Tag: notation software
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Dorico 4.3: I’m Running out of Things to Complain About
I’m Ehler, and I love to complain. Dorico 4.3 is now out, and those folks at Steinberg have taken away things for me to complain about. The biggest thing for me – and I imagine, most people who ever write for percussion – is a new “tremolo” behavior that is very useful when writing percussion…
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Band Score Order in Dorico 4.0.10
Dorico 4.0.10 came out today, (SN post) which, as befitting an X.0.Y release is mostly bug fixes. I normally don’t write about any point updates for Dorico, but I felt the need to follow up on one thing from my post just a few weeks ago on the release of version 4 with the exciting…
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Chord Sheets (with Remingtons) — and Dorico for iPad’s Update
I pushed the Master Page Layouts, Music Frames, and Frame Chains features as far as they’ll go to make this resource.
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A Transposition Worksheet and Thoughts on Dorico’s iPad Release
Dorico made this relatively complicated worksheet a breeze. Also: Dorico has launched for iPad.
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Chromatic Scales Sheets in Dorico
Separate flows in Dorico allow me to be much more flexible within a single project file for my chromatic scales.
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Rhythm Assessments in Dorico (and a Template)
Dorico’s Flows and Layouts make some assessment sheets a breeze.
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Dorico For Me, For You
Part of loving something is complaining about it. And also shoving it down others’ throats.
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Using Sibelius on a Laptop
In my opinion, Sibelius has some decent and intuitive keyboard shortcuts on a full keyboard, with its heavy emphasis around the numpad. However, I find it to be essentially unusable on a Macbook Pro which lacks the numpad. It has a “notebook” shortcut set, but I find that to be just as unusable, and far from…