The very early versions of Sibelius ran on Acorn computers with as little as 4Mb RAM. The brothers Finn, Ben, and Jonathan, cleverly set about designing not only an outstanding notation programme that not only produced professional-looking scores but could playback the notation.
Sibelius was founded by two Cambridge Music students in 1993, who had found that writing out music by hand was an overly laborious task. Incidentally, if you are curious about the name, it was chosen to recognise the skills and contributions of the 16 th Century Italian music engraver Valerio Dorico (1500-1565). Sibelius was taken over by Avid Technologies but they closed their London offices in 2012 leaving Steinberg the ideal opportunity to headhunt some of the top software developers for their new project: Dorico. What is of particular note is that Dorico was, for the most part, a project designed by some of the key developers of Sibelius software.
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Developed by Microsoft and Steinberg, Dorico was first available on Windows and Mac OS in late October 2016. Dorico, in comparison to Sibelius, is a relatively new offering in the world of notation software. Let’s begin with a brief look at the origins of each of these pieces of software. In this article, I’m going to make a light comparison between the two to measure the merits and wheedle out the weaknesses. For anyone unfamiliar with the world of music notation software, let me quickly point out that these two examples are leaders in the market.
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