AVID Archives - John Hinchey

Finale’s Sunset and Moving Forward

John Hinchey — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:55:35 +0000

On August 26th 2024 MakeMusic announced that after they are sunsetting Finale music notation software. They are no longer developing it or selling it. They will be continuing tech support for one year until August 2025. And in a surprising move to many was the announcement that MakeMusic had made an agreement with Steinberg to […]

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Sibelius 7 workshop at Sweetwater Jan. 18, 2014

John Hinchey — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:36:43 +0000

Hi all just a quick note. I will be doing a free Sibelius 7 workshop at Sweetwater in Ft. Wayne Indiana saturday January 18, 2014 from 10am to noon. Topics to include: • Why put notes on paper? • Basic Sibelius concepts • Sibelius Signal flow • Keys to efficient workflow • Tips to keep […]

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Sibelius 7 Playback Tips: Tweaking ritard and accelerando lines

John Hinchey — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:02:39 +0000

In my last blog post in this series Sibelius 7 Playback tips: Tweaking Gliss lines we looked at using the Inspector to tweak gliss lines. In this post we’ll use a very similar technique to fine tune the way ritard, accelerando and all other tempo based lines affect playback. For the rest of the post I will […]

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Sibelius 7 Playback tips: Tweaking Gliss lines

John Hinchey — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:57:36 +0000

This is the first in a series on tutorials on tweaking Sibelius 7 playback. The ways to tweak playback in Sibelius 7 can go pretty deep if you really want to dig in. But there are also many simple steps you can to take to improve the playback of your scores. Meet the Inspector! In Sibelius […]

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Hi It’s Me I’m Back

John Hinchey — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:06:54 +0000

Hi it’s me I’m back. 2013 is almost over and you may have noticed I took a hiatus from blogging. No worries all is well! I’ve been producing, arranging, and, playing trombone in addition to all the usual things people do with their lives. I’ve got some Sibelius posts planned and also posts about some […]

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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 3: Extra staves, now you see them now you don’t!

John Hinchey — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:26:57 +0000

In the last post I showed you how to use plug-ins to quickly voice 4 horns and setup staves for the score (Horns 1&2 and Horns 3&4) and also separate staves for each of the 4 horn parts. As one of my blog readers quickly pointed out this is all well and good but […]

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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 2: How do you eat an elephant?

John Hinchey — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:42:09 +0000

In my first post in this series I introduced you to the Focus Family and Focus Set plug-ins, which I find indispensable when working with large scores. Let’s look at a few more plug-ins that make things move a bit faster in large scores when working in Sibelius. On bite at a time…but how big? There […]

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Sibelius Tutorial: Working With Large Scores: Part 1 Focus Family Plug-ins

John Hinchey — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:26:19 +0000

In this series of blog posts I’m going to share some tips on working with large scores in Sibelius. Some scores are just plain BIG! When working on a large score, no matter what the ensemble, the score page and your monitor are only so big. The more staves you have, the smaller they must […]

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Sibelius: Yeah, there’s a plugin for that: ‘Run Plugins By Name’ and a follow up to Keyboard Shortcuts

John Hinchey — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:34:05 +0000

One of the the great things about writing a blog like this is, I learn new things all the time. Master plug-in programmer Bob Zawalich left a comment on my last blog post about a plug-in of his that fits in with my “Key of the Day” scheme. This is a plug-in I was not aware […]

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Sibelius:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 3:Key Of The Day and A Cousin Named "Key Tips"

John Hinchey — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:19:51 +0000

In part 1 of this series we looked at Sibelius‘s built in keyboard shortcuts, in part 2 we explored organizing, memorizing and creating your own keyboard shortcuts. I’ve got just a few more thoughts on this subject so here we go with part 3! Key of the day There are so many features in Sibelius, […]

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