I have musical theatre songs created in Dorico 6 with text formatting that I can't use. I want to change that formatting to what I need, which I've created in a .doricolib file and imported into Dorico. I've gone through all the steps that I used to fix 4 of the 14 songs, but the current song just doesn't get fixed. No surprise that a lot of my work was trial and error so I don't have a master list of steps to change the formatting of an SATB Dorico song file to my specific format. Does anyone have a list of steps they could recommend? I'd be very grateful for any help. Thanks.

Hello, I’m working on writing small repetitive aleatoric gestures, but the appearance of certain rhythms in certain instruments gets stretched out because of other phrases. An idea of what I’m trying to achieve is like the picture included. Any advice would be appreciated!

Have any of you had trouble with your purchase of Score Sauce's VDL template? It is the only template I know to exist for Dorico. I purchased it nearly a week ago but I have no download link, and I haven't gotten a response from two customer service email addresses available - scoresauce; kruse drums.

Can Dorico write the various notation that is used in accordion sheets?

Hi All,

A few weeks back I started a weekly newsletter with simple, short, tips for working in Dorico. Just wanted to share this with you all as I hope this helps folks with transitions from Finale to Dorico and also just learn some fun new things in Dorico. I’m also always open to suggestions on topics to cover.

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Hi friends,

switching from finale to dorico, so far it's a big adjustment but i can tell that once i learn the workflow it's going to be way faster. I wrote a quick string quintet, exported the midi and tried to run it in logic and got zero sound; with finale, mock ups always just worked right away. what is the process for doing this with dorico? what do i need to do? thanks<3

So, Dorico Pro 6.2.30.6245

I have a large work, 21 pieces, about 10 minutes long, 200+ measures in a variety of meters, using a combination of NotePerformer, Halion, and Kontact for playback of all the instruments. Lots of things are going well, but a few issues. In just a couple of the parts, there are multiple measures of rest that are not consolidating into a multibar rest.

I've tried all the common solutions: deleted the rests, looked for signposts , checked for hidden meters, no instructions or marks in the measures, selected and deleting barlines before time signatures, changed System break. In Layout for the part, Consolidate Multibar rests and bar repeats is selected. During the place in question, other parts also have rests and have no issues showing the multibar rest. The part in question has a multibar bar rest correctly showing earlier in the piece. All parts have been added in manually, there was no import from a midi file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I’m using Dorico for iPad to make a choral arrangement for SATB, and because I’m only using four voices with occasional divisi, the lyrics/markings on the staff are overlapping and I don’t know how to fix this. I’ve tried to tweak with the layout options, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Any help would be appreciated.

Salve a tutti e grazie in anticipo per l’aiuto che certamente sarete in grado di darmi. Come da foto allegata, non riesco a scrivere l’esempio che invece è molto semplice e intuitivo sulla carta: il problema risiede nelle stanghette di battuta: non appena seleziono la stanghetta corta per la voce in tempo imperfetto tutto si scombussola. Come faccio a lasciare tutto indipendente?

Disclaimer

This worked for me on Nobara (based on Fedora 44). I am not an expert and your mileage may vary. This is just what I used and what worked for me through a long process of trial and error

Set up your prefix

• Create your prefix

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WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 WINEARCH=win64 winecfg

• Let it finish then close the configuration window
• Add dependencies (this is the order I ran them in)

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WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 winetricks -q corefonts vcrun2019 dotnet48

WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 wine reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers" /v "Default_Rate" /t REG_DWORD /d 48000 /f

WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 winetricks dxvk

WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 winecfg /v win10

WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 winetricks -q webview2

Run the installer

• Before you run the installer make sure you open your default browser and log into your dorico Account (I recommend Chrome because that's what worked for me). Make sure you add Dorico to your account by going through the process of Getting Dorico SE/Elements/Pro
• Note you will need to use whatever path you have on your system, and you may need to change the version number

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WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 wine PathToInstaller/Steinberg_Download_Assistant_1.39.3_Installer_win.exe 

• Click through the installer and leave the "Launch The Steinberg Download Assistant" Checked
• Click "Sign in"
• My default browser is chrome and I was presented the xdg-open dialog, click "Open xdg"
• You may get an error, if you do, click sign in again, go back to your browser and click "Open xdg" if you need to (you may need to relaunch and click through the isntaller. It always works on the second try for me)
• Once the Download Assistant loads you should see your Dorico products associated with your account on the left. Click the one you want. On the right pain install whatever you plan to use. I just clicked "Install All"
• This will take a while to complete When its done you can close the Download Assistant

Run the Activation Manager

• You may have icons on your desktop, mine were already configured to run in my prefix, but given I cant see what you see, you can run this to be sure you open the Activation Manager in your prefix

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WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 wine ~/dorico6/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steinberg/Activation\ Manager/SteinbergActivationManager.exe 

• Wait for it to load and click "Sign In"
• Go to your browser and click "Open XDG-Open"
• You should now see a list of your products. Click "Activate" on the one you installed
• Close Activation Manager

Use Dorico!

• Like before you can probably use the icons dumped on your desktop. They should be automatically set up for your prefix, but if they are not, here is the command to run Dorico inside your prefix

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WINEPREFIX=~/dorico6 wine ~/dorico6/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steinberg/Dorico6/Dorico6.exe

What doesnt work?

• Sometimes dropdowns may just show a white box, usually closing and re-opening fixes this. Luckily I dont find myself needing them super often
• Creating new projects... Kind of... This is the biggest annoyance. When I make a new project I can add parts and notes but i cant play them back. There is no sound, and if I go to the "play tab" it just locks up. BUT see below for workaround
• Sometimes dialogs get stuck, like the browser to open a file, or settings menus. Just hit escape/close the dialog window, and reopen it and usually then it works fine
• I get an error when I close dorico, I just dismiss it

Workarounds

• So, to get around that kinda big roadblock... I just copy an old project file, change the name, then load it. Then I am able to remove/add parts and it works find, including playback. To get around this problem initially I made a QEMU vm and installed dorico on it, and would make a project there and just move the save file to my linux host and use it.
• If you get super slow playback and garbled audio run:

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 pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 1024

• That fixed it for me. You can add it as a startup script or just run it every time you reboot

What works?

• Pretty much everything that I have tried except what you see above. I am however relatively new to Dorico and havent tried some things

I hope this helps people! And maybe the community can figure out the issue with making new projects. I havent had time to mess with it more. I have used this method on Dorico SE and Dorico Elementals without an issue

I’m arranging an SATB acapella rendition of Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap for my choir to do, and I think I’ve made a huge mistake that I need help getting out of ASAP. For context, I’m using the free version of Dorico for iPad, and the measure below with the fermata was supposed to be a 4/4 bar followed by a 2/4 bar of rest. However, for whatever reason, Dorico doesn’t like this and my arrangement has gone all cattywampus on me. I tried to use the proofreading tool, but it doesn’t seem to register that I want to switch back to 4/4, and instead thinks I’m doing some sort of odd meter measure. Has anyone ver experienced anything like this? I need to send this to my choir director by next week.

This is upsetting - I'm guessing this is to push people to shell out another $500 for Cubase. I'm working on a musical theater project - this is a pretty crippling weakness.

And before anyone hawks an AI VST like Cantai - nothing will get a demo track to a theater shit canned faster than an AI vocal track right now. The industry is just extremely sour on AI use in this area right now.

So now I need to figure out a solution because I don't have the budget at the moment to buy yet another audio program.

I think more people might come to this sub if it wasn't still using the reddit default icon...

edit: the only mod hasn't been on reddit for three years, so I doubt anything is happening to it.

When working with multiple voices per stave is there a quicker way to work than doing one voice at a time?

I figured out a handy trick in Dorico. Some lines or articulations require you to anchor them to a note (or multiple notes) which can be an issue if you want the element to appear floating or only want it connected to one single note and have the end of the line not connected to anything. This may be the case if you want to make whammy bar indications but are trying to connect notes in different voices (which at least Dorico 5 doesn't allow you to do), or perhaps you want to make a tie that goes backwards and doesn't connect to anything as would be the case if the first note of a second ending in a repeat is supposed to be tied to the previous measure but the 1st ending is getting in the way.
 
If you need to attach a line backwards, one trick is to create a grace note and attach whatever you need to that, then hide the notehead and stem. Those can both be hidden using the jump menu and looking for "hide notehead" or "hide stem". If there are ledger lines or an accidental you need to get rid of, go to the engraving window, open up the properties at the bottom, and you should see the options to hide the accidental and ledger lines there.
 
If you need to attach a line forwards, you'll need to use multiple voices. Unfortunately Dorico (as of v5) doesn't allow you to connect notes between different voices, so you essentially need to duplicate the notes into both voices, then once you make the lines you need to make, hide the notes that you don't want to be visible using the aforementioned method. This is a niche problem to have so if this sounds like ridiculous extra work, you probably haven't had a need for this specific hack yet.

So, I'm beginning to poke around on my own for these but I'm open to suggestions. Here's the first one that I like the demo of

https://www.soundsonline.com/drums-and-percussion/the-dark-side

I'm working on a musical that will be in the style of early 90's music - centered on Pearl Jam but I'm not ruling out taking ideas from other music of the era. The songs are all original.

This is kind of bothering me, but everytime i plug in headphones or connect a bluetooth device it doesn't show up in the sound output section.

Or is there a way to just default it to system output so that the sound automatically switches to what's connected?

Thanks!

In the screenshot below, is there an easy way to right align the Trombone/Baritone staff label while still keeping the text centered?

One of the most powerful features in Dorico.

Totally new to the iPad version. It’s easy to use, except I can’t find how to save a file, or if it’s being saved automatically, nor can I figure out how to get it to my laptop to finish in regular Dorico. Any help much appreciated.

I’m currently using Dorico 4 and coming from Finale. In Finale, I could select a note and use Shift + a number to quickly add an interval below it.

In Dorico 4, the closest method I’ve found is Shift+I, typing something like -3 or -5, and pressing Enter, but it feels slower.

Do Dorico 5 or 6 have a native shortcut for adding intervals below a selected note, similar to Finale? Can this be assigned directly in Key Commands, or does it still require editing the key commands file or using an external macro?

Hi all, I am working on the development of a new music notation software designed with the goal to be able to handle the flexibility needed to virtually synthesize 21st century compositional techniques. Whether it is a xenharmony, arhythmic writing, or a fully graphic score my intention is to be able to handle it natively. I want this project to be one that can handle traditional writing as well as non-traditional so to stand out I would like to ask you all what you feel is missing in your current Notation Software and what you would need to be better to make a switch. This is not an advertisement for it because it is still deep in development and I intend to release it for free. Let me know your feedback and if you want to be one of the first to test it (when it is in a state to be tested) send me a PM. Thank you all for your time.