#SIBELIUS VS DORICO PRO#
It’s notation software you might comfortably use alongside Cubase – or Ableton Live, or Reaper, or Pro Tools, or whatever. Part of why even fairly novice musicians often wind up demanding “high-end” notation software is just that – the potential needs users have can run a huge gamut.īut yes, Dorico 4 puts together Cubase-style MIDI editing with notational know-how that has evolved over generations of music scoring software. There are rules, yes, but they were made for humans, not computers. It is also a process that evolved as a specialized practice of people producing scores by hand. Making something really fit neatly on the page is usually a separate process and wants the opposite of that. To put it more simply: when you’re working with actual music, you’re constantly changing stuff and messing it up. Dorico 4 – really, not Cubase/Nuendo, though the comparison is intentional. Even without getting to the invention of the computer, the problem had always been that what composers, arrangers, orchestrators, and musicians do was separate from the role of engraver. It’s a tall order if you want to really produce publishing-grade output. It gets right at the crux of how music-making is evolving.ĭorico, built with the team who led the development of now Avid-owned Sibelius, already has some strong roots in making score production more fluid.
#SIBELIUS VS DORICO UPGRADE#
There are many deeper challenges to trying to fuse essentially late 19th-century western concert score practice and hand engraving with 21st-century global electronic music, which are way too much to go into here in an upgrade preview, but suffice to say that all that tension is really interesting. But notation remains potentially wonderful – for all its limitations and specific cultural boundaries, there remain tons of people who can read it really fast. Once you’ve seen MIDI, it’s hard to see a score the same way. (Just in case you want to pick up an Atari and some 1987 software.) Even Apple’s Logic started as something called “Notator.” Like Cubase itself, it was a combination score writer – MIDI editor. Successfully marrying MIDI and scoring has been a long, long time coming.
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