Dear Doricians,
Dear Team,
I know everybody here hasn’t been a day-one user… But I also know we’re a certain number! Just a little remainder here: Dorico (1.0, obviously) was released on octobre 19th, 2016. Which means Dorico will be seven years old on Thursday. If you have time to create something to celebrate this age of reason, I know I would listen to it (or watch it) with pleasure.
Marc
A short canon:
My little contribution 
fulgentio valesio per banchieri-canone infinito.dorico (1.5 MB)
Dorico Canone Infinito.pdf (2.9 MB)
Pardon my abysmal ignorance but what does the ‘age of reason’ have to do with the number seven? All I know is the text by Thomas Paine.
There is a common conception in the Christian West that children reach the “age of reason” (that is to say, have adequate command of their faculty of reasoning) around age 7. Similar in conception to reaching the “age of majority” at 18. Some cultures put more responsibilities upon a child around this time, and certain denominations think this is the point at which a child can choose to live as a Christian or not.
To be clear: Marc wasn’t implying anything about Christianity by his post. He was just drawing on this common cultural trope to imply that Dorico had reached a certain milestone of maturity.
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun!
I followed Daniel’s development blog with interest, and bought v1, but only really started using it ‘seriously’ at v2.2, with the addition of Flow Headings. That was the end of 2018, which explains why I keep thinking it’s only about 5 years old.
Not created specifically for the anniversary, but something I just happen to be knocking out today – literally in the space of minutes – where I thought “that looks at least as good as anything I’ve seen published”. That’s the best testimonial.
Tallis O nata lux - Full score.pdf (70.7 KB)
That’s me, every day.
I also followed the development diary with great interest; I particularly remember an early post where Daniel showed how it handled some polyphonic Bach keyboard work with nestling of the multiple voices. I was utterly blown away. I purchased D1 on day 1 and have used it exclusively ever since. While my own publishing operation is quite humble in the grand scheme of things, I have made back my license fee in sales, so I feel pretty good about that.
All I know is that my choir has been utterly spoilt by beautiful scores, and it is now quite jarring when we use another publisher’s version of something.
Thanks @Romanos Never heard of it, despite having gone to the best Christian Schools (in Australia)! I learn something new every day.
Christian_R:
Nicely done. Here’s your project rendered with VOXOS 2 choir in Dorico. No changes to your score. The only thing I did was normalizing it with Sound Forge Pro.
@E_C very nice!
There’s also the John Farnham song
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DORICO !
You certainly have been an important part of some changes in my everyday life.
Engraving was really a tiny part of my activity before Dorico 1 was released. It’s become a very important part of it (as far as time spent is concerned).
This forum is also a part of my life for those last seven years, and folks here I’ve never actually met are like friends to me (Leo, Dan, Claude… to name a few, the list could go down to twenty names!) — thanks for your kind input and helping mindset.
The French speaking dorico users group on FB is also born out of the will to make Dorico known in my country (where Finale and Sibelius are very much present) and takes time and energy, because it’s worth it.
The Team has become my new reference as a developing program team, supporting customers team, a great thank you for all your work, effort, honesty, support and even forgiving state of mind, from the bottom of my heart.
Marc
A little music theory fun, inspired by this thread Happy Birthday Daniel! (2021)
Happy_Birthday.dorico (1.1 MB)
Happy_Music_Theory.pdf (46.7 KB)
(Please excuse the double post, I just found creating this too enjoyable not to share.)
How about this one from my String Quartet “Kittens in an Apple Tree” (VSL):
or this movement from my Suite for Piano (Pianoteq 8):
I am a Dorico user/fan since 1.0 and I couldn’t do without it.
René Damen - Lots more, all written in Dorico on www.renedamen.com
