The title says it all
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Here’s a link to the blog post.
And the Version History
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Many thanks for those links! I did try to dig up more information when I posted, but it looks like the blog post hadn’t gone live yet. This morning the little green men from Mars in my head whispered, “Open Steinberg Download Assistant,” and I was powerless to resist. By pure chance I discovered the 6.2 update before there was any official announcement.
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I can see 6.2 in the download assistant (downloading now), but checking for updates within Dorico claimed that I was using the latest version.
Don’t know if that’s intentional and simply on a to-do list for later today, or if it’s a small glitch, but I figured I’d mention it just in case.
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Clearly the influx of former Finale users, a good thing for Dorico overall, has pushed considerations of playback management (custom folders for Playing Techniques, Playback Techniques, Expression Maps, etc.) into a minor eddy of the programming stream. The same is true of the forum itself. Such is life. The flow of a stream goes where the lay of the land directs it.
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Thanks for the update! Always puzzled me that we had proofreading warnings for repeat structures with differing key/time signatures, but no native way of dealing with them. I mean, I’m grateful these existed, but now it’s not a PITA to deal with them! (specially time signatures with extra dummy measures!)
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Traditionally, when playback features are added, the engravers surmise that engraving has been abandoned in favour of playback; and vice versa.
I’m sure that plenty of engravers would welcome better management of Playing Techniques too.
How so? Is playback not discussed?
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Traditionally, when playback features are added, the engravers surmise that engraving has been abandoned in favour of playback; and vice versa.
I’m sure that plenty of engravers would welcome better management of Playing Techniques
No doubt. This has been the case the entire life of Dorico and it’s forum.
But it is difficult to argue that the vast influx of engraver-primarily customers has not significantly shifted the percentages of the customer base and therefore the priorities of the developers. It is also difficult to maintain that the percentage of discussion in the forum has not also shifted significantly. Not saying playback discussion has ceased, rather it has become a much smaller percentage of the discussion.
And I’m absolutely not denying that some engravers value playback. I’m talking about percentage shifts, not absolute abandonment.
As I said, this is almost inevitable. The water flows where the lay of the land takes it.
Since the influx of Finale users the development has focused on engraving and entry workflow. Not flaming the developers, who I greatly appreciate, or Finale users, who are enhancing the long-term financial position of Dorico. Just noting what in my estimation is a fact of life.
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In general, that is also my impression (though we could be mistaken!). There have been one or two specialist playback areas of late - particularly vocal synthesis and then there was all the fuss about NotePerformer abandoning NPPE. But my impression is also that there is a higher percentage of purely engraving related issues than there ever used to be and I suspect it is the influx of Finale users which to some extent at any rate drive this.
Anyway, I’m sure Dorico 7 will do something to redress the balance!
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Interestingly, when I opened the download assistant, macOS gave me a warning that Rosetta will be deprecated in the next OS (as has been known for some time) and that Steinberg Download Assistant will not work. I’m on the latest beta of macOS 26.4, and had not gotten that warning before, but as I don’t have many things that are not coded for Apple Silicon, it’s possible that this warning was present in earlier betas but had not been triggered on my system until now.
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See this:
Jesper
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/16/macos-26-4-will-notify-users-of-rosetta-2-discontinuation/
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I’m eagerly looking forward to Dorico’s new capabilities, particularly the ability to select objects more easily with the mouse.
But…is anyone encountering problems with 6.2?
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I’m not, at least not yet.
Jesper
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Thanks, benwiggy! Isn’t the Dorico team amazing? 
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Thanks @jesele I’ll probably wait a bit before I jump in.
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Always a good move.
Jesper
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I attempted to upgrade my Win 11 Pro instance and it failed saying it downloaded and I can run the installer manually… ok, so I figured I’d give it a minute and tried to open the un-upgraded Dorico 6 and it told me it was gone…(short-cut pointed nowhere) I went to the download location and ran the installer and it went fine but I opened the new 6.2 and it apparently wiped the entire Dorico 6 install directory. I lost my settings, shortcuts… basically like a brand new installation. I may just start a new thread but I didn’t take any notes along the way nor screen shots.
Steinberg Download Assistant on one of my laptops could not connect and gave this message:
Rebooting made no difference.
I was able to go to the Downloads page and grab the 6.2 update, no problem.
My other laptop on the same network had no issue using Steinberg Download Assistant.
Running Mac OS Tahoe 26.3.1 (25D2128)
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This is discussed elsewhere. A few months ago, there was an advisory to download a newer version of the download assistant itself; the certificates on the old version expired.
I’m guessing that your laptop for some reason already had the newer version of the SDA.
You can download the SDA from the Steinberg downloads page.
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Thanks for the warning. I will wait until things settle down.