Tutorials

Tip: How to add retakes to pedal lines

Input a pedal line.
Select a note at the rhythmic position that would like the pedal retake to occur.
Type Shift+P to open the playing techniques popover.
Enter ^ into the popover to create the retake.

Make a selection and choose Edit > Copy or press Ctrl/Cmd+C.
Engage Chord mode by clicking the button in the toolbox or using the key command Q.
Make a selection at the point where you would like to paste your copied music.
Choose Edit > Paste or use the key command Ctrl/Cmd+V.
The pasted music will not overwrite any existing music, but rather merge it into the same voice.
There are also Paste special commands for pasting into new voices.

Delete a tuplet number or bracket to leave the notes behind, unscaling them.
Remember to engage Insert mode if you want to push out any existing subsequent music.

Make a selection on the staff whose size you wish to change.
Go to Edit > Staff Size > Custom Staff Size.
Now choose one of the preset rastral sizes commonly used in music engraving, or your own custom scale factor, and press OK.
You can also access the same menu by right-clicking on the score canvas.

This is a useful tip for when you are inputting a time signature in the middle of some music, at a point before an existing time signature.
Before inputting the new time signature, enable Insert mode by clicking the button in the Notes toolbar or by using the key command I.
Now when you input your time signature, Dorico will automatically insert time to ensure the last bar before the existing time signature is complete.
Of course, Dorico allows incomplete bars, so if you don’t want to automatically pad out that final bar before the next time signature, do not engage Insert mode. Instead, let Dorico rewrite the music up to the time time signature and then, if required, add another time signature to match the number of beats.

Select one or more dynamics and copy.
Paste the dynamics to another staff at the same rhythmic position and Dorico will automatically link them.
When you select a dynamic, any linked dynamics are shown in blue.
Now when you edit one of the dynamics, any linked dynamics are updated to match.

Enable note input at the start of the passage you wish to rewrite using the same note durations.
Click the Lock to Duration button in the Notes toolbox, or use the key command L.
Dorico will lock the position and durations of the existing notes making it very quick and easy to re-input your music with different pitches.

Tokens can be flow-specific. Simply add the flow index number directly after the word flow in the token, e.g. {@flow2Title@}.
The flow index number can be found at the bottom-right corner of the flow card in the Flows panel.

When note input is active, you can shorten or lengthen the note you have just input by typing Shift+Alt+left or right arrow.
You can change the amount by which the note is shortened or lengthened by increasing or decreasing the value of the rhythmic grid. The key commands for this are Alt+[ and Alt+].
You can also edit existing notes to make the shorter or longer by using the same method. And if Insert mode is active (press I) then subsequent notes will move by the same amount).