Is there a plan to add Jazz articulations in the expression map playback and Maps in Dorico Pro? As powerful as the program is, it makes no sense to me that a free software like Musescre Studio 4.5, has the playback capability of Jazz articulations while Dorico Pro 5 doesn’t. It should be standard to be able to play those things back when you put the markings in the score.
Many ornaments do not play back yet. Nothing stops you from adding a staff above or below, write down explicitly the notes you want to hear at that very moment in the piece, suppress the playback of the ornamented note, remove the added staff… It will now play exactly as you wrote it.
Making this kind of comparison between two very different models of software development doesn’t make real sense and won’t attract much sympathy I’m afraid… The Dorico Team is made of a rather small number of very competent people, good news is they are still developing actively their software!
Have you searched here at the forum?
This is one of them.
If you have Garritan JABB
and its playback template
There are various sample libraries, if you find one with a Dorico expression map it will save you time, otherwise you can set them up yourself.
Perhaps it is coming. The Dorico team is small and the software has to embrace genres of music spanning many hundreds of years, it is only at v5. HALion is primarily orchestral. They would have to create a jazz sample library (which others have already done.)
If you search you will find some options, you can post comments at those threads if you have questions or want recommendations or comparisons or want help with a specific library.
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The comparison is valid given that Finale (which endorsed Dorico as the software to go to for its former customers) had the expression mapping for jazz articulation play back as a standard feature out of the box. So, my question is not a non-sensible question, unworthy of consideration. Thanks for your comments / response.
(Just a general reply to anyone)
I am disappointed with MakeMusic in their email we all received—there was no mention about a Dorico trial, nor anything about how long the discount price would last (at least) for, nothing about various limitations (given the comparison of 30 years development of Finale and 8 for Dorico) transitioning users might find. They could have pointed to various threads from Finale users here as reference and helped with URLs to other Finale users having made the move previously (YouTube etc.) so at least anyone thinking of moving would have some background and able to take a few moments (months) to evaluate before purchase.
What happened, is, so many disgruntled Finale users (exaggeration coming, be prepared reader) expecting the same features to have been implemented to the same level, in the same or (very easily) remembered ways, the complexities perhaps the same, yes, but not any of the obfuscations(!), differing terminology, underlying structures and design to be the same, the same philosophy … whereas …
With all the complaints and frustrations from Finale users, it is difficult to know where it should have been directed though, often posted here to the forum, (since there is probably nowhere else), and who at least are trying to help, understanding any anger and disappointments, (having come from other software including Finale), or perhaps it was/is directed at the (inadequacies!) of the Steinberg Dorico team who completely reimagined what notation software could be, offering the free trial period, version histories, user guide information, all accompanied by this forum.
The forum initially was very much the Dorico team itself and a few others who presumably had access to it before it was officially released—everyone being very friendly and helpful as there were no long standing experienced users since it was at v1.0. This friendly and helpful nature has continued by many more users here now, having made (or continuing) the transition (usually from elsewhere software), finding the design and overall functions working for their output purposes (with their experiences, learnings and workarounds being then the background of many of the replies to fellow musicians here.)
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Of course your question is valid! So is the workaround I’ve described.