Dorico DAC Pro 5 EE

Professional composition and music notation software for mac OS and Windows

Write music for ensembles of any size. A complete professional tool for the most demanding composer, arranger, publisher, or educator.

Looking for the ultimate in power and customization for your music notation and composition needs? Look no further than Dorico Pro. Designed for professionals in the art music and media music industries, as well as teachers and professors in tertiary education. Dorico Pro offers a deep feature set and unique features you won’t find anywhere else. Take your music to the next level with advanced workflows, unrivalled customization options, and the ability to produce publication-quality music automatically. Discover what sets Dorico Pro apart and unlock your full creative potential.

Only in Dorico Pro

Automatic condensed conductor scores

In a conductor’s score, music for multiple players is condensed onto a smaller number of staves, reducing the number of staves on each page and allowing each staff to be larger, aiding legibility. Producing a conductor’s score has always been laborious and time-consuming, requiring a great deal of planning and revision throughout the whole process, with almost no assistance from software – until now. Dorico Pro can create an intelligently-formatted conductor’s score with a single click, while still maintaining complete and correct instrumental parts. Profound step changes in productivity in music notation software come along perhaps once a decade: this is one of them.

Smart linked cues

Cues help the performers keep their place in the music by showing music from another player before important entries or solos. They are crucial – but adding cues to instrumental parts is one of the most time-consuming aspects of preparing performance materials. Dorico Pro is the only scoring software to link cues dynamically to their source material. So if you need to revise the work, you don’t need to lift a finger to ensure the cues are updated: it’s completely automatic.

Library Manager

Dorico Pro offers thousands of ways for you to customize the look and layout of your projects, and keeping track of the changes you have made from the factory settings or between different projects is difficult. The Library Manager in Dorico Pro provides a way for you to see the differences between the options and styles in two projects at a glance, and selectively apply changes from one to the other.

Sophisticated staff management 

The most demanding score layout tasks are transformed with Dorico Pro’s smart staff management tools. Complex divided string sections are easy to manage, including automatically handling changes between unison and divided sections. Add or remove staves from any instrument at any point, making laying out even the most complex music for keyboard and mallet percussion simple and fast. Add ossia staves above or below any instrument, to show alternatives, ornament realizations, and more. And using Manual Staff Visibility, you can hide and show instruments at any point, whether they have music at that point.

Generate Notes from Chord Symbols

Only Dorico Pro can generate notes from chord symbols, producing well-voiced chords with sensible voice leading, avoiding as far as possible parallel fifths and octaves – unless you want them – and able to do some remarkably clever things, such as use a rhythm from one instrument as a pattern for the generated notes, and even take hints from notes you have added to guide the resulting voicings. This feature can save hours of mechanical work in creating the framework for your arrangement.

DTP-style page layout

Dorico Pro is the only music notation software with powerful desktop publishing features for music layout. Every page has a template that defines the precise position of every item, so it’s easy to determine where page numbers, titles, headers, and footers appear, and you can create your own templates to put your stamp on every project. For complex layouts, you can freely mix music, text, and graphics on any page. Page template sets can be imported and exported so it’s easy to move them between projects.

Endless customization

Music looks beautiful by default in Dorico, following in the finest traditions established over centuries by the major music publishers. The perfect page of music is the sum of thousands of tiny details, and only Dorico Pro has the depth to allow you to change every one of those details. With thousands of engraving options spread across more than 50 carefully categorized pages, you are in total control of the design and placement of every item on every page. And that is only the start: Dorico Pro provides you with dedicated editors for instruments, noteheads, music symbols, playing techniques, music and text fonts, and more.

More sounds and effects plug-ins

On top of the hundreds of production-ready sounds included with HALion Sonic 7, and more than 30 high-quality effects processors, Dorico Pro also includes HALion Symphonic Orchestra, a versatile and high-performance orchestral sound library, advanced amp modelling plug-ins for shaping guitar and bass sounds, and SuperVision, a fully customizable, multi-meter audio analyzer plug-in. You can choose from several different modules for level, spectral, phase and waveform analysis, creating your own custom layout with up to nine module slots to give you a supremely accurate visual picture of your sound.

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