Generally really enjoying the workflow in Dorico, and thrilled with how the finished score looks, but I’ve found a few things along the way that I think need addressing:
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When exporting flows to a separate file, or exporting MIDI files, if you’re flow has a slash in the name it won’t work. Took a while to figure out what was going wrong there.
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Would desperately like to be able to turn off MIDI Thru so that when inputting notation or just using midi keyboard to test an idea I can be easily in control of the sound. I’d be so happy if the Dorico instruments only made noise during playback. Also, I have a control surface attached to my system, and any fader moves/button presses result in notes passing through Dorico.
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Typing in lyrics is way too laggy. I love the lyric interface, and I love the way Dorico understands ties. But especially the longer my project became, the worse the lyric input got.
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Adding new flows and changing voices became slower and slower. I’ve been transcribing a musical for piano and vocals. Only have 4 vocal parts and one piano, but there are around 35 cues, each in their own flow, and as the project grew, adding or removing a voice from a flow, or reordering the flows was taking up to a minute.
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Inputting music in Dorico is (mostly) a delightful experience, but I really miss being able to add notes to chords by interval at the press of a single shortcut. This is especially useful for adding octaves to piano lines easily. The functionality is all there, I’d just like to be able to assign shortcuts to particular intervals.
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Sometimes, engrave changes I’d made to a particular flow (especially staff spacing changes) seemed to be forgotten after a while. I’m not sure why, but this definitely happened every now and then.