I bought Dorico to get a heads-up on workflow (it won’t be my primary program until chord symbols and 1st and 2nd endings are implemented). I entered two string quartet arrangements. I did this by creating a flow, entering the first quartet, and then creating a second flow for the next quartet.
I’ve found a few things happening that seem a little odd to me, and so I wanted to note them. In some cases, they may be bugs, while in others, they may be user error or system related somehow. I’d love to understand what is happening with them.
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When entering notes, the note sounds upon entry. It also sounds if I then select another duration for the next note I intend to input. Is this supposed to happen? It’s kind of annoying. I’d prefer to hear the note only upon input. So, If I put in a half note A, for instance and then select quarter note to insert a Bb, I don’t want to hear the A repeat, just the Bb when I enter it.
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When I enter notes, the score doesn’t move to show where I’m up to, so I am not seeing the notes as they appear. Is this supposed to be this way? Is there another view, other than the default that I should be choosing? I’m using the full page view that appears when I create the flow.
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When I am inputting or selecting notes, the score occasionally jumps to another part of the score. For instance, I’ve started a second flow, entered a few measures into the violin and selected them so I can copy them. When I select them, the score jumps to the middle of the first flow. I can’t isolate everything causing it to do this, but it always happens when I hit the end of a line and the music should move to the next system. Instead of redrawing the screen there, it puts me back earlier in the piece, or even in an earlier flow. This happened when I only had one flow also, with the screen jumping to earlier in the piece, rather than to where the note entry was happening.
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Playback is choppy, with dropouts/stutters.
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In Write mode, when I click on a note value after entering it to deselect it, nothing happens. To be able to select a few notes to add slurs without changing their values, I need to leave Write mode, and then when I re-enter it, I am able to click on the not value on the left-hand side to deselect it.
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When I select a note, say in the first violin, and right arrow through the rest of the system to hear the notes while proofreading the original paper score, it jumps to a different instrument at the end of the line, rather than continuing the first violin part. Is this expected behavior? I’d much prefer if I could “scrub” through the entire part that way instead of having to hear some viola notes, find the place I want to be, click back in etc. It’s very distracting.
I’d love to know if I’m doing something wrong, or if these are bugs, and what workarounds there might be. I’m on a Mac running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
Thanks!