Dorico 5.1.20 update brings engraving improvements

We're pleased to announce the immediate availability of another new Dorico 5 update, coming just a few weeks after the release of Dorico 5.1.10 in January. Dorico 5.1.20 is a free update for existing Dorico Pro 5, Dorico Elements 5 and Dorico SE users, and there's a...

Alessandro Grego triumphs in the Penderecki Composers’ Competition with ‘El mar de l’eterno,’ composed using Dorico

Alessandro Grego is an Italian composer who recently won the Penderecki Composers’ Competition with his music composition El mar de l’eterno, among a total of 94 scores that were submitted to an international jury by composers from across the globe. In a conversation...

Behind the Score: Orchestrator Bernard Duc and “His Dark Materials” at the BBC Proms

His Dark Materials is a fantasy TV Series produced by BBC One and HBO, based on the trilogy of Philip Pullman’s novels. The music of the series was written by Grammy-award winning Scottish composer Lorne Balfe. In late August this year, there was a medley of it...

Learn Note Input in Dorico: New series of tutorial videos released

I love Dorico, but then I have a rather special relationship with it. Not only am I in the extremely fortunate position to help present it to the world—by helping to shape the features and designing the user interface—I also have the great honour of showing it off to...

MAKING NOTES

Dorico 4.0.30 update brings return of tempo editor

Dorico 4.0.30 update brings return of tempo editor

Update (24 March 2022): We have today issued a hotfix for Dorico 4.0.30. More details here. Following hot on the heels of the Dorico 4.0.20 update just three weeks ago, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 4.0.30, a third maintenance release...

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SHOWCASE

Dorico Showcase: Composer Austin Jaquith on “Heldenleben 2020”

Dorico Showcase: Composer Austin Jaquith on “Heldenleben 2020”

This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. It might have seemed perverse even two years ago...

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Dorico Showcase: Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

Dorico Showcase: Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

This post is part of a series that aims to shine a light on projects in which Dorico has played a part. If you have used Dorico for something interesting and would like to be featured in this series, please let me know. George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet,...

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TUTORIALS

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NEWS

Dorico 5 helps you create music that moves

Dorico 5 helps you create music that moves

We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the brand new generation of our music notation and composition software, Dorico, with updated versions available now for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. Dorico 5 is packed with powerful and useful features...

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Dorico 4 First Steps guide published

Dorico 4 First Steps guide published

Our First Steps guide for new Dorico users was updated in February to correspond with functionality available in Dorico 4, and translations of this updated version are now available in German, Japanese, French, and Italian. You can find the First Steps guide and its...

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Dorico 4.3.30 maintenance update now available

Dorico 4.3.30 maintenance update now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dorico 4.3.30 for macOS and Windows, a minor bug fix release for Dorico 4 that solves an important reliability issue, and also brings a few useful smaller fixes. Read on for more details. HALion Sonic 7,...

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LATEST VIDEOS

Productivity improvements in Dorico 2.2

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