having to constantly change the note duration.
Select the passage that you want to be dotted.
Tap the dotted notes button. Dorico will automatically dot every second note, resulting in a dotted rhythmic passage.
This also works for double dotted notes and so on.

Show the Key Editor in the Write mode lower zone, and enable the Draw tool to input notes.
Tap to input notes. Hold and drag to enter notes with different durations.
Drag notes up and down to change their pitch, and drag the end of a note to change its duration.
Change the grid resolution to allow shorter durations.
Select multiple notes with the Marquee tool.
Drag to move position and pitch.
Use the Erase tool to remove selected notes.

With the toggle set to palettes the buttons open panels containing palettes of different notations.
With an active selection, tap a music item to add it to the score.
Switch the toggle to the keyboard to enable popovers.
Tap a notation category, and type what you need into the popover.