Steinberg Dorico Elements 3.5 is a music notation software designed to deliver essential scoring functions for students, songwriters, and arrangers in schools, home studios, and houses of worship. Write, print, and play music notation for up to 12 instruments, which can be sourced from the supplied 1500-sound 2.5GB library or your own VST3 plug-ins. The 30 included effects processors enable versatile tonal modification of instrument sounds.
Input data via mouse, keyboard, or MIDI keyboard, and refine your arrangement in the sequencer-style piano MIDI editor, where the notation is adjusted as you compose and arrange. Enjoy unlimited movements in a single project and the playback of dynamics, repeats, and tempo changes. Collaboration is simplified via importing and exporting MIDI and MusicXML files, and you are provided with audio and graphics export capabilities to boot. Dorico Elements 3.5 is compatible with macOS and Windows systems and creates projects that can be loaded into Dorico Pro.
- Pitch-before-duration note input method
- Figured bass for shorthand notation of harmony in music from the Baroque and Classical periods
- VST Expression Maps with conditional switches and improved handling
- Additional guitar notation features including support for tapping, hammer-on and pull-off, vibrato arm (whammy bar) techniques, and single-click creation of chord diagram grids
- Single-click creation of empty staves per cue for preparing Hollywood-style parts
- Customizable user interface with selectable page color for scores
- Filter and search options in the Properties panel
- MusicXML export with expanded support for percussion, dynamics, notehead types, time signatures, tempo marks, and more
- Amateur composers and arrangers
- Secondary students
- Instrumental teachers
- Church/worship musicians
- Songwriters
- Easy and fast to learn
- Friendly manual and video tutorials
- Automatic engraving
- Automatic layout of parts
- Drum notation
- Easy note input
- Integrated MIDI editors
- Intelligent assistant
- Linked guitar tab
- Multiple pieces per project
- Streamlined workflow with four modes and efficient window management
- Supports VST3
- High-performance architecture built for multi-core 64-bit CPUs
- Award-winning Cubase audio engine with 64-bit floating point resolution
- Bar numbers with customizable positioning and appearnce
- Bar repeats with one-, two-, or four-bar repeat signs
- Bracketed noteheads
- Cautionary accidentals
- Basic chord symbols
- 23 standard clefs
- Easy creation of dynamics
- Specialized fingering features for keyboard, fretted, brass, and string instruments
- Grace notes
- Harp pedaling
- Jazz articulations
- Lines
- Unlimited lyric lines
- Ornaments and trills
- Piano pedaling
- Over 200 playing techniques
- Rehearsal marks
- Rhythmic notation
- Slurs
- Immediate and gradual tempo changes
- 2.5GB library with 1500 sounds
- 30 effects processors
- General MIDI sounds
- HALion Sonic SE production sounds
- Soundiron Olympus Choir Micro
- Keda Indian drum sounds
- Supports third-party VSTs
- Chord track
- Dynamics lane
- Import video
- Interpretations of notations
- MIDI controller editor
- Audio mixer with per-channel insert/send effects and routing control
- Playback templates
- Swing playback
- Tempo track editor
- Velocity editor
- Automatic engraving
- Automatic rhythm spacing
- Automatic vertical spacing
- Unlimited layouts
- Two music font families
- Basic text support
- Custom key commands
- Input via mouse, keyboard, and MIDI keyboard
- Basic filters
- Flexible meter
- Insert mode
- Lock duration
- Multipaste
- Popovers
- Requantize
- Retrospective record
- Step MIDI input
- System track
- Transposition
- Tuplets
- Unlimited voices
- Import and export MusicXML
- Export audio in WAV or MP3 format
- Export graphics in PDF, PNG, SVG, or TIFF format
- Import and export MIDI
- Batch printing or export
- Booklet printing
- Duplex support
- Press-quality PDF
- Print preview