Steinberg Dorico Pro 5 Overview Create your next masterpiece with Steinberg Dorico Pro 5 , advanced music-notation software that helps you write music notation, automatically produce high-quality printed results, and play back your music with natural-sounding realism. This latest iteration features many additions and workspace enhancements including the Iconica Sketch orchestra library, stage and space templates, and advanced AI-controlled voice balancing for polyphonic instruments. Customize your score with a comprehensive instrument editor and eight new music font families, and boost your workflow with scrub playback, mouse note editing, multiple item creation, double-tap note input, and many more improvements throughout the application.
Seamlessly insert notes, individual beats or bars, change bar number sequences, delete or insert bar lines or bar music into new meters; the software automatically ensures the music is notated clearly and correctly. You can manipulate MIDI events directly in the built-in piano-roll editor. When the time comes to take your project to the next stage, export MIDI to Cubase or other DAWs. When printing, you can create multiple output formats with different combinations of instruments and page and stave sizes, all within a single project file, and then export press-ready true monochrome PDFs with a single click.
Iconica Sketch offers you a complete orchestra with 34 different instruments and 140 articulations, seamlessly integrated with Dorico 5. The original recordings from Iconica have been carefully selected and remastered to deliver a well-balanced high-quality orchestral experience, tailored to instantly create modern and cinematic scores. Designed to be lightweight and high-performance, the whole library takes up less than 5GB. Iconica Sketch was designed to give musicians at every level a complete, professional orchestra at their fingertips, which is compact in size (4.6GB) and extremely fast to load. Based on original ultrahigh-quality exceedingly detailed recordings from the Orchestral Tools for Iconica library, Steinberg created a new mix, which is tailored to instantly create modern and cinematic scores and enrich modern pop productions. 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, and quickly recall any previous state by creating a mixer snapshot. Reorder and rename outputs, create send buses, and more.
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.
Human musicians use their experience and intuition to interpret the complex polyphonic textures of music written for piano, keyboard, harp, and mallet percussion, emphasizing melodies and bass lines above material that provides texture and harmony—and do all of this without direct detailed instructions in the music notation. Dorico 5's new voice balancing algorithms allow it to come closer than ever to the expressive nuance of human performance, automatically. It can even emphasize fugue subjects in contrapuntal music.
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.
Dorico's new MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn't appear in the score for a period 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.
Dorico 5 introduces a new scrub playback feature that makes it easy to audition the whole ensemble or a single instrument at any point and move forward or backward through the playback at any speed. This is invaluable for checking harmonies, finding wrong notes, and focusing on specific moments in your music.
Dorico now intelligently plays back fermatas, caesuras, and breath marks, bringing a new level of expressiveness to the performance of your music. Tweak the default playback effect for each type of hold and pause, and edit the performance of individual pauses in the Key Editor. Glissando playback is improved too, and can now use continuous pitch bend where appropriate.
Dorico Pro's smart divisi features make it easy to write complex divided parts for section players (typically strings), that have awkward cases. Steinberg has gone back to the drawing board and revamped divisi, leading to more stable results, especially at the transitions between unison and divisi music, and involving system items like time and key signatures.
Dorico 5 overhauls item creation from a selection: You can now create multiple items at the same time on multiple instruments, and even at different positions on each instrument.
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. Freely assign instruments to existing or new families, and create your own instrument score orders.
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 how the notes will be moved. 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 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 greatly expanded, with page layout, music, and text font information, holds and pauses, ornaments and trills, arpeggio signs, and much more, included in exported files.
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.
Efficient window management
Open as many windows onto the same project as you like: Keep one in Write mode to allow continued input and editing, and another in Play mode to allow easy tweaking of playback, or switch back and forth within the same window with a single click. Switch between tabs for the conductor’s score and instrumental parts, or split the window horizontally or vertically to allow you to work on both at the same time. Dorico provides the environment to allow you to do your best work, and then gets out of your way. Five modes
Dorico Pro’s workflows are divided into five distinct modes—Setup, Write, Engrave, Play, and Print—one mouse-tap away from the toolbar, and can be freely changed at any time. Collapsible panels to the left, right, and bottom of the window provide instant access to each mode’s features and can be hidden with a single click or key command to show as much music as possible on your display. Great-sounding content
To make your projects sound incredible, Dorico Pro includes the complete HALion Symphonic Orchestra library and more than 1300 production-ready sounds from HALion Sonic SE 3. Dorico Pro also includes Olympus Choir Micro, beautiful choral sounds from Soundiron. High-performance architecture
Built from the ground up with today’s multicore 64-bit CPUs in mind, Dorico is fully multithreaded, and takes advantage of all of your system’s horsepower, however old or new it is. Its unique modular architecture allows multiple operations to be carried out in parallel across multiple cores. Scrolling through even the largest of projects is always smooth and responsive. Import and export
Projects often start or finish outside your scoring software. Dorico can import MusicXML and MIDI files from Cubase, other scoring programs and other DAWs. It can also export MusicXML files, allowing you to take projects started in Dorico into other applications. Next-generation audio engine
The award-winning Cubase audio engine features crystal-clear, 64-bit floating-point resolution at a 192 kHz sample rate, delivering the pristine sound quality that is the hallmark of the Cubase music production experience to music notation software for the first time. Bar numbers
Bar numbers can optionally display above the top staff, below the bottom staff, and above any instrument of your choosing. Control the size, font, and appearance of bar numbers independently between score and part layouts, and determine their frequency. Restart or change bar numbers at any point, and use special bar numbers like 1a, 1b, 1c, etc. for cuts and insertions. Bar numbers can also optionally take repeats into account. Bar repeats
Quickly add one-, two- or four-bar repeat signs over a region of music. Dorico will not only play back the repeated music, allowing you to adjust dynamics, etc., if necessary, but also ensure that both the full score and instrumental parts are correctly formatted—for example, it will prevent a system break appearing between the two bars of a two-bar repeat. Beaming
Dorico produces beautiful beam slopes by default, following publishing conventions to automatically avoid wedges and always produce a pleasing result, with dozens of options to allow you to influence its decisions. Dorico includes full support for beamed rests, including stemlets, and fanned beams, for accelerando and rallentando. Bracketed noteheads
Quickly and easily enclose any note or chord in round or square brackets, ideal for editorial markings or showing optional chords or passages. Brackets are automatically positioned, expanding to enclose chords of any size and always avoiding collisions with other items. Brackets and braces
Dorico automatically joins instruments in each family with brackets and braces as appropriate, automatically breaking barlines between bracketed vocal staves, following the conventions of the finest published music. Choose between one of several different bracketing approaches, each one suited for a different kind of music or ensemble. And if necessary, create your own custom brackets, sub-brackets, and double-sub-brackets in Engrave mode. Cautionary accidentals
Dorico automatically displays cautionary accidentals to ensure that your players never hit a wrong note. A comprehensive set of options allows you to control the exact circumstances under which cautionary accidentals should appear, and also to determine their appearance—for example, whether or not they should be shown in parentheses. Chord symbols (advanced)
Dorico Pro provides presets for six different conventions for chord symbols, along with dozens of options to allow you to control the appearance of every root, every quality, every interval, and every alteration. You can even go beyond these options to edit the graphical appearance of every aspect of each chord symbol using the dedicated editor in Engrave mode. Chord symbols (basic)
Create great-looking chord symbols almost instantly: simply play the voicing on your MIDI keyboard, or type the chord name into the dedicated popover, and Dorico will add the chord symbol and advance the input position, so you can fly through the creation of lead sheets and rhythm charts. Use any text font of your choice: make a change and see all of your chord symbols update right there. Clefs
Dorico includes 23 standard clefs, going beyond the common G, F, and C clefs with a number of archaic and uncommon clefs, including Keda Music’s Indian drum clef. Each clef can have a different appearance in a concert or transposed score, and clef changes can also be set to appear only in layouts using a specific transposition, giving you complete control over when and where clefs appear. Cues
Dorico Pro makes it quick and easy to add cues to help orientate your players so that they never miss an entry. Cues in Dorico Pro are automatically linked to their source material, so as your project goes through revisions, any cued material will always be kept up-to-date. Comprehensive options are provided for their appearance, allowing you to choose which notations are included or excluded, and to apply clef changes and octave shifts. Dorico Pro can even suggest where you should consider adding cues, based on the length of time a player is resting before his or her next entry. Divisi
When writing for a section of instruments, such as violins or other string instruments, it is common to need to divide the section – to split a soloist from the group, or to divide the group in half, etc., showing music for each section on its own staff. Dorico Pro’s unique divisi feature handles this complex staff management automatically, correctly labeling each staff and even taking care of showing unison music at the start of a system where the division occurs midway through the system. Dynamics
Creating dynamics in Dorico is quick and easy: either use the panel in Write mode, or use the dedicated popover, into which you can type simple instructions like p Fingering
Dorico provides specialized features for fingering keyboard, fretted, brass, and string instruments. Fingering is placed automatically, according to the idiomatic requirements of the target instrument, avoiding collisions with items both outside and within the staff. For fretted instruments, Dorico includes dedicated support for left- and right-hand fingering, all beautifully positioned. For keyboard instruments, Dorico meets complex requirements like fingering substitutions, editorial and alternative fingerings head-on, with the most complete support for fingering of any notation software. Grace notes
Easily create any number of grace notes before a note or chord, and optionally make them appear to the left of the barline if you wish. Dorico automatically plays back slashed (acciaccaturas) and unslashed (appoggiaturas) grace notes according to common performance practice. Grace notes are always impeccably spaced, and slot seamlessly into Dorico’s automatic layout routines. Harp pedaling
Check that the music you’re writing is practical for the harpist by having Dorico calculate what pedal settings are required, showing any notes that cannot be played by the current pedals in red. Quickly add your own pedal indications, with a choice of appearance – using either a diagram or note names for each pedal—which are automatically positioned and can be set to appear in either the full score or the harp part, or both Jazz articulations
Advanced brass techniques commonly used in jazz—scoops, falls, plops, doits, etc.—can be added to your projects instantly, and each one is always perfectly positioned, avoiding collisions with adjacent notes, accidentals, rhythm dots, and more. And comprehensive positioning options are provided to allow you to tweak the default positions if you feel the need. Lines
Vertical lines spanning chords, lines between noteheads, and lines snapping to barlines or to any rhythmic position are all quickly and easily added via the Lines panel in Write mode. Lyrics
Enter an unlimited number of lines of lyrics both below and above each vocal staff, with unique and time-saving features like additional italicized lines of lyrics for translations, automatic verse numbering, an automatically-centered chorus line, and a sophisticated approach to spacing music with lyrics that minimizes the rhythmic distortion brought by long words on short notes by subtly nudging lyrics left or right to make them fit more snugly. Ornaments and Trills
Dorico is the only music notation software to provide a range of options for showing the trill interval, including showing the relevant accidental above the trill—taking into account the instrument’s transposition—labeling the interval in the Hollywood style (H.T./W.T.), or showing an auxiliary note. Dorico is also the only software to allow you to support microtonal trills. Beyond trills, Dorico also provides a set of baroque and classical ornaments. Ossias
The most demanding score layout tasks are transformed with Dorico Pro’s smart staff management tools. Add ossia staves above or below any instrument, to show alternatives, ornament realizations, and more. Piano pedaling
Dorico is the only scoring program with support for all three of the common pedals on modern pianos, sustain (right), una corda (left) and sostenuto (middle), and has the most sophisticated support for retakes – where the pedal is lifted and depressed again – and for partial depression of the sustain pedal: for example, depressing the pedal only a quarter of the way, providing a much more subtle sustain effect than when the pedal is fully depressed. Playing techniques
Dorico includes more than 200 playing techniques, organized according to instrumental family, and all of which can trigger changes in playback sound, provided the technique is mapped to a specific sound using VST Expression Maps. Playing techniques that have a duration can show lines denoting their precise extent, or can automatically show instructions like sim., or even repeat the same symbol automatically over successive notes. Where the player must transition from one playing technique to another, Dorico can show an arrow or other transition indicator. Rehearsal marks
Dorico automatically increments the sequence of rehearsal marks, including responding correctly to insertions or deletions in the middle of the sequence. You can choose between letters, numbers, or using the displayed bar number as the sequence type, and add a custom optional prefix and suffix for each mark as needed. Rhythmic notation
Dorico’s unique support for slashes as a type of voice on any instrument enables powerful workflows: copy music from one instrument and paste it to another as slashes; change any melodic or chordal material into slashes; quickly input slashes with or without stems on any instrument. Furthermore, you can also select a range of bars and make Dorico fill them with slashes, dynamically taking into account the correct meter so that as your arrangement evolves, your slashes always reflect the current beat grouping without you ever having to touch them. Slurs
Dorico provides comprehensive positioning options for slurs, including collision avoidance with items under their arc, and articulations at end points. Slurs can have any number of segments, making it easy to create multi-arc slurs for even the most complex keyboard music. For critical editions, Dorico provides dashed, half-dashed, dotted, and editorial slur styles, and a choice of flat or curvy slurs for long phrase indications. Slurs can start in one voice and end in another, and can follow a voice from one staff to another, e.g. for piano and harp writing. Tempo
Tempo changes are always correctly positioned, and formatted beautifully, with Dorico taking care of the relative size and position of tempo words and metronome marks. Add immediate and gradual tempo changes, and choose above which staves they should appear. Tempo changes are automatically interpreted in playback, and you can tweak their effect using the tempo editor in Play mode. Tonality systems
A tonality system defines the number of divisions of the octave – allowing you to go beyond 12-EDO or 24-EDO to any number of divisions you like – the accidentals to use, and the precise amount by which each accidental raises or lowers the written pitch. Define your own tonality system with its own set of accidentals, and create custom key signatures that use accidentals in any combination. Dorico also plays back microtonal music correctly by default, using VST Note Expression to make fine adjustments to the pitch of each note.
Chord track
Chord symbols appear in their own dedicated track in Play mode, allowing you to assign a sound of your choice for playing them back. Use the chord track to provide simple playback of your chord symbols, making it a quick way to check your work and generate a basic accompaniment for lead sheets. Dynamics lane
Dorico automatically interprets dynamics in the score, and the dedicated dynamics lane in Play mode makes it easy to tweak the performance of your music, or even add entirely new dynamics that do not appear in the printed score. Import video
Dorico uses the same powerful new video engine found in Cubase and Nuendo to allow you to attach a video to your project. Play it back via the dedicated video window. Add markers at crucial points in the action and display them in the score. Use the tempo automation controls in Play mode to line markers up with beats, or find a tempo for the whole cue. Dorico can also import and export a tempo track from and to a MIDI file, allowing you to transfer time signatures, tempos, and markers between Dorico and Cubase or another DAW. Interpretation of notations
Dorico automatically interprets articulations, dynamics, trills, glissandos, arpeggios, pedal lines, playing techniques, tempo, repeats, and other notations, to provide a musical interpretation of your score. Use the Playback Options dialog to tweak the settings for Dorico’s interpretation, and use the editing tools in Play mode to make more detailed adjustments. MIDI controller editor
Dedicated tools in Play mode allow you to edit MIDI controller data graphically, drawing data to bring your music to life. With these automation tools you can add realism and nuance to the virtual performance of your music, taking it one step closer to the stage or concert hall without leaving your music notation software. Mixer
Dorico includes a true audio mixer with per-channel insert/send effects and routing control, plus an integrated channel strip with four-band parametric equalizer. Each output in each instrument plug-in is shown as a separate channel in the Mixer, and Dorico automatically creates a master effects channel fader with the REVerence convolution reverb applied. Playback templates
Once you have set up your virtual instruments just the way you like them, loaded the sounds you need to use, and assigned the appropriate VST Expression Maps to each channel, you can save that configuration for reuse in future projects. Build up templates combining sounds from different libraries and plug-ins, and when you start a new project, Dorico will automatically instantiate your chosen plug-in, restore its saved state, and connect each instrument to the appropriate sound in the loaded plug-in. Swing playback
Dorico includes comprehensive support for swing playback, with the amount of swing varying with the tempo: swing is more pronounced at slower tempos, and straighter when the music is faster. Change the swing feel anywhere in the project, or even have just one player swinging while everybody else plays straight. In addition to the usual swing for eighths, Dorico also provides swing for 16ths. Tempo track editor
The Time track in Play mode shows the effect of all immediate and gradual tempos in your project as a graphical profile, and allows you to adjust any point in the profile, or add new tempo changes in Play mode that won’t be visible in Write mode. Using these tools you can add realistic rubato and flexibility of tempo to the performance of your project. Dorico is the only professional music notation software to support VST3 instruments and effects processors. Use plug-ins like Vienna Ensemble Pro with Dorico, and access multiple MIDI ports to access multiple banks of 16 channels within a single instance. VST 3 plug-ins can also support advanced features like VST Note Expression. VST Expression Maps
VST Expression Maps allow you to map out the capabilities of your chosen virtual instrument or sound library, specifying the playing techniques provided by each patch and instructing Dorico how to access them, using any combination of MIDI controller change, program change, or even channel change. Import VST Expression Maps from Cubase and then extend them using Dorico’s built-in editor. Velocity editor
Dorico allows you to edit note velocities using the dedicated velocity editing lane in Play mode. Edit an individual note’s velocity simply by dragging it up or down, or use the pencil or line tool to create smooth changes in velocity over a range of music. The velocity lane also includes a numeric control for fine adjustment. Automatic engraving
Developed in consultation with experienced engravers working with some of the world’s most demanding music publishers, the automatic engraving engine at the heart of Dorico produces the most elegant, beautiful results of any scoring application. No detail is too small, and every page of music produced by Dorico includes dozens of tiny adjustments inspired by the craftsmanship of traditional engraving. The result is that pages of music produced in Dorico simply look right, without you having to lift a finger to move or tweak position or placement. Automatic rhythmic spacing
Dorico’s unique approach to rhythmic spacing allows music to be spaced more tightly than other scoring programs, without sacrificing clarity and legibility. Items are automatically tucked or kerned against each other to avoid the rhythmic distortion that disturbs the flow of the music. Dorico produces spacing of beautiful consistency and balance every time. Automatic vertical spacing
Dorico considers the vertical placement of every item above and below or protruding from every staff, and automatically spaces staves and systems apart, leaving you with pages with beautifully balanced and spaced lines of music. You never need to adjust the position of staves unless you want to, and there’s no need to optimize the staff spacing: Dorico automatically produces the right result, all the time. DTP page layout
Dorico makes it easy to produce a consistent and attractive layout for every project, thanks to its unique page layout features. Switch to Engrave mode, and its power is instantly revealed to you: frames for music, text and graphics can be laid out in any arrangement for any kind of project. Edit rhythmic spacing
In addition to being able to specify the default values for Dorico’s note spacing, you can also create a note spacing change at any point in the music to tighten or loosen the spacing as needed. If you need to go beyond that level of adjustment, you can use the editing overlay in Engrave mode to adjust the space allocated to each rhythmic position, and offset individual notes left or right. A helpful read-out at the right-hand side of each system shows how full it is. Edit vertical spacing
Engrave mode provides tools for making precise adjustments to the spacing of staves and systems. A helpful read-out shows how full each frame on each page is, and the editing overlay shows which staves and systems have been adjusted, allowing you to reset individual adjustments as needed. If you need to make a particular adjustment across many pages, a simple dialog allows you to copy changes from one page to other similar pages in the same layout. Engrave mode
Dorico is the only music notation software with a dedicated Engrave mode focused on making graphical adjustments to your music, where you are protected from making any accidental changes that would change the meaning of your music. Engrave mode provides tools for individual graphical tweaks, changing horizontal (or rhythmic) spacing, changing vertical (or staff) spacing, and working with Dorico’s unique DTP-style page layout features. Engraving Options
Dorico Pro provides literally hundreds of options that allow you to change the way your project looks, carefully categorized into nearly 50 separate pages, and with every option illustrated with a music example to help you make your choices as quickly and efficiently as possible. Save your preferred options as defaults for future projects with the click of a single button. Graphical tweaks
In Engrave mode, you can tweak the appearance and position of any item, either nudging it with the keyboard, dragging it with the mouse, or by specifying numeric values in the Properties panel. These adjustments are completely local to the layout you’re working on, and you cannot inadvertently change the meaning of your music, so you are free to make whatever adjustments you wish. Import graphics
Add graphics frames to your pages and import graphics in PNG, JPG, TIFF or SVG format; ideal for adding logos, photos, and other graphical elements to your project. Layouts
Layouts allow you to create as many scores and as many instrumental parts as you wish in your project. Create a full score showing every player’s music on its own staff, a condensed conductor’s score, and a rehearsal score, including just the vocal parts and a piano reduction, and a complete set of instrumental parts—all in the same project, and with no workarounds to hide unwanted staves in some layouts. Each layout can have its own combination of players and flows, and page layout and formatting can be set completely independently. Multiple staff sizes
Scores for large ensembles may sometimes need to display music at a different size on particularly busy pages. For example, when an additional off-stage group of players appears for one movement or passage—Dorico Pro makes this easy. You can change the staff size at any system break. You can change the size of the staves belonging to each player, essential for showing cue staves in music for solo instrument and accompaniment Music fonts
Dorico comes with two music font families: Bravura music font, modeled after the finest European publishers, including more than 3000 meticulously designed symbols, and the handwritten Petaluma music font, based on the look of hand-copied lead sheets and jazz standards, with more than 1000 hand-drawn symbols. Dorico is compatible with the SMuFL standard for music font encoding, so you can instantly switch between any SMuFL-compliant fonts you have installed with a single click. Text support (advanced)
Dorico Pro allows you to define your own paragraph and character styles, making it easy to change the fonts in your project. Fine typographical control over character spacing, leading (line spacing), justification, etc. is provided, and all styles are hierarchical, meaning that changing the font for all paragraph styles that inherit from another style is as simple as changing only the parent style. Text support (basic)
Add rich text items at any point in your music with full control over font, size, style, color, and more. Text items can be placed above or below the staff, and you can copy and paste text to and from other applications. Add stage directions, performance instructions, and more. Arranger tools
Dorico Pro includes a suite of tools to handle common arranging tasks: Explode, which takes chordal material and distributes the notes between a larger number of staves; Reduce, which takes material on multiple staves and squashes it onto a smaller number of staves; Swap, which swaps material between two selected staves; and further tools for moving or copying items and music to adjacent staves. Custom key commands
Dorico allows you to customize the keyboard shortcuts for practically every feature with an easy-to-use editor. You can assign commands to specific notes or buttons on your MIDI keyboard. Easy note input
Inputting music in Dorico is fast and easy. Use your keyboard or mouse to input notes, learn easy-to-remember key commands, or define your own, allowing you to fly through note input faster than ever before. Dorico has the flexibility to notate every note according to the changing musical context, using its sophisticated understanding of the rules of meter, ensuring that the rhythm is always clearly communicated, even as notes are lengthened, shortened, inserted, or removed. Filters (basic)
Filters allow you to select or deselect specific items in the music, so you can edit, copy, or delete them. Dorico provides quick filters for all common types of item, all accessed via the Edit menu, and you can assign your own custom key commands to the filters you use most often. Filters
Dorico Pro provides an expanded set of filters, with filters for notes of specific pitches, all sharp or flat notes, system and frame breaks, cues, note spacing changes, and other items. Flexible meter
Dorico has the most flexible approach to meter of any music notation software, with native support for open meter, alternating meter, interchangeable and additive time signatures. You can create time signatures for partial tuplets (written with non-power of two denominators) and even use a different time signature for each instrument. Insert mode
Engage Insert mode to automatically shuffle music left and right as you insert or delete notes from a voice, or change the durations of notes. Dorico automatically renotates the music according to the prevailing meter. Lock Duration
Quickly copy material from one instrument to another, then edit the pitches of the notes while retaining all of the existing rhythms using the Lock Duration tool in Write mode: a huge time-saver for busy arrangers. Multi-paste
Multi-paste allows you to fill a region of your score with as many copies of the material pasted from the clipboard as will fit horizontally or vertically: in other words, if you copy four bars of music from one instrument, if you select 16 bars across four instruments, when you paste the destination will be filled, with each of the four selected instruments receiving four copies of the copied material. Notation Options
Dorico Pro provides dozens of options to control note, rest, and beam grouping, accidental duration rules, and voice handling both for regular pitched instruments and for unpitched percussion instruments arranged into kits. Every option is illustrated with a musical example to make the context as clear as possible, and every option can be set independently for each flow in your project. Paste into Voice
When creating piano reductions or otherwise moving music to a player with existing music, being able to paste material into a specific voice is a real time-saver. And with Dorico Pro’s Paste into Voice feature, you can paste into any existing voice or create a new up-stem or down-stem voice on demand. Popovers
Popovers are Dorico’s unique input method for all notations. Use one of the easy-to-learn key commands to open the popover, then simply type a shorthand for the item you want to create, and hit Return. Once you commit a few popover shortcuts to memory, you can fly through input without ever reaching for the mouse. Real-time MIDI input
Input music in real-time using your MIDI keyboard. Dorico’s intelligent quantization algorithms produce a clean result, and it’s quick and easy to make any necessary edits after you have recorded with the flexible tools for adjusting durations, filling unwanted gaps, and moving notes between staves. Requantize
After recording your music, you may find that you would have got a cleaner result with different quantization settings—for example, setting a shorter minimum note value or specifying that you would prefer Dorico to interpret your playing as legato and automatically remove rests. Simply use the Requantize feature to renotate any selected music with new settings. Retrospective Record
If inspiration strikes while you’re playing your MIDI keyboard but you’re not recording, don’t worry. With Retrospective Record, Dorico is always capturing everything you played since the last time you were recording. And with a single click, all of that music will be added to your project for editing. Step MIDI input
Inputting music in Dorico is fast and easy. Use your MIDI keyboard, keyboard, or mouse to input notes, and learn easy-to-remember key commands or define your own, allowing you to fly through note input faster than ever before. System Track
The system track allows you to add and delete bars, select, and copy music, appearing unobtrusively above the top staff of the system, only coming to the fore when you need it. Transposition
Dorico provides powerful features to transpose music, both through a dedicated popover and using a dialog that helpfully provides an interval calculator, so that tricky transpositions like taking a piece down from D major to D flat major (instead of C sharp major) can be performed quickly. Dorico can even intelligently transpose music written using custom tonality systems and microtonal intervals. Tuplets
Create tuplets of any ratio and to any level of nesting. Dorico automatically allows tuplets to span barlines if necessary, and it can show a partial tuplet either side of the barline or a single tuplet crossing the barline. Delete tuplets to unscale the notes and chords within them, or select a passage of notes and scale them into a tuplet of your chosen unit and ratio. Unlimited voices
Other music notation software places limits on the number of voices you can enter on each staff, or has special rules for how it will position voices based on an arbitrary internal state. Dorico is different: you can simply create as many up-stem and down-stem voices as you need on any staff, and Dorico will ensure that they never collide, so that your voice-leading is always clear. Export audio
Dorico allows you to export audio in WAV or MP3 format. Export each flow to a separate audio track, or export stems by exporting each player to a separate file. Export graphics
Dorico can export graphics in PDF, PNG, SVG or TIFF format. So, whatever the destination application or purpose, it’s quick and easy to produce beautiful vector or high-resolution bitmap graphics from your Dorico projects. MIDI
Whether the job starts in the sequencer and ends in scoring software or vice versa, you can move music back and forth between applications with ease by importing and exporting MIDI files. When you export MIDI from Dorico, any MIDI controllers, key switches, or other switches in playing techniques are included in the exported file, making it easy to pick up where you left off in Cubase or another DAW. You can even drag and drop a region of MIDI from Cubase’s arrange window onto Dorico’s Play mode. MusicXML
Bring existing projects from other music software into Dorico using MusicXML. When importing MusicXML, Dorico focuses purely on musical semantics, so there’s less unwanted formatting to undo after import, allowing you to get down to business right away. You can also export basic MusicXML files from Dorico, allowing you to take the essential information about your music into another application. Batch printing or export
Specify the number of copies of each layout to be printed in the Layouts panel in Print mode, and specify the type of print job for each layout—normal, booklet, 2-up, or spreads. When you have made your choices, simply select all of the layouts you want to print, and click Print: Dorico will print everything. Just make sure you don’t run out of paper. You can also batch export all layouts to a graphics format like PDF with a single click. Booklet printing
Dorico makes it easy to print an imposed booklet with a single click. If you have a printer with duplex support, it can print automatically on both sides. If you have to feed the paper manually, Dorico will guide you through the process, and tell you when to feed the paper back into the printer. Duplex support
If you have a printer with duplex support, Dorico can automatically print your music double-sided, whether you are printing the score or parts. All you have to do is specify long- or short-edge binding. Press-quality PDF
Dorico exports true monochrome PDFs, avoiding problems with unwanted rich black color separations when printing on imagesetters and digital printers. A full set of printers’ marks is also provided, allowing the easy addition of borders, crop marks, and guides. Print preview
In Print mode, the print preview shows you exactly what you will see when your music is printed on paper, including any advanced imposition options like booklet, 2-up, or spreads layouts. In the Box Steinberg Dorico Pro 5 Music Notation and Composition Software
Steinberg Dorico Pro 5 Specs Delivery Format Download
License Type Standard: Perpetual License
User Support 1 User / 3Devices
System Compatibility/Requirements Operating System: Windows/macOS
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