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Whether you’re writing your first song or scoring the latest blockbuster, Dorico is the smart choice for composition and music notation. With a complete family of apps for iPad, macOS and Windows, there’s a version of Dorico that’s perfect for you today and will grow with you tomorrow.
Every version of Dorico is packed with smart, time-saving features to help you spend less time in front of your computer and more time doing what you love: making music.
Dorico is the only music notation software designed from the ground up for composing, and it supports you at every stage in the process. Flexible input and editing tools allow you to change your mind about any decision at any time, and work without constraint.
Quickly move music between players, explode or reduce it onto more or fewer instruments. Powerful transformation tools allow you to change tonality, perform inversion, map onto new scales, and more. You can even create fully-voiced parts from chord symbols.
Dorico comes with hundreds of high-quality sounds, more than 30 effects processors, and a full audio Mixer, plus tools to help you make your music sound as good as it looks. The integrated Key Editor allows you to tweak every aspect of your score’s performance.
Dorico can import MIDI and MusicXML, and export MIDI, MusicXML, audio, and graphics. Whether you’re working on your own or part of a team, it’s easy to get music into the hands of your performers or collaborators. Projects are also fully compatible between desktop and iPad.
Dorico formats your music beautifully, completely automatically. With Dorico Pro, you have the tools to meet the demands of any publisher, with thousands of options for customization. But you’ll almost never need them – everything looks great by default.
Dorico is widely used in schools, colleges and universities. It’s perfect for producing learning materials and for building an understanding of music theory. And it’s easy for students to learn with dozens of helpful tutorials and well-structured documentation.
Dorico 5 includes a new orchestral sound library, brings more expressive playback, and makes it easy to produce more life-like performances with a dynamic stereo soundstage. Easily trigger drum patterns with the included Groove Agent SE plug-in.
Customize your score with a comprehensive instrument editor and eight new music font families, and boost your workflow with scrub playback, mouse note editing, multiple item creation, double-tap note input, and many more improvements throughout the application.
Iconica Sketch offers you a complete orchestra with 34 different instruments and 140 articulations, seamlessly integrated with Dorico 5. The original recordings from Iconica have been carefully selected and re-mastered to deliver a well-balanced, high-quality orchestral experience, tailored to instantly create modern and cinematic scores. Designed to be lightweight and high-performance, the whole library takes up less than 5GB.
Dorico comes with dozens of powerful effects processors to sculpt your sound, and Dorico 5’s new Space and Stage templates make it simple to try out different configurations: use a simple visual interface to move instruments on the virtual stage, and Dorico automatically translates that into pan and reverb settings. Experiment with different rooms, and quickly recall any previous state by creating a mixer snapshot. Reorder and rename outputs, create send buses, and more.
Dorico reads the notations in your score the way a human musician does, automatically switching to different articulations and playing techniques using whatever sample library you choose. Building on these foundations, Dorico’s playback is more expressive than ever, using sophisticated algorithms to breathe life into phrases in the same way human musicians do. No longer do you need great keyboard skills to bring your notated music to life.
Human musicians use their experience and intuition to interpret the complex polyphonic textures of music written for piano, keyboard, harp, and mallet percussion, emphasizing melodies and bass lines above material that provides texture and harmony – and do all of this without direct, detailed instructions in the music notation. Dorico 5’s new voice balancing algorithms allow it to come closer than ever to the expressive nuance of human performance, completely automatically. It can even emphasize fugue subjects in contrapuntal music.
Groove Agent SE is the entry-level version of Steinberg’s creative drum software and is now included with Dorico 5. It includes a version of The Kit, an acoustic drum kit recorded in Berlin’s Teldex Studios, including its classic reverb chamber, and provides a choice of two mic positions. Not only can Groove Agent SE be used as a high-quality drum kit playback device for your Dorico projects, but it also includes more than 400 MIDI drum patterns, performed by top studio drummers, and mixed by Steinberg’s expert engineers. You can trigger these in Dorico using the new MIDI trigger region or drag and drop any pattern onto the track overview in Play mode to import that pattern.
Dorico’s new MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn’t appear in the score for a period determined by you. This is especially useful for triggering MIDI patterns in plug-ins like Groove Agent SE, or other pattern-based instruments such as TGuitar. If you’re writing for a real drummer or guitarist, you don’t need to write out their part in full: give them the structure of the piece, a few rhythmic cues, and chord symbols, and they’ll take care of the rest. But if you want to have some realistic playback without spending a lot of time and effort writing out music that won’t ultimately be played by your human musicians, pattern-based plug-ins can save a lot of time.
Dorico 5 introduces a new scrub playback feature that makes it easy to audition the whole ensemble or a single instrument at any point and move forwards or backwards through the playback at any speed. This is invaluable for checking harmonies, finding wrong notes, and focusing on specific moments in your music.
Dorico now intelligently plays back fermatas, caesuras, and breath marks, bringing a new level of expressiveness to the performance of your music. Tweak the default playback effect for each type of hold and pause, and edit the performance of individual pauses in the Key Editor. Glissando playback is improved too, and can now use continuous pitch bend where appropriate.
Dorico 5 overhauls item creation from a selection: you can now create multiple items at the same time, on multiple instruments, and even at different positions on each instrument.
Dorico 5 includes new features to quickly edit and copy music using the mouse. You can drag selected notes to alter their pitch, or drag them to new rhythmic positions, with a live overlay to show you where the notes will be moved to. Interacting directly with the mouse makes it easier and quicker to sculpt your music, whether you do it directly in the notation or in the Key Editor.
MusicXML is the widely supported interchange format for exchanging music notation data between applications. Dorico 5 brings enriched support for importing harmonics, playing techniques, ornaments, holds and pauses, and more. MusicXML export is also greatly expanded, with page layout, music and text font information, holds and pauses, ornaments and trills, arpeggio signs, and much more included in exported files.
Dorico 5 includes no fewer than eight new music font families to bring greater variety to the look of your projects: four new handwritten-style fonts, and four engraved fonts, all available at the click of a single button.
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