Daniel, I’m truly only pointing at things that I believe many users like me (will) react on of/when starting to use Dorico. The only reason I respond now is that I kust found some comments to what I have written. I know you know my viewpoints already, and I’m sure you know that I appreciate that you have implemented many things I sent you emails about a while ago, brilliant chord symbol implementation, for instance. And I certainly look forward to the changes I know you plan.
Regarding material that’s imported as MIDI (and not XML), I stand by my words about split stems - but certainly don’t need to discuss that anymore; anyone who has read what I wrote already know that I don’t think split stems is a good solution when importing maj7 chord as MIDI files.
" you can easily prevent Dorico from using split stems via the Notation Options dialog …" Let me first say that I don’t really feel that I’m “complaining” as such (but there is some ‘vent’ into this as well), but if it would been ‘complaining’, it would have been about the defaults (still talking about displaying maj7 chords from a MIDI file with split stems or not here), not about Dorico not being able to show these chords the normal way upon MIDI import (or at least without split stems as a default). And btw, I’m very thankful for the various tips I pick up on these discussions from various users and staff members, and you in particular.
I don’t expect to be using Dorico ‘for real work’ until things like real time MIDI recording and draggable notes are in. Personally, I even dislike recording to a click, so I often record without - and use reclocking/beat mapping/time warping afterwards… As a piano player, entering music in step time feels very …wrong/unmusical for me. MIDI import is therefore important for my kind of… ‘user group’, and will be for a while.
Btw, seeing that the Dorico team works in depth on each ‘function area’ before entering new stuff will of course that it can take time before some of us it feels ready for use, but I like and agree in your approach. What looks like complaining is mainly impatience, I guess, but based on what I just wrote, I don’t actually expect Dorico to be ready for becoming a main app for people like me for at least a year, maybe two. Sorry if this seems like only venting or even being provocative - I truly think that Dorico is the most interesting thing that has happened in music software for several years, and Steinberg’s interest in notation has made me a lot more interested in the company and Cubase as well. If you think this being deliberately provocative, I wonder what Logic fans when I share my viewpoints about Logic’s (lack of) development in what I consider the most important areas think!
ETA: I edited the previous post now, just to make it clear to random readers who I may have given the false impression that Dorico shows maj7 chords with dual stems when they are entered in using step input in Dorico.