The first version of Dorico shows enormous promise in achieving those objectives.Īlthough itâ€™s a product that is still developing, it will satisfy many composers, arrangers and musicians because of its ambitious feature set and thoughtful design. The designers of Dorico believe that musical concepts and practice must take precedence over technological “convenience”.

Its name is Dorico with the accent on the “o”: Valerio Dorico was a sixteenth century engraver who printed first editions of sacred music by – among others – Palestrina.įrom that ostensibly rather inauspicious beginning Doricoâ€™s two leading objectives have been to outperform any other music notation package on the market and to do so in ways which take full advantage of the latest technology by using increasing computational power to work as composers actually do – not as computers might sometimes force them to. Several members of that highly talented group – including Sibeliusâ€™ knowledgeable, diligent and almost alarmingly energetic product manager, Daniel Spreadbury – were hired by the German-based music and audio specialists, Steinberg, to produce a competitor notation product from scratch.

In a widely-publicized move in 2012, Avid closed the London location and operation there of the Sibelius development and support team. Amongst the clutch of freeware or open source alternatives are MuseScoreÂ and LilyPond. Each costs in the region of $600 to buy outright. Until October last year (2016) the two most fully-featured professional-level music notation packages were Avidâ€™s SibeliusÂ and MakeMusicâ€™s Finale. Price: $559.99 discounts of 50% (71% for education) for cross-grades from Sibelius, Finale, Notion available Dorico music notation software fromÂ Steinberg

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