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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

 

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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 :)

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