Like many of you I’m sure, I’ve been waiting for chord symbols before jumping into Dorico. The new release looks great and I’m eager to dive in, but I thought I’d ask the forum if there are any more “essential” features still missing. I don’t want to put myself in a position where I have a deadline …

No drum notation (and general unpitched percussion) No cues or cue-sized notes/rests etc. No automatic divisi/unison staves - Finale CAN do this if you know how to do it; Sibelius can’t. No artificial harmonics No complex repeat structures (1st/2nd/nth time have been implemented but not D.S. al …

All will depend on the kind of work that you do! So you need chord symbols (fine!), but what exactly are you writing? Jazz? Classical? Standard notation or more modern engraving needed? (Maybe posting an anonymized PDF of a typical score would help.) Of course, you can jump in knowing that you can …

Well, thiagotiberio, my first advice on exporting MusicXML is delete all your chord symbols before exporting! [image] Chord symbols break MusicXML export from Dorico 1.1 tl;dr: If you’re exporting MusicXML from Dorico and it’s a mess, try removing all your chord symbols and then re-expo…

Hahaha, well there you go vsthem… aren’t you glad there’s a Dorico forum filled with knowledgeable and kind users like pianoleo? :wink:

aside from what’s already been mentioned: no large, film-scoring style time signatures no score system dividers

Well, Sugar, I’ve answered to that system dividers problem in december… You can quite easily add them as text (shift-X), but I agree, it’s going to be better when it’s implemented — it should not be as complicated as chords or cues (but I agree also, less critical)

Fingering. Not a deal breaker, as I have purchased it, and am using it. But, it would be nice. And, I’m patient - I’m sure that once implemented it will be great. If you are wondering whether or not not make the plunge, you might re-phrase your question: not, what can’t it do, but rather, this is…

Yep. I’m back in Sibelius for a few days and hating it. I have to admit there’s global control in Sibelius that, (despite 8+ years of using it professionally) I didn’t know was there (like default positions!) until I started thinking Dorico - but relatively speaking Sibelius is just so stupid in the…

If would be easy to list 20 things “not implemented yet but there is a workround of some sort,” so ignoring those - and also ignoring things that Daniel has said will be in the next minor and major update: Multi-stave keyboard instruments (e.g. piano varying between 2, 3, or 4 staves as required). …

Hey, thanks all for the quick and thorough replies! I do mostly string arranging and lead sheets. It looks like there are workarounds for harmonics, and I could always go to sibelius if I had a drum set part. I do hope they allow for sound customization on unpitched percussion playback. I’ll pro…

now that 1.1 is out, any dealbreakers left?

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pianoleo August 14, 2017, 10:11pm 4

Well, thiagotiberio, my first advice on exporting MusicXML is delete all your chord symbols before exporting!