More time for music

Whether you’re writing your first song or scoring the latest blockbuster, Dorico is the smart choice for composition and music notation. With a complete family of apps for iPad, macOS and Windows, there’s a version of Dorico that’s perfect for you today and will grow with you tomorrow.

Every version of Dorico is packed with smart, time-saving features to help you spend less time in front of your computer and more time doing what you love: making music.

• Fast and easy to learn
• Suitable for every level and type of music
• Ideal for learning and teaching
• Beautiful, modern design

What can you do with Dorico?

Compose: Dorico is the only music notation software designed from the ground up for composing, and it supports you at every stage in the process. Flexible input and editing tools allow you to change your mind about any decision at any time, and work without constraint.

Arrange: Quickly move music between players, explode or reduce it onto more or fewer instruments. Powerful transformation tools allow you to change tonality, perform inversion, map onto new scales, and more. You can even create fully-voiced parts from chord symbols.

Perform: Dorico comes with hundreds of high-quality sounds, more than 30 effects processors, and a full audio Mixer, plus tools to help you make your music sound as good as it looks. The integrated Key Editor allows you to tweak every aspect of your score’s performance.

Share: Dorico can import MIDI and MusicXML, and export MIDI, MusicXML, audio, and graphics. Whether you’re working on your own or part of a team, it’s easy to get music into the hands of your performers or collaborators. Projects are also fully compatible between desktop and iPad.

Publish: Dorico formats your music beautifully, completely automatically. With Dorico Pro, you have the tools to meet the demands of any publisher, with thousands of options for customization. But you’ll almost never need them – everything looks great by default.

Learn: Dorico is widely used in schools, colleges and universities. It’s perfect for producing learning materials and for building an understanding of music theory. And it’s easy for students to learn with dozens of helpful tutorials and well-structured documentation.

New in Dorico 6

Dorico 6 expands your engraving horizons and assists you in producing peerless performance materials faster than ever before.

• Proofreading: Dorico automatically checks your score as you edit, highlighting issues that could raise questions in rehearsal and recording sessions in the new Proofreading panel.
• Cutaways: Create cutaway scores that match the finest published works of Lutos?awski, Ligeti, Berio and Stravinsky in a single click.
• Cycle Playback: Loop any section of your score during playback, and hear your edits live in the next cycle.
• Chord Symbols: Show multiple rows of chord symbols, with optional extender lines. Create your own custom chord symbols, and easily override every aspect of their appearance.
• Fill View: Fill view makes maximum use of your available display, flexibly flowing as many systems of music as possible into the width and height of the window.
• OpenType Features: Access enhanced typographical control with full support for OpenType glyph positioning and glyph substitution features.
• System-attached Items: Exercise complete control over where tempos, rehearsal marks, repeats, and large time signatures appear.
• Flow Heading Overrides: Flow headings provide automatic titles before each new song, movement or piece in your project: now you can control exactly how they appear on every page in every layout.
• Rulers and Grid: Show rulers and a customizable grid in page view for precision control over item placement.
• Condensing: All instruments held by players can now be condensed, instead of only the first, making it easy to handle players who double.

Features

• Automatic engraving: the automatic engraving engine at the heart of Dorico produces the most elegant, beautiful results of any scoring application.
• Automatic layout of parts: Dorico allows you to originate both the conductor’s score and parts for individual players from the flows of music in your project as individual layouts.
• Condensed scores: Dorico can create an intelligently-formatted conductor’s score with a single click.
• DTP page layout: Dorico makes it easy to produce a consistent and attractive layout for every project, thanks to its unique page layout features.
• Drum notation: Creating clean and precise parts for your drummer has never been easier.
• Easy note input: Inputting music in Dorico is fast and easy. Use your keyboard or mouse to input notes, and learn easy to remember key commands, or define your own, allowing you to fly through note input faster than ever before.
• Flexible chord symbols: Dorico supports six different chord symbol conventions, with dozens of options to customize their appearance, and further editing tools allowing you to adjust every aspect of their look.
• Integrated MIDI editors: Dorico is the only professional music notation software with an integrated sequencer-style view, incorporating familiar tools like piano roll, velocity, MIDI controller and tempo track editors.
• Intelligent assistant: Using Dorico is like having an intelligent assistant sitting beside you, adapting to the music you write and ensuring that it is always notated legibly and correctly for your performers.
• Linked guitar tab: Whether you want to show guitar tab on its own or together with staff notation, you can instantly switch the way the music is shown, and when you edit the tab, the staff notation is automatically updated, and vice versa.
• Multiple pieces per project: Each project file can contain as many independent pieces of music as necessary, called flows.
• Streamlined workflow: Dorico has a simple, uncluttered interface that is intended to disappear and allow you to focus on the music.
• Supports VST3: Dorico includes the same world-class audio engine that powers Cubase and Nuendo, with a pristine sound quality that is the hallmark of the Cubase music production experience.