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
note input (continued)
rhythmic grid 158
starting 162
stem direction 178
tablature 179
ties 183
tuplets 186
voices 171
note spacing
191, 361, 362, 376, 456, 637
changing 361
copying to other layouts 352
default 361
galley view 49
grace notes 597
layout options 100, 362
lyrics 362, 615
signposts 314
note spelling 192
note values. See note durations
note velocities
MIDI import 78
notehead sets 631, 632, 635
designs 632, 635
pitch-dependent 635
scale degree 635
types 631
notehead-attached lines. See lines
noteheads 632
aikin 635
arrows 633
articulations 488
brackets. See bracketed noteheads
changing 636
circular 632
crosses 633
designs 632, 635, 636. See also notehead sets
diamond 633, 634
dotted 635
î ´ve-line staff 877
funk 635
large 634
moon 635
muted 634
parentheses. See bracketed noteheads
percussion 875–877, 879
pitch-dependent 635
playing technique-speciî ´c 875, 878
playing techniques 876, 877
rectangular 635
sets. See notehead sets
shapes 632, 635. See also notehead sets
slashes 763, 890
square 635
time signatures 849
triangular 633
types 632
unpitched percussion 876, 877
walker 635
wedges 633
notes 35, 631
accidentals 151, 180
add intervals popover 189
adding to existing notes 189
notes (continued)
alignment 560
appearance 152
arpeggio signs. See arpeggio signs
articulations 151, 485, 487, 488
auditioning 308
auxiliary 662
beaming 510, 512
brackets. See bracketed noteheads
brass î ´ngerings 587
changing pitch 191, 193
chords 185
colors 639, 887
condensing. See condensing
copying 317, 318, 485
crossing to other staves 318, 517
custom scale size 637
dead notes 812
deleting 316, 379, 856
deselecting 307
dotted 170, 510, 524
drum editor 376
durations 151, 167, 168, 377, 456
dynamics 229, 383, 558. See also dynamics lanes
dynamics alignment 559, 560
editing 149, 152
editorial 640, 641
enharmonic spelling 192
î ´lters 307
î ´xing duration 169
fonts 353
ghost notes 641
glissando lines. See glissando lines
grace notes 184, 596
grouping 510, 524
guitar bends 261, 676
guitar pre-bends 262, 676
harmonics. See harmonics
harp pedaling 690, 691
hiding 766
horizontal spacing. See note spacing
horn branch indicators 587
inputting 27, 159, 164, 169, 170, 175, 176, 185, 375
Insert mode 175
jazz articulations. See jazz articulations
length 168, 377
lines. See lines. See also glissando lines
lock to duration 193
lyric alignment 625
moving graphically. See note spacing
moving rhythmically 376, 637, 862
moving to other instruments 871
moving to other staves 318, 319, 517
multiple-voice contexts 889
muting 416
navigation 311
notated duration 36, 456
note spacing 361
notehead designs 632
notehead sets 631
order 888
out of range 639, 811
overlapping 168
Index
937
Dorico Elements 3.1.10