If you then decide that you want to look at a different chunk of music, you can scroll away or change the zoom level, and Dorico will take that as a hint that you no longer want to follow the selection in the music area, thus deactivating the link. The idea behind linked mode in the Key Editor was a simple (and, we thought, good) one: to provide orientation as you work on your music, switching freely back and forth between the standard notation in the music area and the piano roll in the Key Editor, we would automatically keep one system’s worth of music in view, and adjust the horizontal and vertical zoom level to ensure this. It’s great fun to use, and we really hope you will get a kick (drum) out of it. Just as with the introduction of the piano roll editor in Write mode in Dorico 4, which suddenly makes some kinds of edits that were previously awkward to achieve in the music area not only easy but natural, the new percussion editor could quickly become your favourite way to enter drum notation. And when the drumstick tool is active, each instrument in the kit can have its own grid resolution, so that when you click with the drum stick to add a note, or drag across a row, the created notes can have a different duration, say, on the kick drum and the hi-hat. You can also remove a stream of notes by clicking and dragging from an existing note instead of an empty part of the editor. Click on any existing note with the drumstick tool to remove it – making it very easy to create complex patterns where individual notes drop out.
And you can freely drag notes between instruments or between different techniques of the same instrument.īeyond this, the drumstick tool has had a huge upgrade: you can click and drag across a row belonging to an instrument to input a stream of notes for that instrument in a single gesture. Note durations are always displayed, so it’s easier to correlate what you see in the percussion editor with the music in the music area. Each instrument in the kit now shows a separate row for each mapped playing technique, making it easy to create (say) normal hits, or cross-stick or rim hits for a snare drum, or to easily write for open and closed hi-hats. The new percussion editor in Dorico 4.2 addresses all of these shortcomings. Let’s dive in.Īs usual, my honey-voiced colleague Anthony has a brief introduction to the main new features in this update:ĭorico 3.5 had a useful percussion editor in Play mode, but it had a few problems that we wanted to address as we rebuild Play mode and its associated editors for Dorico 4 and beyond: firstly, it didn’t fully support multiple playing techniques for each instrument, so you couldn’t create (or even necessarily see) notes for different playing techniques secondly, note durations were only displayed when the note is selected, making it difficult to correlate the display in the editor with the notated music thirdly, although you could create notes individually with the pencil tool or with the drumstick tool, you could only create notes one by one, and it was impossible to take a note written for one instrument in the percussion kit and drag it to another instrument in the kit. And of course there is the usual clutch of bug fixes and other minor improvements.
#DORICO PRO UPDATE#
This update represents another big step forwards for the new Key Editor, with the reintroduction of the percussion editor, and some important improvements to the way the Key Editor follows the selection in the music area in linked mode. Only three weeks after the Dorico 4.1.10 update, we’re back again with Dorico 4.2.
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