I love the addition of the blue dots when you select a note in Dorico 4.
However, It will be more useful if the blue dots reflect what is being played when I press the play button.
pretty sure that is how Sibelius used to handle it.
Thanks
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Also, I would find it much easier on the eyes if it wasn’t just a blue dot but the whole key was blue. Especially with chords with a lot of notes, and when it plays back the score you could identify the pressed notes a lot better and quicker.
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Native instruments keyboards can do that. The S seriers. I dumped the two yamaha keyboards becau there’s abysmal integration.
It’s a basic fundamental thing that I am perplexed that’s not integrated after 10 years.
Sibelius and Finale can do it.
We’re perpetual paying beta testers with minimal proactive say. There’s , when lucky, just post reactive fixes. I use Steinberg since their beginning. It was common then. Uncommon now. Old mentality die hard. Look how obsolete and wonky the forum and support is.
The last straw is the elicenser ISB ( kept 10 yrs after it was already obsolete in the way we use acmix of laptops/ workstations and the late and buggy la mited implementation of online activation.
I bought Dorivo because I wanted to believe. Reverted to industry standards that are actually improving without breaking or limiting arbitrarily.
My experience.
I fail to see the utility of colouring the keys during playback. Dorico is a notation program. Whilst it is in playback I am interested in the dots on the score, not those on a keyboard!
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Honestly, the addition of blue dots in combination with a beautiful high resolution UI that dorico offers is sufficient.
When you select or move between notes you can clearly see what notes are being trigged.
So in a way it is huge upgrade from Sibelius with very their basic keyboard.
I hope they add they ability for notes to change as we are playing our music and it will be a huge help. (just like Sibelius dose)
I used to play and look at the keyboard in Sibelius rather than notes.
I followed the interactive keyboard instead of looking at my sheet of music and made sure I put the desired notes.
I hope Dorico team implement this in the near future because it is super easy to add it this already fantastic program.
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I understand your point. It’s most probably because you are more proficient in pitch identification ( relative or perfect), obviously better reading and notation skills and probably vocalizing ( even mentally) a melody by reading notes and writing notation while just vocalizing ( acoustically or mentally).
This is a feature for someone not very versed. And funny enough, it’s more important in the lower tiers, where it would help a novice. As an advanced user, besides educational value, you are right.
Unfortunately I am not that good. Lowest mediocrity would be my expertise. Hence that kind of assistive feature would be valuable, for me at least.
Band in a Box has it for 20 years.
I can understand some value for a novice pianist who wishes to learn a piece, as it may help connect the dots on the page to notes on the piano. But I don’t think that is Dorico’s core purpose. And anyone willing to spend £500 in search of that functionality needs to have their head examined.
Every additional feature comes with a processing overhead. And Dorico already pushes many moderate spec systems to the limit.
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Janus, you’re absolutely spot on. I have my yearly psychiatrist appointment in two weeks. So that’s scheduled already. If by " checking ones head" you’re referring to other craniofacial characteristics I have just the head circumference. 62 cm. But, as you astutely point out, it’s not correlated with brain size, nor cognitive capacities ( which , btw, are impaired in my case).
I have Dorico elements . Not because my , fairly often checked head and, indeed, proved impaired was the impediment. But cost .
So I should have mentioned it’s Dorico Elements. As my notation and reading ( and while we’re at it also playing) skills are lacking,
it would be much appreciated if you can , as Janus does, turn the helpful face towards a novice, and maybe point me to something more appropriate for my needs. I have Cubase Elements ( I stopped upgrading the Pro at ver 8 - as you can correctly infer, it was overkill for my needs)
Thank you .
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I think you are making too much of the words Janus used to suggest that a program such as Dorico Pro (of which Elements is a subset) would be targeted or even useful in every case for someone with the background and goals you have for the program.
Nevertheless, the Development Team in spite of too little time to add all the features to the program as quickly as users want them, reads every message here and does respond to members’ comments that align with their vision for the software. So you may get your wish, but how soon, no one knows.
thank you for clarification.
I am better served by cubasis coupled with real pro on ipad I found.
If you have an idea when I can get rid of the cumbersome USB dongle , and eventually port or upgrade to the non USB version ( specially the jazz groves I bought from Steinberg) , it will help me some budgetary planning strategy
French translation will follow.
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I think you are making too much of the words Janus used to suggest that a program such as Dorico Pro (of which Elements is a subset) would be targeted or even useful in every case for someone with the background and goals you have for the program.
Nevertheless, the Development Team in spite of too little time to add all the features to the program as quickly as users want them, reads every message here and does respond to members’ comments that align with their vision for the software. So you may get your wish, but how soon, no one knows.