Lyrics—entering and formatting text under vocal lines.
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.
Sometimes in Sibelius, a lyric hyphen that occurs at the end of a system will collide with the preceding syllable. The best fix is the least obvious one.
The Scoring Express Choral & Vocal suites for Dorico and Sibelius make their debut, including hymnal, octavo, and piano-vocal templates with exceptional layout and engraving settings.
Dorico 5.1.60 adds support for macOS Sequoia, accommodations for Finale-like behavior during note input, and improved MusicXML import by supporting system and frame breaks by default. Among other improvements, condensing on larger flows has been made faster.
Dorico 5.1.30 includes more options for staff labels, barlines, percussion, repeats, and user interface choices, among other improvements. In addition, more than 40 bugs have been fixed since the last release.
Finale's possibilities are truly astronomical, and its settings can seem like a black hole. Jason Loffredo boldly navigates the Finale frontier of space — music space, that is — with a down-to-Earth explanation of its constellation of features to help you reach for the stars.
Finale has a dedicated tool for resizing the noteheads, notes, staves, systems, or pages of your score. We'll show you all the ways to use it, plus other ways to scale the size of items like accidentals, mid-measure clefs, grace notes, lyrics, and chord symbols.
The Dorico 4.2 update makes it easier to edit the music on drum sets and other percussion kits directly in the Key Editor. Among other improvements, Dorico 4.2 also improves the way the Key Editor works in linked mode.
Dorico 4.1 further refines the Key Editor, improves the user interface with more color options, overhauls the way lyrics are treated, prints selected flows in a layout, and adds new effects plug-ins and a library export function. Plus, a lifetime unlock option for Dorico for iPad.
