Dorico

Dorico

Dorico

Scorewriter

Dorico (/ˈdɒrɪkoʊ/) is a scorewriter software; along with Finale and Sibelius, it is one of the three leading professional-level music notation programs.[2]

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Dorico's development team consists of most of the former core developers of a rival software, Sibelius. After the developers of Sibelius were laid off in a 2012 restructuring by their corporate owner, Avid, most of the team were re-hired by a competing company, Steinberg, to create a new software.[3][4][5][6][7] They aimed to build a "next-generation" music notation program, and released Dorico four years later, in 2016.[3]

History

The project was unveiled on 20 February 2013 by the Product Marketing Manager, Daniel Spreadbury, on the blog Making Notes,[8] and the software was first released on 19 October 2016.[9]

The program's title Dorico was revealed on the same blog on 17 May 2016. The name honours the 16th-century Italian music engraver Valerio Dorico (1500 – c. 1565), who printed first editions of sacred music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Giovanni Animuccia and pioneered the use of a single impression printing process first developed in England and France.[10][11]

The iPad version was released on 28 July 2021; it was the first major desktop scorewriter application to be made available on a mobile platform.[12][13] It offers most of the functionality of the desktop app.[14]

Features

Dorico is known for its stability and reliability in creating aesthetically pleasing scores[15] and its intuitive interface.[16] User feedback influences Dorico's feature design, and the development team actively use the forum and Facebook group.[17][18]

Automation

Reviews have claimed that Dorico has become more efficient than other notation software.[19][20] For example, a signature time-saving feature is its automatic creation of instrumental part layouts.[20] Another signature feature is its automated condensing, where it combines multiple players' parts onto a single staff, such as for a conductor's score.[21][22]

Dorico is known for its automatic condensing. In this conductor's score, Dorico has condensed instruments into one stave such as Oboes 1 and 2.

Keyboard input

Dorico natively supports note input entirely from the computer keyboard without the need to use the mouse.[23] It also supports MIDI input from a piano keyboard.

SMuFL music fonts

Main article: SMuFL

The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) standard was created by the Dorico development team at Steinberg.[24] It provides a consistent standard way of mapping the thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation into a single font that can be used by a variety of software and font designers.[25][26] It was first implemented in MuseScore, then in Dorico's first release and in Finale.[27]

Version history

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