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
inputting (continued)
caret 157, 160
centered beams 582
chord diagram shapes 613
chord symbols 249, 252, 253, 256
chords 144, 192
clefs 256–259
comments 357, 360
dips 286
dives 280–283
dynamic modiers 243, 245, 247, 639
dynamics 243, 245, 247, 432, 639
ensembles 83, 99
expression maps 502–504
fermatas 262–264
gured bass 313, 315
gured bass hold lines 313, 315, 654
ngerings 212
ows 122
frame breaks 387
glissando lines 266, 268, 274, 275, 764
grace notes 190
gradual tempo changes 229, 231, 233, 234
guitar bend hold lines 775
guitar bends 268, 278, 279
guitar dips 268, 286
guitar dives 268, 281–283
guitar lines 268, 287, 288
guitar post-bends 281
guitar pre-bends 280
guitar pre-dives 280
guitar scoops 268, 284, 285
guitar tapping 268, 290
hammer-ons 268, 288
harmonics 734
harp pedaling 294, 300, 301
hold lines 654
inputting vs. editing 153
Insert mode 178
instrument changes 161, 165
instruments 83, 95, 105
instruments in percussion kits 111
jazz articulations 266, 267, 276, 277
jazz ornaments 267, 271, 272
key signatures 216–219, 541
layouts 125
left-hand ngerings 215
line text 835
lines 291, 295, 297, 304–306
lyrics 310, 313
markers 318, 454
metronome marks 228, 233, 234
MIDI 204, 209, 441
mouse input 154, 155, 169
mutual exclusion groups 504
nested slurs 896
nested tuplets 968
notehead brackets 729
notes 157, 161, 165, 168, 171, 178, 204, 421
notes in multiple voices 174
notes in percussion kits 180, 182
octave lines 256, 258, 260, 261
ornaments 266, 271, 272
inputting
(continued)
pauses 262–264
pedal lines 291, 293, 298, 299
percussion kits 106
pick-up bars 220, 222, 226, 227
playback techniques 503, 513
playback templates 479, 480
player groups 120
players 95
playing techniques 291, 295, 297
popovers 18
position 153
post-bends 281
pull-offs 268, 288
register selection 164
rehearsal marks 317
repeat endings 322, 325–327
repeat markers 322, 325, 329
rests 144, 171, 187
rhythm dots 161, 165, 168, 172
rhythm slashes 324, 325, 332
rhythmic feel changes 229, 467
rhythmic grid 155, 156
right-hand ngerings 215
scoops 284, 285
settings 155, 168
slash regions 324, 332
slash voices 175, 1003
slurs 211, 288, 896
stem direction 183
string indicator lines 675
string indicators 294, 301–303
strings 116
swing playback 231
switches 503
system breaks 388
system text 307
tablature 184, 918
tapping 268, 290
tempo equations 229
tempo marks 228, 229, 231, 233, 234, 449
text 307, 835
ties 144, 189
time signatures 220, 224, 225
timecodes 318, 845, 850
tokens 397
tremolos 323, 325, 330, 331
trill intervals 750
trills 267, 271, 272
tuplets 194, 968, 969
unpitched percussion 421
upbeats. See pick-up bars
velocity 438
vibrato bar 278, 280, 281
vibrato bar dips 286
vibrato bar dives 282, 283
vibrato bar lines 287, 288, 784
vibrato bar scoops 284, 285
videos 139
voices 174, 175
Insert mode
144, 179
activating 144
caret 157, 178
Index
1042
Dorico Elements 3.5.12