Again.
It looks like dorico team has very little interest in that.
I personally have reported problems with the chord diagrams and library several times.
Chord Diagrams Library is a total mess, full of useless chord shapes that no-one will ever use and it’s impossible to delete them.
Transposition of chord forms along the neck is full of bugs. Most of the shapes you create are not available for other roots.
Creating personalised shapes creates tons and tons of duplicates cause every change you make automatically creates a duplicate. Custom shapes are root related and it’s impossible to navigate through the library and keep it organised. If I create a custom shape for maj7 chord it shouldn’t be root related, I should be able to find it in the library independently from the root I used when I created it. I should be able to modify it without creating a thousand of duplicates. It is so buggy it is even hard to expose the problems.
For one “improvement” you have made in one of the latest updates of Dorico 5 (have a muted string inside the barre line) things got even worse and now it is impossible to write one of the most common chord shapes in jazz:
The barre sign now can’t be partial if notes are on the same fret and even without the barre sign you can’t write the same fingering number to show the correct fingering.
It would be enough to be able to make the barre line draggable on the affected strings to solve the problem. VERY simple.
You can’t put multiple dots on the same string in chord diagrams.
You can’t create custom signs to use in chord diagrams.
You can’t put picking signs only on tab.
You can’t write picking signs note by note moving with the space bar.
You can’t select single or multiple fingerings on standard notation.
You can’t put multiple slur signs in tablature independently from standard notation. (for example, sliding a chord should have a slur sign on top of the chord and one on the bottom in tablature but not on standard notation)
And the list goes on and on.
These are all very common things in modern guitar notation, used on a daily basis, especially by teachers and transcribers. All these things were possible on Finale since 10+ years ago.
As I said before, maybe I miss something and I apologise, but I am pretty sure most of the things I am pointing out can’t be done.
I have written a post with suggestions months ago about many of these problems and it was obviously totally ignored.
And there are many other posts from other users asking for these features and others.
Maybe dorico team should hire a professional guitar player in its development team cause it looks like there’s none.
I am sorry to sound so arrogant but this thing is getting really upsetting.
There’s an attention for every little detail (and that’s why I purchased Dorico in the first place) even for things you will probably use once in a lifetime but almost never an improvement for guitar notation. Not to talk about the endless list of updates only to improve playback and sounds. This is supposed to be a notation software, not a midi file playback software.
I am not asking for all these things to be done but at least some of them every now and then.
I started using Dorico from version 4 and here I am spending another €100 for this update and nothing has been made for guitar notation.
Anyway, I appreciate a lot what has been done for chord symbols in Dorico 6. Thanks for that.
