Dorico Elements is the simple, streamlined music notation software that helps you write, print, and play back music notation to the highest professional standards. Boasting many of the powerful and time-saving features of Dorico Pro, Dorico Elements is the perfect starting point for composers, arrangers, and students.

With a simple user interface that is quick to master, Dorico Elements provides fluid input and editing, beautiful graphical results, and great-sounding playback. Step up to the tool that is trusted by professional musicians around the world and take your scoring to the next level.

Dorico Elements is ideal for students and home users; and Dorico Pro adds extra professional tools, more sounds and much greater customization.

Features:

- Perfect for composers, arrangers, students, and home users
- Many of the powerful and time-saving features of Dorico Pro
- Simple user interface that is quick to master
- Fluid input and editing, beautiful graphical results, and great-sounding playback
- MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn't appear in the score
- Simple visual interface to move instruments on the virtual stage
- More expressive than ever with Pitch Contour Emphasis

Stage and Space templates:
Use a simple visual interface to move instruments on the virtual stage, and Dorico automatically translates that into pan and reverb settings. Experiment with different rooms, and quickly recall any previous state by creating a mixer snapshot. Reorder and… read more rename outputs, create send buses, and more. [Pro/Elements]

Pitch contour emphasis:
Dorico's playback is more expressive than ever, using sophisticated algorithms to breathe life into phrases in the same way human musicians do. No longer do you need great keyboard skills to bring your notated music to life. [Pro/Elements/SE]

Groove Agent SE:
Groove Agent SE is the entry-level version of Steinberg's creative drum software and is now included with Dorico 5 [Pro/Elements]

MIDI triggers:
Dorico's new MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn't appear in the score for a period of time determined by you. [Pro/Elements]

Scrub playback:
A new scrub playback feature that makes it easy to audition the whole ensemble or a single instrument at any point and move forwards or backwards through the playback at any speed. [Pro/Elements]

Live editing:
Drag selected notes to alter their pitch, or drag them to new rhythmic positions, with a live overlay to show you where the notes will be moved to. [Pro/Elements/SE]

MusicXML import and export:
Enriched support for importing harmonics, playing techniques, ornaments, holds and pauses, and more. MusicXML export is also improved, with page layout information now included, and basic support for encoding information about the music and text fonts used in the project. [Pro/Elements/SE]

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