tfort Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Looks pretty good, and Daniel Spreadbury is very clear about their intent to maintain feature parity with Dorico 4 and the iOS version. https://blog.dorico.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 They lost me at the "subscription" stage. Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Looks interesting. It"s free to download with 'optional' subscriptions for unlocking features. Worth a look. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Looks interesting. It"s free to download with 'optional' subscriptions for unlocking features. Worth a look. Yeah, it seems the important stuff is only available AFTER subsciption...EG after subscription you can access graphical editing in Engrave mode; you can access Notation Options; and you can use third-party Audio Units. Highlighted are what I'd consider to be essential tbh. The last I am assuming is allowing a user to hear the score using iOS insturments. Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franz Schiller Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Interesting...since I already own the full original desktop version, I wonder, do I have to pay for an additional subscription? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Interesting...since I already own the full original desktop version, I wonder, do I have to pay for an additional subscription? If it goes like other software (that has PC/Mac and iOS versions) yep! As they are different apps. Bit different to swapping between Mac and PC versions, which are essentially the same. Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzjazz Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Well Dorico is a fantastic product. After 20+ years of 'Finale Frustration' I"m happy to support Daniel and the programming crew. The support they offer via their forum is fabulous too. Quote www.dazzjazz.com PhD in Jazz Organ Improvisation. BMus (Hons) Jazz Piano. my YouTube is Jazz Organ Bites 1961 A100.Leslie 45 & 122. MAG P-2 Organ. Kawai K300J. Yamaha CP4. Moog Matriarch. KIWI-8P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Well Dorico is a fantastic product. After 20+ years of 'Finale Frustration' I"m happy to support Daniel and the programming crew. The support they offer via their forum is fabulous too. Perhaps so, but buying an app is stil supporting them, yes? It's just the whole "subsciption" model, relying on people to conveniently forget they have it running even if not using the app anymore. By all means charge a higher purchase price, and in most cases I'd be mroe than happy to pay that. I just dislike subscription models. There are some security concerns as well. Although that's another discussion and not for here. Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Yeah, I think many of us that came up in the era before we were renting everything find the subscription model off putting. But in hindsight - if you were buying the updates for $199 or whatever the pricing was - it"s similar in cost to $4-10 a month for software. The mobile Hardware turnover is so fast, and OS Updates on both iOS and Android keep coming - they inevitable break something for app developers and they are pushing out updates through the app stores all the time. The subscription model supports the constant maintenance of these apps on fast changing platforms. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 No sub for me, no siree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfort Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 And today an iPad version of Sibelius! Interesting times. https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/sibelius-arrives-on-ipad/ Different pricing modelâ if you pay to subscribe to the desktop software, you get that level of the iPad app for nothing extra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluMunk Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Yeah, I think many of us that came up in the era before we were renting everything find the subscription model off putting. But in hindsight - if you were buying the updates for $199 or whatever the pricing was - it"s similar in cost to $4-10 a month for software. The mobile Hardware turnover is so fast, and OS Updates on both iOS and Android keep coming - they inevitable break something for app developers and they are pushing out updates through the app stores all the time. The subscription model supports the constant maintenance of these apps on fast changing platforms. Well said . . . I still get cranky about it, but you're totally right. Subscription, with all its drawbacks, is at least in some ways a solution to software longevity in a world where OS and hardware changes with the potential to break functionality arrive at a breakneck speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfort Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 Robby Burns briefly compares Dorico on iPad to StaffPad in his review here: http://www.robbyburns.com/blog/dorico-for-ipad-first-impressions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhoh7 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 No sub for me, no siree. Dorico for Ipad is an awesome FREE tool without any subscription! Yes, if you want to write for many instruments and get some un-needed fanciness, you would subscribe. I'm happy to see that as ever, no good deed goes unpunished around here. But since I've done my own share of ignorant ranting, I better do some repenting, and report on Dorico for Ipad. First off, let's say notation software for Ipads is not growing on trees, to my surpise. Apple can make a big DAW, but a little music writing app? Nope. Musescore!! You waste 20 minutes downloading and avoiding subcriptions in an "open sewer" of introductory screens, to learn that Musescore for Ipad does not support wrting music---too much trouble to write for IOS--- which is a proprietary language anyway, created by a company that had no problems using free linux as a base for it's MBPs etc...but I digress. Why else would you install Musescore? To read scores you don't bother to export or download as PDFs, I guess. Anyway there are a few less than fully operational notation options on the app store, with suspiciously few reviews, always including tearful laments. I nearly bought "Staffpad" which has been reduced 1/2 from it's original $90 (at least you own it), and has many reviews, but fully half are not good. It appears to have been recently sold and updated, and once you get into the flow and ideas behind it, it looks pretty good.....if you think it's as easy to write on a screen with a plastic tip as on good paper with graphite. It is not. Erasing is easier though Dorico for Ipad!!! No subscription, no registration even you can write whatever you like for keyboard, or Organ (3 staff), and one or two other instruments. If you create a Steinberg account you get 4 I think.....well here is a much better description than I could give, FF to about 2 mins and check this thing out, it is very impressive, even figured base. You would never miss "Engrave" for all the tons of stuff that works for free, seriously. Many of us just want a quick way to create keyboard scores, and this thing does a great job for nothing, very polished: [video:youtube] Here is a follow up on an update which also shows more stuff, and all the time he is explaining what is free and what is not. [video:youtube] Of course they want to get us to buy something, but honestly this is a big wedding with plenty of free food and drink! I'm terribly cheap, but for this I'm at least grateful Quote RT-3/U-121/Leslie 21H and 760/Saltarelle Nuage/MOXF6/MIDIhub, SL-880/Nektar T4/Numa Cx2/Deepmind12/Virus TI 61/SL61 mk2 Stylophone R8/Behringer RD-8/Proteus 1/MP-7/Zynthian 4 MPC1k/JV1010/Unitor 8/Model D & 2600/WX-5&7/VL70m/DMP-18 Pedals Natal drums/congas etc & misc bowed/plucked/blown instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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