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)
Note entry is agonizing - and they are hearing from Finalists about this. You can almost duplicate it in Dorico it by changing how note entry is done in preferences, but you wind up toggling back a...
The crossgrade is purchased from the MakeMusic score and they have promised one year authentication - but there is no deadline published. The best I see officially is: <quote> MakeMusic will conti...
My work is seasonal, but I make enough money at Easter and All Saints selling exclusively off my website to invest in better software (or Dorico, right?), modest hardware improvements, and sample l...
I don't trust the batch process, either, you're totally right about that. Ernest, you have a decent-sized body of perfectly formatted work and you should absolutely not be porting anything over tha...
By unchecking all the import defaults in Dorico, things improve considerably. But you still can't have large time signatures (or hidden ones) on the first measure of your xml export as Dorico has a...
Do you know what version of Music XML you're exporting? It might be a version mismatch - check in this location below. Sibelius has a reputation for Music XML import sketchiness and just as in Dori...
one last sad attempt to milk the cash cow before killing it Actually, I think Finale has done well by its customers in providing an upgrade path for the price of ... an upgrade. Finale was for al...
Pitch before duration, yeah sort of - here is where Finale is more intuitive. And visual. [In Dorico] I just use my midi keyboard to avoid another set of things to toggle on and (forget to toggle) ...
My experience is the same with large time signatures in bar 1. Among the things completely missing in Dorico are cutaway / collapsible staves and (I kid you not) simple and speedy entry. Dorico is ...
Even MakeMusic has given up, so I can't imagine Dorico would take up this even more difficult challenge, especially as their priority is to improve their own product, not to do what MakeMusic could...