Dorico very slow! Please Help!

[MUSICPREP101]

Hey Everyone,
(Macbook Pro, M1 Max, Ventura, 64gb ram

Writing here to ask if anyone has had issues with Dorico being very very slow.

I am referring to just about anything I do in Dorico;
Clicking on an item, copying/pasting, filtering, switching between dorico files, respelling, bring up any preferences menu etc

I work in Sibelius and Finale but recently started using Dorico with a new client.

Compared to my work flow in Sibelius/Finale everything I do in Dorico is like molasses.

I will put a video link in the comments that shows how slow it is just switching between two open Dorico files (it wont let me put a link in a post)

Is this just the way it is in Dorico because of the “DAW” features? I hope not.

Please help. It is very frustrating as there is so much that I like about this software.

[MUSICPREP101]

If you want to see the video please search on youtube:

Dorico vs. Sibelius Why is it so slow?

You will need to sort by upload date because youtube algo will sort popular videos to the top.

[Janus]

(Welcome to the forum)
It’s best to post a diagnostic (Do Help>Create Diagnostic Report and upload the resultant zip file)

@MUSICPREP101

Clicking on an item, copying/pasting, filtering, switching between dorico files, respelling, bring up any preferences menu etc

None of those should be particularly slow.

[MUSICPREP101]

Thanks! Will do that now

[MUSICPREP101]

@Janus

It’s best to post a diagnostic (Do Help>Create Diagnostic Report and upload the resultant zip file)

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.1 MB)

[Christian_R]

@MUSICPREP101

switching between dorico files

for this, see this post of a couple of days ago:

Dorico does not close fully on Mac

Dorico loads the playback sounds for the project that you put on the front if they have/had the playback activated in their last “being on front” status (only one project at a time can have the playback activated: this is the normal behaviour of other DAWs as Cubase or Logic). This causes the lagging that you are referring to if you keep switching windows with activated playback on each. I suggest you only have one project activated, and deactivate the playback for the rest of the projects with…

Also in your Youtube Video, you don’t permit to leave comments. So the people cannot learn what is causing this behaviour (that is exactly what I explained here above). I would suggest you to activate the comments under your video, or delete it or make it private (and post a link here on the forum): to spread informations/opinions based on a lack of understanding of how a software works, without a possible clarification, I find not fear.

[MUSICPREP101]

I Youtube wont let me enable comments for some reason

[Christian_R]

Probably because you activated the “for kids” option.

[MUSICPREP101]

Deactivating playback helped! Still experiencing delays when selecting and dragging etc

[MUSICPREP101]

Comments on. Thanks for that tip.

[Romanos]

Is the little dot down in the corner always lighting up bright green? Perhaps you have a midi loop. This has caused many a slowdown for people.

[MUSICPREP101]

Thanks will check for that

[k_b]

@MUSICPREP101
I still can’t find the video. After sorting the video does not seem to exist.
Can you please share the link here?
There is a share arrow in YT that allows you to copy and share a link to the video.

[dspreadbury]

@MUSICPREP101, I had a quick look through your diagnostic report and looked at the logs for one of your longer sessions. Aside from the commands to save and close the project, in general it appeared to me that commands are executed in around 100ms, or one tenth of a second. That’s not instantaneous, of course, but it should on the whole be quick enough.

I’m also unable to find your YouTube video without a link. Can you say a bit more about which specific operations you’re performing that are especially slow?

A couple of recent posts by me that you might also want to read:

Splitting into Flows to Improve Dorico speed

For what it’s worth, when inputting and editing music, Dorico does its best to reprocess the smallest amount of music possible. Even repitching a single note will require Dorico to reprocess at least two bars of music in that instrument (across all its staves, if it has multiple staves) in order to ensure that the accidental state is updated correctly, but the knock-on effects can be much larger, especially if changing the pitch causes accidentals or ledger lines to appear or disappear, or cause…

Dorico speed under Windows 10

Dorico does lots more computation than e.g. Finale and Sibelius, so even though it’s got a multi-threaded architecture, it will be somewhat slower in larger projects than those other applications. There are things you can do to keep it moving as quickly as possible, though. Firstly, try to stick to a single window for each project, e.g. don’t open many windows onto the same project. Likewise, don’t use multiple tabs in each window: even if you’re not looking at the contents of those tabs, Doric…