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Manual staff visibility
● You can now change staff visibility manually from system/frame breaks, including showing
individual empty staves or hiding individual non-empty staves. See Hiding/Showing staves
from system/frame breaks.
Blank staves
● You can now automatically ll pages after the nal ow in layouts with blank staves,
including lling the width of the nal system with blank staves when the nal system is
not fully horizontally justied. This is a convention used by some copyists when preparing
parts for recording sessions. See Hiding/Showing blank staves after nal ows.
Expression map improvements
● A number of new options have been added to the Expression Maps dialog, allowing you
to create new and edit existing expression maps more easily and with better results in
playback. See Expression Maps dialog.
Used chord diagrams grids
● You can now automatically show a grid above the start of each ow that contains all chord
diagrams used in the ow, including different voicings of the same chord. See Hiding/
Showing used chord diagrams grids.
Figured bass
● Dorico Elements now offers comprehensive support for gured bass, including allowing
you to input gures using numbers or chord symbols, from which Dorico Elements
calculates the gures required. See Figured bass.
Guitar techniques
● Guitar bends, releases, and vibrato bar dives and returns with bend intervals of up to a
whole step (tone) are now reected in playback as smooth adjustments in pitch. See Guitar
bends.
● Dorico Elements now supports a variety of techniques typically found in music for guitars,
such as microtonal post-bends in Blues music and vibrato bar dives and scoops. These
techniques can be shown on both notation staves and tablature. See Guitar techniques.
More New Features
Workspace customization
● You can now change the page color according to the layout type, such as having a different
color for pages in part layouts than in full score layouts. See Changing the page color.
● You can now change the background color of the music area. See Changing the
background color.
XML import/export improvements
● Text playing techniques, such as pizz. and arco, are now included when importing
MusicXML les. Additionally, Dorico Elements now identies text-based objects, such as
tempo marks, more reliably. See Importing MusicXML les.
● Non-default noteheads, absolute and gradual tempo marks, a wider range of time
signatures, percussion instruments and kits, and more dynamics than previously, including
messa di voce hairpins with specic line styles, are all now included when exporting projects
to MusicXML. See Exporting MusicXML les.
Instant print preview
● You can temporarily hide, in any mode, all visible elements that do not print. See Hiding
non-printing elements.
Hiding text objects
● You can now hide individual text objects, either in the current layout and frame chain only
or in all layouts and frame chains. This allows you, for example, to show text objects in part
layouts without showing them in the full score as well. See Hiding/Showing text objects.
New features
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