Steinberg enters the third round with Dorico Elements 3.5 EDU, offering various new and practical features within the notation software environment, in addition to numerous improvements. These now include functions such as create score excerpt, tablature, guitar notation, playback templates, intelligent pedal notation for harp and more. Also new is the included Olympus Choir Micro Library - a sound library with playable choir from Soundiron, one of the world's leading manufacturers of sample libraries. New in Elements 3.5 EDU are also the new writing tool Pitch before Duration, assistants for basso continuo and page layout, merging of divisi during score creation, mapping of articulations and clef transposition.
In general, Dorico Elements 3.5 EDU can still be used as efficiently for composing, learning and publishing as before. The intuitive workflow ensures fast results even for beginners/intermediates, while hundreds of advanced notations, functions, options and sounds await them.
Steinberg Dorico Elements 3.5 EDU raises the bar for notation software once again: Only with this software can score excerpts be created for the conductor with a single click. Plus, powerful features for Gitarre and harp, sophisticated new playback controls, and much more, all embedded in a newly redesigned, elegant, and effective user interface.
In the conductor's score, music for multiple musicians is condensed to a smaller number of staves, reducing the number of staves on each page. The staves can be displayed larger and readability is improved. Creating a conducting score used to be very tedious and time consuming. The process required a lot of planning, many revisions, and was virtually unsupported by notation software - until today. With Elements 3.5 EDU, you can now create an intelligently formatted score excerpt for the conductor with just one click, without losing the full instrumental parts. Profound changes in music notation software productivity happen maybe once a decade: This is one of them.
Steinberg Dorico Elements 3.5 EDU makes it easy to work with third-party sound libraries and virtual instruments by providing user-defined playback templates. Once you have set up the output for a specific virtual instrument in a project, you can now save this configuration as a template to use in future projects. Create a custom template that includes your favorite virtual piano, uses strings from your favorite orchestra library, and draws on the included HALion Symphonic Orchestra sounds for everything else. Share your saved configurations with colleagues and other users, simply by dragging and dropping. What's more, with advanced features for the VST Expression Maps, it's easier to take advantage of all the advanced techniques of your favorite sample libraries.
This new writing tool lets you try out chord structures and melodies on the MIDI keyboard without entering them into the music sheet. Dorico will not accept your input until you have entered the note value.
Basso continuoIndispensable in baroque music and a rarely cultivated art: with this assistant you can easily create the appropriate chord abbreviations for the harpsichordist from your continuo. Dorico 3.5 EDU is of course capable of more than just the 2 inversions.
VST articulation mapLike in a professional sampler, Dorico 3.5 EDU allows you to define individual levels for velocity, note value etc. and assign them to different samples. Very handy for a well articulated, easy to follow performance.
Guitar tablatureYou already know this from Dorico 3, but in Dorico 3.5 EDU it is upgraded and now contains all common articulations. A chord wheel makes it easier to embed the tabs into the overall composition. You also get detailed access to the look of the finished tablature.
Hollywood Style Sheet MusicAs is common with movie compositions, you can leave blank lines at the end of the sheet music for notes. This feature also allows you to insert blank lines at any position, eg. for worksheets.
MusicXML exportIf you collaborate with users of other notation programs, you can export your work to MusicXML. MusicXML is a cross-platform format that can be read by most notation programs.
Steinberg Dorico Elements 3.5 EDU OverviewNew functions/features:
System requirements
Important: This software version does not support 32-bit plug-ins.