Since debuting in 2016, Steinberg’s Dorico series has consistently set the standard for what professional-level music notation, composition, and arrangement software should be. The comprehensive upgrades within Dorico’s sixth iteration remind us why Dorico reinforces its rock-solid reputation with each step in its evolution. Across Pro and Elements options, Dorico 6 builds upon its previous versions’ world-class notation, printing, and incredibly realistic virtual instruments — these features are enhanced with expansive workflow tools, refined MIDI functionalities, and an expanded selection of customizable notation methods. Adding to Dorico Pro 6’s immense editing and compositional power, a slew of workflow-supercharging features transforms your creative palette, with Dorico Pro 6 bringing myriad shades of editing, proofreading, score-cutaway, looping, symbol-customizing, and further compositional tools. What’s more, all your favorite time-tested tools return, like MIDI triggering, Stage and Space templates, live editing, the instrument editor, Iconica Sketch, and Groove Agent SE, to name a few. Whether you’re an educator, composer, arranger, or copyist, Dorico Pro 6 delivers a comprehensive scoring software experience of the highest level.
Note: This is a special offer for customers who fulfill Steinberg's requirements for educational programs.
What’s new in Dorico Pro 6?
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Proofreading: The addition of a dedicated Proofreading panel allows Dorico to monitor and highlight potential issues, as you edit your score, with real-time solutions and suggestions.
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Cutaways: With just one click, instantly generate cutaway scores that expand the scope of your composition and notation sans hassle.
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Custom Chord Symbols: From power chords and simultaneous multi-row notation to optional extender lines and more, Dorico Pro 6 lets you create custom chord symbols for every scenario.
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Cycle Playback: Define and create looping sections of any size, in any section of your score, allowing you to make edits that are applied and heard in the next loop cycle.
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Fill View: Automatically maximize your field of view to display as many systems as possible, with plenty of flexibility, guaranteeing everything you need stays in sight.
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System-attached Items: You now have total control over where this information appears across tempos, repeats, rehearsal marks, and large time signatures.
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OpenType Features: Full support for OpenType glyph-substitution and glyph-positioning capabilities gives you detailed and augmented typographical control.
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Flow Heading Overrides: Complete creative, design, and workflow control over how flow, when, and where flow headings appear on every page, in every layout.
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Marching Percussion Basics: Fundamental marching sounds — cymbals, toms, snares, and bass drums — are now available, thanks to a partnership with Virtual Drumline developer Tapspace.
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User Settings Import and Export: Migrating your personalized and customized Dorico settings, tools, files, and preferences from one device to another is easier than ever.
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Tapered Curves: The Lines feature introduces extensive customization for drawing lines, braces, arrows, and additional shapes with finely modifiable curves.
Supercharge your sonic palette
As a full-suite notation and composition software, Dorico Pro 6 is a pliable and potent partner to any composer, educator, student, and artist who needs a one-stop shop that supports and inspires their creative vision. From initial ideation and multi-instrumental arrangement to single-click production of a complete conductor’s score and comprehensive generation of tablature for instruments with any number of strings, Dorico’s immense arsenal of sounds and tools has you covered. The inclusion of Steinberg’s HALion Symphonic Orchestra and Iconica Sketch sound libraries, as well as the Groove Agent SE drum plug-in, guarantees hundreds of pitched and non-pitched instruments are yours to wield, for ensembles of any size.
More powerful workflow capabilities
In addition to Dorico Pro 6’s mélange of new features, a slew of returning essentials has everything needed to elevate your craft. MIDI trigger regions allow you to custom-implement activation points for chords or individual notes that don’t appear in the score, while you retain complete control of your performance. With Stage and Space templates, a user-friendly visual interface lets you refine the acoustic settings, redefine output configurations, experiment with virtual stage arrangements, and more, all in real time.
Expedited tools and inspiring, expressive playback
With Iconica Sketch, HALion Symphonic Orchestra, and Groove Agent SE, there is no shortage of customizable playback options, blending meticulously captured and crafted samples and virtual instruments into an array of evocative, expressive sound, effortlessly amended to suit your sound. But with Dorico Pro 6’s support of third-party plug-ins, unreal orchestras are yours to discover! And with Dorico Pro 6’s ability to condense instruments held by different players, you can seamlessly manage any instance of performers who double across various instruments, instead of defaulting to whichever is first for that player’s score.
Features:
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Next-gen scoring software with a suite of upgrades, enhancements, and all-new capabilities to supercharge your scoring, notation, composition, and creative vision
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Proofreading, cutaway, customizable chord symbols, looping playback, versatile UI control, and more immensely expand the performance and playback palettes
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Iconica Sketch and HALion Symphonic Orchestra sound libraries give you a wealth of flexible, expressive, and lifelike instruments
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Groove Agent SE plug-in provides diverse and dynamic drums to punch up your progressions
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Choose from essential snares, cymbals, bass drums, and toms for marching percussion, thanks to a partnership with Tapspace
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Video support using the same powerful engine as Cubase and Nuendo
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Automatically produce a conductor’s score with a single click
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Generate tablature for instruments with any number of strings
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Support for left- and right-hand guitar notation
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Playback templates for quick setup of your playback preferences
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Group playing techniques to align them together and show transitions from one to another
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Enhanced lyrics editing with smart copy and paste to and from other software
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Velocity and pitch bend editing provide richer controls for tweaking playback
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Playback of discrete-note glissandos, automatically taking harp pedal changes into account
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Automatic notation of natural and artificial harmonics
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Project Info dialogue enables easy project metadata management
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Editable mutual exclusion for techniques, absolute, and relative channel changes, primary and secondary volume types, and more
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Explode and Reduce tools quickly paste music to more or fewer players
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Multipaste pastes material to multiple instruments in a single step
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Cutting-edge artificial intelligence automatically rewrites notation while you’re inserting, deleting, and editing
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Wizard-like workflow breaks up compositions into 5 modes
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Adjust presentational elements without affecting your composition
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Compose using your computer keyboard or MIDI controller
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DTP-quality page layout features
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Engraves music better than most experienced engravers
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Default note spacing is tailored for ease of reading
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Unlimited movements, sections, staves, and pieces within a project
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Supports open meter — essential for modern composers
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Imports/exports in MusicXML, MIDI, and graphical formats