Steinberg Dorico Elements 6 Music Notation Software

Compose and arrange music for ensembles of any size with Steinberg Dorico Elements 6, a music notation and composition program. Ideal for students and those working at home, Dorico Elements 6 offers everything you need to make beautiful scores, arrange and format compositions properly, and prepare them for publishing in a timely manner.

Grand Entrance

Experience the expressive clarity of a world-class Yamaha C3X grand piano with the new Etude Elements sounds, at no extra cost.

Cycle Playback

Loop any section of your score during playback, and hear your edits live in the next cycle.

Power Chords

Show multiple rows of chord symbols with optional extender lines. Create your own custom chord symbols, and easily override every aspect of their appearance.

Sight Reading

Fill view makes maximum use of your available display, flexibly flowing as many systems of music as possible into the width and height of the window.

Just My Type

Access enhanced typographical control with full support for OpenType glyph positioning and glyph substitution features.

Marking Time

Exercise complete control over where tempos, rehearsal marks, repeats, and large time signatures appear.

Measure Up

Show rulers and a customizable grid in page view for precision control over item placement.

All Lined Up

All the essential sounds you need for marching snares, cymbals, toms, and bass drums, in partnership with Tapspace, makers of Virtual Drumline.

Import/Export User Settings

Easily move all your customizations to Dorico from one computer to another with import and export of all your user settings.

Refined MusicXML

Improved export of guitar tablature, better handling of transposed instruments, lyric font support, and more.

Power User Filtering

Use the keyboard to access the Properties panel filter, and show properties for all selected items for power user control.

Margin Control

Show staff labels outside the left page margin, allowing consistent control over the precise width of every system, as preferred by some publishers.

Player Group Labels

Selectively hide or show player group labels on any system, and show group labels even when individual staves show no labels

Easy Editing

Double-click staff labels and player group labels to directly edit instrument and player group names. Double-click Project Info placeholders to directly edit title, composer, lyricist, and copyright information.

View Options

Use the new View Options dialog to set your own preferred options for every new project, with all relevant settings at your fingertips.

Tempo in Scores and Parts

Tempo marks can now have a different relative size in full score and part layouts; and you have greater control over how gradual tempos and metronome marks appear.

Refined Handles

When you zoom in, frame outlines, handles, and other non-printing items are proportionally smaller, obscuring the notation less, and making finer Engrave mode edits easier.

Status Bar

The information readout in the status bar is enriched with page, timecode, and harmony descriptions.

Double Systemic Bar Lines

If one system ends with a double bar line, it shows a double bar line at the start of the following system.

HDR Color Management

Videos using HDR color look better by default on sRGB displays, and playback performance is improved.

Light and Dark

Dorico's visual appearance can optionally automatically follow the operating system light and dark themes.

Arrange

Quickly move music between players, and explode or reduce it onto more or fewer instruments. Powerful transformation tools allow you to change tonality, perform inversions, map onto new scales, and more. You can even create fully voiced parts from chord symbols.

Perform

Dorico comes with hundreds of high-quality sounds, more than 30 effect processors, and a full audio Mixer, plus tools to help you make your music sound as good as it looks. The integrated Key Editor allows you to tweak every aspect of your score's performance.

Share

Dorico can import MIDI and MusicXML, and export MIDI, MusicXML, audio, and graphics. Whether you're working on your own or part of a team, it's easy to get music into the hands of your performers or collaborators. Projects are also fully compatible between desktop and iPad.

Publish

Dorico formats your music beautifully, completely automatically.

Learn

Dorico is widely used in schools, colleges, and universities. It's perfect for producing learning materials and for building an understanding of music theory. And it's easy for students to learn with dozens of helpful tutorials and well-structured documentation.