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
lyric lines
changing 489, 490
deleting 488
numbers 489
placement 484
position 484
lyricist 70
text tokens 273
lyrics 477
alignment 477, 485
appearance 494
changing 480, 481, 489
chorus 226, 479, 480, 489
default settings 494
deleting 488, 489
East Asian elision slurs 493, 494
engraving options 494
extender lines 227, 480, 486, 487
î ´lters 128, 478, 479
handles 486, 487
hyphens 227, 480, 486, 487
inputting 225, 227
italics 482
line numbers 489, 490
lines 226, 477, 479, 489
melismatic 225, 227, 483, 486
moving 484
note spacing 477
placement 477, 483
popover 225–227
position 477, 483, 494
selecting 479
spacing 484, 485
staff-relative placement 491
syllable types 227, 480, 481
translations 226, 479, 480, 489
types 226, 479, 480
verse numbers 492, 493
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printing 356
major
keys 471
scales 471
maps
expression 332
key commands 57
percussion 340
marcato 374
inputting 163
margins
changing 263
music frames 265
pages 262, 263
markers 591
appearance 591
default settings 591
deleting 596
dialog 229
engraving options 591
î ´lter 128
markers (continued)
font style 593
hiding 595
important 230, 595
inputting 228, 229, 311
moving 594
panel 229
position 591
repeats 234
showing 595
staff 592
text 229, 593
timecodes 229, 594, 599
track 310
vertical position 591, 592, 598
marks
rehearsal, See rehearsal marks
tempo, See tempo marks
marquee tool 46
using 47
master output volume 324
master pages 262
page numbers 543
measured tremolos 744
measures, See bars
melismatic lyrics 227, 483, 486
messa di voce 441
moving 443
meter 727
beam grouping 402, 413, 414
channel levels 324
irregular 381
meterless time signatures 728
note grouping 413
open 729, 736
rest grouping 413
time signatures 729
tremolos 744
tuplets 752
metric modulation
tuplets 755
metronome
playback 326
metronome marks 705
appearance 704, 705
beat units 706
changing 706
components 704, 705
fonts 698
hiding 702
inputting 245, 249, 250
multiple positions 684
parentheses 704
playback 706
popover 246
range 706
showing 702
size 698
tempo equations 248
values 706
vertical positions 684
microtones 371, 472
transposing 155
Index
820