Custom Chord Symbol Suffix Library

[dspreadbury]

I suggest you review this other recent thread:

Creating new jazz chord symbols (not editing)

Since Finale announced its closure, I have migrated to Dorico. I’m a high-level musician and a full-time professor at McGill University. However, some chord symbols I frequently use are not available in your program. My colleagues and I, including Jerry Bergonzi, often use symbols like CMaj7(#15), and others. I found that in your program, you can edit existing chord symbols, but what I’m looking for is a way to create a completely new symbol. Ideally, I’d like to duplicate an existing one, modi…

Edits you make in Library > Chord Symbols can be saved as defaults for all future projects by selecting the chord symbol appearance you want to save, then clicking the star button in the action bar at the bottom of that list on the left.

You cannot currently create an overall chord symbol appearance that will automatically be applied to all roots. There is some more detailed discussion of what is possible in the thread I’ve linked to above.