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
609 Bar repeats
610 Project-wide engraving options for bar repeats
610 Changing the length of the repeated phrase in
bar repeat regions
611 Moving bar repeat regions
611 Lengthening/Shortening bar repeat regions
612 Hiding/Showing bar repeat region highlights
612 Bar repeat counts
616 Bar repeat grouping
619 Rhythm slashes
619 Slash regions
620 Project-wide engraving options for rhythm
slashes
621 Slashes in multiple-voice contexts
623 Splitting slash regions
624 Moving slash regions
624 Lengthening/Shortening slash regions
625 Hiding/Showing stems in slash regions
625 Slash region counts
630 Rests
630 General placement conventions for rests
631 Implicit vs. explicit rests
633 Per-ow notation options for rests
633 Project-wide engraving options for rests
634 Showing rest colors
635 Deleting rests
636 Hiding/Showing bar rests in empty bars
636 Hiding/Showing multi-bar rests
637 Moving rests vertically
639 Slurs
640 General placement conventions for slurs
643 Project-wide engraving options for slurs
644 Cross-staff and cross-voice slurs
645 Nested slurs
646 Moving slurs rhythmically
647 Lengthening/Shortening slurs
648 Linked slurs across multiple staves
649 Slur segments
651 Slurs in Engrave mode
655 Short slurs that cover large pitch ranges
656 Slur height
657 Slur shoulder offset
659 Slur curvature direction
660 Slur styles
662 Slur collision avoidance
664 Slurs over system and frame breaks
664 Slurs in playback
665 Staff labels
666 Instrument names in staff labels
667 Project-wide engraving options for staff labels
669 Changing the length of staff labels project-
wide
671 Changing the length of staff labels at specic
positions
672 Instrument transpositions in staff labels
674 Staff labels for percussion kits
676 Staves
676 Project-wide layout options for staves
678 Staff size
682 Changing the thickness of staff lines
682 Deleting staves
683 Extra staves
684 Ossia staves
684 System objects
686 System indents
687 Divisi
688 Stems
688 Stem direction
693 Project-wide engraving options for stems
693 Stem length
694 Hiding stems
695 Split stems for altered unisons
696 Tempo marks
697 Types of tempo marks
697 General placement conventions for tempo
marks
698 Text in tempo marks
699 Positions of tempo marks
702 Lengthening/Shortening gradual tempo
changes
702 Hiding/Showing tempo marks
703 Deleting tempo marks
703 Project-wide engraving options for tempo
marks
704 Tempo mark components
705 Metronome marks
708 Gradual tempo changes
711 Ties
711 General placement conventions for ties
713 Tie chains
713 Ties vs. slurs
714 Non-standard ties
717 Deleting ties
717 Splitting tie chains
718 Project-wide engraving options for ties
718 Changing the position/shape of ties
719 Tie shoulder offset
721 Tie height
722 Tie styles
725 Tie curvature direction
727 Time signatures
728 General conventions for time signatures
728 Project-wide engraving options for time
signatures
729 Project-wide spacing gaps for time signatures
729 Types of time signatures
732 Large time signatures
734 Time signature styles
737 Positions of time signatures
741 Hiding/Showing time signatures
742 Deleting time signatures
742 Time signature font styles
744 Tremolos
745 Tremolos in tie chains
746 General placement conventions for tremolos
747 Changing the speed of tremolos
747 Deleting tremolos
748 Rhythmic positions of notes with tremolos
748 Moving tremolo strokes
749 Project-wide engraving options for tremolos
750 Tremolos in playback
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