Steinbergs Dorico Scoring Program Aims To Be Gold Standard

US Souped up notation software gets some major dev love 25/05/16

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For many, the loss of the team behind Sibelius was a powerfully emotional experience, when AVID let them go in a round of heavy job cuts. It was simply the only game in town for serious notation needs. Sibelius still exists, but the development has slowed significantly since the team were fired.

However, the team behind it have moved over to Steinberg and have been working on a totally new scoring and notation solution of their own, this is now nearly ready for unveiling.

Those of you who are fluent in music notation will be much more comfortable in working on score based editing and production of printed or PDF copies of music for actual musicians to play - especially for string arrangers and the like.

Dorico write and engrave modes

Write and Engrave Modes allow you to intelligently select tied notes (write mode) where Engrave mode allows you to select each element. Scores can be hand annotated and tweaked to be more meaningful to the musician, making it a very powerful tool for producing final printable scores.

The new Dorico announcement - yeah we're not sure why its called that either (actually, its the name of a 16th Century music engraver in Rome Valerio Dorico), sets out the intent of Steinberg to take control of the notation market - redefine the Gold Standard as they put it.

Next-generation 64-bit scoring software for OS X and Windows, designed by musicians for musicians
Beautiful engraved output with unrivaled attention to detail
Flexible note input and powerful editing, including ability to insert and change duration of existing notes
Streamlined, single window interface puts every tool at your fingertips
Powerful score management features to handle multiple independent pieces of music within the same project
Unlimited number of staves and movements, sections, or pieces within the same project
Easily create layouts for full scores, conductor scores and instrumental parts with independent page size, staff size and system layout
Use your computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard to input music quickly and efficiently
Superior note spacing with optical kerning of adjacent elements, with tighter default spacing and no rhythmic distortion
Import and export in MusicXML, MIDI and graphics formats
Award-winning 32-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine with up to 192 kHz and flexible routing for virtual instrument and effect playback
Compatible with VST 3 virtual instruments and effects processors
Outstanding virtual instruments with more than 1,500 sounds, including HALion Sonic SE 2 workstation and complete HALion Symphonic Orchestra library
Suite of high-end VST effect processors, including channel strip modules (compressor, EQ, limiter) and convolution reverb