Yep the chord symbol implementation is awesome. So much better than the superseded notation programs… Easy to get good results straight away but plenty of options to customise as well.
The concept of having the chord symbols appear on all the parts is a great idea and time saver but i agree with the points made previously that there should be a dialog box that allows you to specify exactly in which bars the chord symbols appear in any given part - really hope this appears at some point in the future.
At the moment it works as a temporary solution to hide the chord symbols manually, can be achieved pretty quickly.
I did run into one interesting conundrum with the universal chord setup… I was preparing a part tonight for a tenor sax player who plays keyboard in certain sections of a piece. he asked for the chord symbols in those sections to be written in concert pitch on the top of his Bb part. This is obviously not conventional… but I tried doing this by transposing just the chord symbols in the tenor part, but that transposed the chords on all the other instruments as well. Guess there are other solutions involving adding another stave, but interesting to run straight into that on the first night of use.
That is a minor and unusual issue so no big deal and I gotta say, Dorico is so well conceptualised and with this update the implementation is really coming together (for jazz musicians especially) . I bought Dorico on day one but today is probably my real day one as i can start using it daily and also import back catalog stuff.
Slash notation is the main thing missing for me now, hope that will come next update or two.
Kudos to Daniel and the team on this update, amazing work.