Dorico is an incredible software which combines pleasure of writing & productivity. I am not anymore using a Daw to produce my mockup (should I ?) but few functionalities would help :
Iāve been noodling around this idea also, and have more and more been shifting to Dorico for MIDI production. If your sample output is your main product then yes, a DAW is needed for final mixing at least (Dorico is only two channel output). Otherwise Cubase more easily supports CC/MIDI tweaking than Dorico I think. But Dorico maps do so much of the heavy lifting to get usable output.
āIf I may highlight one more slight annoyance ā when switching from Write to Engrave mode when Write is in Galley view, it always seems to shift to an apparently random nearby part of the page and I always get lost. If the item I have selected could always remain in view upon switching, it would save me having to scroll around the page finding my bearings each time I switch.ā
Another vote for this! (I Write only in the galley modeā¦)
Thanks !
Iām aware thereās a work-around by using tuplets, hiding everything and pasting in metre symbols, but thatās what it is to me: a work-around.
Maybe Iāve missed it in an announcement, if so that would make my day.
I know that 3/4 vs 6/8 is genuinly possible in Dorico 3.5 (because 8s = 8s), but the linked case (excerpt from John Williamsā āAdventures on Earthā) is what I mean.
Another FR for v4: invisible barlines.
I do so much with chant which means open meter and split bars across staves. Usually I can fake it with dashed barlines with their dash length set to ā0ā but not always. The problem is when you go into note spacing mode, if there is no barline at the end of the stave thereās no final anchor point to draw spacing to the right or to use as a base to condense the line to the left.
Alternatively, Iād be happy if note spacing anchor points would appear at the end of every stave even when there is a split measure.
A huge +1 for both of these. ^^
A new/revamped editor for tempo marks that allows complete freedom of combinations.
Oh, yes a big +1
Let us keybind arbitrary playing techniques to key combinations. Or, at least very least, let us keybind upbow/downbow.
Quick triplet entry. Have a key combation to create a single 3:2 tuplet. Triplet creation is needlessly keypress intensive for the common case.
Hide instruments (NOT players) per flow.
Better galley mode. For a start, show us system text/tempo markings/rehersal marks overlaid on the staff weāre currently editing, since in a large score the ACTUAL markings are offscreen somewhere 90% of the time
Creation of numbered repeated bars. Basically I see this working like repeated bars, just actually show the music and not the / symbol. Commonly done in percussion parts where e.g. an ostinato is played for 20+ bars.
Better support for languages (E.g. set language to German and itās āget.ā, not ādiv.ā
More flexible tempos. You can create ācresc poco a pocoā but not āpoco a poco crescā.
At least basic ornament playback.
{
"UI.InvokePaletteButton?PaletteIndicatorID=kPlayingTechniquePanel.pta.stringsDownBow&PaletteSectionID=kPlayingTechniquesStringsPanel&PropertyButton=false&UseLocalOverride=0" : [ "Ā§" ]
},
{
"UI.InvokePaletteButton?PaletteIndicatorID=kPlayingTechniquePanel.pta.stringsUpBow&PaletteSectionID=kPlayingTechniquesStringsPanel&PropertyButton=false&UseLocalOverride=0" : [ "Ctrl+Ā§" ]
},
Thatās not a tempo. You can use the prefix property already, though.
Iām not disagreeing with any of these feature requests, naturally.
Being able to easily add a continuation line to any textual marking would be amazing. Right now some things can only be done via a workaround (someone please correct me if Iām wrong!). For instance, at the moment I can turn on the gradual dotted line for ārit.ā but not for ācĆ©dezā. It would be useful to have it for other things as well, such as shift-X text markings, etc.
If you want to add continuation lines for textual items, define them as playing techniques, which (as of 3.1) can have continuation lines of various kinds.
Another thing Iād really like to see is stackable text on things like tempo.
Itās quite common to see, for instance, tempos given on two lines, the top in the composers native language, and the 2nd in either Italian or English.
Similarly Iāll see it done sometimes on dynamics when there are complicated dynamics or āadditionalā requests, such as āsotto voceā or the like.
Obviously this isnāt a problem if weāre just dealing with text objects, but other things arenāt as flexible.
Right, I have done that a couple times, but is there a way to do it without needing to create a custom playing technique item each time? For me it would be a lot more efficient to just type it out in the appropriate popover and flip a switch in the lower panel. And/or to flip a switch on an Absolute tempo marking to make Dorico think of it as a Gradual one. If itās an exhausting problem of needing to semantically categorize every potential marking, a simpler option could maybe be to only add a new ācontinuation lineā ability to Staff- and System Text. Then at least it would be very easy to achieve the visual effect, if not necessarily playback.
Iād love to hear peoplesā current workflows for this type of thing ā maybe thereās a shortcut I havenāt thought of.
It really doesnāt take long or very many clicks to create a new playing technique.
No it doesnāt. A little confusing navigating through the flow from there to expression map, but the new menu which pulls them all together will fix that.
Proper support for attaca movementsā¦that will render in the parts as continuous music but can be built up from one flow per section. Section title above the first bar of the section, and no gap on playback.
My top wishes for version 4 are:
Would it be possible to have some additional letters when creating tuplets.
ex: 3:2h for hidden bracket and number, 3:2b for only bracket and 3:2n for only number?
Jesper