Dorico 5 Pro (production) Finale 27.4.1 (archived work only) _ GPO5 / GCPO / Chris Hein Ensemble Strings / Modern Scoring Brass / E-W Symphonic Choirs / Fisk organ (O Forbes) _ MacMini i7 6 core / 64mb RAM _ MacMini i5 4 core / 16MB RAM (archived files)
David Maurand commented,
I suppose I could go out and spend a couple thousand on new gear just to get some ports or a larger internal drive. But I live in the real world and simply shut down my applications when I close th...
David Maurand commented,
It also happens in Dorico, and the brainiacs in charge of Dorico acknowledge this as a known Mac problem - it also happens on Apple silicon not just Intel. And it happens to luminaries - Tim Davies...
David Maurand commented,
how most standard operations Finale users know are done in Dorico Dorico is a different animal, but as a 70+ using Finale since 1991 (floppies, incredible three-volume documentation) it can be do...
David Maurand commented,
It looks like a hidden note. You may have a blank notation staff style? When you click the measure with the staff tool, do you get something like this? (That one is "blank notation layer 1".) If so...
David Maurand commented,
Opt-Cmd M or N to move selected notes up or down a staff.
David Maurand commented,
I second the motion. Stay with it. Once I got my sea legs (about two weeks), Dorico suddenly became easy - and as David says, features we've wanted in Finale (and never got) simply work out of the ...
David Maurand commented,
By gibberish, I think you are looking at SMuFL fonts - thus the SMuFL version of Maestro called Finale Maestro, not to be confused with Maestro - the legacy (original) version. I found this rather ...
David Maurand commented,
For a smooth Dorico experience, it is better to set up your house styles in advance, and develop master page sets to work with your most common type of project. In my case, I had to learn what to d...
David Maurand commented,
Hi, Loraine Apology not necessary. You have a lot of music and the important thing is to preserve it. If you want to freeze a Mac but don't have an older one lying around, a 2014 MacMini (used or r...
David Maurand commented,
Or do what others have done (including me for 3/4 of my work) - stay in Finale. I know many people doing this - in my case, I brought a previous computer back online and will freeze the OS and Fina...