Exhausted with Finale -- is Dorico the answer?

[Jacob Moss]

This is playback direct from Sibelius (not exported to a DAW, no velocities/midi expression lanes edited). I built this sound set around Spitfire Instruments with a custom sound set. This is the point I got to before giving up on the idea.

 

[Bollen]

This is playback direct from Sibelius (not exported to a DAW, no velocities/midi expression lanes edited). I built this sound set around Spitfire Instruments with a custom sound set. This is the point I got to before giving up on the idea.

Yeah, it's as bad a Dorico... I have developed what could almost be seen as an allergic reaction to the performance of notation programs. It's not even in uncanny valley territory...
That is not to say, that you can't get so,e decent playback from Dorico, if you are willing to tweak things to death... But at least we can, which is not something Sib really allowed very much.

 

[Jacob Moss]

I would love actually to see the same sample library (not Noteperformer, because that's cheating) hooked up with all the notation softwares with no additional editing (from raw MusicXML maybe) and see what they come up with.