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It fixes scaling but introduces latency and. Deep into the rabbit hole there's a feature that requires a lot of clickings here and there that allows you to detach the plugin from the DAW and run it as a standalone Window. Unlike pretty much any DAW out there FL Studio can't fix plugins with no native scaling on its own.

Until I bought a 4k monitor and old, esp. I learned FL Studio's ins and outs without ever looking for tutorials and always felt impressed by how it just worked. You made me remember of two cases, one with FL studio and other with Cubase. Good answer, especially when you talk about this 80/20% rule. Dorico might have some of this, but there's no way they have all of it, or even a reasonable fraction of it. One crazy rabbit hole of advanced functionality hiding behind a button most people never touch in one of dozens of editing modals. And it all plays back correctly, and will give you a tooltip of the percussion sound you're entering when you click notes in.Īnd that's just one thing. You can customize the point at which stems default to going up or down, and what position rests default to. You can set up any crazy combination of lines (including gaps between lines) and then assign percussion sounds to any staff position + notehead combo. I'm working on a piece right now that has some unusual percussion layouts, so I poked around a bit and found that Finale lets you define custom staffs and percussion layouts.

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Will you need it? Who knows! There are entire menus in Finale that I've never touched in over 20 years of using it.īut the thing about established software like Finale is that they've had LOTS of time to work on those niche features, and every once in a while, I stumble upon one of them.

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But without even looking at Dorico's full list of features, I can guarantee you that there's advanced stuff they haven't even touched yet. Most people only need their notation software to the basics, and for that, yeah, some new hot product can deliver those basics (and so can free stuff like MuseScore). The thing is, complicated software like this abides by the 80/20 rule: 80% of users only use 20% of the features. It's completely absurd to think that a new product is going to overtake something with that much of a head start. I know how much work goes into 30 years of software development. Finale and Sibelius have been around for about 30 years. For decades they're known to be unable to make software founded on good UX.ĮDIT: Wow, I think your answers were pretty good, thanks. TL DR - I have the impression Dorico isn't immune to the Steinberg way.

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I also used Pro Tools but I'm not good w/ it.Īnyways, of all DAWs I ever touched, only Cubase spent me many hours of watching videos, reading and asking forums, and opening support tickets, etc. Recently I tried Ableton Live and loved it.

Personally, at home my recording DAW is Digital Performer, and I'm a longtime FL Studio user, esp. I don't buy into that argument to defend cumbersome software, cause everything has a learning curve and if the steepness isn't intrinsic to what you're trying to do, then the design is bad. I'm not a composer though, we only need scores in minute occasions, so maybe that's why I didn't see a problem.Īnd of course, there's the folks who like talking about learning curves. Now, people criticise Sibelius, I downloaded a trial yesterday and I'm impressed as how it gets out of my way and lets me actually write music. It is still there, the jurassic Steinberg way.

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I also own Cubase myself.Įven though Dorico gets the job done and it is not neartly half as cumbersome as Cubase, learning it feels just like learning Cubase: spend 80% of the time trying to find out how to do the stuff, 20% actually doing it.

The thing is, I work in a studio where everything is Steinberg's. People are parroting all around that Dorico is the future of notation software.