Intro to Dorico for Musical Theatre
Instructor: John Barron
Course Type: ONLINE
Steinberg’s Dorico is the newest of the major notation software packages, and offers innovative new approaches to creating and managing music notation. The “Dorico way” of doing things can feel complex or counterintuitive at first, but rewards the with user with powerful flexibility and a reassuring sense of control. Dorico is especially well-suited for complex notation projects — including musical theater!
In this free seminar, John Barron of Steinberg’s Dorico team gives a beginner-friendly introduction to Dorico, then demonstrates its application to musical theater. An extended Q&A invites attendees to ask any and everything about the software. Perfect for those curious about Dorico, or Dorico users who’d like to enrich their expertise. (Ownership of Dorico is not required for the seminar.)
Saturday, March 16 / 10am to 12pm PST / FREE
About the Instructor
- John Barron is a sax and keyboard player and the International Product Specialist for Dorico, Steinberg’s new notation software program. Prior to Steinberg, he spent many years working for Sibelius and Avid alongside Daniel Spreadbury and the old Sibelius development team.
- It is that same team who, since late 2012, have been developing the brand new Dorico program, and in 2016 John re-joined the team. Online or in person he now runs Dorico training sessions to get people up and running as quickly as possible and to help them save time in the composition process and music preparation.
About Dorico
- What can you do with Dorico?
- Compose
- Dorico is the only music notation software designed from the ground up for composing, and it supports you at every stage in the process. Flexible input and editing tools allow you to change your mind about any decision at any time, and work without constraint.
- Arrange
- Quickly move music between players, explode or reduce it onto more or fewer instruments. Powerful transformation tools allow you to change tonality, perform inversion, map onto new scales, and more. You can even create fully-voiced parts from chord symbols.
- Perform
- Dorico comes with hundreds of high-quality sounds, more than 30 effects processors, and a full audio Mixer, plus tools to help you make your music sound as good as it looks. The integrated Key Editor allows you to tweak every aspect of your score’s performance.
- Share
- Dorico can import MIDI and MusicXML, and export MIDI, MusicXML, audio, and graphics. Whether you’re working on your own or part of a team, it’s easy to get music into the hands of your performers or collaborators. Projects are also fully compatible between desktop and iPad.
- Publish
- Dorico formats your music beautifully, completely automatically. With Dorico Pro, you have the tools to meet the demands of any publisher, with thousands of options for customization. But you’ll almost never need them – everything looks great by default.
- Learn
- Dorico is widely used in schools, colleges and universities. It’s perfect for producing learning materials and for building an understanding of music theory. And it’s easy for students to learn with dozens of helpful tutorials and well-structured documentation.