Steinberg Releases Dorico 6

US Composition and music notation software is updated with unique new features 01/05/25

Steinberg has announced the immediate availability of Dorico 6, their music notation software for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS.

A spokesperson told us, "Steinberg's family of composition and music notation software is updated with unique new features that expands its engraving horizons and actively assists in producing peerless performance materials faster than ever before."

New features in Dorico 6

Proofreading: Dorico automatically checks your score as you edit, highlighting issues that could raise questions in rehearsal and recording sessions in the new Proofreading panel.

Cutaways: Create cutaway scores that match the finest published works of Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Berio, and Stravinsky in a single click.

Chord symbols: Show multiple rows of chord symbols, with optional extender lines. Create your own custom chord symbols, and easily override every aspect of their appearance.

Cycle playback: Loop any section of your score during playback, and hear your edits live in the next cycle.

Fill view: Fill view makes maximum use of your available display, flexibly flowing as many systems of music as possible into the width and height of the window.

System-attached items: Exercise complete control over where tempos, rehearsal marks, repeats, and large time signatures appear.

OpenType features: Access enhanced typographical control with full support for OpenType glyph positioning and glyph substitution features.

Flow heading overrides: Flow headings provide automatic titles before each new song, movement or piece in your project: now you can control exactly how they appear on every page in every layout.

Marching Percussion Basics: All the essential sounds you need for marching snares, cymbals, tenors, and bass drums, in partnership with Tapspace, makers of Virtual Drumline.

User settings import and export: Easily move all your customizations to Dorico from one computer to another with import and export of all your user settings.

Condensing: All instruments held by players can now be condensed, instead of only the first, making it easy to handle players who double.

More new features: Further enhancements can be found throughout the application, including improvements to MusicXML import and export, more flexible staff labels, easier editing for instrument names and front matter, interface refinements, and many more.