![]() #SIBELIUS VS DORICO SOFTWARE#It is very seldom in the software industry that such a huge product gets the chance to do a complete restart.Īnd the progress of the team is great. They had the opportunity to develop from scratch a new system and avoid all the mistakes that they did in the first run within Sibelius. But not because of the huge number of features that were not available in the first version, but - as a software developer myself - because I saw the unique potential for the group in London. When Dorico was announced I immediately jumped on the train. (I do not blame the new development group). Therefore new features and bug fixes came slowly. And of course they had a very high learning curve to get to know the code base. Then the development team in London was fired and the code was passed to a team in Ukrain. As soon as the first version was available on Windows I bought it and used it until version 7. Neither Capella nor Finale impressed me at that time. Then I saw Sibelius version on the Music fare in Frankfurt - there it was running on Acorn PCs - and I was impressed by its performance. I wish there were dozens more like it, and this is something a book could provide. I know I say this tiresomely often here, but Daniel Spreadbury’s own detailed tutorial on the setting up of a choral multimovement service taught me an enormous amount about the workings of a program I’d already known for months. What I really hope for is a book filled with sample projects (a step more complex than the two in the Jones book), talking me step by step through the process (even perhaps educating me about such basics as optimum workflow habits, even down to hand placement). #SIBELIUS VS DORICO MANUAL#The official manual has all the info in it somewhere (or will when it’s updated to the current version), but it really isn’t designed for browsing, to learn what else Dorico has that I might enjoy adding to my repertoire. It’s a good start (it educated me for the first time about Lock To Duration, a brilliant feature that has saved my sanity) but one book can do only so much. I bought it as soon as it was announced (in a Dorico video, in July), at which time I could only order it from Amazon UK. There actually is a book, just released: “Getting Started with Dorico 3.5.” ![]()
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