This article seems somehow related to this thread: “Sound Analysis of Swing In Jazz Drummers”
The author (Ernest Cholakis, referenced above) analyses the “feel” of 16 well known jazz drummers, turning something abstract into definable numerical values. There is a PDF accompaniment to the article as well, which has bar charts comparing each player’s velocity and timing over two bars as well as their “swing ratio” and other factors.
Each player produces unique, yet consistent patterns of variations to absolute time that is unique to them. It’s not random, rather, these variations in timing or dynamics within the context of a swing groove make up a specific “musical signature” that can be identified with that specific player over and over.
While I could certainly see the usefulness of a tool like the Sibelius “Transform Live Playback” for Dorico in time, the C_brains Lemur editor makes a great case for third party specialized tools that produce a super-set of specific features appealing to individual interests.
This has the additional advantage of lightening developer load so the focus can be on making the core feature set of the program as attractive as possible. Third party programmers are already doing great things for Finale with Lua, so I am excited about the possibilities for Dorico.
All of this is rather outside the topic of music notation specifically (as is this thread, actually), but interesting, nonetheless.