Link Post
Robby Burns
David MacDonald unboxes the Odla music notation ...
David MacDonald unboxes the Odla music notation controller

dorico

Dorico 5 Released

Dorico 5 was released last month! The Dorico blog has a a thoughtful introduction to version 5. I find these posts and videos so insightful and clarifying, that I almost enjoy reading and watching them as much as I do using the software. You can see the love and intention they put into every detail.

Dorico 5 helps you create music that moves – Dorico:

We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the brand new generation of our music notation and composition software, Dorico, with updated versions available now for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. Dorico 5 is packed with powerful and useful features throughout the application, all designed to help you get great-looking and great-sounding results as quickly as possible. Let’s dive in. Keep reading here…

My school year is coming to a busy close this year, and I haven’t had enough time with Dorico 5 to generate anything more meaningful to say here. So, as usual, I recommend you read the excellent review at Scoring Notes.

Holiday Gift Guide 2022, with David MacDonald and Craig McClellan

I've got a new podcast episode out, and while it's probably not in time for most of your shopping, the stuff we discussed are amongst my favorite things of 2022 and are certainly great ideas to treat yourself with down the road, if not sooner.

Show regulars Craig McClellan and Dr. David MacDonald join the show to talk about stuff we like.

Subscribe to the Blog...

RSS | Email Newsletter

Subscribe to the Podcast in...

Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Support Music Ed Tech Talk

Become a Patron!

Buy me a coffee

Thanks to my sponsors this month, Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks.

Show Notes:

Music Ed and Tech News

Books

Software

Services

Hardware and Gadgets

Bags, Pens, and other Misc stuff

The Pen Addict Podcast

Pilot Metropolitan - 6 Cartridges https://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Iroshizuku-Shin-kai-Ink-Deep-Sea-6-Cartridges/pd/34517)

JetPens.com - Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai Ink (Deep Sea) - 6 Cartridges

Rhodia Notepad

Plotter

Tom Bihn Bags

App of the Week:

Robby - Spring for Twitter

David MacDonald - Cleanshot X / Spaceteam (Board game version)

Craig McClellan - Timery

Music of the Week:

Robby - Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time

David MacDonald - Béla Fleck, Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer: Uncommon Ritual

Craig McClellan - Bonny Light Horseman: Rolling Golden Holy

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Curating your social media experience

David MacDonald - Firefox add-on: Display Anchors https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/display-_anchors/

Craig McClellan - Focus Mode Updates

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

Craig McClellan - Twitter | Website

Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others!

macOS Ventura, music notation software compatibility, iPad news

Robby does hot takes on macOS Ventura, iOS and iPadOS 16.1, and new iPads.

Subscribe to the Blog... RSS | Email Newsletter

Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Support Music Ed Tech Talk

Become a Patron!

Buy me a coffeeBuy me a coffee

Thanks to my sponsors this month, Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks.

Show Notes:

David MacDonald unboxes the Odla music notation controller

David MacDonald reviews the Odla music notation controller at Scoring Notes.

Odla, an input device that “touches” the music | Scoring Notes:

Despite all the developments users have seen in music notation software and related technologies, the ways we actually get notes into the software hasn’t changed much in the last couple decades. Odla, an Italian music technology startup, is changing that with their new hardware controller for MuseScore and Dorico.

While other input devices rely on an instrument-style controller like a MIDI keyboard or “music alphabet” shortcuts on a computer keyboard, Odla directly models the five-line staff itself. The bright red staff-line buttons make Odla look pretty cool, and the connection between input and notation was obvious and intuitive from the moment the device hit my desk. As Odla’s tagline goes, it is “music you can touch”.

This device seems really interesting, and I like the idea of having MIDI input devices that embrace the visual nuances of staff notation.

David has an immeasurable amount of experience with notation software and gets straight to the point while testing this thing out. Check out the Odla here.

Steinberg Summer Sale

Summer Deals:

Save up to 50% on Groove Agent 5 and expansions, Iconica, Dorico, Cubasis and much more. Only from July 7 to July 28, 2022.

Steinberg is running a summer sale right now and some of the cuts are deep. A lifetime purchase of Dorico is 30% off and Cubasis (which is, in my opinion, the most fully-featured DAW available for iPad) is 50% off.

Check it out!

New Software Coming from Apple

Tim Chaten, host of the iPad Pros podcast, joins the show to talk about Apple's announcements at their WWDC Keynote this month.

Subscribe to the Blog... RSS | Email Newsletter

Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Support Music Ed Tech Talk

Become a Patron!

Buy me a coffeeBuy me a coffee

Thanks to my sponsors this month, Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks.

Show Notes:

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Tim Chaten - Twitter | Website

Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others!

PlayScore, with Anthony Wilkes

Anthony Wilkes joins the show to talk about PlayScore 2, a sheet music scanning app. Anthony is the CEO of PlayScore, and in the conversation we talked all about what it can do, the challenges of developing music scanning software, and practical uses for teachers and students.

Patreon supporters receive bonus conversation about machine learning, the future of score scanning software, and automation.

Subscribe to the Blog... RSS | Email Newsletter

Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Support Music Ed Tech Talk

Become a Patron!

Buy me a coffeeBuy me a coffee

Thanks to my sponsors this month, Scale Exercise Play Alongs.

Show Notes:

App of the Week:
Robby - Audio Hijack 4
Anthony - Dorico

Music of the Week:
Robby - Listen to This - Audio Guide Anthony - On BBC's first ever live broadcast of Beatrice Harrison, featuring cellist Clare Deniz

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Universal Control
Anthony - iPad multitasking

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Anthony - Twitter | Website

Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others!

Dorico 2.2 Out! - features tighter integration with the iPad file system

When Daniel Spreadbury joined the podcast recently he teased the release of "Open in Place” on the iPad version of Dorico. The feature is now out for public use and available on the App Store.

Prior to this release, you could open Dorico projects from the file system of the iPad, but then a duplicate copy was saved inside of the Dorico app, which would not save back to the same location without first exporting that duplicate copy back to the same place, resulting in two copies. With version 2.2 your files stored in the Files app (or your iCloud/Dropbox/Google Drive by extension), will open directly from the location you have saved them on another device, and save them back to that location when you close the project. These projects still conveniently appear in the Open Recent page of the Hub when you launch Dorico.

Once opened, Dorico files will generate a thumbnail preview of your project contents, visible right from within the Document Picker.

Open in Place has increased my use of Dorico on iPad immeasurably. On the Mac, I keep my projects in iCloud Drive by default, so now I simply open them from that same location on iPad, edit, and exit out of the project to save it back to the same location.

Syncing has been reliable throughout my testing. Dorico does not recommend having the same file open on two devices at the same time as you may get unintended duplicate copies. As Daniel mentioned in the episode, further iCloud support is coming that will improve Dorico’s handling of this problem, at least if your files are kept in iCloud Drive.

With Split View multitasking, I can now do my favorite workflow on iPad, which is to have forScore opened on one half and Dorico on the other. This allows for me to easily reference my music library when arranging music, recreating parts, or designing practice resources based on the literature.

Recent iPad feature updates have also included Split View multitasking and the ability to preview thumbnails of your scores in the Files or Finder app, which can be previewed using Quick Look. Between “Open in Place,” the multitasking, and thumbnails, my top Dorico feature requests have been met, and the iPad version has become a fully integrated part of my cloud-based computing workflow.

Project contents now have preview thumbnails. You can initiate Quick Look by pressing the space bar. This will allow you to preview the document more fully without opening the file.

You can read more about Dorico 2.2 in their blog post.

Music Ed Tech Talk #52 - Dorico Updates! with Daniel Spreadbury

Daniel returns to the show to discuss the release of Dorico 4 for desktop, Dorico 2 for iPad, Steinberg licensing, and other updates!

Subscribe to the Blog... RSS | Email Newsletter

Subscribe to the Podcast in... Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Support Music Ed Tech Talk

Become a Patron!

Buy me a coffeeBuy me a coffee

Show Notes:

Album of the Week:
Robby - Dilla Time Book | Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Jay Dilla Essentials | J Dilla Influences | Inspired by J Dilla
Daniel - Horizon Forbidden West Soundtrack Volume 1

App of the Week:
Robby - Audible
Daniel - Raycast

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Whispersync
Daniel - Pi-hole

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Daniel - Twitter | Website

Please don't forget to rate the show and share it with others!

Dorico 2 Released for iPad

Speaking of Dorico, Dorico 2 for iPad is now out on the App Store. It's free and comes with many improvements, my favorite being Apple Pencil support in Read view.

When I wrote about Dorico 1.0 for iPad, I expressed my enthusiasm for it sharing similar code with the then-upcoming desktop version of Dorico 4. Basing the iPad version on the desktop code has indeed expedited feature releases. I am hopeful for the development speed that both the mobile and desktop versions of Dorico will receive in the future.

While I don't use the read view in Dorico for iPad a ton, I am excited to see the addition of annotation support with Apple Pencil. Even though it doesn't do note input, this development shows that the Dorico team is iterating fast and responding to user feedback.

Check out the Dorico release below.

Dorico for iPad 2.0 now available from the App Store:

We are pleased to announce that a new version of the top-rated music notation app for iPad, Dorico for iPad, is now available for free download from the App Store. If you already have Dorico for iPad installed, go to the Updates tab in the App Store app on your iPad to grab the update.

This new version brings many of the new features added to Dorico 4 for macOS and Windows to iPadOS and adds support for freehand annotations in Read view using the Apple Pencil for those users who choose to take advantage of the optional in-app purchase subscription. Read on for more details.

Find Robby elsewhere on the web