Dorico is the scoring software that helps you write, print, and play back music notation to the highest professional standards. It is easy enough for anyone to learn, yet has hundreds of advanced notations, features, options, and sounds to satisfy the most demanding professionals. Fast, streamlined and effortless - Dorico feels so natural, you'll soon forget you're using software at all. Its built-in intelligence produces beautiful results automatically, so you can focus on expressing your creativity and getting back to doing what you really love: making music.

Features:

- Music notation to the highest professional standards
- Hundreds of advanced features and options
- Streamlined interface for natural, effortless navigation
- Simple visual interface to move instruments on the virtual stage
- More expressive than ever with Pitch Contour Emphasis
- MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn't appear in the score
- New scrub playback feature
- Over 600 pitched and unpitched instruments

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 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… read more 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]

Instrument editor:
Dorico includes definitions for over 600 pitched and unpitched instruments, but no database can capture every variation of instruments or include all cultures and historical periods. With Dorico Pro 5, you can modify or create instrument definitions to suit your needs, and easily reuse them in future projects. [Pro]

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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