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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.
Features
What's New in Dorico 5
Create music that moves
Music has the power to move us in ways that words alone cannot. With Dorico 5, you have the tools to create music that moves others. Our latest version takes playback to new heights, delivering realistic and human-sounding performances that will captivate your audience.
And with improvements throughout the application, you'll have everything you need to bring your musical vision to life. Let Dorico 5 be your partner in creating music that moves.
Space and Stage templates
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, reorder and rename outputs, create send buses, and more.
Pitch contour emphasis
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.
Groove Agent SE
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.
MIDI trigger regions
Dorico’s new MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn’t appear in the score for a period of time 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.
Instrument editor
Dorico includes definitions for over 600 pitched and unpitched instruments, but no database can capture every variation
of instruments or include all cultures and historical periods. With Dorico Pro 5, you can modify or create instrument definitions to suit your needs, and easily
reuse them in future projects.
Live editing
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 import/export
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 improved, with page layout information now included, and basic support for encoding information about the music and text fonts used in the project.
New music fonts
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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