I’ve just installed the 1.1 demo and am encouraged by the progress. Below are a few things I’m looking forward to:
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Addition of Marcato to articulation playback definitions, in terms of % note duration
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Winged repeat barlines - possibly frivolous, but useful
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Jazz Articulations - scoops, short and long falloffs - imperative for my jazz publishing company
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Swing playback - also imperative for my jazz publishing company
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This might already exist, but I haven’t found it yet - individual note midi velocity editing.
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Ability to move bar number below the staff. It currently appears that they are only available above the staff.
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Importation/translation of Sibelius’ Rhythm Section Assistant plug-in - invaluable for all big band scores.
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In the Print dialogue, it currently appears that each Layout (part/score - I hope I’m using the correct terminology) to be printed requires that a new printer must be manually assigned if the user’s default printer is different from the printer to be used with the Layouts. (That’s an awful sentence - I hope you can follow it). In the future, it would be great to be able to just assign the printer once to the global printing of the score and all its parts/Layouts. Manually resetting this for 20 staves, for example, is tiresome and can be avoided, I’d think.
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Will there be a version of Sib’s Magnetic Layout for Staff Optimization/Vertical Spacing? In Engrave mode, if I manually lower a staff to create more room, the other staves get jumbled on top of each other making it necessary to manually readjust every staff in the score. Again, I’m new, so maybe I’m missing the solution?
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I know there is Ctrl+G to go to a particular bar #, but it’s really handy in Sib to just Ctrl+Shift and click a bar to select a playback start point. Also, when a bar is selected across the score (top to bottom), it’s great to use Cntrl+Click to select and deselect certain staves so you can easily hear different subsets of an ensemble. Right now Halion/Dorico is behaving very strangely re: playback so I can’t tell if my request is already implemented or not.
Keep up the great work. I know you have a million things on your list already, but I can speak for a large local community of jazz and commercial composers who are just waiting to jump to Dorico once all the necessary features are implemented.