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
instruments (continued)
staff labels 132, 902, 905
staff size 383
staves 42, 374, 375, 637, 910, 983
strings 104
sustaining 646
swing playback 467
tablature 917, 918
templates 55
tracks. See instrument tracks
transposing 104, 127. See also instrument
transpositions
tuning 83, 104
velocity 437. See also velocity lanes
VST 415, 417
intensity
dynamics 245, 247, 342, 429, 633
interactive key commands map 48
interchangeable time signatures 951
inputting 220, 222, 224, 225
specifying for individual bars 951
interface 23
interspersion
accidentals 543
intervals
add intervals popover 198
auto-save 78
chord symbols 250, 599
dips 782
gured bass 658
fretted instruments 116
guitar bends. See bend intervals
harmonics 733–735, 737, 740
octave divisions 700
ornaments 741
simplifying 658
transposing 198, 202, 203
trills 267, 271, 748–750, 753
vibrato bar dives and returns 773
inversions
chord symbols 255
gured bass 313, 315, 651
inverting 894
articulations 550
beaming 578, 579
gured bass 656
ngerings 663
grace note stems 683
slurs 889, 893, 894
ties 944
tuplets 974
ionian chord symbols 251, 606
irregular
bars as pick-up bars 953
time signatures 951
italics
dynamics 628
lyrics 710
text 308
items 153, 334
behind other items 334
changing 342
copying 351
items (continued)
deselecting 341
editing 147
resetting 344
selecting 153, 334–336, 341, 345
J
jazz
articulations. See jazz articulations
band templates 55
glyphs 396
music font 396
staff grouping 55, 594
jazz articulations 786, 787
appearance 788
bend 786
changing 788
deleting 789
duration 788
inputting 266, 267, 276, 277
length 788
line styles 788
moving 788
ornaments. See jazz ornaments
panel 270, 277
playback 512, 513, 786
popover 267, 276
position 788
smooth 786
types 267, 786, 788
jazz ornaments 786, 787
inputting 267, 271, 272
popover 267
types 267
job types 520, 530
page ranges 524
printing 530
selecting 530
joins
barlines 560, 594
beams 583
pedal lines 807
staves with barlines 561
stems 583
jumps
inputting 329
playback 465
repeat 857
justication
staves 372, 382, 408
systems 372, 382, 408
vertical 372, 408
K
kerning
accidentals 544
gured bass 655
key clicks. See playing techniques
key commands
13, 47
articulations 210
assigning 50
Index
1044
Dorico Elements 3.5.12