User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- First steps
- Dorico Elements concepts
- User interface
- Hub
- Windows
- Setting up your workspace
- Switching between layouts
- Opening new tabs
- Showing multiple tabs in the same project window
- Closing tabs
- Switching between tabs
- Changing the order of tabs
- Moving tabs to another tab group
- Moving tabs to other windows
- Opening multiple project windows
- Changing to full screen mode
- Changing the view type in the music area
- Preferences dialog
- Setup mode
- Project window in Setup mode
- Project Info dialog
- Layout Options dialog
- Players
- Ensembles
- Instruments
- Instrument numbering
- Transposing instruments
- Adding instruments to players
- Adding empty percussion kits to players
- Combining individual percussion instruments into kits
- Changing instruments
- Moving instruments between players
- Deleting instruments
- Edit Percussion Kit dialog
- Adding instruments to percussion kits
- Changing instruments in percussion kits
- Defining percussion kits as drum sets
- Creating groups of instruments within grid presentation percussion kits
- Renaming groups in grid presentation percussion kits
- Deleting groups within grid presentation percussion kits
- Changing the positions of instruments within percussion kits
- Changing the size of gaps between lines in percussion grids
- Removing individual instruments from percussion kits
- Player groups
- Flows
- Layouts
- Videos
- Write mode
- Project window in Write mode
- Introduction to inputting and editing
- Notation Options dialog
- Note input
- Notations input
- Inputting articulations
- Inputting fingerings
- Input methods for key signatures
- Input methods for time signatures
- Input methods for bars and barlines
- Input methods for dynamics
- Input methods for chord symbols
- Input methods for clefs and octave lines
- Input methods for holds and pauses
- Input methods for ornaments, arpeggio signs, glissando lines, and jazz articulations
- Ornaments popover
- Inputting ornaments with the popover
- Inputting ornaments with the panel
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the popover
- Inputting arpeggio signs with the panel
- Inputting glissando lines with the popover
- Inputting glissando lines with the panel
- Inputting jazz articulations with the popover
- Inputting jazz articulations with the panel
- Input methods for pedal lines, retakes, and pedal level changes
- Input methods for playing techniques
- Inputting lyrics
- Inputting rehearsal marks
- Inputting markers/timecodes
- Input methods for repeats and tremolos
- Inputting slurs
- Input methods for tempo marks
- Inputting text
- Arranging tools
- Copying and pasting items
- Copying and pasting notes into different voices
- Copying and pasting items to multiple staves
- Copying and pasting items to fill a selected range
- Moving notes to other staves
- Swapping the contents of staves
- Reducing music onto fewer staves
- Exploding music onto multiple staves
- Changing the voice of existing notes
- Swapping the contents of voices
- Splitting flows
- Layout and formatting
- Engrave mode
- Frames
- Master pages
- Page layouts
- Music Fonts dialog
- Editing text
- Note spacing
- Staff spacing
- Play mode
- Project window in Play mode
- Playback Options dialog
- Event display
- Tracks
- Playhead
- Playing back music
- Swing playback
- Mixer
- Transport window
- Endpoints
- Expression maps
- Percussion maps
- Played vs. notated note durations
- Print mode
- Notation reference
- Introduction
- Accidentals
- Articulations
- Bars
- Barlines
- Bar numbers
- Beaming
- Note and rest grouping
- Brackets and braces
- Chord symbols
- Clefs
- Octave lines
- Cues
- Dynamics
- Types of dynamics
- General placement conventions for dynamics
- Showing dynamics in parentheses
- Moving dynamics rhythmically
- Copying dynamics
- Deleting dynamics
- Voice-specific dynamics
- Niente hairpins
- Expressive text
- Gradual dynamics
- Placement of dynamics
- Groups of dynamics
- Dynamics linked across multiple staves
- VST Expression Maps for volume types
- Fingering
- General placement conventions for fingering
- Changing fingerings to substitution fingerings
- Changing existing fingerings
- Changing the placement of fingerings relative to the staff
- Hiding/Showing fingering
- Deleting fingerings
- Cautionary fingerings
- Fingerings for valved brass instruments
- Hiding/Showing fingering shifts for string instruments
- Fingerings imported from MusicXML files
- Front matter
- Grace notes
- Holds and pauses
- Key signatures
- Lyrics
- General placement conventions for lyrics
- Filters for lyrics
- Types of lyrics
- Types of syllables in lyrics
- Changing the text of existing lyrics
- Showing lyrics in italics
- Positions of lyrics
- Lyric hyphens and lyric extender lines
- Deleting lyric lines
- Lyric line numbers
- Verse numbers
- East Asian elision slurs
- Project-wide engraving options for lyrics
- Notes
- Ornaments
- Arpeggio signs
- Glissando lines
- Jazz articulations
- Page numbers
- Pedal lines
- General placement conventions for pedal lines
- Sustain pedal retakes and pedal level changes
- Sustain pedal lines in Engrave mode
- Adding retakes and pedal level changes to existing pedal lines with the popover
- Adding retakes and pedal level changes to existing pedal lines with the panel
- Changing the type of pedal line retakes
- Changing the start level of pedal lines
- Changing pedal levels at retakes and pedal level changes
- Changing the end level of pedal lines
- Removing retakes and pedal level changes
- Positions of pedal lines
- Lengthening/Shortening pedal lines
- Project-wide engraving options for pedal lines
- Pedal line start signs, hooks, and continuation lines
- Pedal line start, continuation, and restorative text
- Pedal lines in playback
- Pedal lines imported from MusicXML files
- Playing techniques
- General placement conventions for playing techniques
- Project-wide engraving options for playing techniques
- Positions of playing techniques
- Adding text to playing techniques
- Erasing the background of text playing techniques
- Hiding/Showing playing techniques
- Custom playing techniques
- Playing techniques in playback
- Rehearsal marks
- Markers
- Timecodes
- Repeat endings
- Changing the total number of playthroughs in repeat endings
- Project-wide engraving options for repeat endings
- Lengthening/Shortening segments in repeat endings
- Positions of repeat endings
- Deleting repeat endings
- Changing the text shown in repeat endings
- Changing the appearance of individual final repeat ending segments
- Lengthening/Shortening repeat ending hooks
- Repeat endings in MusicXML files
- Bar repeats
- Rhythm slashes
- Rests
- Slurs
- General placement conventions for slurs
- Project-wide engraving options for slurs
- Cross-staff and cross-voice slurs
- Nested slurs
- Moving slurs rhythmically
- Lengthening/Shortening slurs
- Linked slurs across multiple staves
- Slur segments
- Slurs in Engrave mode
- Short slurs that cover large pitch ranges
- Slur height
- Slur shoulder offset
- Slur curvature direction
- Slur styles
- Slur collision avoidance
- Slurs over system and frame breaks
- Slurs in playback
- Staff labels
- Staves
- Divisi
- Stems
- Tempo marks
- Types of tempo marks
- General placement conventions for tempo marks
- Text in tempo marks
- Positions of tempo marks
- Lengthening/Shortening gradual tempo changes
- Hiding/Showing tempo marks
- Deleting tempo marks
- Project-wide engraving options for tempo marks
- Tempo mark components
- Metronome marks
- Gradual tempo changes
- Ties
- Time signatures
- General conventions for time signatures
- Project-wide engraving options for time signatures
- Project-wide spacing gaps for time signatures
- Types of time signatures
- Large time signatures
- Time signature styles
- Positions of time signatures
- Hiding/Showing time signatures
- Deleting time signatures
- Time signature font styles
- Tremolos
- Tuplets
- Unpitched percussion
- Percussion kits vs. individual percussion instruments
- Percussion kits
- Project-wide engraving options for unpitched percussion
- Per-flow notation options for unpitched percussion
- Changing the playing techniques of notes on percussion kit staves
- Showing notes in percussion instruments as ghost notes
- Moving notes to different instruments in percussion kits
- Notations on notes in percussion kits
- Percussion kit presentation types
- Playing techniques for unpitched percussion instruments
- Percussion legends
- Adding percussion legends to five-line staff kit presentations
- Changing the sounding instrument percussion legend range
- Changing the percussion legend type
- Showing short instrument names in percussion legends
- Changing the text shown in percussion legends
- Changing the placement of percussion legends relative to the staff
- Voices in percussion kits
- Unpitched percussion in Play mode
- Universal Indian Drum Notation
- Voices
- Glossary
- Index
483 Positions of lyrics
486 Lyric hyphens and lyric extender lines
488 Deleting lyric lines
489 Lyric line numbers
492 Verse numbers
493 East Asian elision slurs
494 Project-wide engraving options for lyrics
495 Notes
495 Project-wide engraving options for notes
497 Notehead sets
510 Changing the size of notes
511 Moving notes rhythmically
512 Changing the width of ledger lines
512 Changing the consolidation of rhythm dots
513 Specifying on which string individual notes are
played
514 Deleting notes
515 Ornaments
515 General placement conventions for ornaments
516 Project-wide engraving options for ornaments
516 Changing the intervals of ornaments
518 Changing the speed of trills
518 Lengthening/Shortening trills rhythmically
519 Hiding/Showing trill extension lines
520 Positions of ornaments
523 Arpeggio signs
524 General placement conventions for arpeggio
signs
524 Changing the type of arpeggio signs
525 Changing the end appearance of arpeggio
signs
525 Length of arpeggio signs
527 Positions of arpeggio signs
529 Project-wide engraving options for arpeggio
signs
529 Arpeggios in playback
532 Glissando lines
532 General placement conventions for glissando
lines
533 Glissando lines across empty bars
533 Changing the style of glissando lines
534 Changing glissando line text
535 Moving glissando lines graphically
536 Changing the default angles of glissando lines
project-wide
537 Project-wide engraving options for glissando
lines
538 Jazz articulations
539 Jazz ornaments
540 Positions of jazz articulations
540 Changing the type/length of existing jazz
articulations
541 Changing the line style of smooth jazz
articulations
542 Deleting jazz articulations
543 Page numbers
543 Changing the page number numeral style
545 Hiding/Showing page numbers
547 Pedal lines
548 General placement conventions for pedal lines
548 Sustain pedal retakes and pedal level changes
555 Positions of pedal lines
558 Lengthening/Shortening pedal lines
559 Project-wide engraving options for pedal lines
559 Pedal line start signs, hooks, and continuation
lines
564 Pedal line start, continuation, and restorative
text
566 Pedal lines in playback
566 Pedal lines imported from MusicXML les
567 Playing techniques
567 General placement conventions for playing
techniques
568 Project-wide engraving options for playing
techniques
568 Positions of playing techniques
570 Adding text to playing techniques
571 Erasing the background of text playing
techniques
572 Hiding/Showing playing techniques
573 Custom playing techniques
581 Playing techniques in playback
582 Rehearsal marks
582 General placement conventions for rehearsal
marks
583 Positions of rehearsal marks
585 Deleting rehearsal marks
585 Changing the order of rehearsal marks
586 Changing the rehearsal mark sequence type
587 Adding prexes/suxes to rehearsal marks
587 Project-wide engraving options for rehearsal
marks
591 Markers
591 Project-wide engraving options for markers
592 Changing the vertical position of markers
593 Changing the text shown in markers
593 Changing the marker/timecode font styles
594 Moving markers rhythmically
594 Changing the timecodes of markers
595 Dening markers as important
595 Hiding/Showing markers
596 Deleting markers
597 Timecodes
598 Changing the initial timecode value
598 Showing timecodes on a separate staff
599 Hiding/Showing timecodes in markers
600 Changing the timecode frequency
601 Repeat endings
601 Changing the total number of playthroughs in
repeat endings
602 Project-wide engraving options for repeat
endings
603 Lengthening/Shortening segments in repeat
endings
604 Positions of repeat endings
606 Deleting repeat endings
606 Changing the text shown in repeat endings
607 Changing the appearance of individual nal
repeat ending segments
608 Lengthening/Shortening repeat ending hooks
608 Repeat endings in MusicXML les
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