On 10/21/2016 11:11 PM, Blake Richardson wrote: > Wish they had a demo version (perhaps with "print" and "save" disabled) so > you could try it out before spending a chunk of cash on it. > [snip]
According to the developers on the Dorico forum at Steinberg, that is in the works in the next few months so be patient and in the meantime monitor the messages here and join the forum at steinberg.net. One word of caution about the forum at steinberg.net -- there are a lot of people who bought the software expecting something different from what Dorico currently is. Some people on there have even admitted they expected it to be like Sibelius only better. Dorico is quite different from Sibelius (or Finale or MuseScore or Notion) so new users need to enter the Dorico world with their eyes open. It's a brand new program and needs to be approached from the point of view of a complete beginner. People should not buy it expecting to get a finished project out the door in a few days. Because of that misunderstanding on the part of some of the people who have bought Dorico, there have been some very negative messages posted on the forum at steinberg.net. It's important that people reading the forum trying to get a sense about whether they want to take the plunge need to filter through the messages and decide which ones are people frustrated because they didn't do careful enough research about what they were getting and which ones are people with genuine major issues (blue screens, sudden crashes of Dorico, failure to produce sounds or print, etc.) Steinberg, especially Daniel Spreadbury and his team, have been very upfront about what is missing in this initial release along with what they will be adding in updates in the coming months. I have had Dorico crash on me once over the perhaps 100 times I've started the program in the past few days (I haven't had large chunks of time to work with it, so I've started it up when I've had 5 or 10 minutes to play with it). That's not to minimize the problems that others have had with constant crashes or other problems but rather to let people know that not everybody is having the issues which are being reported. Of course, if you are one of those people it would be very very frustrating. -- ***** 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]
