Hi all, I’ve been using Dorico for about 3 years alongside Sibelius for over 20, and while I’m impressed by many of Dorico’s advanced capabilities (polymeters, semantic approach, etc.), I’m finding it difficult to fully transition due to several workflow inefficiencies that particularly impact tran…

The latest responses are totally valid workarounds for workflow and I’m glad they work for you! Simultaneously, suggesting scripting and doricolib file editing for basic system breaks perfectly encapsulates the core issue. When fundamental notation tasks require programming knowledge and file syste…

I don’t think so because that wouldn’t explain the ties. What I think happened here is one person notated it basically rhythmically correctly, and someone else thought they would “fix” it by shifting everything later by an eighth, and posted their “fixed” version. I’ve seen those sorts of things mo…

[image] Brian_Roland: There’s a lot of 18 year olds showing up on campus who know ‘software’ and ‘gadgets’ really well, but could not piano conduct a school or church choir to save their soul. I was thinking more along the lines of music technology careers rather than music theory, but that i…

[image] cparmerlee: is Dorico commonly used on Broadway programs these days? Emily Grishman was always a Finale shop. Whether she’s changed up in the past 2 years, I dunno. I hung out with Russ Anixter at a gig last fall and chatted about the whole Finale/Dorico thing. I know he can use any n…

[image] cparmerlee: Still, it seems anachronistic for any program to be based on FInale these days. Context matters…what one generation has to pass down to the next matters. Imagine if a set of monks developed a shorthand system to record a half a century of their order’s history, traditions,…

[image] Brian_Roland: The same could be said of playing medieval era instruments, or continuing to maintain and use a 250 year old pipe organ. I don’t really see the similariy. Playing period music on period instruments makes sense, but it isn’t for me. However, this is more like saying a p…

[image] Brian_Roland: They have decades worth of material in that format that they constantly revisit, This makes perfect sense. Perhaps there are distinctly different personality types using notation software. Some people were never enamored of the notation software, but found it as a nece…

[image] cparmerlee: I don’t really see the similariy. Then perhaps you haven’t done (and collected) decades worth of work in a given format that needs to be preserved and kept accessible by the heirs of your legacy. There is no reason an institution cannot do ‘both’…preservation/archival in …

[image] Brian_Roland: Archival and Preservation is ‘an important thing’ in the field of academia This is quite true. Part of preservation, at this point is probably exporting as much of the older acquisitions to musicXML as possible so that current software can, at least, access these scores…

[image] cparmerlee: I have always thought of universities as aspiring to be at the vanguard of whatever field they are in, be it engineering, archiecture, medicine or whatever. Aspriation? Yes. Achievement? Sadly, not always… With 15 music departments closing down in the UK and others narro…

Just a thought…. @FredGUnn noted the great expense of Dorico Pro for students. Having gone through the educational mill several times in my life as a student I can see that I would be hesitant to lay out that much. And folding it into a student loan which would need to be paid back over a vast amoun…

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Have a look at “Cantorum”: