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 flows.
- Set your preferred options, and make changes to styles and page templates.
- You can even apply a playback template.
- Choose File > Save As Project Template, and the template will now be available in the Hub for you to use again and again.
Tip: Multiple lyric words on a single note
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- Start lyric input by pressing the Lyrics button on the Notations toolbar, or with the key command Shift+L.
- Type Shift+Alt+SPACE to prevent the popover from advancing.
- Use the Lyric text alignment property to left-align the text.
Tip: Undo and redo selections
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- If, when making a complex selection, you make a mistake, you can undo the latest change and carry on.
- Selections can be both undone and redone.
- This can be extremely useful when making complex or detailed selections and a mistake is made.
Tip: Use sketch instruments when composing or arranging
- Dorico 4 features sketch instruments for composing and arranging.
- In the Hub, choose the Empty project template, setting any desired project options.
- Chose Add Ensemble to add multiple instruments at once.
- There are sketch instruments for woodwind, brass and strings, all of which are grand staff instruments with relevant HSSE sound presets.
- Once you are ready, it is easy to use Dorico’s editing features to fully orchestrate your ideas.
Tip: Paste articulations
- Make a selection of music that contains the articulations you wish to copy.
- Right-click (or open the Edit menu) and choose Copy.
- Select the passage that you wish to paste the articulations to (it can be just the first note). If you make a selection longer than the original music the articulations will repeat, perfect for ostinato passages.
- Right-click and choose Paste > Paste Articulations (you may wish to use the Jump Bar to quickly find the command: press J and start typing Paste Articulations).
- All articulations and slurs in the original selection that was copied will be pasted across the selected music.