On 5/31/2018 3:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
While I'm disappointed that the major thrust of Dorico version 2 seems to be scoring to video, I realize that's a very large and growing segment of the notation/composition software market so it should be a means to even better cementing Dorico's future.
I did the free trial of Dorico 1. I used it to do a re-transcription of several orchestral pieces that had multiple movements ("flows" in Dorico-speak) and some irregular meter / beat patterns. It was slow going because of the learning curve but I was struck at how well the music layout happened, almost completely automatically. I find myself spending many hours fiddling with Finale parts to get them to lay out reasonably. It is clear to me that Dorico does many things (including layout) better and will save a lot of time.
However, for me, I must have slash notation and rhythmic notation because mostly I do jazz band arrangements. And those things were not there in Dorico 1. The final release of Dorico 1 included chord symbols, and they did a fantastic job with that -- much more coherent than Finale.
Dorico 2 adds slash and rhythmic notation, so I bought the crossgrade and am now working on my first jazz band project. It is unfortunate that the product does not play back DS al coda, but that is not required in this project.
Anyway, I actually wanted to respond to your comment about video being the focus of 2.0. Certainly that is part of it. But a big portion of the "video support" is a better structure for varying tempos, and this can be useful even without video. And this tempo business has been one of the most troublesome parts of Finale playback. It seems we have been told more than a year ago that this was a big focus of Finale development, yet we haven't seen anything in that time.
Apart from video, I'd say there was a major effort to address jazz/pop/commercial writers as noted above. And also there was a big focus on playback. That is not just the Note Performer integration. They also have added depth to the "DAW portion" of Dorico with support for automation curves and unlimited controller functions. This adds to the existing capabilities for MIDI editing separate from the notation itself (e.g, if a note sounds just a little too long, you can change the MIDI very easily without having to change the notation) These things add up to major advancements.
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