For example, I play the ‘glass armonica’ – an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin and for which Mozart and Beethoven composed. I think the Dorico paradigm is mostly there, but I’m thinking there remain details that are just f-ing me up.Īlso, at present Dorico does not support adding an ‘unknown’ instrument – if it’s not in their list of existing instruments, you’re in for a lot of work. That hardly seems like ‘intuitive’ or ‘discoverable’ to me. Obviously!! And if you find it easy, I’m sincerely happy for you! But there you are – in spite of working through all of Dorico’s online video tutorials, and more on YouTube as well, and I have a better than average grasp of all this technology, and working with Dorico for over a month now, I still apparently don’t grasp the paradigm for how editing existing music is supposed to work. I’ll stipulate my difficulties are because I “don’t grasp the interface”. (I note in passing that the online tutorials seem to emphasize initial score entry, not editing existing music.) You would think that when I’m done editing bar 7 and return it to its original length, bars 8-666 would return to normal, but that hasn’t been my experience - after editing bar 7 I am finding I am having to go through and fix bars 8-666. With Dorico when I edit bar 7, I am also affecting bars 8-666. What is GOOD about the Finale paradigm is that if I’m editing bar 7, I’m only editing bar 7. In my experience their paradigm for initial score entry was quite reasonable, but editing existing music was a nightmare.
Those are preposterously hard to do in Finale. As a musician, I have performed on the glass armonica with the Blue Man Group and at the Kennedy Center, and have a fair number of commissioned works to my credit. I have built hardware MIDI devices from the chip level. I’m a Linux/Windows Systems Engineer C/C++ for many decades. Before that I wrote a program in C to do my own scoring, which worked passably well, but gave me a profound appreciation for how ridiculously hard it is to engrave music generally.
#LILYPOND TUTORIAL WINDOWS#
I’ve been using Finale since Windows 3.1. Mostly because I think Dorico is on the right track. But in the chorus of ‘how wonderful Dorico is’, and there’s a lot of truth to that, I would still like to voice some dissent. Well, no, Lilypond is not generally easier than Dorico – for most things.
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