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
orchestral
order 80, 96
templates 33
orchestrating, See arranging
order
accidentals 372, 469
articulations 376
instrument numbering 82
instruments in percussion kits 94
key signatures 469
layouts 105
notes 787
orchestral 96
players 80
rehearsal marks 585
score 80
tabs 52
voices 787
orientation
changing 264
exporting 363
landscape 361, 363
portrait 361, 363
printing 354, 363
ornaments 515
acciaccaturas 458
accidentals 516, 517
alignment 515
appoggiaturas 458
default settings 516
engraving options 516
lter 128
handles 520
inputting 207, 210, 211
interval 516
jazz 539
length 518, 520
moving 520
panel 211
placement 515
popover 208, 210
position 515, 516, 520
slurs 522
staff-relative placement 521
trills, See trills
types 208
Ornaments panel 211, 213, 214
ossia staves 684
playback 684
vertical spacing 281
output channel
mixer 324
overlapping
accidentals 372
articulations 377
slash regions 621
slurs 662
ties 711
Override Percussion Noteheads dialog 774
overrides
note duration 348, 349
removing 349
P
padding
enclosures 588
frames 262
music frames 265
playing techniques 572
rehearsal marks 588
rests, See padding rests
padding rests 630
hiding 623
slash regions 623
page arrangements 47, 48
page breaks, See frame breaks
page layouts 262
bars per system 268
casting off 268
divisi 687
empty staves 267
xing 268
multiple ows 265
page size 264
staff spacing 281
systems 268
page margins 262
changing 263, 265
page numbers 543
hiding 545, 546
initial 545
numeral style 543, 544
showing 546
tokens 275
total 275
page ranges
exporting 362
printing 362
selecting 359
page size 361, 363
changing 264
layout options 71
page turns 269
page view 47
arrangements 48
changing 54
pages
arrangements 48
changing view 54
exporting 359
layouts 262, 268
margins 262, 263, 265
master pages 262
multiple ows 265
orientation 264
printing 359, 361
ranges 359
setup 363
size, See page size
templates 262
view options 45
pan 324
panels
15, 44
accidentals 170
arpeggio signs 213
Index
825