New features

Channel strips are now shown in the Mixer panel when it is sufficiently tall. See Mixer panel.

Edits to tie chains in Write mode, including changing the stem direction of notes, now affect all notes and ties in the chain.

Dorico Pro now comes with Groove Agent SE, allowing you to drag and drop patterns onto drum set tracks and trigger patterns using MIDI trigger regions. See Importing drum set patterns from Groove Agent SE.

If you have installed Groove Agent SE, you can use new playback templates to load Groove Agent SE automatically when you add drum sets. See Playback templates.

It is now possible to transpose, move, and copy notes by clicking and dragging with the mouse. See Enabling/Disabling mouse editing.

You can now input notations onto multiple staves simultaneously outside of note input. By default, Dorico Pro inputs notations at the first note on each staff. See Changing the item input position setting.

It is now possible to use scrub playback in Dorico Pro. See Scrubbing.

This new feature allows you to play back notes without showing them in the music, such as when using patterns in Groove Agent for playback. See MIDI trigger regions.

These new features work together to make it much easier to produce realistic playback performances of your music. Stage templates allow you to position instruments as if they were on a real stage. Space templates emulate different rooms and concert halls by applying panning and reverb settings to instruments’ stage positions. The end result is playback that uses the stereo field more realistically, with deeper and more natural reverberation. See Space templates and Stage templates.

This new algorithm allows melodies to play back even more expressively. See Enabling/Disabling pitch contour emphasis.

The status bar has been given additional options, allowing you to switch the current layout between concert/transposed pitch and galley/page view more easily. See Status bar.

You can now enable/disable playhead following during playback in each project window independently. See Enabling/Disabling playhead following.

You can now change the numbering convention used for middle C (MIDI note 60) throughout Dorico Pro. See Changing the middle C numbering convention.

It is now possible to renumber instruments so that their numbering matches their default player order. See Renumbering instruments.

In simple cases, horizontal alignment and leading set for individual instrument names is now used in staff labels, overriding the settings from the corresponding paragraph style. See Edit Instrument Names dialog.

You can now show player names in staff labels only on the first system in each flow, with instrument names shown in staff labels on all other systems. See Showing instrument/player names in staff labels.

To select dotted note durations, you can now double-press note duration key commands. See Inputting notes with rhythm dots.

You can now enter Unicode characters into both text items and text frames more easily. See Inputting text items and Entering text in text frames.

You can now adjust leading in individual text items and text frames, independently of the paragraph style. See Text editor options in Write mode and Text editor options in Engrave mode.

You can now change the background and border colors of individual text frames. See Changing the background color of text frames and Changing the color of text frame borders.

You can now change the paragraph style applied to multiple selected text items simultaneously. See Changing the paragraph style of text items.

Notes and items can now be muted in specific playthroughs, allowing you to hear selected notes only the second time around, for example. See Muting notes/items individually.

Dorico Pro now supports microtonal playback using MIDI pitch bend. See Expression Maps dialog.

It is now possible to add multiple FX channels to the Mixer. See Adding FX channels.

You can now rename channels in the Mixer. See Renaming channels.

A variety of new music font families are now available by default. See Music fonts.

You can now hide clefs in layouts of any transposition, independently of other layouts. See Hiding/Showing clefs.

You can now hide octave lines in individual layouts. See Hiding/Showing octave lines.