Ironically, as the thread’s title indicates, this thread started out as a request for a “feature request” subsection on the forum – but now it seems to be used just to make feature requests for Dorico itself!
To anyone reading this with a Dorico issue, I would suggest starting a new topic for your question or suggestion, instead of tagging on here.
Indeed. It would be nice if the thread was simply retitled to “Post your feature requests here”.
Hi everybody,
I am not aware if this is already something possible. I don’t think it is, so I wanted to request it:
In this example. “1.” is generated by Dorico condensing automatically. But “solo” is a playing technique I added. Could “solo” and “soli” be radio buttons in the properties panel that you could switch on in passages like this? The probably with adding them individually is that you have to do it all manually, and they don’t always “stick” together properly if you made edits to the score.
Having to change from Select Only to Deselect Only for filtering seems to have too many mouse clicks involved. What if holding down the “minus” key on your keyboard as you are selecting what to filter changed the option to Deselect Only?
If I select a passage that has notes and lyrics, I then have to choose Filter, click on Deselect Only, and then go back to Filter and choose Lyrics, All Lyrics. It would be more efficient if I choose that passage, then went to the filter, and held down the minus key while choosing All Lyrics to deselect the lyrics. Does this make sense?
The default behaviour for filtering would be to select, and then holding down the minus key would deselect.
Thanks.
I was just thinking the other day about some feature requests that I’d mentioned several months ago. Not to bump them, but the two that are most prominent in my mind:
Feature request:
I’d love to be able to create custom spacing between specific staves - so that not every 2 groups (or group–single stave, or whatever combination) will be spaced the same. (i.e. - I want the the distance between strings and brass to be larger than the distance between brass and woodwinds).
Doing it manually means doing it individually on every page, which is not a viable option on big scores.
This is one of the very few things that were super easy in Finale and are not possible on Dorico, and is much needed.
Thanks!
That would be a very nice addition, and has been requested before. In case you are not aware of the existing workaround, search the forum for 0-line staff or have a look here: Feature request: Additional vertical space - Dorico - Steinberg Forums
My Dorico Wishlist.
Dorico would be perfect for me with this additions. Maybe I’m being too demanding !
Thanks - that looks interesting, but there really should be a way to do this in a straight forward way, and not with this cumbersome work-around - in Finale it is literally a one-second mouse drag (and was that way since the 90’s), so I’d assume it shouldn’t be such a great programming challenge. This is one of the very few disadvantages Dorico has compared to Finale, but it’s a significant one when working on large scores.
I work a lot with fingerings for classical guitar. I have a suggestion for this pop over. When you want to change a fingering that already exists, it should be highlighted in the pop over. As it is now, the cursor is to the left of the existing number, which gives an extra moment when changing the fingering.
I am missing string names in the tablature that can be found, for example, in Sibelius. Useful for alternate tunings.
I’d really like Dorico’s default playback engine to be able to play back keyboard ornaments (like short trills, etc.) usually found in pipe organ, harpsichord sheet music, similar to how Finale’s “Human Playback” engine handled keyboard ornaments near perfectly without the need to manually adjust heard note duration playback (as I’ve been told is the current solution in Dorico, which is more effort than I’d like to use).
For context, I primarily use the Hauptwerk VPO software, which has a VST [2.0] Link. I know Organteq has VST3, tho I have a stronger preference for Hauptwerk for the work I do.
It would be wonderful if instrument change warnings could be activated on specific staves, and not on others, within a given layout.
A specific use case is dealing with Percussion for a scoring session. Percussion parts for scoring sessions are almost always written for the entire percussion section, so that the principal percussionist can best sort out who plays what given the various station setups and the personnel for that session. With that in mind, there’s no telling which individual player will cover which instrument, let alone which instruments any individual player is switching between. As a result, instrument change warnings become more confusing than helpful for them.
I’d love for Dorico to still handle instrument change warnings automatically for things like Flute going to Piccolo or Oboe going to English Horn, but to be able to omit those warnings in the Percussion staves.
I understand that we can turn off the instrument change warnings for the Percussion score layout, so that at least the players don’t have to deal with them, but it would be nice if they also didn’t have to clutter up the score.
Thank you!
