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
496 Barlines
497 Deleting barlines
498 Barlines across staff groups
500 Bar numbers
500 Hiding/Showing bar numbers
501 Hiding/Showing bar number enclosures
502 Hiding/Showing bar number ranges on multi-
bar rests
502 Hiding/Showing guide bar numbers
503 Changing the bar number paragraph style
used in layouts
503 Positions of bar numbers
507 Bar number changes
508 Subordinate bar numbers
509 Bar numbers and repeats
511 Beaming
511 Beam groups
513 Beaming notes together manually
514 Changing the direction of partial beams
514 Beam placement relative to the staff
515 Beam slants
516 Centered beams
518 Creating cross-staff beams
521 Beam corners
521 Secondary beams
522 Tuplets within beams
523 Stemlets
523 Fanned beams
525 Note and rest grouping
525 Creating custom beat groupings for meters
527 Brackets and braces
528 Changing bracket grouping according to
ensemble type
530 Secondary brackets
531 Sub-sub-brackets
533 Chord symbols
533 Chord components
534 Transposing chord symbols
535 Hiding/Showing chord symbols
536 Hiding/Showing the root and quality of chord
symbols
536 Chord symbol regions
538 Positions of chord symbols
539 Respelling chord symbols
541 Chord symbols imported from MusicXML
542 Chord diagrams
542 Chord diagram components
543 Hiding/Showing chord diagrams
544 Changing the chord diagram shape
545 Creating new chord diagram shapes
548 Clefs
548 General placement conventions for clefs
549 Moving clefs rhythmically
549 Deleting clefs
550 Showing clefs after grace notes
551 Setting different clefs for concert/transposed
pitch
551 Hiding/Showing clefs according to layout
transpositions
552 Transposing clefs
553 Octave lines
554 Lengthening/Shortening octave lines
555 Positions of octave lines
556 Deleting octave lines
558 Cues
559 Dynamics
559 Types of dynamics
560 Positions of dynamics
563 Showing dynamics in parentheses
564 Copying dynamics
564 Deleting dynamics
565 Voice-specic dynamics
565 Niente hairpins
566 Dynamic modiers
568 Gradual dynamics
574 Groups of dynamics
575 Linked dynamics
577 VST Expression Maps for volume types
578 Fingering
578 General placement conventions for ngering
579 Changing ngerings to substitution ngerings
580 Changing existing ngerings
580 Changing the staff-relative placement of
ngerings
582 Hiding/Showing ngering
582 Deleting ngerings
582 Cautionary ngerings
583 Fingerings for fretted instruments
586 Fingering slides
588 Fingerings for valved brass instruments
589 Hiding/Showing string ngering shift
indicators
590 Fingerings imported from MusicXML les
591 String indicators
592 Lengthening/Shortening string indicators
593 Deleting string indicators
594 Positions of string indicators
596 Front matter
596 Project information used in default master
pages
597 Grace notes
598 General placement conventions for grace
notes
599 Grace note size
599 Grace note slashes
600 Grace note stems
600 Grace note beams
602 Holds and pauses
602 Types of holds and pauses
604 Positions of holds and pauses
608 Key signatures
608 Key signature arrangements
609 Types of key signatures
610 Deleting key signatures
611 Multiple simultaneous key signatures
611 Positions of key signatures
612 Transposing key signatures alongside
selections
613 Enharmonic equivalent key signatures
614 Cautionary key signatures
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