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
614 Tonality systems
616 Lyrics
616 General placement conventions for lyrics
617 Filters for lyrics
618 Types of lyrics
619 Types of syllables in lyrics
620 Deleting lyric lines
621 Copying/Pasting lyrics
622 Lyric text editing
625 Showing lyrics in italics
625 Positions of lyrics
627 Lyric hyphens and lyric extender lines
627 Lyric line numbers
630 Verse numbers
631 East Asian elision slurs
632 Notes
632 Notehead sets
638 Changing the size of notes
638 Moving notes rhythmically
639 Specifying the string for individual notes
640 Hiding/Showing colors for notes out range
641 Bracketed noteheads
646 Harmonics
647 Turning notes into harmonics
648 Changing the harmonic partial
649 Hiding/Showing or parenthesizing harmonic
accidentals
649 Appearances/Styles of harmonics
654 Ornaments
654 Changing ornament intervals
655 Positions of ornaments
657 Trills
660 Trill intervals
665 Trills in playback
667 Arpeggio signs
667 Types of arpeggio signs
669 Length of arpeggio signs
670 General placement conventions for arpeggio
signs
671 Changing arpeggio playback relative to the
beat
671 Changing the playback duration of arpeggios
673 Glissando lines
673 General placement conventions for glissando
lines
674 Glissando lines across empty bars
674 Changing the style of glissando lines
675 Changing glissando line text
676 Glissando lines in playback
677 Guitar bends
679 Hiding/Showing guitar bend hold lines
680 Changing the direction of guitar pre-bends
681 Showing guitar bends as a dive and return
681 Hiding/Showing accidentals on guitar pre-
bends
683 Jazz articulations
684 Jazz ornaments
685 Positions of jazz articulations
685 Changing the type/length of existing jazz
articulations
685 Changing the line style of smooth jazz
articulations
686 Deleting jazz articulations
688 Page numbers
688 Changing the page number numeral style
689 Hiding/Showing page numbers
691 Harp pedaling
692 Changing the appearance of harp pedal
diagrams
693 Hiding/Showing harp pedaling in layouts
694 Hiding/Showing borders on harp pedal
diagrams
695 Positions of harp pedal diagrams
695 Partial harp pedaling
698 Pedal lines
699 Sustain pedal retakes and pedal level changes
700 Positions of pedal lines
702 Lengthening/Shortening pedal lines
704 Pedal line start signs, hooks, and continuation
lines
706 Text pedal line signs
708 Pedal lines in playback
709 Pedal lines imported from MusicXML les
710 Playing techniques
711 Positions of playing techniques
712 Adding text to playing techniques
713 Hiding/Showing playing techniques
713 Lengthening/Shortening playing techniques
714 Playing technique continuation lines
717 Groups of playing techniques
718 Playback playing techniques
720 Lines
722 Line components
723 Positions of lines
727 Length of lines
730 Changing the body style of lines
730 Changing the caps of lines
731 Changing the direction of lines
731 Adding text to lines
734 Rehearsal marks
734 General placement conventions for rehearsal
marks
735 Positions of rehearsal marks
736 Deleting rehearsal marks
736 Changing the order of rehearsal marks
737 Changing the rehearsal mark sequence type
737 Adding prexes/suxes to rehearsal marks
739 Markers
739 Hiding/Showing markers
740 Changing the vertical position of markers
741 Editing marker text
741 Changing the timecodes of markers
742 Moving markers rhythmically
742 Dening markers as important
744 Timecodes
745 Changing the initial timecode value
745 Changing the vertical position of timecodes
746 Changing the timecode frequency
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