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Dorico 4.1.10 update is available

June 22, 2022June 25, 2022

Steinberg has released Dorico 4.1.10. This update focuses mostly on bug fixes, although there are a few new feature improvements in the areas of staff spacing, flow headings, printing and playing, and the user interface.

Reviews

Dorico 4.1 review: a better Key Editor; improvements to lyrics, interface and more

June 1, 2022June 4, 2022

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.

Tutorials

Scoring a 16th century ayre with Dorico and Emvoice One

May 17, 2022May 20, 2022

Ian Blick illustrates how to make the Emvoice One voice synth emulate the voice of a trained singer, adding more realism to a score which has been produced in Dorico Pro.

Reviews

Dorico 4 review: Do more with your score

January 12, 2022January 15, 2022

Dorico 4 is available. This massive update brings features first seen on the iPad, like a Key Editor in Write mode and a revamped Play mode. From smart MIDI import to a library manager with granular house style control, to better score setup and more, this update touches every corner.

Opinion

A brief history of music notation on computers

December 28, 2021January 22, 2022

Music engraving dates back well before the computer age, but it’s easy to forget that the computer-aided portion of the history spans back a good long time. We summarize that history and explore a few key moments leading up to the present.

Reviews

Graphical MIDI Tools 2 is a major upgrade to the DAW-like plug-in for Sibelius

December 20, 2021December 24, 2021

A major upgrade is out for Graphical MIDI Tools for Sibelius, which allows the user to manipulate MIDI information in the score in a graphical manner. It has been completely overhauled as an application that runs within Sibelius to provide a piano roll window.

News

Sibelius for Mobile update adds MIDI support and more

November 18, 2021November 20, 2021

The latest update to Sibelius for Mobile brings step-time note entry via a MIDI keyboard. Support for pickup bars, merging bars, and better keyboard integration round out this update.

Meta

Sibelius summer school sale

June 23, 2021June 26, 2021

It’s summertime! Time to get outdoors, hit the beach, relax, and … go to school! At Notation Central, there are video tutorials, templates, and ebooks in the Sibelius Summer School Sale going on through June 30, 2021.

Reviews

The focus is on staves with the Sibelius 2020.9 update

September 17, 2020September 23, 2020

Sibelius 2020.9 is available with enhancements to the Focus on Staves feature, enabling new layout and formatting workflows for scores and parts. There are other improvements to MIDI and MusicXML importing, ManuScript, and accessibility.

Tips

Pitch before duration note input in Dorico

September 15, 2020September 17, 2020

Beginning in the 3.5 update, Dorico officially added support for note input using pitch-before-duration, fulfilling a request of many users coming from other notation software accustomed to this entry method.

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