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
747 Repeat endings
747 Changing the total number of playthroughs in
repeat endings
748 Lengthening/Shortening segments in repeat
endings
748 Positions of repeat endings
749 Changing the appearance of individual nal
repeat ending segments
750 Repeat endings in MusicXML les
751 Repeat markers
752 Changing the index for repeat markers
752 Editing repeat marker text
753 Positions of repeat markers
754 Including/Excluding repeats in playback after
repeat jumps
754 Changing the number of playthroughs at
repeat barlines
756 Bar repeats
757 Changing the length of the repeated phrase in
bar repeat regions
757 Moving bar repeat regions
758 Lengthening/Shortening bar repeat regions
759 Hiding/Showing bar repeat region highlights
759 Bar repeat counts
761 Bar repeat grouping
763 Rhythm slashes
763 Slash regions
765 Slashes in multiple-voice contexts
767 Splitting slash regions
768 Moving slash regions
768 Lengthening/Shortening slash regions
769 Hiding/Showing stems in slash regions
769 Slash region counts
772 Rests
772 General placement conventions for rests
773 Implicit vs. explicit rests
775 Hiding/Showing rest colors
775 Deleting rests
776 Hiding/Showing bar rests in empty bars
777 Multi-bar rests
778 Moving rests vertically
780 Slurs
780 General placement conventions for slurs
783 Cross-staff and cross-voice slurs
784 Nested slurs
786 Moving slurs rhythmically
786 Lengthening/Shortening slurs
787 Linked slurs
788 Slur curvature direction
789 Slur styles
791 Slur collision avoidance
791 Slurs over system and frame breaks
791 Slurs in playback
793 Staff labels
794 Instrument names in staff labels
795 Hiding/Showing staff labels
796 Instrument transpositions in staff labels
798 Hiding/Showing instrument change labels at
the start of ows
798 Staff labels for percussion kits
800 Staff labels on condensed staves
801 Staves
801 Per-layout options for staves
802 Extra staves
803 Ossia staves
803 System dividers
805 System objects
806 System indents
808 Divisi
809 Tablature
810 Rhythms on tablature
810 Hiding/Showing notation staves and tablature
811 Changing the allocated string for notes on
tablature
812 Showing notes as dead notes
814 Stems
814 Stem direction
818 Stem length
819 Tempo marks
820 Types of tempo marks
820 Positions of tempo marks
822 Changing tempo text
823 Hiding/Showing tempo marks
823 Deleting tempo marks
823 Tempo mark components
825 Metronome marks
828 Gradual tempo changes
830 Tempo equations
831 Ties
832 General placement conventions for ties
833 Ties vs. slurs
834 Non-standard ties
837 Deleting ties
837 Splitting tie chains
838 Tie styles
839 Tie curvature direction
841 Time signatures
842 General conventions for time signatures
843 Types of time signatures
845 Pick-up bars
846 Large time signatures
848 Time signature styles
851 Positions of time signatures
852 Hiding/Showing time signatures
852 Deleting time signatures
853 Changing the design of time signatures
854 Tremolos
855 Tremolos in tie chains
855 General placement conventions for tremolos
855 Changing the speed of tremolos
856 Deleting tremolos
857 Rhythmic positions of notes with tremolos
858 Tuplets
858 General placement conventions for tuplets
859 Nested tuplets
860 Turning existing notes into tuplets
860 Turning tuplets into normal notes
861 Allowing/Disallowing tuplets to span barlines
862 Moving tuplets rhythmically
863 Deleting tuplets
863 Tuplet beams
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