Dorico in the news: reviews, interviews, articles, podcasts (updated 2 Mar 24)

Composer (and editor of New Music Box) Kevin Clark has shared his thoughts on using Dorico for his first major project on his blog. He says:

If you don’t have Dorico yet, go get it now. It’s great. And we, as composers, want to keep this team empowered to do great work at Steinberg for as long as we can.

Kevin Clark: First Dorico Project and an Orchestra Performance (1 February 2017)

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Mark Nowakowski has written a long review of Dorico for the site Communities Digital News. He says:

One could only wish that companies creating music software would be as open and available to user observations and suggestions as Steinberg has been with Dorico… the Dorico team is demonstrating that they are here to work for and with their new community, applying user feedback as promptly as possible to generate meaningful and powerful product improvements.



Dorico may indeed represent the powerful new frontier of 21st century notation software options, which means that every serious composer and arranger should be open to giving them a shot.

Communities Digital News: Dorico Notation Software: Was it worth the wait? (4 March 2017)

Dr George Hess has written a review of Dorico for School Band and Orchestra magazine. He says:

I give Dorico an A. It’s an exciting development in notation software and it will eventually be a great program.

School Band & Orchestra Magazine: DORICO - Steinberg’s Next Generation Notation Program (20 March 2017)
http://sbomagazine.com/technology/5732-dorico-steinberg-s-next-generation-notation-program.html

In today’s Metro newspaper in the UK, composer/conductor of the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkester, Jules Buckley, talks about Dorico:

Dorico is a new music notation software that’s an emerging rival to the industry standards. It’s simpler to use than something like Sibelius and my colleagues are raving about it.

Metro UK – My tech: Jules Buckley (13 July 2017)

Matt Vanacoro has reviewed Dorico for Ask Audio (the same review can also be found on MacProVideo and a few other sites), and he says:

Dorico is a real life ‘if I had to do it all over again’ moment for a software development team, and I think it will definitely speed up the workflow of most notators. I’m a huge fan of the speed, ease of use, and workflow enhancements of Dorico. I’m excited to see where Steinberg takes it next.

Ask Audio - Review: Steinberg Dorico (3 August 2017)

This week I was a guest on Kirk McElhearn and Doug Adams’s podcast The Next Track, which you can check out here:

The Next Track #83 (15 December 2017)
https://www.thenexttrack.com/♫-episode-83-daniel-spreadbury-on-music-notation-software/

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Read the first part of Alexander Plötz’s review of Dorico 1.2 on ScoringNotes.com:

The cueing feature introduced with Dorico 1.2 is nothing less than a game changer.

Dorico 1.2 review, part 1: Cues, new notation techniques and other improvements (5 December 2017)

Educator Dr Steven Berryman reviewed Dorico for Music Education UK:

I recommend taking a look at Dorico – you will be surprised by the intuitive nature of the ‘write’ process and will discover some possibilities that other software has not been able to do with such ease. The Dorico journey is not quite over yet and you might find some features that do not match the likes of Sibelius but, given time, I sense we are going to have an impressive software that is going to allow greater freedom in the composing process not only for those in schools but also those working professionally.

Review: Dorico (7 December 2017)
https://musiceducationuk.com/resources/review-dorico/

Flautist Carla Rees, editor of Pan, the journal of the British Flute Society, reviews Dorico on AboutFlutes.co:

My overall impression of Dorico is that it has been created with the user in mind, and that it solves many of the problems that Sibelius and Finale users have become accustomed to finding complicated work-arounds for. While switching programmes and learning a new interface is an investment in time, I have no doubt that Dorico’s intelligence and flexibility makes it worthwhile. Highly recommended.

Dorico: the future of notation software? (8 December 2017)
https://aboutflutes.co/dorico-the-future-of-notation-software/

Alexander Plötz returns with the second instalment of his Dorico 1.2 review for ScoringNotes.com.

Dorico 1.2 review, part 2: Fingering (22 December 2017)

I was interviewed by music educator Robby Burns for his podcast the week before Christmas, and the episode is now available. It’s long (a shade over two hours) but hopefully interesting.

Robby Burns & Friends – Season 3, Episode 2 (6 January 2018)

An article by user interface designer and musician Shaya Lyon for Chamber Music magazine, in which she interviewed Miller Puckette, the architect of Max/MSP and Pure Data, and me about some of the considerations that went into building Dorico.

Chamber Music magazine: The Mind Behind (Fall 2017 issue)
http://www.chamber-music.org/mag/2017/fall/index.html?page=88

A quick round-up of recent articles, awards, videos and podcasts coinciding with last week’s NAMM Show in Anaheim, California:

Scoring Notes: NAMM 2018: A Dorico conversation with Daniel Spreadbury and John Barron, with audio

Scoring Notes: Daniel Spreadbury presents Dorico at the American Film Institute, Hollywood (23 January 2018)

Sound on Sound Awards 2018: Dorico is Highly Commended (February 2018 issue)

Game Audio Hour #163: Daniel Spreadbury and Dorico (22 January 2018)
http://www.gameaudiohour.com/2018/01/22/game-audio-hour-163/

Scoring Notes has another of its in-depth looks at the new Dorico 1.2.10 release, here:

Scoring Notes: Dorico 1.2.10 update brings program-wide improvements (21 February 2018)

Reviewer Alex Plötz in part 3 of Scoring Notes’s exhaustive review of Dorico 1.2, this part dedicated to percussion:

Dorico’s implementation of percussion notation is truly head-and-shoulders above all previous attempts by other software… Once you have worked with Dorico’s percussion for a while you will not be able to return to other programs without suddenly being keenly aware of what they have been missing in that area.

Scoring Notes: Dorico 1.2 review part 3: Percussion (26 February 2018)

Philip Rothman of Scoring Notes has assembled an all-star panel of reviewers to weigh in on Dorico Pro 2.

Dorico is the clear trailblazer these days, and its appeal to the next generation should not be underestimated, especially with the entry of the Dorico Elements product.

Scoring Notes: Dorico Pro 2 review: Major update surprises, exceeds expectations; lower-cost “Elements” introduced (30 May 2018)

Mark Sealey has reviewed Dorico Pro 2 for MyMac.com, scoring it a perfect 10/10:

The claim that Dorico represents the future of music notation is not exaggerated. Yet – given Dorico Pro 2’s comprehensive functionality, flexibility, elegance, and stability – that “future” is really already here… Dorico Pro 2 now looks set to sweep all before it.

Dorico Pro 2 – Review (25 June 2018)

Mark Nowakowski has given a very positive review of Dorico Pro 2 in Communities Digital News:

Dorico Pro 2 now leads the field… the most significant move forward in notation software since Sibelius first entered the market.

Dorico 2: New version of music notation software answers user requests (1 July 2018)

A review by Dan Kreider of Grace Music, the online arm of the Grace Immanuel Bible Church, who has been a Finale user for 20 years and recently switched to Dorico:

Dorico has exceeded my expectations in every way, and it’s already changing the way I write and arrange… The bottom line is that Dorico is just worlds better than Finale.

Grace Music: A Dorico Review (25 July 2018)
https://gracemusic.us/2018/07/a-dorico-review/

I was recently a guest on Australian educator Katie Wardrobe’s podcast, Music Tech Teacher. We discussed a number of Dorico’s unique features, and how it can be an invaluable tool for music educators. Give it a listen!

Music Tech Teacher podcast, episode 62 (5 August 2016)