I actually significantly prefer the ribbon for stuff like that. It's slow, it's annoying, it's rough on my eyes. I get that the ribbon design in Sibelius is.controversial, but navigating dropdown menus is one of my least favorite parts of any software, and in Dorico, each menu has about 100 items with subcategories that each have another 20-30 items. There are a lot of features that I use fairly commonly (changing noteheads, rebeaming other than the basic options that have shortcuts, grouping dynamics, etc.) that are buried in nested dropdown menus or right-click menus. I especially think the lack of a visual parallel between the on-screen buttons and the keyboard keys that correspond with them is a major design weakness. I'm not a fan of the layout of the keys for durations and basic articulations, and my note input takes 2-3x as long as it does in Sibelius. (please let me know if do do know a proper way to do this!)īasic note input is just all right. It would be nice to have a "no, really, this meter is completely independent of the other parts" option.
So I have to deal with awkward spacing in one or both parts or try to fiddle with it to get both looking decent, or do something hacky like put the parts in different frames. That's fine and useful for music where I want the independent meters to line up, but often I want the two to be in independent tempi, especially if one of them is playing aleatoric parts. E.g., if I have one part in 4/4 and another in open time signature, the first quarter note of the third 4/4 bar will still always line up with the 9th quarter note of the open meter bar.
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Solutions in Sibelius were dreadfully hacky.Įngrave mode is also an incredibly versatile feature, with more robust options than any other software I've used.Įven though you can do a lot with independent meters and open time signatures, unless I'm missing a hidden feature, notes are still forcibly horizontally aligned between parts based on their global rhythmic position. Having multiple independent meters with barlines that don't align is important for some of my music, and doing that is an easy, native feature in Dorico.
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Speaking of which, the freedom you're given with time and meter is the other biggest plus for me.
And I especially love the method of using Alt+Enter to only apply meters/keys/etc. They're incredibly flexible and make some kinds of input waayyyyyyy faster. I consider popovers (i.e., the menus you open with Shift+D, Shift+M, and so on) to be one of the single best features in any notation software.
And everything is built to work nicely with keyboard input as well, which is a necessity for me. So much formatting and engraving happens automatically that I can really focus more on the content of the music. The general design philosophy feels more conducive to composition to me. I started using Dorico alongside Sibelius 1-2 years ago, and while I'm still on 3.5 at the moment, I think Dorico is really great, with a few downsides.
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