On 5/19/2016 10:39 AM, Matthew Naughtin wrote: > I saw the demo of Dorico at the Major Orchestra Librarians' Organization > conference in Helsinki this week. Looks very promising, and many of us > librarians had little flecks of drool on our chins afterward. The > interface is clean and logical, and the work flow makes more sense in > some ways than Finale or Sibelius. It will be 64-bit native, so should > go fast. > > The presenter Daniel Spreadbury admitted that it's still a work in > progress and there are lots of details to be ironed out before the > official release. I expect that the chord symbol issue will be worked > out before then, and Daniel said that the crossgrade price wasn't set in > stone as of now. One attraction for me is that evidently a version of > the Cubase sequencer and Steinberg sound libraries will be incorporated > in the program. > > Definitely worth a look, at least in a demo version, and I'll be > interested to see how well my Finale and Sibelius files migrate. >
I'm looking forward to the release of Dorico. Daniel has said in the Dorico forum at steinberg.net that the migration will have to be by way of MusicXML and he said that probably it will be best to keep working on projects which are nearing completion in their original programs rather than trying to migrate them. He mentioned that if page layout has begun on the project, definitely keep it in its native program because that information doesn't translate over MusicXML. But if projects are fairly new and still in the data entry stage and not at the page layout stage, then MusicXML should migrate them well. It's good to hear from someone who has seen Dorico in action -- it has sure sounded as if Daniel and his team have spent a lot of time rethinking the workflow that should be best for most users. And I'm eager to see the new music font in action! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us -- especially the part where he said the crossgrade price isn't fixed in stone. I'd love it to be $100 or more cheaper than the initially listed price! -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
