musicXML Archives - John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/category/music-xml/ Nashville Music Producer, Composer and Arranger Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:56:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hincheymusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png musicXML Archives - John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/category/music-xml/ 32 32 Finale’s Sunset and Moving Forward https://hincheymusic.com/finales-sunset-and-moving-forward/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:55:35 +0000 https://hincheymusic.com/?p=10357 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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]]> Tips for Using Optical Music Recognition Software https://hincheymusic.com/tips-for-using-optical-music-recognition-software/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:50:13 +0000 https://hincheymusic.com/?p=3058 Optimal Music Recognition Software (OMR) apps, also known as ‘music scanning’ apps, can be a powerful tool in an arranger and music prep professional’s toolbox. Recently I did an article for my friend Philip Rothman’s Scoring Notes blog reviewing four of the leading OMR apps, PlayScore 2, ScanScore, PhotoScore Ultimate, and SmartScore 64 Professional Edition. […]

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]]> NotateMe Tips: A Great App for Handwritten Music Recognition https://hincheymusic.com/notateme-tips-a-great-app-for-handwritten-music-recognition/ https://hincheymusic.com/notateme-tips-a-great-app-for-handwritten-music-recognition/#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:10:13 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=2315 Do you miss the days of grabbing a pencil jotting down notes quickly on paper but you realize we live and work in a world of computer generated notation? Do you wish there was a way do both, draw notes on a staff by hand and have the notes magically appear in  Sibelius or Finale? Then this […]

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]]> https://hincheymusic.com/notateme-tips-a-great-app-for-handwritten-music-recognition/feed/ 30 Sibelius & Finale: File sharing amongst and between part 1 https://hincheymusic.com/sibelius-finale-file-sharing-amongst-and-between-part-1/ https://hincheymusic.com/sibelius-finale-file-sharing-amongst-and-between-part-1/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:41:12 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1417 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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]]> https://hincheymusic.com/sibelius-finale-file-sharing-amongst-and-between-part-1/feed/ 8 Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics https://hincheymusic.com/finale-to-sibelius-translation-part-1-learning-and-semantics/ https://hincheymusic.com/finale-to-sibelius-translation-part-1-learning-and-semantics/#respond Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:34:00 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=923 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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