Music Software & Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico

Tantacrul analyzes the user interface and user experience design of Steinberg's Dorico music notation software through user testing.

In this video, I break down the UX/UI design of Steinberg’s Dorico - an increasingly popular music notation software that competes with AVID’s Sibelius. To help me look at how the experience has been designed, I test it out on real musicians and documented my own experience trying to compose in it too. Is it seaworthy? Does it float? Well... yes it does... but there be jank in them there waters... --- Jankalog t-shirts available here! bonfire.com/jankalog-concept/ If you’d like to see these videos more regularly, please consider supporting me on Patreon. (Note - there are two exclusive Tantacrul videos available on Patreon that you can’t see anywhere else) patreon.com/Tantacrul Join me on Twitter @Tantacrul See my work on the MuseScore channel youtube.com/MuseScore It’s still early days with MuseScore but big changes are being planned! --- SUBTITLES The amazing subtitles (especially the 'Jank' section) were done by Pentameron: youtube.com/channel/UC9cJLV8SzlNla5MFVY8lSVg --- MUSIC Special thanks to The Bran Flakes for allowing me to use their track ‘Oddio Overplay’ during the ‘Jank it up’ section. Check out their album ‘Bubbles’ here. I’ve loved this for years. youtu.be/Q_r_Edp8PWk Visit the Bran Flakes’ website here: thebranflakes.com/ --- DORICO LINKS How Dorico was made - Daniel Spreadbury’s blog blog.dorico.com/2013/02/musicians-union-meeting-report/ Recent Interview with Daniel Spreadbury icancompose.com/interview-with-dorico-creator-daniel-spreadb… Tutorial for creating contemporary, freely metered music scoringnotes.com/tutorials/creating-freely-metered-music-dor… Rockin’ Music youtube.com/watch?v=eECSX-0fN_U&feature=youtu.be An example of Dorico throwing shade at Sibelius I love the way Daniel refers to Sibelius as ‘Product A’, then mentions how rest placement improvements are their ‘third highest-voted feature request’, followed by a link directly to the Sibelius feedback community. lol. blog.dorico.com/2014/02/development-diary-part-the-fifth/ Avids share price and revenue uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/AVID/ ycharts.com/companies/AVID/revenues Sibelius moving to the Ukraine globallogic.com/blogs/how-to-build-the-biggest-lab-in-ukrain… Igor Engraver Handbook yumpu.com/en/document/read/22736610/igor-engraver-manual