New features

This version introduces the ability to add comments as annotations to allow the addition of notes or instructions without affecting the music. See Comments.

Dorico Elements now offers comprehensive support for the complex fingerings required for music for guitars and fretted instruments, including automatically positioning right-hand and left-hand fingerings correctly. See Fingerings for fretted instruments.

Dorico Elements now supports various conventions for the notation of harmonics on stringed and fretted instruments, including both natural and artificial harmonics. Dorico Elements can also calculate the correct pitch to be notated for the second through sixth partials. See Harmonics.

Dorico Elements now offers features designed to help write idiomatically for the harp, including harp pedal diagrams that you can show as a diagram or using note names, a tool to calculate the pedal positions required to play a passage of music, and can highlight unplayable with the current pedal positions. See Harp pedaling.

Dorico Elements now provides tablature for guitar and other fretted instruments, including supporting a number of specific idiomatic notations for guitar, custom string tunings, different conventions for representing rhythms on tablature, and so on. Music can be shown on a regular notation staff and on tablature at the same time or separately, and they are linked, meaning edits to one staff automatically affect the other. See Tablature.

This new version updates the Project Info dialog significantly. It can now stay open whilst you work, has a list of flows so you can select and change information for multiple flows at once, and also allows you to add and delete flows from within the dialog in addition to in the Flows panel in Setup mode. It additionally has a new default key command for quicker access. See Project Info dialog.

It is now possible to show chord symbols only alongside slash regions or in new chord symbol regions. This makes it easier to specify specific sections where it is helpful or necessary to show chord symbols for players who elsewhere do not need them. See Chord symbol regions.

This new dialog informs you if a project your are opening contains a font you do not have installed on your computer and allows you to select replacement fonts. See Missing Fonts dialog.

Dorico Elements now allows you to use 16th notes as the unit for swing playback. See Swing playback.