#Dorico tuplets free#

I would like to hear what the team’s position is on this. We will most likely always be somewhere in between, but it’s absolutely an interesting discussion. So maybe it’s a better strategy that Dorico only or mostly deals with semantically meaningful types of notation and leaves the graphic designing to designated programs. After all, Illustrator already exists, so whoever needs it for the occasional fine-tuning of Dorico projects, can just buy it.

#Dorico tuplets free#

OTOH, it could be going to far to provide the complete functionality of something like Illustrator within Dorico, even given endless time and resources. I attach an example of a recent score of mine set in Dorico 2: the voices are written in free polyphonic notation, metrically aligned but without any hidden tuplets to coordinate the parts, even though sometimes the voices have different numbers of beats, and with microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation accidentals, which the program. However, it IS slightly illogical that you can choose (I believe) any note value you want for grace notes, but not tuplets (after all, tuplets are note values, right?). Whatever is not “legal” notation would probably have to be written as non-semantic graphics, and borderline cases might only be possible as workarounds - which is already the case for the topic of this thread. Since Dorico is still missing obvious functionality, it might be a bit premature, but ultimately, I think a perfect notation program would be able to write just anything.

More seriously, it’s an interesting discussion.

If you don’t care about playback, it already does For example, do you think Dorico should provide support for writing music from right-to-left instead of left-to-righ?