Finale Archives - John Hinchey

Finale to Dorico: NAVIGATING THE SHIFT

John Hinchey — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:36:35 +0000

Hey there! If you’re navigating the transition from Finale to Dorico after Makemusic’s recent changes, you’re not alone. Many users are feeling the challenge of learning a new software, and I’m here to help! Upcoming Course: Finale to Dorico Foundations To support you in this journey, I’m excited to announce my next “Finale to Dorico: […]

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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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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:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 2: Have A Plan, Why ‘W’ = ‘We’-duce and Finale Schema

John Hinchey — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:21:15 +0000

In my last blog post, I talked about learning the keyboard shortcuts built into Sibelius and how this can boost your productivity. In this post I’ll walk you through setting up your own user defined keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius. But before you charge into setting up all those shortcuts it helps to have a plan. Let’s look […]

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Sibelius & Finale: File sharing amongst and between part 1

John Hinchey — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:41:12 +0000

Surprisingly, I run into many Sibelius users who are under the impression that once you upgrade to Sibelius 7 you can’t exchange scores with someone using Sibelius 6. You can in fact, exchange scores seamlessly. And thanks to a new addition to Sibelius 7 you can easily exchange scores with Finale users too. As well, there […]

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Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way

John Hinchey — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:35:23 +0000

Have you ever had a problem, then you find the solution and the next thing the sound you utter resembles Homer Simpson saying, “D’oh!” ? Discovering this little tip was exactly one of those moments for me. Sometimes it pays to know the basics of your operating system! For years, I’ve been printing PDFs of […]

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Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”)

John Hinchey — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:37:04 +0000

The great majority of charts I deliver to clients are now attached to an email and sent as PDFs. No more running to FEDEX and scrambling to get the charts there the next morning. Charts can instantly be sent anywhere in the world. This is especially handy for some of my clients, as the PDFs […]

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Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 2 Tools-Articulation & Chord

John Hinchey — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:52:07 +0000

This post is part 2 in my series of posts translating Sibelius 6 for Finale users. Remember I’m using Finale 2010 as Finale version of reference for these posts. Since Finale bases many of the elements of notation on the Tool menu, that seems like a good place to start. Let’s go through some […]

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Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics

John Hinchey — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:34:00 +0000

Many composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music prep professionals who are long time Finale users are finding that if pays to be fluent in Sibelius as well. Both programs give you excellent professional output and both are being widely used. In my consulting work with clients and colleagues, I’ve developed a few tips and techniques that […]

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Nashville Sibelius User’s Group Meeting July 12, 2010

John Hinchey — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Thanks to Doug Roberts and Dave McKay of Roberts Creative Systems for inviting me to speak at the Nashville Sibelius User Group meeting. And thank you to all who attended for making me feel so welcome. We covered a lot of ground in Sibelius as well as related software and music notation topics. And if I’m […]

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