Iconica Sketch Walkthrough | Dorico 5.1

Join Anthony as he plays a selection of the sounds from the new Iconica Sketch orchestral library, that is now a part of Dorico Elements 5 and Dorico Pro 5 at no additional cost.

00:00 Introduction
00:43 Strings
04:34 Brass
06:38 Woodwind
08:50 Percussion
10:49 Using Iconica Sketch in Dorico

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[PierreBerggren]

This is a great addition to Dorico, especially for the Elements users like myself, who only use the stock sound library. Now you can get the sound of the playing techniques like piz, which you couldn't get from the Elements sound library before. So both thumbs up from me! 👍👍

[GwcMuso]

Dorico team - this is an excellent addition, and free as well. Terrific stuff all round. 👍👍

[keithhaynie]

This is so amazing, with the trumpet voice, flute and other instruments.

[rexwine]

One thing I was waiting to see, while you were demonstrating the key switch section, is if you could record from that section. Because being able to activate new switches is handy.

[danieldubei]

Lovely. Looking forward to trying this out. However, where are the saxophones??? Why are they always left out?

[wiseoldfool]

I'm so much looking forward to exploring this! It seems very responsive to velocity and mod wheel. Aftertouch wasn't mentioned, but I'm not sure it would be very useful given the mod wheel response.

[d.d.jacksonpoetryproject]

Am I mistaken that the technology behind Note Performer (and the latest MuseScore) is leaps and bounds ahead of this in terms of quickly and realistically reproducing the nuances of a score with almost zero effort? It just seems like for notation it might be better to embrace that approach (ideally by having something like this built-in) rather than the “Play Mode tweaking, DAW-piano roll approach. At the least, I’d be curious to know what percentage of users who value playback are opting for Note Performer versus using any of these built-in sounds.

[kencory]

Great update. I hope you've addressed a problem that I've found with Dorico: the staccato notation seems to come with an additional attack or accent. This is not a feature of staccato as I understand it. I've had to work around this by (for example) replacing staccato quarter notes with eighth notes separated by eighth rests.

[crevalation]

Hi Dorico team, congratulations and thanks for the great update! A question - how does the playback handle the negative delay inherent in Iconica Sketch?

[MadMusicologist]

Overall: First, I do not see how you select Iconica Sketch in Dorico. But, it sounds really great. But some remarks: I'm missing the Saxophone family. And the Contrabass Clarinet. And, I learned in the 1980ties that the double bass goes lower than the C2 which I have seen here: it's lowest note is even 1 semitone lower. I'd been hoping for that...

[dmcd]

I'm trying the iPad IOS version and the Iconica instruments default to staccato and the "e" icon to access the Halion page to change articualtions is NOT visible in the 5.1 IOS version. I tried a MOD wheel to see if that might cycle to another articulation but it does not. I think the IOS 5.1 version is missing some features at this point. Hopefully, I'm just missing the essential clue to access the configuration page on an iPad.

[kupo]

Very cool! The thing I would like to know however, is what VSTs were used for that amazing opening intro tune or was it live recorded?

[wolfie]

Can we do this on diffent VST lets say kontakt cinematic studio series?

[Estigy]

I have been looking forward to this, but now I discovered that there are no saxophones included in this library... Since I mainly write for wind band, this is a major issue for me.

[vxla]

Marimba mallet selection is still missing; it would be nice to modulate from soft to hard mallets on marimba. Also, the vibraphone sounds are poor; is there even a way to vibrato the sound natively?

[MadMusicologist]

8:56 please slowly: how do you switch between the different percussion instruments? They sound amazing, but I can't see how you do it.

[MusicOfDreamweaver]

Question: I have several orchestral VSTs and I often use them alongside other ensembles. I would like to create a template that I can insert into a project, kind of like a track preset in Cubase. Is this possible? In Cubase I have track presets for each ensemble and add what I need. Ex. Rock band + Iconica Orchestra.

[ahmetbaykara.mp]

I noticed two issue in this video; fast playing flute legato sounds not so realistic. Harp gliss earlier sounds killed by Halion. Is there performance settings for that?

[seheyt]

0:56 "spiccato" - proceeds to play something that's martelé at best