User manual

Comments
● This version introduces the ability to add comments as annotations as a way of adding
notes or instructions without affecting the music. See Comments.
Playback templates
● It is now possible to create custom playback templates and edit existing ones. You can
include factory default playback templates and endpoint congurations and list them in
your order of preference in a single custom playback template. See Edit Playback Template
dialog.
Chord diagrams
● You can now show chord diagrams alongside chord symbols in Dorico Elements. You can
show the suitable chord diagrams for guitars with a variety of tunings and any other fretted
instrument in the library and create your own chord diagram shapes. See Chord diagrams.
Fingerings for guitars and fretted instruments
● Dorico Elements now offers comprehensive support for the complex ngerings required
for music for guitars and fretted instruments, including automatically positioning right-
hand and left-hand ngerings correctly. See Fingerings for fretted instruments.
String indicators
● Dorico Elements now supports string indicators both inside and outside the staff. When
inside the staff, they automatically erase their backgrounds. They also automatically
accommodate left-hand ngerings for the same notes. See String indicators.
Harmonics
● Dorico Elements now supports various conventions for the notation of harmonics on
stringed and fretted instruments, including both natural and articial harmonics. Dorico
Elements can also calculate the correct pitch to be notated for the second through sixth
partials. See Harmonics.
Guitar bends
● Dorico Elements now supports the notation of guitar bends, including guitar pre-bends,
holds, and releases. These techniques can be shown on both notation staves and tablature.
See Guitar bends.
Harp pedaling
● Dorico Elements now offers features designed to help write idiomatically for the harp,
including harp pedal diagrams that you can show as a diagram or using note names, a tool
to calculate the pedal positions required to play a passage of music, and highlights for
notes that are unplayable with the current pedal positions. See Harp pedaling.
Playing technique continuation lines
● You can now show continuation lines for playing techniques and differentiate between lines
that show simply their duration and lines that indicate a gradual transition between playing
techniques. See Playing technique continuation lines.
Tablature
● Dorico Elements now provides tablature for guitar and other fretted instruments, including
supporting a number of specic idiomatic notations for guitar, custom string tunings,
different conventions for representing rhythms on tablature, and so on. Music can be
shown on a regular notation staff and on tablature at the same time or separately, and they
are linked, meaning edits to one staff automatically affect the other. See Tablature.
More New Features
Project Info dialog
● This new version updates the Project Info dialog signicantly. It can now stay open whilst
you work, has a list of ows so you can select and change information for multiple ows at
once, and also allows you to add and delete ows from within the dialog in addition to
New features
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