Steinberg Dorico CG Notation Software
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Musical notation software of the future, hands down!
This is the future for professional musical notation scoring software. Conceived and developed by the London engineering team [aka Daniel Spreadbury and associates] which for many years did the development of Sibelius (until Avid Tech bought it in 2006, and fired the development team in 2012), this re-envisioned approach combines the best of notation scoring and desktop publishing. Having used Finale and then Sibelius for 18+ years, I can only say that Dorico is an absolute joy to use, and truly excels at what it does. While it is only at v2.2 at this writing, it does 95% of what I need to do as a church musician, and does it exceptionally well (I've nearly forgotten how to use Sibelius!). There are some limitations, due to features not yet implemented (but which will eventually come). These are noted on the Steinberg/Dorico forum. I might add that this forum is monitored closely by the actual development team, who responds to suggestions, concerns, problematic scores, and ongoing issues. That is extremely rare!Bottom line: Finale is stagnant, and Sibelius is struggling to give periodic updates (and their monthly/yearly subscription model is abominable). Dorico was envisioned "from the ground up", without needed to deal with legacy code of 20+ years. Nothing else comes close to what the future holds.
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