This is awesome! As a longtime finale user and new dorico user, I'm really impressed with how well this program can be customized and how much they listen to their customers! Thank you for considering us in this update!
A huge thank you, Anthony! I have been an over-the-moon thrilled Dorico user since its beginning (coming from Sibelius), and your videos (delivered with such class and grace) have made learning Dorico so easy, fun, and very enjoyable! I thank you for many years of Dorico education! You are a class act, Anthony and Dorico is a stellar, world-class application that has been a joy to use right from the beginning! Finale users will quickly grow to love Dorico! All the best to you and to the entire Dorico team!
I switched to Dorico 5 in August, 2024 after 25 years of using Finale. It has been an amazing experience. Sure, there’s a learning curve, but the tutorials have been helpful. It is truly the best notation software. Many have commented how nice my charts look. Thank you Steinberg and Dorico engineers!
This is JUST what I was hoping for! I'd been using finale since the early 90's. It seems you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Thank you so much for this addition in development. I will forever love Finale, but I am happier every day with Dorico.
Thank you people of Dorico. This upgrade has made a big difference for me, given that I’m a, soon to be former, Finale guy. The arrow/number entry has made life a lot easier.
Just wanted to drop in and say THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is such a touching and welcoming gesture for those of us transitioning in and I really appreciate it!
By following this procedure and creating my own custom keyboard setup in Stream Deck and Notation Express, I am now working exactly the same as when inputting notes in Finale. This setup has significantly streamlined my workflow, allowing me to input notes more efficiently and with greater ease.
If Finale never went out of business I might not have ever tried Dorico. Mainly because I have thousands of Finale arrangements that I have done in the past 30 years. Now that I have seen how much effort has gone into making Dorico I love it. I have been using it nonstop since I purchased it a few weeks ago. The more I learn about it, the more I love it. Thank you for all of the videos you and John have made. They are extremely helpful. I think I have watched all of them. Some many times. I pick up something new everytime I watch them. Looking forward to using Dorico for many years to come. Thank you to you and your programmers for creating an amazing program. Please give yourselves a raise whenever possible. 😊 You do outstanding work!
Thanks for the update. As a Finale user since 1988, I have to say that although Dorico is a powerful notation software, it makes simple things complicated. There are still some very basic things that Finale could do more than 20 years ago, but Dorico still can not do now.
I'm so glad you mentioned that you can set those preferences for accidentals, etc. to be added after input. I didn't know about that and changed the setting as soon as I could.
Woo hoo! Thank you! Just switched to Dorico from Finale and am impressed so far. This will help make the transition even easier. I've been using Cubase for 20 years so it's cool to see some of the integration in Dorico.
Another step could be to add the metatools as well as the palette of most used articulations for quick input from the keyboard by pressing a single key, without conflicting with the program's shortcuts.
Looking forward to trying this revison - thank you Dorico for considering the needs of ex-Finale users at this time of our greatest confusion (lol). Any chance you might be mapping Garritan instruments in the near future? ??
Hi, thank you so much for this update!!!:) but i have something to ask, regarding transposing instrument ( clarinet in Bb or Sax Alto for example) if i insert notes in transpose modality ( for example a score in c major, the program don't make the right pitch, for example if i insert a F, it don't insert F#, and i always have to correct it because it insert F natural by default..... i remember that in Finale program it insert directly the right note ( for example an F# ) any suggestion? is a little but frustrated :(
Dorico is great but what I miss from Finale is : in midi input giving in the tempo on a key of your choise, so you slow down or speed up when you play the notes in (Hyperscribe in Finale)
We'll consider it, although when we had a similar system at another software company many people turned that off. You can temporarily turn off the tempo of your piece to e.g record at a slower tempo if that would be useful - click on the blue metronome note in the top right corner.
Thank you for the update. It has been a nightmare to adapt to the carrot. Please add a clean and simple option to write Swing or Shuffle at the begining of a piece
I have Dorico installed on two different laptops (both on Windows) and on both Dorico is super sluggish, unstable and unpredictable. It's by all means the slowest of all music editing programs I have (compared to Finale, Sibelius & MuseScore). Thanks for the update, though.
@@LeeBlaskeOne is brand new and top-spec, the other one is an older ultrabook, on which Dorico is barely working. Finale runs smoothly on both, though.
When Cubase only upgrades Version and the minor bug is not fixed for over five years (it's on my TH-cam channel) Given all this comprehensive picture, the owner, shareholders, and directors of Yamaha, Steinberg must be aware of who is the real developer and passionate. A system like Chord Style created by Yamaha. I remember when Sibelius' reputation collapsed in 2006. I sincerely hope that Yamaha, Steinberg will not repeat Avid's mistakes.
@@girtsbiss2448 get in touch on the Dorico.com/forum or Facebook groups and we'll help you out as they are easier platforms for support than YT comments
I have been using Finale all my life. I tried Dorico! found very confusing and impossible to find even the basic commands. Some other composers tried , if not used to Cube Base, which I am not, Dorico is impossible to work with. I felt completely lost from the very first basic note. Single 4 bars melody just using quarters notes.
I do find getting assistance to be a more difficult problem in Dorico. Your times available are very narrow, and those of us on the west coast have a greater problem with them.
JUST ALLOW ANY KEY TO PERFORM ANY FUNCTION. Start working on a graphical keyboard shortcut editor similar to Adobe's instead of honing in on all these individual circumstances. It would greatly simply YOUR job and greatly simplify OURS. In Sibelius, I have assigned the "delete" key to run my own "delete" plugin which does various special tasks depending on which objects I have selected. But that is impossible in Dorico, not only because the delete key is locked down, but also because DORICO STILL HAS NO USEFUL LEVEL OF SCRIPTING.
As someone who's come from Finale, Dorico is still light years behind Finale's capabilities. Very frustrating but posts like this show that you're trying to make up the distance to eventually at least get to Finale's capabilities. Here's hoping...
Can you pls make note inputting through virtual keyboard as it is record initiated as now it doesn't input note but they get stuck in what ever keys are pressed
OK, I'll reach out. I had Dorico Pro 5 on my machine, but I got up one day and discovered that it wasn't there anymore. I went through the standard steps of trying to contact someone at Steinberg, trying to re-download it, etc., but to no avail. I was told I was trying to install an upgrade to a product I'd already purchased (or something like that). Anyway, I've not been able to recover Dorico Pro 5, and I've been forced to use Dorico SE 5. Do you know anyone who can help me? I suspect that Pro 5 was deleted by the Application Installer because it thought (mistakenly) that I had pirated it.
If you really want an answer from the Dorico team, I suggest you try the Steinberg User Forums (Dorico Section). It would be hit and miss if anyone sees your problem here.
I love Dorico, but Steinberg seems to have the same corporate disease that Adobe, AVID, Microsoft, and OpenText have, which is to have an Application Manager getting in the way of me getting my job done, all in the name of protecting me (and mainly themselves) from software piracy.
Maybe nice to look at, but the showing of what to do is to quick and to fragmentary and especially the accompanying speedy mumbling is to unclear to follow for not native English speakers. And do you guys really think not native speakers know all those specific therms in English? Please give the original words as far as music is concerned in Italian, as they are normally used, and explain the words you use for all the computer technical stuff. Writing notes has become a very tedious and slow affair, spacing the measures and staffs by hand to suit your legibility best is a complete no go. No explanations of how what I want to do can be found. Finding the needed information is a hard job anyhow with the search function giving you only lengthy explanations about things you don't want. I'm missing Finale every day more and more. Could easily write 10 pages a day there, here I'm not even able to make 1. After 3 months of trying this out, I'm considering to restart writing by hand, for that's going quicker than working with this program.
New options to input notes is always great for everyone, great update all around!
Loving my transfer to Dorico. Thank you for this communication to former Finale customers.
I'm so glad I switched to Dorico a few years ago, and the dedication and enthusiasm of the team is one of the biggest reasons why
This is awesome! As a longtime finale user and new dorico user, I'm really impressed with how well this program can be customized and how much they listen to their customers! Thank you for considering us in this update!
This company's response to request for enhancements, etc. is incredible.
A huge thank you, Anthony! I have been an over-the-moon thrilled Dorico user since its beginning (coming from Sibelius), and your videos (delivered with such class and grace) have made learning Dorico so easy, fun, and very enjoyable! I thank you for many years of Dorico education! You are a class act, Anthony and Dorico is a stellar, world-class application that has been a joy to use right from the beginning! Finale users will quickly grow to love Dorico! All the best to you and to the entire Dorico team!
Que genial se siente qué hay un equipo apoyándonos en la transición
OK finally know how this warm voice looks like 😄
Anthony Hughes, the calm voice of Dorico. Just what everybody needs. Love your videos. :)
I switched to Dorico 5 in August, 2024 after 25 years of using Finale. It has been an amazing experience. Sure, there’s a learning curve, but the tutorials have been helpful. It is truly the best notation software. Many have commented how nice my charts look. Thank you Steinberg and Dorico engineers!
This is a fantastic quality of life upgrade for us finale users. Thanks! 🎉
This is JUST what I was hoping for! I'd been using finale since the early 90's. It seems you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Thank you so much for this addition in development. I will forever love Finale, but I am happier every day with Dorico.
Thank you people of Dorico. This upgrade has made a big difference for me, given that I’m a, soon to be former, Finale guy. The arrow/number entry has made life a lot easier.
Dorico has been an AMAZING upgrade from Finale. Thank you Dorico team for making such a great tool!
Just wanted to drop in and say THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is such a touching and welcoming gesture for those of us transitioning in and I really appreciate it!
Thank you for making the effort for finale users--small updates like this shows so much
Thank you for kindly welcoming Finale users and making this transition better for all.
A thoroughly agreeable and useful short video from Anthony. As usual!
I’ve been on the Dorico train since 2.0 and I never cease to be impressed! You and your team are simply amazing.
Wonderful to see some performance improvements with condensing, hopefully, this'll make some of my bigger projects a little nicer to work in
Cool feature to have as an option. I switched from Finale to Dorico a few years back and love the software.
Hey, look who it is!
Excellent Anthony, thank you very much for these updates, specially for the Finale people 👍
By following this procedure and creating my own custom keyboard setup in Stream Deck and Notation Express, I am now working exactly the same as when inputting notes in Finale. This setup has significantly streamlined my workflow, allowing me to input notes more efficiently and with greater ease.
Speedy entry 😍😍😍 thank you!! 👍🏻🙏🏻
If Finale never went out of business I might not have ever tried Dorico. Mainly because I have thousands of Finale arrangements that I have done in the past 30 years. Now that I have seen how much effort has gone into making Dorico I love it. I have been using it nonstop since I purchased it a few weeks ago. The more I learn about it, the more I love it. Thank you for all of the videos you and John have made. They are extremely helpful. I think I have watched all of them. Some many times. I pick up something new everytime I watch them.
Looking forward to using Dorico for many years to come. Thank you to you and your programmers for creating an amazing program. Please give yourselves a raise whenever possible. 😊 You do outstanding work!
So delighted Quick Look has been reimplemented
I like the new key commands! This upgrade is much more significant the these key commands: The number of bug fixes is substantial.
Thanks for the update. As a Finale user since 1988, I have to say that although Dorico is a powerful notation software, it makes simple things complicated. There are still some very basic things that Finale could do more than 20 years ago, but Dorico still can not do now.
There are also things that Dorico can do now that Finale can't, even after 40 years.
I'm so glad you mentioned that you can set those preferences for accidentals, etc. to be added after input. I didn't know about that and changed the setting as soon as I could.
Woo hoo! Thank you! Just switched to Dorico from Finale and am impressed so far. This will help make the transition even easier. I've been using Cubase for 20 years so it's cool to see some of the integration in Dorico.
Another step could be to add the metatools as well as the palette of most used articulations for quick input from the keyboard by pressing a single key, without conflicting with the program's shortcuts.
Thank you!
Luv it. Please add, while you’re at it - Press number without keyboard pitch produce equivalent rest. Getting closer to speedy
There is a plan to have an audio track like in finale? Quite useful for me…
Looking forward to trying this revison - thank you Dorico for considering the needs of ex-Finale users at this time of our greatest confusion (lol). Any chance you might be mapping Garritan instruments in the near future? ??
Unless I have not noticed it, please a add some folders in the hub steinberg please🙏 I have many projects and it becomes messy to find them out.
Hi, thank you so much for this update!!!:) but i have something to ask, regarding transposing instrument ( clarinet in Bb or Sax Alto for example) if i insert notes in transpose modality ( for example a score in c major, the program don't make the right pitch, for example if i insert a F, it don't insert F#, and i always have to correct it because it insert F natural by default..... i remember that in Finale program it insert directly the right note ( for example an F# ) any suggestion? is a little but frustrated :(
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!! :)
Dorico is great but what I miss from Finale is : in midi input giving in the tempo on a key of your choise, so you slow down or speed up when you play the notes in (Hyperscribe in Finale)
We'll consider it, although when we had a similar system at another software company many people turned that off. You can temporarily turn off the tempo of your piece to e.g record at a slower tempo if that would be useful - click on the blue metronome note in the top right corner.
Awesome thank you !🎉
Thank you for the update. It has been a nightmare to adapt to the carrot.
Please add a clean and simple option to write Swing or Shuffle at the begining of a piece
For playback of swing use the Shift-T popover, start typing swing and choose one of the options
And… you can also remap the numeric keypad so that 5 once again equals a quarter note! What I am waiting for is custom rehearsal marks next.
Care to share the basics on how that is accomplished?
Hi. I purchase Dorico (former Finale owner), and checked in my activation manager. No sign of it?
I have Dorico installed on two different laptops (both on Windows) and on both Dorico is super sluggish, unstable and unpredictable. It's by all means the slowest of all music editing programs I have (compared to Finale, Sibelius & MuseScore). Thanks for the update, though.
How old are the laptops?
@@LeeBlaskeOne is brand new and top-spec, the other one is an older ultrabook, on which Dorico is barely working. Finale runs smoothly on both, though.
When Cubase only upgrades Version and the minor bug is not fixed for over five years (it's on my TH-cam channel) Given all this comprehensive picture, the owner, shareholders, and directors of Yamaha, Steinberg must be aware of who is the real developer and passionate. A system like Chord Style created by Yamaha. I remember when Sibelius' reputation collapsed in 2006. I sincerely hope that Yamaha, Steinberg will not repeat Avid's mistakes.
Thank you!!!!!
Thank you, very usefull update for Finale users, but I couldn't make a key command setup on my windows 11. Is this only for Mac users?
No, you can do the same on Windows too.
Exactly the same here - followed the procedure, tried it several times but couldn't make it happen on Windows 10 64bit. Pity.
@@girtsbiss2448 get in touch on the Dorico.com/forum or Facebook groups and we'll help you out as they are easier platforms for support than YT comments
Thanks Anthony's
I have been using Finale all my life. I tried Dorico! found very confusing and impossible to find even the basic commands. Some other composers tried , if not used to Cube Base, which I am not, Dorico is impossible to work with.
I felt completely lost from the very first basic note. Single 4 bars melody just using quarters notes.
I do find getting assistance to be a more difficult problem in Dorico. Your times available are very narrow, and those of us on the west coast have a greater problem with them.
JUST ALLOW ANY KEY TO PERFORM ANY FUNCTION. Start working on a graphical keyboard shortcut editor similar to Adobe's instead of honing in on all these individual circumstances. It would greatly simply YOUR job and greatly simplify OURS.
In Sibelius, I have assigned the "delete" key to run my own "delete" plugin which does various special tasks depending on which objects I have selected. But that is impossible in Dorico, not only because the delete key is locked down, but also because DORICO STILL HAS NO USEFUL LEVEL OF SCRIPTING.
As someone who's come from Finale, Dorico is still light years behind Finale's capabilities. Very frustrating but posts like this show that you're trying to make up the distance to eventually at least get to Finale's capabilities. Here's hoping...
Although with some features like layout, condensing and divisi Dorico is already ahead and overall quicker.
Does this fix the bug with the downloader not working on OSX, cause outdated JavaFX derivate you use?
Can you pls make note inputting through virtual keyboard as it is record initiated as now it doesn't input note but they get stuck in what ever keys are pressed
Does anyone know if there’s a way to make rests behave the same as they did in Finale Speedy where you could see them as you input?
I may be wrong, but perhaps with the "force duration" set to ON?
OK, I'll reach out. I had Dorico Pro 5 on my machine, but I got up one day and discovered that it wasn't there anymore. I went through the standard steps of trying to contact someone at Steinberg, trying to re-download it, etc., but to no avail. I was told I was trying to install an upgrade to a product I'd already purchased (or something like that). Anyway, I've not been able to recover Dorico Pro 5, and I've been forced to use Dorico SE 5. Do you know anyone who can help me? I suspect that Pro 5 was deleted by the Application Installer because it thought (mistakenly) that I had pirated it.
If you really want an answer from the Dorico team, I suggest you try the Steinberg User Forums (Dorico Section). It would be hit and miss if anyone sees your problem here.
I love Dorico, but Steinberg seems to have the same corporate disease that Adobe, AVID, Microsoft, and OpenText have, which is to have an Application Manager getting in the way of me getting my job done, all in the name of protecting me (and mainly themselves) from software piracy.
Contact the Dorico team on the Steinberg/Dorico forum - they will be able to help you get back on track quickly.
It's possible those guys are brokers (Application Somebody ?). It reminds me of Sibelius, which was sold to Avid in 2006
@@dennislarson4960 Hope so.
Dorico 6 needs to have a unbelievable sounding midi with it or it is a hard pass for me
They need to catch up to muse score
Maybe nice to look at, but the showing of what to do is to quick and to fragmentary and especially the accompanying speedy mumbling is to unclear to follow for not native English speakers. And do you guys really think not native speakers know all those specific therms in English? Please give the original words as far as music is concerned in Italian, as they are normally used, and explain the words you use for all the computer technical stuff. Writing notes has become a very tedious and slow affair, spacing the measures and staffs by hand to suit your legibility best is a complete no go. No explanations of how what I want to do can be found. Finding the needed information is a hard job anyhow with the search function giving you only lengthy explanations about things you don't want. I'm missing Finale every day more and more. Could easily write 10 pages a day there, here I'm not even able to make 1. After 3 months of trying this out, I'm considering to restart writing by hand, for that's going quicker than working with this program.