Raising the Bar on Notation Software
Steinberg’s Dorico series has been setting the standard for what professional-level music notation software should be for years, and the comprehensive new upgrades within Dorico’s fifth iteration manage to raise that bar even higher! Dorico Pro 5 builds upon its previous versions’ world-class notation, printing, and incredibly realistic virtual instruments — combining these features with greatly enhanced workflow tools, refined MIDI functionalities, and an expanded selection of font families. Despite Dorico Pro 5’s immense editing and compositional power, tools such as the new space and stage templates, expressive pitch contour playback, and live click-and-drag editing make it easier to use than ever. Composers at Sweetwater find that one of Dorico 5 Pro’s most compelling features is how it includes access to Groove Agent SE, the entry-level version of their first-class creative drum software. Whether you’re an educator, composer, arranger, or copyist, Dorico Pro 5 delivers a comprehensive scoring software experience of the highest level.
Note: This is a special offer for customers who already own a full license either Finale, Sibelius Ultimate (version 2019.4 or later), or Sibelius (version 2019.1 or earlier). Please contact your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more details.
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What’s new in Dorico Pro 5?
- Stage and Space templates: A user-friendly visual interface allows you to move instruments on the virtual stage, experiment with different acoustic settings, re-order and rename outputs, create send buses, and more.
- Pitch contour emphasis: Ultra-expressive playback powered by sophisticated algorithms that give your compositions life as real human musicians do.
- Groove Agent SE: Includes access to the entry-level version of Steinberg’s creative drum software.
- MIDI triggers: New MIDI trigger regions play a note or chord that doesn’t appear in the score for a period of time you control.
- Scrub playback: Nifty playback feature makes it easy to audition the whole ensemble or a single instrument within your composition and move any direction or speed through the playback.
- Instrument editor: Dorico 5 gives you the ability to create or modify definitions for over 600 pitched and unpitched instruments to suit your needs.
- Live editing: Select and drag notes to alter their pitch in real time or move them to new rhythmic positions, with a live overlay that shows where the notes will be moved to.
- MusicXML import and export: Enhanced support for importing harmonics, playing techniques, ornaments, and holds and pauses, as well as improved exporting with page layout and encoding information.
- New music fonts: Eight new music font families — including four new handwritten-style fonts and four engraved fonts — give you greater control over the appearance of your projects.
Powerful features streamline your creative process
Dorico Pro 5 is a potent creative tool for modern composers. Automatically produce a conductor’s score with a single click. Generate tablature for instruments with any number of strings. Employ templates to set up your playback preferences, combining sounds from any virtual instrument and sound library. Build compelling arrangements with gorgeous choir samples from Soundiron. Benefit from the automatic calculation of harp pedal changes. Group playing techniques to align them together and show transitions from one to another. You also get enhanced lyric editing, velocity and pitch bend editing, glissando playback, new tokens for music symbols, and automatic notation of harmonics. A revamped Project Info dialogue, VST Expression Maps, and refined user interface are also included.
Created by musicians for musicians
It’s clear from Steinberg’s hardware and software products that its developers are involved in music production themselves. Dorico Pro 5 is no exception. Its single-display layout and wizard-like composition process are a refreshing alternative to other notation software. You’ll benefit from revisions that allow you to compose without barlines, play notes and chords not written in your score, and audition parts across the score in real time without altering your project. Dorico Pro 5 aims to let you, the composer, arrange music in an intuitive way that lets you see beyond the computer screen.
Hear your pieces played as you intended
Dorico Pro 5’s included HALion instruments libraries give you real-time feedback on precisely which instruments your piece is calling for. The complete HALion Symphonic Orchestra library offers captivating percussion, horns, and strings perfect for traditional and modern works. Plus, Dorico Pro 5 allows you to create or modify definitions for over 600 pitched and unpitched instruments, so you can achieve your dream sound while you compose. Beyond that, Dorico Pro 5 supports third-party VST3-compatible virtual instruments and effects and includes a top-end compressor, brickwall limiter, and more.
Steinberg Dorico Pro 5 Scoring Software Features:
- Dozens of new features, including stage and space templates, pitch contour emphasis, access to Groove Agent SE, live editing, and 8 new font families
- Video support using the same powerful engine as Cubase and Nuendo
- Automatically produce a conductor’s score with a single click
- Generate tablature for instruments with any number of strings
- Support for left- and right-hand guitar notation
- Playback templates for quick setup of your playback preferences
- Soundiron Olympus Choir Micro for building gorgeous choir arrangements
- Benefit from the automatic calculation of harp pedal changes
- Group playing techniques to align them together and show transitions from one to another
- Leave reminders to yourself or for your collaborators
- Enhanced lyrics editing with smart copy and paste to and from other software
- Velocity and pitch bend editing provide richer controls for tweaking playback
- Playback of discrete-note glissandos, automatically taking harp pedal changes into account
- New tokens for music symbols with a new context menu
- Automatic notation of natural and artificial harmonics
- Project Info dialogue enables easy project metadata management
- Editable mutual exclusion for techniques, absolute, and relative channel changes, primary and secondary volume types, and more
- Refined user interface plays nice with macOS’s Dark Mode
- Included HALion libraries bring your creations to life
- Included FX suite includes a top-end compressor, brickwall limiter, and more
- Smart staff management tools and support for rhythm slashes
- Support for 2 time signature conventions — 1 for the scoring stage and 1 for the concert hall
- System Track makes adding and deleting bars, as well as selecting and copying music a piece of cake
- Explode and Reduce tools quickly paste music to more or fewer players
- Multipaste pastes material to multiple instruments in a single step
- Cutting-edge artificial intelligence automatically rewrites notation while you’re inserting, deleting, and editing
- Wizard-like workflow breaks up compositions into 5 modes
- Adjust presentational elements without affecting your composition
- Compose using your computer keyboard or MIDI controller
- Streamlined interface is a breeze to use
- Sequencer-style piano roll MIDI editor
- DTP-quality page layout features
- Engraves music better than most experienced engravers
- Petaluma handwritten music font was inspired by the hand-copying style of a famous series of jazz standards books
- Default note spacing is tailored for ease of reading
- Powerful editing features — change note length of existing notes
- Unlimited movements, sections, staves, and pieces within a project
- Supports open meter — essential for modern composers
- Imports/exports in MusicXML, MIDI, and graphical formats
- 64-bit only; does not support 32-bit plug-ins
