Extensions for Dorico (like Sibelius)

[Mute]

Hello

Are there extensions (e.g. simple harmonization, crayfish inversion, simplification, etc.) for Dorico, as in Sibelius, especially as an aid to composition?

[benwiggy]

No, there’s no plug-in architecture. Composing utilities are anticipated in Dorico 4, though.

[Mute]

Thank you. Hope.

[FredGUnn]

There briefly was a bit of a preview of these in the iPad version, so definitely planned for the next version.

iPad - Pitch/Rhythm Transformations!

For those of you wanting some inversion/retrograde pitch/rhythm transformations, I’m pretty sure you’re gonna get it with Dorico 4, as it’s already here in the iPad version! I’m not entirely sure how to access these commands, but the few I tested by assigning a keycommand seemed to work. [transformations] Here’s the dialog for Reverse and Invert Pitches and Reverse Rhythms for example. [Reverse.PNG] Cool! Is this documented somewhere? I didn’t see it in the announcement.

[Mute]

Hello Fred. Good news. And version 4 is for when?

[FredGUnn]

I believe Daniel has said it’s expected by the end of the year, but no time frame other than that.

[Stephen_Taylor]

Eventually, I believe the team is going to implement scripting with Lua, somewhat like Sibelius’s ManuScript language. If you search the forum for Lua you can find more information. I haven’t heard anything about scripting being ready for Dorico 4, though.

Feature Request: Lua scripting API documentation

Hi, Is there a documentation ( or just the list available API methods/function) for scripting with Lua? If not, I hope it will be considered soon.

[DanMcL]

Lua is already there in the Scripting menu, they just haven’t had stick time to document or really get it ironed out. My experiments show you can do quite a bit, it appears they hooked into it high in the stack so it’s kind of a universal access.

As FredGunn said there’s some utilities coming, but AFAIK there hasn’t been mention of a more complete feature set.