Name: Dorico - Compose Music
Rating: 4.67471 (802 reviews)
Author: Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

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Compose your own music for free with Dorico. Create beautiful music notation for up to eight instruments quickly and easily with the on-screen keyboard, drum pads and fretboard. Play back instantly with the included sounds and shape the performance with powerful MIDI editing tools. When your piece is finished, share it as PDF, audio or MusicXML, or print directly to your AirPrint-enabled printer. Perform using the built-in read mode, and annotate with your Apple Pencil.

Dorico is the award-winning music notation and composition software from Steinberg for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. It’s easy enough to learn and use that it is used by students in schools, and deep enough that it satisfies the needs of the most demanding professionals in the worlds of concert music, music for film and TV, and music publishing. Dorico for iPad is fully compatible with Dorico for macOS and Windows, so you can work on your projects on the move on your iPad and in your studio on your desktop or laptop computer, or share projects with musicians using Dorico on any platform.

Dorico’s interface is split into four modes. In Setup mode, you can add and change instruments, create and reorder sections of music (called “flows”), and choose how your music will be formatted for your musicians into layouts. In Write mode, you can input and edit music and other notations using simple, well-organized toolboxes and panels. In Engrave mode (included if you buy a paid subscription to Dorico’s advanced features), you can make graphical tweaks to every item in your project. Finally, in Play mode, you have access to powerful sequencer-style MIDI editing tools, including piano roll and velocity editors.

Dorico includes built-in virtual instruments and effects to allow you to play back your compositions, and you can also easily use any compatible Audio Unit plug-in or external MIDI device (with optional subscription or Lifetime Unlock in-app purchase), and tweak playback using the on-screen Mixer.

Input music using an on-screen piano keyboard, or by connecting a MIDI keyboard to your iPad directly via USB or using a compatible USB-to-Lightning adaptor. If you have a Magic Keyboard or other external keyboard, you can make use of extensive keyboard shortcuts to work quickly and efficiently.

Dorico is free to use, allowing you to write for ensembles of up to four players. Register with your free Steinberg ID to increase the player limit to eight, allowing you to write for ensembles like string or wind quartet, or SATB choir. If you want to take your composition and arranging to the next level, you can buy an optional subscription or Lifetime Unlock in-app purchase to access more features and power: write for ensembles of any number of players, and gain access to Engrave mode, allowing you to make graphical tweaks to individual items anywhere in your project.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Best automatic engraving of any software
• Easy note input using on-screen keyboard, MIDI keyboard, or external keyboard
• Intelligently adjusts notation as you write
• Any number of movements or pieces in a single project
• Automatic layout of instrumental parts
• Expressive playback using included sounds and effects
• Supports Audio Unit virtual instruments and effects processors
• Sequencer-style piano roll MIDI editor
• Sophisticated chord symbols, unpitched percussion and drum set notation
• Unbarred music, tuplets across barlines, etc. all handled correctly — no workarounds
• Transfer to and from other apps via MusicXML, MIDI, PDF, etc.

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✓ Really convenient tool for my needs.Only drawback is the bias towards western music. I’d like to be able to easily express Arabic maqam and Iqa, but maybe that requires some advanced customization..PanjseshVersion: 2.5.11

✓ Works Well - looking forward to new featureI have an iPad Pro M1 which is better than my brand new HP ProBook laptop. Dorico works very well and so it will be fantastic when features found on the Windows version are available on the iPad. Especially score layout and Apple Pencil support. The ability to use 3rd Party samples is wonderful and the engraving features are good..SeanudalVersion: 2.5.30

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✗ Immature App but with much promise RECONSIDEREDHaving received feedback from the developers I am not persuaded by their defence of Dorico. Other apps available in the App Store are in my experience much easier to use and meet most needs. The true benefits of Dorico (which I greatly admire) are found in the full blown desktop version which can export and import MusicXml. Prior to receiving feedback… I have spent more hours on this app. I largely stick by my previous conclusions but feel three rather than two stars better represents my observation. The main uptick is the outstanding excellence of the support for lyrics - beats the current competition easily and for the good quality of handling MusicXML files. I would still like to see more support for file directories within the iOS app sandpit and more support for importing snd exporting flows; there are some work arounds. Given the pricing model and app complexity I still think users without access to the desktop version (about £90-£450)will be at least as well served by the principal rival apps. Previous text…. The app greatly resembles the desktop version which people pay approx £90 to £450. I have found that many simple things I'd like to do on the iPad app are not possible and I must use the desktop. Thus using the iPad app must be considered as an investment over and above the big laptop version. The proposition must be that this is a convenient supplement to the big version. In practice the functionality is too reduced in relation to the big version. To illustrate the iPad version has select, copy and paste problems, there is no support for directories in which to organise sets of projects, the very useful (in big Dorico) ability to export and import flows is not enabled and the role of sharing layouts between projects is limited. All in all the idea is good but with current limitations and prices other lower priced music notation apps will probably be easier to use and be a more appropriate choice for iPad working. In time when the app improves I would hope to write a much more positive review..SplingenoffVersion: 1.1.0

✗ Great App. Some Problems.Dorico is a great app if you want to write down some sheet music or if you want to make a simple tune, but it has glitches where sometimes on the digital keyboard on the bottom one of the key will glitch to where it stays down and you can’t press it again. Also sometimes when you close out one of your pieces it will delete it automatically. I most say though it doesn’t really do that anymore so maybe they fixed it. Overall a really good app except for those two apps..Missile198Version: 5.1.21

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