New features

When importing tempo tracks, you can now choose to import into a new flow instead of an existing flow. See Importing tempo tracks.

The figured bass popover now accepts and interprets more entries, including double and triple accidentals and the overall and suspension durations of figured bass figures. See Figured bass popover.

A number of new options have been added to the Figured Bass page in Engraving Options, allowing you further control of the default appearance and position of figures and hold lines. See Project-wide engraving options for figured bass.

You can now choose whether Dorico Pro resolves collisions between rows of figured bass by increasing the vertical gap between rows or by moving accidentals horizontally. See Changing figured bass accidental collision avoidance.

You can now set whether or not you want property settings for the visibility of accidentals to be copied from uncondensed staves to condensed staves. See Per-flow notation options for condensing.

New tokens that display the file name of the current project and the path to the project’s save location in addition to its file name are now available. See Text tokens.

You can now set paragraph styles to show borders by default when used in text objects, and specify that text objects positioned rhythmically at the start of systems align with the start of the system. See Paragraph Styles dialog.

You can now align individual text objects with the start of systems. See Aligning text objects with the start of systems.

There is a new Edit Endpoint Configurations dialog that allows you to rename and delete custom endpoint configurations. It also displays the plug-ins and players contained in each endpoint configuration. See Edit Endpoint Configurations dialog.

You can now override individual playback options in each expression map independently. See Expression Maps dialog.

You can now show post-bends, including microtonal post-bends, on notes belonging to fretted instruments. See Guitar post-bends.

You can now add borders to text on individual lines and on text line annotations by default. See Adding borders to line text.

You can now optionally set a middle thickness for wedge line bodies, for example, to create a single wedge line body that starts thin, gets thicker in the middle, then thin again at the end. See Edit Line Bodies dialog.

You can now choose rounded rectangle rehearsal mark enclosures, in addition to the existing rectangle and circle enclosures. See Changing the rehearsal mark enclosure type.

You can now override the clef and/or transposition of each layout, for example, to show the music of the same player with different clefs and/or transpositions in different layouts. This is a common requirement in pieces for wind/concert bands and ensembles with flexible instrumentation. See Layouts with clef/transposition overrides.

New options have been added to the top of the Properties panel, allowing you to search and filter properties, making it easier to find properties for items with many possible groups. See Properties panel (Write mode).

You can now change the property scope for local properties, allowing you to specify in advance that you want subsequent changes to affect all layouts and frame chains. See Changing the property scope.

You can now input notes by selecting or playing the pitch first and only inputting the note once you select the duration afterwards. See Inputting notes using pitch before duration.

Alongside pitch before duration input, you can change whether any rhythm dots, accidentals, and articulations you select apply to the last input note or the next note you input. See Changing the note-based notation input setting.

You can now change staff visibility manually from system/frame breaks, including showing individual empty staves or hiding individual non-empty staves. See Hiding/Showing staves from system/frame breaks.

You can now automatically fill pages after the final flow in layouts with blank staves, including filling the width of the final system with blank staves when the final system is not fully horizontally justified. This is a convention used by some copyists when preparing parts for recording sessions. See Hiding/Showing blank staves after final flows.

You can also fill individual music frames with blank staves rather than flows, which can be useful when producing educational worksheets or plain manuscript paper. See Showing blank staves in frames.

It is now possible to condense section players and divisi staves in each layout independently. See Enabling/Disabling condensing.

Dorico Pro now allows you to export portions of pages using graphic slices. You can export graphic slices as PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF files. See Graphic slices.

A number of new options have been added to the Expression Maps dialog, allowing you to create new and edit existing expression maps more easily and with better results in playback. See Expression Maps dialog.

You can now automatically show a grid above the start of each flow that contains all chord diagrams used in the flow, including different voicings of the same chord. See Hiding/Showing used chord diagrams grids.

Dorico Pro now offers comprehensive support for figured bass, including allowing you to input figures using numbers or chord symbols, from which Dorico Pro calculates the figures required. There is a wide range of options for the appearance of figures and alterations. See Figured bass.

Guitar bends, releases, and vibrato bar dives and returns with bend intervals of up to a whole step (tone) are now reflected in playback as smooth adjustments in pitch. See Guitar bends.

Dorico Pro now supports a variety of techniques typically found in music for guitars, such as microtonal post-bends in Blues music and vibrato bar dives and scoops. These techniques can be shown on both notation staves and tablature. See Guitar techniques.

You can now fully customize both horizontal and vertical lines using the available dialogs that allow you to edit the respective line components. See Custom lines.

You can now change the page color according to the layout type, such as having a different color for pages in part layouts than in full score layouts. See Changing the page color.

You can now change the background color of the music area, including setting different colors for Write mode and Engrave mode. See Changing the background color.

Text playing techniques, such as pizz. and arco, are now included when importing MusicXML files. Additionally, Dorico Pro now identifies text-based objects, such as tempo marks, more reliably. See Importing MusicXML files.

Non-default noteheads, absolute and gradual tempo marks, a wider range of time signatures, percussion instruments and kits, and more dynamics than previously, including messa di voce hairpins with specific line styles, are all now included when exporting projects to MusicXML. See Exporting MusicXML files.

There is now a filter for selecting and deselecting condensing change signposts. See Filters.

New options for the appearance of condensing player labels have been added. You can now hide the "to" indication, such as "a3", and separate player numbers with commas. See Project-wide engraving options for player labels.

You can now change the default unison indication used for both divisi changes and condensing player labels. See Changing the default to/unison indications.

You can temporarily hide, in any mode, all visible elements that do not print. See Hiding non-printing elements.

You can now hide individual text objects, either in the current layout and frame chain only or in all layouts and frame chains. This allows you, for example, to show text objects in part layouts without showing them in the full score as well. See Hiding/Showing text objects.

You can now change the placement of individual articulations of duration relative to slur endpoints. See Changing the placement of articulations relative to slurs.

New options have been added to the Slurs page in Engraving Options that improve the default appearance, position, and shape of slurs in various contexts, such as when they cross system/frame breaks or join notes with different stem directions. See Slurs over system and frame breaks, Slur endpoint positions, and Slur collision avoidance.

When changing the angle of slurs, you no longer need to hold down Alt/Opt to retain their overall shape. See Changing the angle of slurs.

You can now change the default barline type used in each flow, for example, if you want bars to be separated by short barlines instead of normal barlines. See Changing the default barline type in flows.

You can now change the octave transposition of individual clefs, for example, to accommodate different horn and bass clarinet transposition conventions. See Changing the octave of clefs.

You can also change whether Dorico Pro respects or ignores clef octave indicators when determining the register of notes, such as for the treble G clef, octave above. See Respecting/Ignoring clef octave indicators.

You can now enter calculations into numeric value fields to change values, such as doubling or halving the existing values. See Changing values in numeric value fields.

New beaming options have been added to the Beam Grouping page in Notation Options and the Notes and Beams pages in Engraving Options. They allow for improved control over beam slants and handling rests within beams. See Rests within beams.

Any custom fretted instrument tunings in your project are now available when showing chord diagrams above staves and in used chord diagrams grids. See Hiding/Showing chord diagrams.

You can now change whether or not to move breath marks vertically according to the pitches of adjacent notes, such as positioning breath marks higher above the staff when they are between high notes so they are easier to see. See Positions of holds and pauses.

Jazz articulations now play back, provided your sound library includes the corresponding samples. See Jazz articulations.

You can now optionally show rehearsal marks below the bottom staff in systems in addition to their other system object positions. See Changing the positions of system objects.

You can now erase the backgrounds of all stems project-wide that are crossed by hairpins. See Erasing the background of stems crossed by hairpins.

You can now erase the background of time signatures spanned by ties. See Erasing the background of time signatures.