First I'll finish reading your book on Dorico 4.3 and when you release a book on Dorico 5, I'll buy the book and upgrade to Dorico 5. Cheers from Europe!
Seems like a really solid upgrade with a lot of useful features, to me. I'm sure I won't use all of them, but I'll use a lot of them. I use Dorico a lot (came to it from years of Finale), and it was a MASSIVE improvement on every level. A joy to use. I've been using it exclusively for several years now, and it still makes me smile when I see how fantastic my output looks with very little tweaking needing to be done. I just buy any of the upgrades immediately. This application has come so far, I'm honored to send them a few bucks now and then to keep development rolling. As far as I'm concerned, the Dorico team is doing everything right.
Thank you for the thorough review. Dorico 5 seems packed with features tailored for multi-instrument score writers, especially those who lean on playback. As a user of Dorico 4, primarily for teaching and arranging solo piano music, I don't yet see compelling reasons to upgrade. Side note: I was momentarily caught off guard by the Dorico 5 trial pop-up upon launching the software. For those seeking a 'humanize' effect for piano, I find Logic Pro to be a handy alternative, as it already offers this feature. Thanks once again for the insights!
No, there has been talk of this on the user side for some time, but I don't see any signs of it. Dorico has adopted some Cubase technology under the hood (the underlying mixer, I believe), but I don't see any way for them to integrate, or for Dorico to act as Cubase's score editor. I think they're just too different and independent.
It has always amused me that some consider keyboard note entry morally superior to using the mouse. Is allowing the user to choose to move the notes directly really equivalent to "blowing your own feet off" ?
I don't think anyone is making any comment on morality. My experience of teaching large classes was that mouse input in score-writing software was that it led to a lot of frustration in users where they were creating notes they didn't intend to at all, or not able to edit in the way that they expecting to. That's why I advised not using the mouse previously in Dorico < 5 - purely a practical piece of advice (based on over a decade of classroom experience), with no moral judgement attached to it.
Steinberg doesn't believe in swing rhythm - as far back as at least 2019, users were asking for a simple swing rhythm playback. Sibelius has multiple levels of swing, to get the feel you want. I uninstalled Dorico yesterday.
Hi David. I'm not normally one to get into arguing on the internet, but it's simply untrue to say Dorico doesn't have swing rhythm. It's available for playback with a variety of settings, under playback (CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + P) > timing, and there's a drop-down menu of a variety of feels - light, medium and heavy 8th/16ths swings, plus it's also possible to customise how much by adding your own playback feel.
It's clearly stated in the review (and in the chapters) that it's Groove Agent SE which is included with Dorico 5. That's why it's in the review as it's now included with Dorico 5. I think the word you're looking for is "shill", not "chill". For the record I'm not paid by Steinberg. Probably best not to make unfounded allegations, there's a good chap.
The mouse edit improvements were enough to make me upgrade - thanks :-)
First I'll finish reading your book on Dorico 4.3 and when you release a book on Dorico 5, I'll buy the book and upgrade to Dorico 5. Cheers from Europe!
Seems like a really solid upgrade with a lot of useful features, to me. I'm sure I won't use all of them, but I'll use a lot of them. I use Dorico a lot (came to it from years of Finale), and it was a MASSIVE improvement on every level. A joy to use. I've been using it exclusively for several years now, and it still makes me smile when I see how fantastic my output looks with very little tweaking needing to be done. I just buy any of the upgrades immediately. This application has come so far, I'm honored to send them a few bucks now and then to keep development rolling. As far as I'm concerned, the Dorico team is doing everything right.
Thank you for the thorough review. Dorico 5 seems packed with features tailored for multi-instrument score writers, especially those who lean on playback. As a user of Dorico 4, primarily for teaching and arranging solo piano music, I don't yet see compelling reasons to upgrade. Side note: I was momentarily caught off guard by the Dorico 5 trial pop-up upon launching the software. For those seeking a 'humanize' effect for piano, I find Logic Pro to be a handy alternative, as it already offers this feature. Thanks once again for the insights!
Nice review, thank you
Can you import an audio file into your project and will it play with all the other instruments at it's tempo?
Really helpful video, as usual, thanks. Very minor point: Qt is pronounced "cute" rather than "queue tee".
Thank you for this video, a lot of info!!! Is it possible integrate with Cubase, maybe with a Rewire connection like Sibelius?
No, there has been talk of this on the user side for some time, but I don't see any signs of it. Dorico has adopted some Cubase technology under the hood (the underlying mixer, I believe), but I don't see any way for them to integrate, or for Dorico to act as Cubase's score editor. I think they're just too different and independent.
@@musictechtuition thanks man, I understand
It has always amused me that some consider keyboard note entry morally superior to using the mouse. Is allowing the user to choose to move the notes directly really equivalent to "blowing your own feet off" ?
I don't think anyone is making any comment on morality. My experience of teaching large classes was that mouse input in score-writing software was that it led to a lot of frustration in users where they were creating notes they didn't intend to at all, or not able to edit in the way that they expecting to. That's why I advised not using the mouse previously in Dorico < 5 - purely a practical piece of advice (based on over a decade of classroom experience), with no moral judgement attached to it.
Scrub playback, v useful.
Steinberg doesn't believe in swing rhythm - as far back as at least 2019, users were asking for a simple swing rhythm playback. Sibelius has multiple levels of swing, to get the feel you want. I uninstalled Dorico yesterday.
Hi David. I'm not normally one to get into arguing on the internet, but it's simply untrue to say Dorico doesn't have swing rhythm. It's available for playback with a variety of settings, under playback (CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + P) > timing, and there's a drop-down menu of a variety of feels - light, medium and heavy 8th/16ths swings, plus it's also possible to customise how much by adding your own playback feel.
Perfect Infos! Thanks! Your book is unfortunately out of stock.. ;-)
Oh dear.. where is it showing as out of stock? It should be printed on demand, as Amazon doesn't hold stock as such...
Groove agent is not free BTW. And what the hell does it have to do with Dorico 5 Review?? Paid chill.
It's clearly stated in the review (and in the chapters) that it's Groove Agent SE which is included with Dorico 5. That's why it's in the review as it's now included with Dorico 5. I think the word you're looking for is "shill", not "chill". For the record I'm not paid by Steinberg. Probably best not to make unfounded allegations, there's a good chap.
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