Sibelius was founded by two Cambridge Music students in 1993, who had found that writing out music by hand was an overly laborious task. Incidentally, if you are curious about the name, it was chosen to recognise the skills and contributions of the 16 th Century Italian music engraver Valerio Dorico (1500-1565). Sibelius was taken over by Avid Technologies but they closed their London offices in 2012 leaving Steinberg the ideal opportunity to headhunt some of the top software developers for their new project: Dorico. What is of particular note is that Dorico was, for the most part, a project designed by some of the key developers of Sibelius software. Developed by Microsoft and Steinberg, Dorico was first available on Windows and Mac OS in late October 2016. Dorico, in comparison to Sibelius, is a relatively new offering in the world of notation software. I think Dorico seems to be the closest fit to this ideal and the reason why I'll probably support the team and the product by buying it.Let’s begin with a brief look at the origins of each of these pieces of software. If other composers are like me, what I ideally want.and what I've wanted ever since I saw Cubase on a 17" Atari screen is.the ability to input onto manuscript (virtual) and have the ability to tweak the playback so it sounds as authentic as it can. The layout capabilities along with the way you can assign players to pieces of music means you can really make your scores in the one package.I think they've got this just right. Although not the best I'd ever heard, the crossgrade price still made it worth getting as the Sibelius 5 sounds I had been using were probably 10 years old.Īnyhow, although Dorico's first release is nothing to get too excited about, the fact that they've got here at all is a massive accomplishment AND it looks like by starting from the ground up, they have the opportunity to make THE score-writing package. I bought Notion after hearing its library coupled with the dynamics. I bought Notion about a year ago (still on 5.1) but I've hardly tried it as most of my stuff is in Sibelius (5). I know this might sound like heresy on this site, but I've downloaded Dorico as a demo and I'm currently trying it.
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