![]() Instead of merely discussing what we can produce with Dorico, we must also explore the philosophy behind its design. That is why an in-depth review of Dorico, like the software itself, cannot be approached in quite the usual way. So when a new player enters the market - for months now credibly promising not only to match, but to surpass the status quo - it creates an enormous amount of expectation, especially in our narrow and opinionated niche. Rooted in an era when software engineering had just started to find ways out of the Software Crisis, today they are mature to the point of a terminally arrested development, one could say. Both of them, Avid’s Sibelius and MakeMusic’s Finale, are powerful tools with an impressive record of innovative features, but they also cannot hide their age. With commercial music notation software, this is a bit different: for more than two decades, the market has been dominated by exactly two products. ![]() True innovation is often incremental and limited to only a handful of the many components of a modern software package. In most professional fields, the arrival of a new software tool - for a reviewer - is generally an occasion to perform a routine task of measuring up the new against the not-just-as-new-anymore, comparing the product to a number of similar competitors. If you have enthusiastically awaited the program for months now and your mind is already made up: Go ahead, skip this review and purchase Dorico right away feel free to come back here while you wait for the eight gigabytes of the sound library to download. Today marks the release of Dorico, a new proprietary music notation application from Steinberg. ![]() This post was updated on Decemto account for the changes made in the 1.0.10 update, and also for clarity and accuracy. Philip Rothman edited the review and provided additional content. ![]() Read about the updates to Dorico since then:Įditor’s note: This review was written by Alexander Plötz the playback section was written by Andrew Noah Cap. Note: This post about the first Dorico release, 1.0, is from October 2016. ![]()
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