I suppose it is still subject to change, and there could always be special offers, but they have indicated the crossgrade price will be $299 Euros. See https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/dorico.html
It appears the first release will not have chord support and will not have much or anything in the "human playback" area. I view the first release as non-production -- an opportunity to learn the software if one is interested in that. I guess people who don't care about playback and who don't use chords might be able to use the first release more productively. On 5/19/2016 3:38 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 5/19/2016 10:39 AM, Matthew Naughtin wrote: >> I saw the demo of Dorico at the Major Orchestra Librarians' Organization >> conference in Helsinki this week. Looks very promising, and many of us >> librarians had little flecks of drool on our chins afterward. The >> interface is clean and logical, and the work flow makes more sense in >> some ways than Finale or Sibelius. It will be 64-bit native, so should >> go fast. >> >> The presenter Daniel Spreadbury admitted that it's still a work in >> progress and there are lots of details to be ironed out before the >> official release. I expect that the chord symbol issue will be worked >> out before then, and Daniel said that the crossgrade price wasn't set in >> stone as of now. One attraction for me is that evidently a version of >> the Cubase sequencer and Steinberg sound libraries will be incorporated >> in the program. >> >> Definitely worth a look, at least in a demo version, and I'll be >> interested to see how well my Finale and Sibelius files migrate. >> > > I'm looking forward to the release of Dorico. > > Daniel has said in the Dorico forum at steinberg.net that the migration > will have to be by way of MusicXML and he said that probably it will be > best to keep working on projects which are nearing completion in their > original programs rather than trying to migrate them. He mentioned that > if page layout has begun on the project, definitely keep it in its > native program because that information doesn't translate over MusicXML. > But if projects are fairly new and still in the data entry stage and > not at the page layout stage, then MusicXML should migrate them well. > > It's good to hear from someone who has seen Dorico in action -- it has > sure sounded as if Daniel and his team have spent a lot of time > rethinking the workflow that should be best for most users. And I'm > eager to see the new music font in action! > > Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us -- especially the part where he > said the crossgrade price isn't fixed in stone. I'd love it to be $100 > or more cheaper than the initially listed price! > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
