The Steinberg DAC Dorico Pro 5 is the scoring software that helps you write, print and play back music notation to the highest professional standards. It’s easy enough for anyone to learn, yet has hundreds of advanced notations, features, options, and sounds to satisfy the most demanding professionals. Fast, streamlined and effortless—Dorico feels so natural, you’ll soon forget you’re using software at all. Its built-in intelligence produces beautiful results automatically, so you can focus on expressing your creativity and getting back to doing what you really love: making music.

This simple, streamlined user interface fits comfortably on a single display, with fast keyboard access to every feature, and no need for external keypads or MIDI devices, making it ideal for student laptops. Dorico’s rich understanding of music theory ensures that the music is always rendered clearly and unambiguously, no matter how complex the rhythmic or harmonic situation might be.

Create assignments and learning materials quickly and easily with powerful and flexible page layout features. Plus, it features superior support for modern techniques of composition—including open meter, complex tuplets, microtonality, and more—allowing you to directly communicate your musical ideas and reduce the number of workarounds necessary in other scoring software. The high-performance audio engine and world-class virtual instruments help you to refine your musical ideas before the music hits the stand.