Dorico - Compose Music

The app is expensive, once you buy a subscription you have access to “super sound” which is POOR. The app lacks key options that are in the PC. In engrave you can't create a new page, you can't create new and edit vertical line for contemporary music, the app bugs and it feels like it is completely not adapted to ipad. I have the impression that the producers forgot that the Apple pencil also have a option “pressure” or double tap. With some options “Settings” ignores apple pencil, you can tap only finger. When I uplouge a full score on Big band in XML I can not edit it because the application shuts down. Abstract ! I asked for a refund but they refused me. I wrote to the support no one is responding. Really congratulate the customer contact and PR. Good job 😖

I used the free version for a couple years then I decided I needed to do more with the engraving pages so I pulled the trigger and paid the one time upgrade price. Amazing!

Unless you have some over standard work to edit, you will have to use so many workarounds that MuseScore will get the job done in a third of the time. Dorico’s support team will be impressively fast to reply to any question about how to do something. You’ll be told that what you are doing is a stupid idea and that a function to put that in a music score shouldn’t be implemented… even when it’s a standard notation for Mendelssohn and Schubert or even when it’s advised in Elaine Gould’s reference. They know better, but I’ll get back to Musescore.

This is in most ways, the best music-composing app I've tried, but there is an annoying problem, so I write some music, but when I listen to it, the dynamics I wrote are not played, the volume of notes is the same no matter what dynamic I put, please fix this. And also, when I try to create an account, when I enter the code that was emailed to me, it said invalid code even though I entered the exact code that I was emailed.

Great idea. Serves wonderfully musicians needs. However the app crashes from time to time.. And not in predictable pattern. Requires to exit to file page to force a manual save to keep your work. Never happened in Cubasis 3. Ps running on iPad Pro 12.9 5th generation with 1 Tb

I’ve been using this application on an M1 iPad for the last 8 months. While it has a huge number of useful features, I find it seizes a lot, so much so that I have to close the program and reopen it. I have tried reloading the software from the App Store, but that did not eliminate the problem. And to add to my frustration, that process deleted the score I was working on, which annoyed me no end as I didn’t have a backup file. I restarted the scoring, but the program crashed and eliminated what little I had created. So I started again, and the same thing just happened. I was in the process of setting up a number of full scores with different instrument groups. Fortunately, I was not long into the process of composing, so I didn’t lose much music this time. I shall continue to use the program, but I am NOT happy with this bug.

Dorico for iPad is an impressive achievement. It is the first app for iOS that has allowed me to do serious work and complete projects from start to finish. Although it is designed to function without any external peripherals, I personally prefer to use an Apple keyboard to type in my shortcuts; but it works surprisingly efficiently without it. With an active subscription, it could be called Dorico Elements+ for iPad. Although it has a simplified engrave mode and a limit of 12 players with a subscription, the full richness of Doroco’s features (gorgeous automatic engraving, playback controls, flows, and so much more) is available to users through a splendid UI, thoughtfully ported from the desktop application. I have completed two fairly significant test scores with it, and I am presently using it when I have some free time during a short mountain trip because I still don’t know how to take a real vacation! On top of it, the subscription cost (unavoidable in the iOS world to support real development) is very reasonable. I really must congratulate the Dorico team for such a tremendous accomplishment. I was sceptical at first, but I am now a true believer: it’s an iPad miracle!

Dorico is a game-changer for writing music notation on the iPad. I have tried virtually all earlier notation apps but none are as good as Dorico and the iPad app closely mirrors desktop Dorico so that learning either makes using the other very much easier. I would give more stars if I could…

It does work, and you can get by with the free version. But: I’m crossing over from Finale. I bought the desktop version of Dorico 5 using the cross grade price. But in order to use the full version of Dorico for iPad I have to pay again? Or pay a subscription? Seems wrong to me. Why can’t I pay once and have full access across my devices so the 2 apps can function seamlessly? And there is no support for handwriting. Come on, guys. This is a very “almost” product.

Dorico is everything for which I had been looking in music notation software ever since my original program, Encore, went out of business. Unlike Sibelius, which I always found to be user unfriendly, and clumsy, when it came to intuitively inputting data, Dorico’s inputs are so intuitive, and based on common sense, that use of the software is not only easy–it’s inviting. This is powerful music software that doesn’t get in the way of the creative process, but rather enhances it.