Old Sibelius user here contemplating jumping to Dorico. One thing I do is import MIDI from my projects and then add articulation markings later. In Sebelius, I would use the scripts to help with applying (say) slurs to all similar phrases.
For example, how would I make all the measures after the first have the same slur markings as this first measure without tedious mousing?
Yeah… that’s what I consider “mousy”. Is there a more automated (lazy) way that analyzes the note patterns and applies the slur to “Similar”?
As yet the script menu is basically undocumented, because the functionality is incomplete.
Dorico’s navigation by keyboard is fairly reliable though, so in a situation like this you could select the first note, click the record script button, then (I think) type Shift-Right x 3 S Right Shift/Right x2 S Right Right, End Recording Script, then hit whatever key you’ve assigned to Run Last Script, a few times.
But obviously, once you get to a bar that isn’t a four then a three, you’re going to end up slurring the wrong notes.
Also, I have to admit (perhaps shamefully) that I depend on quite a few Sibelius scripts: Respell accidentals flats to sharps (and vice versa), Slurs (similar), etc. Do former Sibelius users miss these that much? Or does Dorico have alternate solutions or workflows that ultimately negate the use of these scripts. As someone who only uses notation software as the last step (everything else is done on a sequencer) and imports MIDI, I’m wondering how other former Sibelius users are feeling.
I may start another thread about this… but will search the archives first.
P.S. I hate subscription models… that’s another reason I’m looking at Dorico.
I’m mostly responsible for the Dorico Notation Express Stream Deck profile: the only reason I mention that is that one of the things I implemented in that was Respell Flats as Sharps and Respell Sharps as Flats. Dorico has factory filters for filtering sharp notes or flat notes, and explicit shortcuts for respelling upwards or downwards. It was a matter of a few seconds’ work to string a filter command and a respell command together.
You could easily achieve the same thing with Dorico’s own scripting (and note that you can save scripts with unique names so they show up in the Scripts menu, and assign shortcuts to them directly) or via Keyboard Maestro, Auto Hotkey or similar.
I don’t often tidy up MIDI in Dorico, but generally speaking my arranging and engraving workflow is substantially quicker in Dorico than in 16 years of Sibelius use (starting in the Acorn days), even without plugins.
I guess (having just looked at the Cubase documentation). At the moment the UI doesn’t exist for it, though, so it’s a case of recording the steps, then going into the user data folder (~/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 3.5 on Mac and %appdata%\Steinberg\Dorico 3.5 on Windows), finding the usermacro you just recorded, and saving as something useful.
No worries. If running Dorico Macros is smart enough to wait for the system/software to complete tasks… that’s most important for me. Of course… Dorico devs, please give use a graceful way to save Macros
But if you want to do things like filtering followed by respelling on your Stream Deck, that’s just a case of assigning key commands for each of those things (from Preferences > Key Commands), then setting up a multi in Stream Deck that fires those two keyboard shortcuts in quick succession.
Gotcha. Also I use Keyboard Maestro a lot… so I have options. But of course native solutions are the best. That said… I like what I’m seeing so far. Just got to get used to things.
No. Edit > Select to End of Flow is a thing, though, and you could assign a shortcut to it.
Select More (Cmd-Shift-A) is also extremely useful, though probably not in this situation. It selects more of whatever type of object is selected, initially within the same bar, then if you type it again the same system, then across the whole flow.