
While this post is about Dorico, Notion has been my “daily driver” on iPad and MacBook, while Finale (on Mac, of course) has been my backup when more power is needed. But for the most part, I have found myself using one primary app or program because that particular app or program does what I need it to do most efficiently. If you are a user of other music notation apps or programs, yes, you can use different apps to do different things. I had not made a switch to using Dorico, but I knew that time was coming. It was developed from the ground up by much of the former Sibelius team (when Avid outsourced their jobs), who moved to Steinberg and asked the question, “What would a modern, powerful music notation program look like today?” While the original program lacked a number of features that I needed for my ukulele work, it has continued to add features (including ALL of those ukulele features). If you don’t know Dorico, I think it is the best and most modern music notation program.


I assume we’ll be seeing some iPad specific Dorico videos in the very near future. I will also add that there is a learning curve to Dorico, and when you subscribe to it (which you will…the app is free, but some functions require an subscription, which is completely acceptable to me for what you’re getting), if you haven’t been a Dorico user, you will want to take a deep breath and watch a lot of Dorico videos. That said, for the first time, there’s a fully functional desktop class music notation app for the iPad that is also affordable. on screen instruments), and it really doesn’t take advantage of the Apple Pencil at all. There has been a small amount of optimization for the iPad interface (e.g. What I will say is that Steinberg has brought Dorico, to the iPad, in a fully functional way…that treats the iPad more like a MacBook than it does an iPad.
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I have been working with the beta version over the last week, and have a number of thoughts that are not fully-baked yet (pretty much all positive), so this is NOT a full review, as you will likely see from some of the other blogs today. On all the music technology blogs today, you should see articles about the release of Dorico, on iPad.
