User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- New features
- Introduction
- Dorico concepts
- User interface
- Project window
- Workspace setup
- Switching between layouts
- Hiding/Showing panels
- Opening new tabs
- Closing tabs
- Switching between tabs
- Changing the order of tabs
- Showing multiple tabs in the same project window
- Moving tabs to another tab group
- Moving tabs to other windows
- Opening multiple project windows
- Changing to full screen mode
- Switching to galley/page view
- Changing the window color theme
- Changing the page color
- Changing the background color
- Changing your preferred unit of measurement
- Preferences dialog
- Key Commands page in the Preferences dialog
- Project and file handling
- Hub
- Starting new projects
- Opening projects/files
- Projects from different versions of Dorico
- Missing Fonts dialog
- File import and export
- Auto-save
- Project backups
- Setup mode
- Project window in Setup mode
- Project Info dialog
- Layout Options dialog
- Players, layouts, and flows
- Players
- Ensembles
- Instruments
- Instrument numbering
- Instrument changes
- Transposing instruments
- Fretted instrument tuning
- Adding instruments to players
- Adding empty percussion kits to players
- Combining individual percussion instruments into kits
- Changing instruments
- Moving instruments
- 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
- Edit Strings and Tuning dialog
- Player groups
- Flows
- Layouts
- Player, layout, and instrument names
- Flow names and flow titles
- Videos
- Write mode
- Project window in Write mode
- Inputting vs. editing
- Rhythmic grid
- Note input
- Caret
- Inputting notes
- Selecting note/rest durations
- Inputting notes with rhythm dots
- Inputting notes into multiple voices
- Inputting notes and notations onto multiple staves
- Inputting notes in Insert mode
- Inputting notes for unpitched percussion
- Inputting notes on tablature
- Inputting accidentals
- Inputting rests
- Inputting ties
- Inputting grace notes
- Inputting chords
- Inputting tuplets
- Adding notes above/below existing notes
- Changing the pitch of individual notes
- MIDI recording
- Notations input
- Inputting articulations
- Inputting slurs
- Inputting fingerings
- Input methods for key signatures
- Input methods for time signatures and pick-up bars
- Input methods for tempo marks
- Input methods for bars, beats, 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
- Ornaments panel
- Inputting ornaments/trills with the popover
- Inputting ornaments/trills 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 guitar bends and guitar techniques
- Inputting guitar bends with the popover
- Inputting guitar bends with the panel
- Inputting guitar pre-bends/pre-dives
- Inputting guitar post-bends
- Inputting vibrato bar dives
- Inputting vibrato bar dives and returns with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar dives and returns with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar scoops with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar scoops with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar dips with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar dips with the panel
- Inputting vibrato bar indications/lines with the popover
- Inputting vibrato bar indications/lines with the panel
- Inputting hammer-ons/pull-offs
- Inputting tapping
- Input methods for playing techniques, pedal lines, string indicators, and harp pedal diagrams
- Playing techniques popover
- Playing Techniques panel
- Inputting playing techniques with the popover
- Inputting playing techniques with the panel
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the popover
- Inputting pedal lines and retakes with the panel
- Inputting harp pedal diagrams
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the popover
- Inputting string indicators outside the staff with the panel
- Inputting string indicators inside the staff
- Input methods for lines
- Inputting text
- Inputting lyrics
- Inputting figured bass
- Inputting rehearsal marks
- Inputting markers/timecodes
- Input methods for repeats and tremolos
- Repeats popover
- Repeat Structures panel
- Inputting repeat endings with the popover
- Inputting repeat endings with the panel
- Inputting repeat markers with the popover
- Inputting repeat markers with the panel
- Inputting tremolos with the popover
- Inputting tremolos with the panel
- Inputting slash regions
- Inputting bar repeats
- Editing and selecting
- Selecting/Deselecting notes and items individually
- Selecting more items of the same type
- Selecting multiple items using marquee selections
- Large selections
- System track
- Filters
- Playing/Muting notes during note input/selection
- Playing all/individual notes in chords during note input/selection
- Disabling automatic linking of dynamics and slurs when pasting
- Changing existing items
- Changing the staff-relative placement of items
- Resetting the appearance of items
- Resetting the position of items
- Hiding non-printing elements
- Navigation
- Signposts
- Arranging tools
- Splitting flows
- Comments
- Layout and formatting
- Engrave mode
- Master pages
- Flow headings
- Frames
- Music frame chains
- Page formatting
- Changing the page size and/or orientation
- Changing page margins
- Applying master page sets to layouts
- Changing the default staff size
- Changing the default staff/system spacing
- Changing the vertical justification of staves/systems
- Hiding/Showing empty staves
- Hiding/Showing blank staves after final flows
- Starting layouts on left-hand pages
- Allowing/Disallowing multiple flows on the same page
- Changing when the First master page is used
- Hiding/Showing flow headings
- Changing the margins above/below flow headings
- Hiding/Showing information in running headers above flow headings
- Changing the default music frame margins
- Changing the horizontal justification of final systems
- Staff size
- Casting off
- Frame breaks
- System breaks
- Tacets
- Condensing
- Part formatting propagation
- Music Fonts dialog
- Text objects vs. text in text frames
- Note spacing
- Staff spacing
- Play mode
- Project window in Play mode
- Event display
- Tracks
- Playhead
- Playing back music
- Repeats in playback
- Swing playback
- Mixer
- Transport window
- Playback templates
- Endpoints
- Expression maps
- Percussion maps
- Playback techniques
- 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
- Chord diagrams
- Clefs
- Octave lines
- Cues
- Dynamics
- Types of dynamics
- Positions of dynamics
- Showing dynamics in parentheses
- Changing dynamic levels
- Hiding/Showing immediate dynamics
- Hiding/Showing combined dynamic separators
- Changing the appearance of sforzando/rinforzando dynamics
- Copying dynamics
- Deleting dynamics
- Voice-specific dynamics
- Niente hairpins
- Dynamic modifiers
- Gradual dynamics
- Groups of dynamics
- Linked dynamics
- VST Expression Maps for volume types
- Figured bass
- Fingering
- General placement conventions for fingering
- Changing fingerings to substitution fingerings
- Changing existing fingerings
- Changing the staff-relative placement of fingerings
- Hiding/Showing fingering
- Deleting fingerings
- Cautionary fingerings
- Fingerings for fretted instruments
- Fingering slides
- Fingerings for valved brass instruments
- Hiding/Showing string fingering shift indicators
- Fingerings imported from MusicXML files
- String indicators
- Front matter
- Grace notes
- Holds and pauses
- Key signatures
- Lyrics
- Notes
- Harmonics
- Ornaments
- Arpeggio signs
- Glissando lines
- Guitar bends
- Guitar techniques
- Jazz articulations
- Page numbers
- Harp pedaling
- Pedal lines
- Playing techniques
- Lines
- Rehearsal marks
- Markers
- Timecodes
- Repeat endings
- Repeat markers
- Bar repeats
- Rhythm slashes
- Rests
- Slurs
- Staff labels
- Staves
- Divisi
- Tablature
- Stems
- Tempo marks
- Ties
- Time signatures
- Tremolos
- Tuplets
- Unpitched percussion
- Percussion kits vs. individual percussion instruments
- Percussion kits and drum sets
- 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
- Voices in percussion kits
- Unpitched percussion in Play mode
- Universal Indian Drum Notation
- Voices
- Glossary
- Index
graphics les (continued)
image resolution 536
monochrome 536
green notes
tablature 919
grids
chord diagrams 610
gaps 115
instrument groups 112
naming groups 113
percussion kits 983, 984
rhythmic 155, 156
staff labels 903
staves 907, 983
groups
bar repeats 867
beams. See beam groups
braces 592
brackets 592
dynamics 647, 648
guitar bends 768
instruments. See instrument groups
notes. See note grouping
percussion kits 109, 112–114
players. See player groups
playing techniques 818, 819, 821
rests. See note grouping
staff labels 908
staff spacing 371, 408
staves 560
tabs 40
guide bar numbers 42, 566
hiding 345
guide instrument labels 42, 130
guitar 778
bends. See guitar bends
changing string for notes 919
chord diagrams. See chord diagrams
chord symbols. See chord symbols
dead notes 782
dips 286, 778
dives 281–283, 773, 778
ngerings 665
hammer-ons 288, 780
harmonics 733, 735, 737
lines 287, 288, 768, 773, 778
note input 184
notes out of range 727
open pitches 118
pre-bends. See guitar pre-bends
pre-dives. See guitar pre-bends
pull-offs 288, 780
scoops 284, 285, 778
slides 669
string indicators. See string indicators
strings 118
strumming 668
tablature. See tablature
tapping 290, 779
techniques. See guitar techniques
tuning 83, 104, 116, 118
vibrato bar. See vibrato bar
guitar bends 768, 773
chords 768, 772
deleting 350
direction 343
dives 773
groups 768
hold lines 775
holds 768, 775
inputting 268, 278, 279
intervals. See bend intervals
microtonal 281, 772, 774
parentheses 768
playback 768
popover 268, 279
post-bends 281, 772
pre-bends 771
releases 768
runs 768
tablature 918
guitar post-bends 772
bend intervals 774
chords 772
deleting 777
inputting 281
microtonal 281, 772
guitar pre-bends 771
accidentals 777
bend intervals 774
deleting 777
direction 776
inputting 280
guitar pre-dives. See guitar pre-bends
guitar techniques 778–780
dead notes 782
deleting 785
inputting 268, 278, 281–288, 290
intervals 782
moving 783
panel 270
popover 268
staff-relative placement 783
H
H-bars 884
hiding 885
showing 885
width 884
hairpins. See gradual dynamics
half notes
11, 146
beats 236
metronome marks 230
tempo equations 937
tuplets 197
half step trills
inputting 271
half-bar
beam grouping 590
half-step trills 748, 754
appearance 752
hiding 745, 749
inputting 267, 271, 272
Index
1038
Dorico Elements 3.5.12