I know everyone is feeling a bit shocked, and angry, and even a little bit frightened; and this can all turn to a panic that you need to convert 5000 files and learn a new program TODAY. First of all: there’s plenty of time to take stock of your current setup, and decide what you’re going to do. Th…

Hi, first of all i’m using Finale since the early 90’ after using capella and the need to work with a music publisher. I hated Finale from the first Day, but i got used to it. In the last 30 years it tried out Sibelius, Notion, MuseScore til i found Dorico. Since 6 Years i’m using Dorico SE for Prac…

“Dorico” is made by a reasonably small team of dedicated professionals, myself included (I write the manual). You’ll often find some of us here – and this week, you’ll find me here quite a bit :slight_smile: The full Operation Manual talks about MIDI keyboard entry, but the First Steps guide doesn’…

[image] Ralf_Otte_Otte: If you need a smaller learning curve? Use MuseScore. If you need a software that is similiar buggy like Finale? Use Sibelius ”Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah!!” :boom: Fling the zing! (Tell us how you really feel, @Ralf_Otte_Otte …:smile:) Welcome to the forum — and to Dorico, Ralf…

[image] Lillie_Harris: that’s Q (for qwords) And with the Lyrics Tool you can write the verses and the qworus, right? :slightly_smiling_face:

I find the default note entry method much more efficient than Speedy ever was for me, because of the many additional things you can do with it.< Could you elaborate on those additional things? (Daniel Spreadbury told me there was no advantage in using duration-before-pitch instead of pitch-before…

One such reply, from some years back: [image] Would anyone like to share their usage of the new 3.5 Pitch before duration function? Dorico I find it great for anyone that composes directly into Dorico. If I’m doing a straight copy job where I don’t have to think about the…

So this is an advantage for pitch-before-duration for composing, but this user finds duration-first “probably faster.” Is that your assessment too?

luke, my guess is, as the majority of Dorico enthusiasts came straight from using Sibelius, they kept note input mode as duration first, pitch second. This is also, what I use. Thinking about it (I never do), you can recognise a piece of music as dam da dam dam, as pure rhythm, without any defined …

I guess way to boil it down is do you need to touch your MIDI keyboard for non-input purposes during input or not? If you are only inputting straight copy jobs, then sure, duration-first is probably faster. If you need to use your MIDI keyboard to compose while inputting, then I certainly think pitc…

@FredGUnn ’s point (which others have made as well in workflow discussion threads), as I understand it, is that for copying/engraving work (i.e., you already have all of the music in front of you) duration before pitch might be a bit quicker, depending on what entry technique is more comfortable. (I …

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One such reply, from some years back: