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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