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NotateMe Tips: A Great App for Handwritten Music Recognition
Do you miss the days of grabbing a pencil jotting down notes quickly on paper but you realize we live ...
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Sibelius 7 Playback Tips: Tweaking ritard and accelerando lines
In my last blog post in this series Sibelius 7 Playback tips: Tweaking Gliss lines we looked at using the Inspector to ...
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Sibelius 7 Playback tips: Tweaking Gliss lines
This is the first in a series on tutorials on tweaking Sibelius 7 playback. The ways to tweak playback in Sibelius ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 3: Extra staves, now you see them now you don’t!
In the last post I showed you how to use plug-ins to quickly voice 4 horns and setup staves for ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 2: How do you eat an elephant?
In my first post in this series I introduced you to the Focus Family and Focus Set plug-ins, which I find ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Working With Large Scores: Part 1 Focus Family Plug-ins
In this series of blog posts I'm going to share some tips on working with large scores in Sibelius. Some ...
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Sibelius: Yeah, there’s a plugin for that: ‘Run Plugins By Name’ and a follow up to Keyboard Shortcuts
One of the the great things about writing a blog like this is, I learn new things all the time. ...
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Sibelius:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 3:Key Of The Day and A Cousin Named "Key Tips"
In part 1 of this series we looked at Sibelius's built in keyboard shortcuts, in part 2 we explored organizing, ...
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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 ...
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Sibelius:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 1:The Key To Productivity!
Weather it's pulling down a menu in Sibelius 6 or pointing and clicking on the ribbon in Sibelius 7, using ...
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ProTools: Change Grand Staff to Single Staff in Score Editor
Well here's a first, a blog post with a ProTools tip! To be honest I don't use ProTools a lot, ...
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Sibelius: Small Stave In Part Only
Here’s a quick tip that you might not use every day but could come in very handy. The situation is ...
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Sibelius tutorial: Installing Plugins in Sibelius 7
Yeah, there's an easier way to install plugins With all these recent blog posts on plugins, I thought it might ...
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Sibelius tutorial: "HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL MY PAGE TEXT!" or How to safely add or delete bars to the top of your score.
Yeah there’s a plugin for that: Move System Objects For Delete Bar plugin and Add Pickup Bar plugin Continuing with ...
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Sibelius: Yeah, there’s a plug-in for that: Line Between Notes
In my previous blog post in this series I talked a bit about plug-ins. I’d like to continue by introducing you ...
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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 ...
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Sibelius: Advanced Filter Tips part 3
In this installment of “Advanced Filtering Tips” I am going to combine several filtering elements and take advantage of an ...
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Sibelius: Playing an MP3 (or Wav or AIFF) in Sibelius
Recently I received an email from a friend asking if there is a way to load an MP3 into Sibelius ...
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Sibelius: Advanced Filter Tips part 2
Here’s another example of using the Advanced Filter. This one involves text. Filtering lyrics This is a situation I run ...
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Sibelius: Advanced Filter Tips part 1
Have you ever been working in Sibelius and come across a procedure that seems to take a lot of steps ...
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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 ...
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Sibelius: How to turn off the startup music
Note: There is another installment of “Finale to Sibelius Translation” coming soon. In the meantime: Can’t you boys turn that ...
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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 ...
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Notes On Notes Mailbox: Sibelius-Drum cues in a flute part
Here's a question from an email I recently received related to my last series of blog posts. “Hi John, Thanks ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 5-Combo & Cues
With this post I’ve cover the remaining drum set notation types sited in my first post in this series. 5 ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 4 Repeat, Slash & Rhythmic
Next on the list of drum set notation 2. Repeat bars Let’s face it, most drum set parts consist of ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 3-fully notated bars & plugins
Continuing on with fully notated drum parts, here are some plugins I’ve found really helpful in streamlining the process. Duplicate ...
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 2-fully notated bars
Fully notated drum parts are fairly straight forward if you’ve mastered the concept of inputting notes in 2 voices. If ...
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Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 3
Review: basic signal flow chain is: source> chain (with or without modifiers)> output. See my previous posts: "Signal Flow & Music ...
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Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 2
Signal modifiers In my last blog post “Signal Flow & Music Notation part 1” I gave you the examples of ...
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Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 1
One Really Important Concept If you could learn one concept that will shorten your learning curve and get you out ...
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