I just made it through Advent, Christmas, Lent and now Easter with a lot more scoring to do than the ordinary year - all with a STABLE and smoothly sailing Dorico setup. Thanks and kudos to Daniel, the team and this community!
Thatās a friendly post!
Butā¦ what is Lent ā for the non-Virginiansā¦?ā¦
Itās the season of preparation for Good Friday and Easter.
Fastenzeit, as they say in Stuttgart.
I too would like to say once again how much Iām enjoying Dorico. Iām re-setting many of my old scores and not only am I able to do it so much quicker, but so much better! And my new projects are a delight.
Happy as a clam here too.
I made a 66(!) page worship aid booklet for Holy Week for our parish as copious translations were needed as we are a bilingual parish (trilingual if you count Latin). I set each musical snippet in Dorico as separate flows within one document. I was able to export each flow as a graphic and then set each in my publishing program. It was awesome. I didnāt need to have 26 different project files. Just one. Talk about saving me time!
My sweet spot has been orchestral parts. Iāve been exporting all my old scores from Finale to XML as they come up in our orchestra rotation, and redoing them in Dorico. Iām fairly obsessed with how they look. Beautiful.
Indeed. Things look so nice in Dorico that I sometimes re-engrave things that I donāt technically āneedā to just because scores generated in other programs appear so ugly to me now. Sometimes I find modern editions of music on places like cpdl and think, āhell noā. Lol. Just like that I lose an afternoon . Happens in the blink of an eye but I love it. My choir is increasingly spoiled and I donāt think they have any idea how much worse it could be for them if I wasnāt obsessed with engraving music just for the fun of it. Iāve spared them many a wretched score! (To be clear: I donāt mean to trumpet my own engraving as somehow the be-all-end-all of aesthetic perfection (although I do think Iām getting decent at it). Dorico gives such a great launching point that itās āeasyā to make beautiful scores.)