User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- New features
- Introduction
- First steps
- Dorico concepts
- User interface
- Windows
- Workspace setup
- Switching between layouts
- Opening new tabs
- Closing tabs
- Switching between tabs
- Changing the order of tabs
- Showing multiple tabs in the same project window
- Moving tabs to another tab group
- Moving tabs to other windows
- Opening multiple project windows
- Changing to full screen mode
- Switching to galley/page view
- Changing the window color theme
- Changing your preferred unit of measurement
- Preferences dialog
- Key Commands page in the Preferences dialog
- Project and file handling
- Setup mode
- Project window in Setup mode
- Project Info dialog
- Layout Options dialog
- Players, layouts, and flows
- Players
- Ensembles
- Instruments
- Instrument numbering
- Instrument changes
- Transposing instruments
- Fretted instrument tuning
- Adding instruments to players
- Adding empty percussion kits to players
- Combining individual percussion instruments into kits
- Changing instruments
- Moving instruments
- Deleting instruments
- Edit Percussion Kit dialog
- Adding instruments to percussion kits
- Changing instruments in percussion kits
- Defining percussion kits as drum sets
- Creating groups of instruments within grid presentation percussion kits
- Renaming groups in grid presentation percussion kits
- Deleting groups within grid presentation percussion kits
- Changing the positions of instruments within percussion kits
- Changing the size of gaps between lines in percussion grids
- Removing individual instruments from percussion kits
- Edit Strings and Tuning dialog
- Player groups
- Flows
- Layouts
- Player, layout, and instrument names
- Flow names and flow titles
- Videos
- Write mode
- Project window in Write mode
- Inputting vs. editing
- Rhythmic grid
- Note input
- Caret
- Inputting notes
- Selecting note/rest durations
- Inputting notes with rhythm dots
- Inputting notes into multiple voices
- Inputting notes and notations onto multiple staves
- Inputting notes in Insert mode
- Inputting notes in percussion kits
- Inputting notes on tablature
- Inputting accidentals
- Inputting rests
- Inputting ties
- Inputting grace notes
- Inputting chords
- Inputting tuplets
- Adding notes above/below existing notes
- Changing the pitch of individual notes
- MIDI recording
- Notations input
- Inputting articulations
- Inputting slurs
- Inputting fingerings
- Input methods for key signatures
- Input methods for time signatures
- Input methods for tempo marks
- Input methods for bars and barlines
- Input methods for dynamics
- Input methods for chord symbols
- Input methods for clefs and octave lines
- Input methods for holds and pauses
- Input methods for ornaments, arpeggio signs, glissando lines, guitar bends, and jazz articulations
- Ornaments popover
- Ornaments panel
- Inputting ornaments with the popover
- Inputting ornaments with the panel
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the popover
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the panel
- Inputting glissando lines with the popover
- Inputting glissando lines with the panel
- Inputting jazz articulations with the popover
- Inputting jazz articulations with the panel
- Inputting guitar bends with the popover
- Inputting guitar bends with the panel
- Inputting guitar pre-bends
- Input methods for playing techniques, pedal lines, string indicators, and harp pedal diagrams
- Playing techniques popover
- Playing Techniques panel
- Inputting playing techniques with the popover
- Inputting playing techniques with the panel
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the popover
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the panel
- Inputting harp pedal diagrams
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the popover
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the panel
- Inputting string indicators inside the staff
- Input methods for lines
- Inputting lyrics
- Inputting rehearsal marks
- Inputting markers/timecodes
- Input methods for repeats and tremolos
- Repeats popover
- Repeat Structures panel
- Inputting repeat endings with the popover
- Inputting repeat endings with the panel
- Inputting repeat markers with the popover
- Inputting repeat markers with the panel
- Inputting tremolos with the popover
- Inputting tremolos with the panel
- Inputting slash regions
- Inputting bar repeats
- Inputting text
- Editing and selecting
- Selecting/Deselecting notes and items individually
- Selecting more items of the same type
- Selecting multiple items using marquee selections
- Large selections
- System track
- Filters
- Playing/Muting notes during note input/selection
- Playing all/individual notes in chords during note input/selection
- Disabling automatic linking of dynamics and slurs when pasting
- Changing existing items
- Changing the staff-relative placement of items
- Resetting the appearance of items
- Resetting the position of items
- Navigation
- Signposts
- Arranging tools
- Splitting flows
- Comments
- Layout and formatting
- Engrave mode
- Frames
- Master pages
- Flow headings
- Page formatting
- Changing page margins
- Changing the page size and orientation
- Changing the default staff size
- Changing the default staff/system spacing
- Changing the vertical justification of staves/systems
- Hiding/Showing empty staves
- Starting layouts on left-hand pages
- Allowing/Disallowing multiple flows on the same page
- Changing when the First master page is used
- Hiding/Showing flow headings
- Changing the margins above/below flow headings
- Hiding/Showing information in running headers above flow headings
- Changing the default music frame margins
- Changing the horizontal justification of final systems
- Staff size
- Casting off
- Frame breaks
- System breaks
- Tacets
- Condensing
- Part formatting propagation
- Music Fonts dialog
- Text objects vs. text in text frames
- Note spacing
- Staff spacing
- Play mode
- Project window in Play mode
- Event display
- Tracks
- Playhead
- Playing back music
- Swing playback
- Mixer
- Transport window
- Playback templates
- Endpoints
- Expression maps
- Percussion maps
- Played vs. notated note durations
- Print mode
- Notation reference
- Introduction
- Accidentals
- Articulations
- Bars
- Barlines
- Bar numbers
- Beaming
- Note and rest grouping
- Brackets and braces
- Chord symbols
- Chord diagrams
- Clefs
- Octave lines
- Cues
- Dynamics
- Types of dynamics
- Positions of dynamics
- Showing dynamics in parentheses
- Copying dynamics
- Deleting dynamics
- Voice-specific dynamics
- Niente hairpins
- Dynamic modifiers
- Gradual dynamics
- Groups of dynamics
- Linked dynamics
- VST Expression Maps for volume types
- Fingering
- General placement conventions for fingering
- Changing fingerings to substitution fingerings
- Changing existing fingerings
- Changing the staff-relative placement of fingerings
- Hiding/Showing fingering
- Deleting fingerings
- Cautionary fingerings
- Fingerings for fretted instruments
- Fingering slides
- Fingerings for valved brass instruments
- Hiding/Showing string fingering shift indicators
- Fingerings imported from MusicXML files
- String indicators
- Front matter
- Grace notes
- Holds and pauses
- Key signatures
- Lyrics
- Notes
- Harmonics
- Ornaments
- Arpeggio signs
- Glissando lines
- Guitar bends
- Jazz articulations
- Page numbers
- Harp pedaling
- Pedal lines
- Playing techniques
- Lines
- Rehearsal marks
- Markers
- Timecodes
- Repeat endings
- Repeat markers
- Bar repeats
- Rhythm slashes
- Rests
- Slurs
- Staff labels
- Staves
- Divisi
- Tablature
- Stems
- Tempo marks
- Ties
- Time signatures
- Tremolos
- Tuplets
- Unpitched percussion
- Percussion kits vs. individual percussion instruments
- Percussion kits and drum sets
- Changing the playing techniques of notes on percussion kit staves
- Moving notes to different instruments in percussion kits
- Notations on notes in percussion kits
- Percussion kit presentation types
- Playing techniques for unpitched percussion instruments
- Percussion legends
- Voices in percussion kits
- Unpitched percussion in Play mode
- Universal Indian Drum Notation
- Voices
- Glossary
- Index
613 Tonality systems
615 Lyrics
615 General placement conventions for lyrics
616 Filters for lyrics
617 Types of lyrics
618 Types of syllables in lyrics
619 Deleting lyric lines
620 Copying/Pasting lyrics
621 Lyric text editing
624 Showing lyrics in italics
624 Positions of lyrics
626 Lyric hyphens and lyric extender lines
626 Lyric line numbers
629 Verse numbers
630 East Asian elision slurs
631 Notes
631 Notehead sets
637 Changing the size of notes
637 Moving notes rhythmically
638 Specifying the string for individual notes
639 Hiding/Showing colors for notes out range
640 Bracketed noteheads
645 Harmonics
646 Turning notes into harmonics
647 Changing the harmonic partial
648 Hiding/Showing or parenthesizing harmonic
accidentals
648 Appearances/Styles of harmonics
653 Ornaments
653 Changing ornament intervals
654 Positions of ornaments
656 Trills
659 Trill intervals
664 Trills in playback
666 Arpeggio signs
666 Types of arpeggio signs
668 Length of arpeggio signs
669 General placement conventions for arpeggio
signs
670 Changing arpeggio playback relative to the
beat
670 Changing the playback duration of arpeggios
672 Glissando lines
672 General placement conventions for glissando
lines
673 Glissando lines across empty bars
673 Changing the style of glissando lines
674 Changing glissando line text
675 Glissando lines in playback
676 Guitar bends
678 Hiding/Showing guitar bend hold lines
679 Changing the direction of guitar pre-bends
680 Showing guitar bends as a dive and return
680 Hiding/Showing accidentals on guitar pre-
bends
682 Jazz articulations
683 Jazz ornaments
684 Positions of jazz articulations
684 Changing the type/length of existing jazz
articulations
684 Changing the line style of smooth jazz
articulations
685 Deleting jazz articulations
687 Page numbers
687 Changing the page number numeral style
688 Hiding/Showing page numbers
690 Harp pedaling
691 Changing the appearance of harp pedal
diagrams
692 Hiding/Showing harp pedaling in layouts
693 Hiding/Showing borders on harp pedal
diagrams
694 Positions of harp pedal diagrams
694 Partial harp pedaling
697 Pedal lines
698 Sustain pedal retakes and pedal level changes
699 Positions of pedal lines
701 Lengthening/Shortening pedal lines
703 Pedal line start signs, hooks, and continuation
lines
705 Text pedal line signs
707 Pedal lines in playback
708 Pedal lines imported from MusicXML les
709 Playing techniques
710 Positions of playing techniques
711 Adding text to playing techniques
712 Hiding/Showing playing techniques
712 Lengthening/Shortening playing techniques
713 Playing technique continuation lines
716 Groups of playing techniques
717 Playback playing techniques
719 Lines
721 Line components
722 Positions of lines
726 Length of lines
729 Changing the body style of lines
729 Changing the caps of lines
730 Changing the direction of lines
730 Adding text to lines
733 Rehearsal marks
733 General placement conventions for rehearsal
marks
734 Positions of rehearsal marks
735 Deleting rehearsal marks
735 Changing the order of rehearsal marks
736 Changing the rehearsal mark sequence type
736 Adding prexes/suxes to rehearsal marks
738 Markers
738 Hiding/Showing markers
739 Changing the vertical position of markers
740 Editing marker text
740 Changing the timecodes of markers
741 Moving markers rhythmically
741 Dening markers as important
743 Timecodes
744 Changing the initial timecode value
744 Changing the vertical position of timecodes
745 Changing the timecode frequency
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