But that’s not all: there are improvements throughout the application, with engraving improvements to beams, barlines, chord symbols, chord diagrams, lyrics, rehearsal marks, single-line percussion, system dividers and text condensing improvements new note input and editing features easier tremolos for percussion and a good helping of dozens of bug fixes. This release is headlined by a brand new feature that automatically generates voicings for chord symbols (in Dorico Pro only), which should be a boon for arrangers, and significant improvements to the Key Editor, bringing it to a comparable level of power and comfort as its very mature counterpart in Cubase. My actual question would simply be: am I alone in this, am I missing something? Am I doing it completely wrong? Input would be welcome because honestly I'd still like to make the switch.We’re pleased to announce the release of Dorico 4.3, our eighth (and very probably final) release of 2022, and it’s a big one. Musescore shows some potential but is simply not mature enough (yet) to be a full-time replacement. I'm sad about this, because I really want to leave Sibelius behind, and Finale isn't a great contender either. Summarizing I hoped to find a product that suits a modern composer's needs, but I feel very constricted and limited in what I can freely do while notating my ideas without jumping through several (sometimes hacky) hoops, a practice I also hoped to leave buried with Sibelius. And let's be real: we're at version 4 here and this feels like such a basic music notation/technique that it should've been part of the first release. Did Dorico simply forget that unmeasured tremolo is a common technique? I've found feature requests dating back to 2021, so I feel like a fix isn't coming soon. There's no way to individually set them from each other. If I put three slashes on a quarter note which happens to be tied to an 8th, that 8th note gets two slashes. In tied notes Dorico simply decides for you what the number of slashes must be. Kind of related to the point above: writing for strings and specifically the tremolo technique (unmeasured, not subdivided like the old days) is simply put impossible.I'd have to untie first, or enter the notation mode and use the arrow keys to get to my desired position for the first thing I want to input (which is usually a series of things) Without untying the notes first or hacking around with the note input system there's no simple way to insert dynamics or techniques to say, the second note in a three-tied-note sequence. Dorico handles tied notes as one note, a group if you will.More often than not I find myself reaching for the mouse because the note input is simply to constricting for the sheer amount of possibilities there are. I feel like Dorico is built to be working left to right using its music "typing" system. I'm a vertical composer mostly, I work from top to bottom before I work from left to right. I of course anticipated that things would be difficult and hard to adjust to, but having spent multiple trial periods in Dorico trying to adapt to its ways I simply feel like its so much slower to work with, and for my style of composing I need speed and accuracy. So, yeah, I would absolutely love to leave Sibelius behind. However, ever since the infamous Avid overtake things got horrible software support got worse and worst of all, they switched to a subscription system without bringing major upgrades to the platform (there isn't even Apple Silicon support yet while people on average pay 20 dollars a month, go figure), basically tossing my by-once own-forever license out the window. I have enjoyed using Sibelius since version 3 until today and I'm basically conjoined with its controls by now which of course make switching a pain. Now, don't get me wrong: I REALLY want to switch.
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