A quirky one: Dorico takes just long enough to load that I often want to start it up (along with NotePerformer) while finishing up some other task. However, I noticed that it will not actually finish launching the program if it is in the background, so I have to foreground it, which rather defeats the point. Not long enough to make some coffee or tea, and not really a big deal, but a bit of a surprise. Is this expected?
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Might be worth uploading a diagnostic report. Dorico opens for me within roughly 15 seconds. Coincidently, I’ve also had it in the background while it did so before, without issue. Something seems amiss in your case.
Yeah, that matches my general startup time… but it doesn’t seem to be the case in the background. The trick is figuring out how to do a diagnostic report without foregrounding it! 
I meant internally from Dorico. It will have logs. Alternatively / additionally, you could do a spin dump from activity monitor.
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No need for tricks, Dorico keeps always the logs from the last 10 runs.
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Ah, excellent. I will try to snag a diagnostic report later today!
Same behavior here. I sometimes launch it, do something else, and some minutes later, reclick the icon in the dock to bring it to front and it finishes to launch then. Probably not as smooth as one would wish.
Somewhat annoyingly, I have not been able to reproduce this on demand, which makes me think it is likely some interaction with details of one or more other applications being the ones foregrounded. As soon as I next see it happen, I’ll grab the diagnostic reports.
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I got one! This was pretty much my normal flow: I’m writing software, but planning to take a 20-minute break to do some composing before getting back into it, so opened NotePerformer and loaded the NPPE template I use, then triggered the Dorico launch using Raycast, and then when a bit later I actually got around to switching over to Dorico: it had not run any of the splash screen!
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.8 MB)
Hi @chriskrycho , thanks for the data.
Indeed, in the most recent log I can see that roughtly between 15:10 and 15:23 Dorico is apparently doing nothing. It is in a start-up phase where it does not even launched the audio engine. So I’m calling out to my dear colleague @dspreadbury