Steve, Thanks for the info. Are you saying that Dorico handles two instruments per score staff, but with individual parts separated, including cues and solos, very well? (I find this is a weakness in Finale).
Christopher > On Jan 28, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Steve Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m now using Dorico for all new projects. Dorico’s ability to have distinct > pieces in one file (‘flows’) that can be reordered saves so much time. For > each layout, these can be set to continue on the same page or to start a new > page, both with header information. Dorico handles cue superbly. The lengths > of these can be dragged to extend or reduce, all correctly labelled. Dorico > handles doubling players well, with automatic labelling. Dorico is also > strong for percussion writing. You can easily switch from a combined set to > individual instruments, because the underlying music representation is > distinct from the form of it on the page. > > Dorico has some annoyances. IMO more engraving decisions should > auto-propagate to parts. This is easily dealt with, but can catch you out. > Sometimes cutting ties is the quickest method to enter dynamics etc. This > ‘reversing’ always feels uncomfortable. Undo/redo includes every selection > and click that you make. I hate this, but it does make me careful to think > things through rather than to do and undo. Dorico jumps around more than I > understand to focus the screen on something I don’t want to see (or worse I > don’t immediately know where I am). Conversely, I can’t reliably find a way > to link focus between score and parts. > > My biggest hassle in Dorico is its inability to set bars-per-system over a > specified range of bars. You can do this one system at a time, but it’s > annoying that something so simple in Finale takes longer in Dorico. However, > Dorico’s first guess at system layout is far better than Finale’s. > > On the whole, Dorico’s downsides lose me minutes, but its upsides gain me > days. > > Steve Parker > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
