Except that you do not know how Dorico interacts with the Audio Engine (which handles the VSTs)
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One does not need to see the code to be able to assess the the underlying issues. That is what experience teaches.
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And pride comes before a fall…
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Wow, not helpful.
Ending this conversation now, I’ve asked for the request and tried to explain the reasoning.
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You are welcome to make a request (or three), but not to dismiss the amount of work programming the feature will impose upon the Development Team to put your requests at the head of the line.
I might agree with one or two of your requests, but you are not the only person here with years of programming experience, and none of us knows enough about the Dorico back end to say how easy or difficult a new feature will be to program, test, and debug any ripple effects.
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Hi. I have some request for additional options for chord symbols.
- The ability to make altered bass lowercase (C/e instead of C/E)
- An option in Appearance of succesive chord symbols with different altered bass notes where the chord letter is replaced by a dash/hyphen. F.ex. (C -/e instead of C /E or C C/E )
- An option to replace Chord letter with dash/hyphen when an added alteration comes to a chord. F.ex. (D -7 instead of D D7)
I have seen these appearances in Danish, Swedish and German publications. Examples can be seen in this thread.
another plea for some way of being able to duplicate the data points in the dynamic lane to a CC. Currently as far as I can see, you can only copy points from one CC lane to another. Another option (ideally we could have both) would be for a third dynamics control in the EM so it would be possible to link in an additional controller. Many libraries will have three basic controllers 1. dynamics/tone 2. instrument volume 3. vibrato. It’s frequently useful to be able to link all three (and sometimes even more than that!) together but there are currently only the two.
It would, for instance, save me quite a bit of time if vibrato (CC20) in my current VSL string quartet was linked directly to dynamics (the correlation is obviously not perfect but is fine as a starting point)
I agree. I would like to see that feature too of course - but I suspected from the start that there are likely some challenges/difficulties/issues involved or they probably wouldn’t have restricted the ability to delete instances to the last slot from the outset (and likewise restricted the ability to reorder the instances, presumably for similar reasons).
We can assume since it is Cubase and Dorico working together (since the audio engine is Cubase) that it is probably effectively two collections, a list of instantiated VST instruments in Dorico and a list of instantiated VST instruments in the audio engine (Cubase), which have to be synchronized. Both programs would have to coordinate the delete operation to ensure it happens in tandem to keep their lists the same, and check to make sure it was successful with a way of backing out of the operation if it did fail.
If something went wrong the delete/renumbering process, you could get a mismatched VST instance list between Dorico and Cubase causing all sorts of havoc. I remember another thread where there was an issue with some kind of communication glitch between the Dorico front end and Cubase back end that caused the mixer faders to appear in different positions in the Dorico front end than they were in reality in the Cubase back end. Something like a mis-communicated renumbering (a glitch in the process somewhere) could conceivably result in similar sorts of issues.
I’m approaching 50 years of experience getting paid to write software, and here’s what I have to say with all the authority that provides:
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Hi, here’s a small feature request:
Single slash tremolos (repeats) do not apply the selected rhythmic feel (from playback options) during playback.
e.g. If I add a single note repeat to an 8th note and apply a 16th note swing rhythmic feel, the generated 16ths are played straight.
Perhaps there is another setting I am unaware of that can solve this but if not, it would be great to have in a future version.
Thanks 
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BREAKING MULTI-MEASURE RESTS WITHIN PARTS (ON THAT PART ONLY)
There needs to be a way to break up multi-measure rests on a single part while working in that part in Engrave Mode. Preferably, Dorico would even be the first to create a dialog box where you can decide how you want to split it. Let’s say there are 16 bars of multi-measure rest, you would be able to enter “4+4+8” or however you wanted to divide it up. Currently, you need an element to break these multi-measure rests, which is quite frankly ridiculous and time-consuming.
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IMPROVING PAGE TEMPLATE SETS’ RESPONSE TO MARGIN CHANGES
When I change the margins on a layout, it completely messes up the way the page template looks on that part, even if it is a SMALL alteration to the margins. This should become more responsive, like the way FINALE would have adjusted text on a page.
I think this depends on how you have set the frame constraints. Have a look here: Steinberg
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Jack, this is an interesting forum. Welcome to the place, where Dorico users help each other and where the developers read and consider every post. There is a forum etiquette though, and it is good to know about it:
You will get heard and taken more seriously, when asking politely and not be shouting (by using capital or even bold letters). It might be a different experience from real life, but be assured, it works like this.
I have to thank you bringing up the Margin Constraint issue, because @LAE’s answer let me read the manual on this topic again. Especially the video example by Anthony Hughes was extremely helpful.
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I’d suggest starting a new thread, with a sample document and showing exactly what the problem is.
I regularly change the Page margins and frame margins without messing things up. (Perhaps if you’ve got System Breaks everywhere, things are now too tight.?)
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Ah. I think this should solve it. Thank you.
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Dorico supports sub categories. It would be nice if they would make one for feature requests, as I have asked in the past. This single topic with unlimited posts and all different ideas and threads should really be a category with topics, like top level ones. At the moment with 300 posts it is becoming unwieldy and unreadable.
Dorico, please consider this.
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It would probably need lots of moderation, as many of the requests already exist (the request or the actual feature!). Maybe it would be a perfect thing for a group of users to moderate in that case, to not put extra workload on the team.
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The devs stated that this system worked for them several times. I think a Feature Request has to be manageable by the devs, not by us, so if they don’t see the need, I don’t see it either.
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Agreed.