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
tabs
bar 42
closing 53
groups 54, 55
hiding 40
layouts 51, 52
moving 55
opening 22, 52
order 54
showing 40
showing multiple 54
switching 54
view options 52
tacets
33, 348
formatting 348
hiding 349
margins 350
paragraph style 348
removing players from î µows 129
showing 349
text 350
tap tempo 219
technique combinations
creating 449
Technique Combinations dialog 447
techniques 710
endpoint conî ´gurations 437
exclusion groups 441
expression maps 441
percussion 451, 456, 876, 877
playback 718
templates 66, 67
brackets 67
categories 66, 67
ensembles 93, 107
î µow headings 330
master pages 330
new projects 65
opening 16
pages 37, 330
playback 370, 426, 427, 431, 434
players 93, 107
staff grouping 67, 529
staves 67, 529
titles 330
tempo
819
bpm 825
changing 405
default 819, 823
deleting changes 405
drawing 401
editing 401
equations. See tempo equations
î ´nding 285, 742
î ´xed tempo 417, 424
follow tempo 417, 424
inputting 403
marks. See tempo marks
metronome marks 825
MIDI recording 417
muting in playback 417
Play mode 401
range 826
tempo (continued)
recording 417
tracks. See tempo tracks
tempo changes. See tempo marks
tempo equations
830
inputting 218, 219
panel 219
popover 218
tempo marks 401, 819, 828
abbreviated 822
absolute tempo changes 219, 820
alignment 820
appearance 824
beat units 310, 826
changing 310, 822, 824, 826
components 823, 824
continuation lines 819, 828, 829
decimal places 221, 222, 826
deleting 823
equations. See tempo equations
î ´lters 308
î ´nding 285, 742
formatting 829
gradual tempo changes 219, 820, 827, 828
handles 828
hiding 823
inputting 217, 219, 221, 222
integers 221, 222
length 828
metronome marks. See metronome marks
moving 404, 821
multiple positions 805, 820
muting in playback 417
panel 219
parentheses 823, 824
placement 820
playback 418, 819, 823, 826, 827
poco a poco 825
popover 217
position 820
relative tempo changes 219, 820, 827
repeats 418
reset tempo 219, 820
selecting 303
showing 823
signposts 315, 823–825
style 829
text 310, 822
types 217, 219, 820
vertical positions 805
Tempo panel 219
tempo tracks
81, 401
dialog 82, 83
exporting 83
importing 81, 82
Play mode 401. See also time track
tenor clef. See clefs
tenuto. See articulations
terminology
British vs. American English 12
note durations 12
Index
958
Dorico SE 3.1.10