![]() If you go back to Daniel’s early blog posts on Dorico design, “Program C” was Lilypond. It’s called Musescore, though a lot of the low-level stuff that was “open heart score surgery” in Lilypond has been hidden under the user-friendliness blanket There is now a “user friendly” version of Lilypond. A great manual with a great index would fix all of that. As someone who can be on very tight schedules with film scoring projects and arranging work, I just don’t have time to spare. Until then, I just can’t endorse the product. My hope is that with time, Dorico will, at least provide an insightful manual with a truly solid index for finding at least basic operations in such a huge manual. Today I spent three hours doing something I could have done easily in Sibelius in 15 minutes. But, when it comes to the basics of music input into notation software, and not having to spend endless hours on YouTube trying to figure out how to, in my example, add a measure, I feel that Dorico is lacking. I admire the Dorico team for what they are doing. ![]() I personally know some A-list orchestrators in the film industry (Hollywoood) who wilAl not use Dorico. In my opinion, I feel that I should be able to go to the index and look up: measures - adding and then travel to the page with the proper instructions and get the information I need. Let’s say I am a beginner and I wanted to learn how to add a measure. I appreciate their effort in putting it together, but some basics are simply not there. My biggest complaint with Dorico is that if you are going to put out a product that changes the way composers compose, instead of just making it easier for composers to compose the way they always have, then you’d better have solid documentation. But, I’m OK with working hard to learn it. But, in my humble opinion it is not intuitive at all. But, I bought Sibelius, and I was able to use it immediately without looking at any manual, as it was quite intuitive.ĭorico came out, and I was one of the first ones to use it and have kept up with the updates. Score was a nice effort way back in the day though is was too primitive at that time for me, and I appreciated Finale. I have used Score, next Finale, next Sibelius, and now Dorico. Though sometimes I long for the days of pen and paper. I don’t hate Dorico, and I’m amazed at that anyone can create any notation software. I tend to agree with Jack on a number of issues.
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