

From Wednesday 25 August 2021 until Thursday 23 September 2021, you can save 30% when you purchase a new license for Dorico Pro or Dorico Elements, when you crossgrade to Dorico Pro from Sibelius or Finale, or when you upgrade to Dorico Pro from Dorico Elements, or to Dorico Elements from Dorico SE. Thanks to its DAW features imho this puts Dorico ahead of many of its rivals.If you have been thinking about adding Dorico Elements or Dorico Pro to your musical toolbox but have been waiting for a special offer before you buy, then the Steinberg End of Summer Sale might be the perfect opportunity. Natively I don't think any notation software can meet totally your needs in this area so the Dorico piano roll feature is probably the area to check out. I would say you're better off looking at the DAW features of Dorico and adjusting the notes to overcome delay issues for individual instruments. I'm still trying to get my head around the negative delay issue but in principle the smaller the asio buffer size you set the shorter the delay.

Probably a good idea to try the 30-day trial offer. The Elements version, a step down from Pro, now has a 24 player limit. The SE version is free but only allows for two players. Dorico offers a 30 free trial which would allow you to experiment with the full version. FYI I've just upgraded from Dorico 3.5 Pro to Dorico 4 Pro. I'm still relatively new at this so I defer to others with more experience of the alternatives. I've created expression maps, playback templates and custom techniques for most of them. The built-in library, HALion Sonic SE, that comes with Dorico is OK but in the main I use Dorico with external libraries from OT, CSS and Spitfire. I can only comment on Dorico as I have no experience of using other notation software or NotePerformer.
