Today has been my first day working with Dorico. I am an expert at notation. I’ve read all of Gardner Read’s books and have published on music notation. I also export my Finale files to vector files so I can edit them in vector programs to do things Finale cannot do.
First, getting my department to have a site license for Dorico has been a complete CF. There is no discount for purchasing multiple copies, trying to get it into the US, and dealing with my own IT has taken us months. WTF Steinberg! If you’re going to be an industry standard, all these things need to be streamlined. I had to change browsers to sign up for this forum because I licensed my Dorico with my department account.
I am trying to do something very simple. I just want to add a lower voice to a measure. Dorico keeps adding a voice above the first beat, then adding the same voice below the rest of the measure. I tried multiple things, read the help site, and watched YouTube videos. Please help.
If you see Up-stem Voice 1 and Up-stem Voice 2 in the final menu as per my image, then this is your problem.
After Up-stem Voice 1, the next voice you create should be Down-stem Voice 1 (unless for a specific reason you need two up-stem voices). It appears as if you have jumped to the next up-stem voice inadvertently.
Select the notes and go to the same menu but click New Down-stem Voice. Does that fix it?
Thank you for your comments and the warm welcome. This looks like a great community.
I used Finale since the early 90s so I don’t remember overcoming its challenges. My students tell me that the learning curve on Dorico is less than it is on Finale. I’m finding Dorico a challenge, but am enjoying it.
