If we buy the upgrade to Dorico 6, while we be able to keep running Dorico 5 just in case some projects don’t handle transition well? Thanks.
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@dspreadbury as for who used the cutaway notation first: I’m not sure, but Penderecki’s Anaklasis comes one year earlier (1960) than Lutoslawski Jeux vénitiens. But I don’t know if these are just publication dates and not composition dates, and if there were other examples before these ones.
I also found that Stockhausen’s Kontakte was composed in 1958-60, despite the copyright on the UE score says 1966. Not surprised if Stockhausen also invented this one…
Paolo
Yes, but you should quit one before launching the other!
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Fabulous, thanks.
It should be within a day or two, but it’s hard to predict what App Review will do.
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Exactly. Not going to try to get this score into Dorico from Finale, though, although it would make a cutaway score much better for sure. I played around with cutaway layouts in Finale some time ago since I knew it was possible, but in the end, decided it didn’t make scores more playable or understandable (it just looked cooler LOL). But I did use it for the first page of an open instrumentation score that is essentially a double canon for six instruments (the recording on Spotify is for six farfisas) and for that I thought it worked well. Took some tweaking in Finale, and I’m confident it would have been much easier in Dorico.
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Terrific update, Dorico team! Struggling to find the release notes would like to look over in full
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Dumb question: can I now delete Dorico 5 if I want, by dragging the app to the trash? Dorico 5 does open on my end (just accidentally did it with Dorico 6 open; my bad), but it’s oddly not listed in the Activation Manager. It does have the original trial version I used back in August before buying the Finale upgrade shortly thereafter. Thanks.
Really???
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The license for 6 is working for 5 and 4…
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You can, but I’d hold on, until the 5.0.10 release, which usually fixes any significant bugs that haven’t been caught.
The Dorico 6 licence covers your previous versions.
There are usually complications with the audio engine when you open both versions at once.
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6.0.10? 
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Ach, Golgotha!
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No worries. I assumed it was a v6 update!
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Unfortunately this update doesn’t work on older Mac’s anymore. It requires minimum MacOS 12. Very disappointing 
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I understand your feelings about that - sadly, it’s unavoidable sometimes in software development.
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Actually, it’s Lutosławski for the win. His 1950 Symphonic Variations was likely the first.
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Requires macOS 12 or just not officially supported on earlier versions?
I’m pretty sure the installer won’t let you continue if it detects a MacOS version too old…
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It uses a newer version of the Qt framework, which has a higher requirement.
New OSes usually offer developers new features that their code can use; so if an old OS doesn’t have those calls, the software won’t work.
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