Insert mode, one of Dorico’s unique features, has been enhanced with an editable stop position. This works on imported scores and live performances alike. Furthermore, the software now offers Polyphonic MIDI Transcription for automatic separation of melodies, bass lines and inner textures into individual voices. Steinberg says that the new Smart MIDI Import feature intelligently interprets incoming tracks and remembers your choices, which is supposed to make the import of large orchestral arrangements much quicker and less tedious. You can click or tap notes into the score on the keyboard, input guitar tab notation using the virtual fretboard and string, and unleash your inner percussionist with the drum pads.ĭorico 4 also includes improvements to the MIDI import workflow. The new on-screen keyboard, fretboard and drum pads are touch-enabled on Windows devices with touch screens.

Dorico 4 also offers three new on-screen instruments for quicker note input. The new Key Editor isn’t the only new feature in the lower zone. That should be a great time saver for orchestral mock-ups and other applications where MIDI playback is critical. Steinberg says that this makes it easy to edit continuous controllers, dynamics and velocities and shape the MIDI performance of your score.

In Write mode, there’s now a dedicated Key Editor in the lower zone, which is automatically kept in sync with the notation in the upper half of the screen. To begin with, Steinberg has made a number of improvements to the way Dorico imports, records and plays back MIDI data. It also marks Steinberg’s much-anticipated abolishment of the eLicenser dongle in favor of a new, identity-based license management system. The major update to the professional music notation and composition software comes with a long list of new features and workflow enhancements.

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