I play the Turkish ney and besides playing the traditional repertoire I also compose and play contemporary music on the ney. I hope that Dorico will be useful for the Turkish makams as well as contemporary music. I’ll be happy to participate in any beta testing for this. See my youtube video for a taste of what I do on a one of a kind inox ney. All the best, Drake Mabry
Dorico should be reasonably useful for makam music, though perhaps not as ideally specialised as a dedicated tool like Mus2. However, you can certainly create a tuning system with 53 equal divisions of the octave and set up the necessary accidentals used in Turkish music, and then set up a custom key signature for the desired mode. We’re missing a bit of user interface in this area right now, but we hope it will be in place in time for the initial public release.
Will the necessary non-Western accidentals required for makam-based music be easily available in Doric?
Is this still an option? That’s an important decision for me between choosing Dorico vs Sibelius.
I’m pretty sure Dorico works very well for Maqam music. You can create a custom set of accidentals and choose how to divide the octave. And the playback works perfectly.
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Dorico will be immeasurably better than Sibelius for this.
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Try this for a simple example (and apologies for any musical errors)
Saz Semai example.dorico.zip (1.2 MB)
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