#Dorico vs sibelius software

However, deadlines and my own stubbornness/laziness prevented me from really diving into Dorico until more recently.

Since that time, I attempted (though not always successfully) to put aside sufficient time to learn Dorico while still doing the “mission critical” projects in Sibelius. Eventually in 2016, Steinberg released Version 1 of Dorico, and though it looked impressive (I even attended a great early demo presentation by Dorico’s lead marketing manager Daniel Spreadbury in LA), there were several key features missing that unfortunately made it a no-go for me (notably the lack of support for chord symbols).įast-forward to late 2018, I finally purchased Dorico as soon as Steinberg released version 2.0. Not long after, I began hearing rumors about a new notation product being developed by Steinberg by the same team of former Avid developers. However, in around 2013, development and updates on the Sibelius platform seemed to be slowing to a crawl (related most likely to some corporate restructuring at Avid, where they laid off their key development team and moved development to China). You become so comfortable and dependent on your platform, regardless of whether it is the best one, that the thought of starting over from scratch can be truly intimidating. You amass dozens of your own templates, plugins, keyboard shortcuts, macros, workarounds, hacks, and so forth. As many out there can probably relate, the longer you’ve has been working on a certain platform regardless of field, the harder changing platforms can be.

#Dorico vs sibelius software

Last year however, I decided to change the software platform I use. Since 2008, my platform of choice has been Avid Sibelius, a choice made based on the available options of the time (prior to that I was a Finale user since 1996). Spreadbury left Avid at the end of October 2012 after 13 years working on Sibelius to become the product Marketing Manager for Steinberg, the company that recently released Dorico.As most of you know, a good portion of my work is done in the music notation world, creating arrangements and transcriptions for different types of projects. Spreadbury also sings and is a choral conductor, currently working with The Cantilena Singers in Cambridgeshire.

Before too long, he and his friend and colleague Andrew Davis were put to work on, the community-based self-publishing site for Sibelius users, taking advantage of the unique Scorch web browser plug-in, which opened for business in 2001.īefore Spreadbury came to work at Sibelius, he obtained my degree in music from Oxford University, and was one of the two tenor lay clerks in the choir of Ely Cathedral for two years. He began in the technical support team, and quickly took on the authoring of the documentation that ships with Sibelius. He started working at Sibelius in May 1999 and was involved in lots of different aspects of the company’s operations.

Daniel Spreadbury is the product Marketing Manager for Steinberg, the company that recently released Dorico, a new music engraving software program. Spreadbury used to be Sibelius’s senior product manager.