Steinberg’s modern scoring application—news, reviews, and how-tos for notating and engraving in Dorico.
Robert Patterson's Denigma Online converts Finale .musx files to MusicXML entirely in your browser, with no copy of Finale needed. We walk through the options, the caveats, and how the results compare with Finale's own MusicXML export in Dorico and Sibelius.
MakeMusic is stopping direct sales of the discounted Dorico Pro crossgrade after July 23 — Steinberg will honor the same price, but crossgrades won't include a free copy of Finale v27.
Cantai 3.0.0 merges its Dorico and Sibelius installers into one, adds Spanish lyric support, introduces the Ottetto ensembles and six new voices, and cuts pricing to $9.99/month or $149 lifetime across every platform.
Introducing the Dynamic Chain in Notation Express for Dorico — select a passage, arm the chain, press a gradual and two dynamics in any order, and place the complete marking in one move. Also new: smart niente buttons, hairpin line style cycling, poco a poco, and more.
Originally appearing as a document that composer David MacDonald created for his weekly master class, this bullet-list of score preparation and production notes will improve the quality of your performance materials in no time. To it we have added relevant links from Scoring Notes and other sources.
Dorico 6.2.30 deepens Cantai integration with independent voice playback, adds new options for wiggly glissando line appearance, continues a sustained run of MusicXML export improvements, and fixes more than 40 issues across the application.
LS Iris has always been a distinctive presence in the SMuFL font landscape — a handwritten music font with calligraphic roots and a warmth that sets it apart from the field. After several years off the market, it’s back, newly overhauled and significantly expanded.
Cantai, the vocal synthesis plugin from the Turing Opera Workshop, now works directly in Dorico. Here's a review of how to get started with it, with an assessment of its strengths, limitations, and what's coming next.
Dorico 6.2.20 brings support for Cantai, the new vocal synthesis plug-in from Turing Opera Workshop, with deeper integration and automatic voice detection. A handful of other improvements and more than 25 bug fixes are also included.
Dorico's Jump Bar, summoned with a single press of J, is one of those features that quietly earns its keep once you make it a habit. A practical guide to commands, navigation, and the wide middle ground between muscle memory and menu-diving.
