Finale
Finale to Dorico: NAVIGATING THE SHIFT
Hey there! If you're navigating the transition from Finale to Dorico after Makemusic's recent changes, you're not alone. Many users ...
Finale’s Sunset and Moving Forward
On August 26th 2024 MakeMusic announced that after they are sunsetting Finale music notation software. They are no longer developing ...
Hi It’s Me I’m Back
Hi it's me I'm back. 2013 is almost over and you may have noticed I took a hiatus from blogging ...
Sibelius:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 2: Have A Plan, Why ‘W’ = ‘We’-duce and Finale Schema
In my last blog post, I talked about learning the keyboard shortcuts built into Sibelius and how this can boost your productivity ...
Sibelius & Finale: File sharing amongst and between part 1
Surprisingly, I run into many Sibelius users who are under the impression that once you upgrade to Sibelius 7 you ...
Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way
Have you ever had a problem, then you find the solution and the next thing the sound you utter resembles ...
Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”)
The great majority of charts I deliver to clients are now attached to an email and sent as PDFs. No ...
Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 2 Tools-Articulation & Chord
This post is part 2 in my series of posts translating Sibelius 6 for Finale users. Remember I’m using Finale ...
Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics
Many composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music prep professionals who are long time Finale users are finding that if pays to ...
Nashville Sibelius User’s Group Meeting July 12, 2010
Thanks to Doug Roberts and Dave McKay of Roberts Creative Systems for inviting me to speak at the Nashville Sibelius User ...