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 …
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Sibelius 7 workshop at Sweetwater Jan. 18, 2014
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 …
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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 and work in a world of computer generated notation? Do you …
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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 tweak gliss lines. In this post we'll use …
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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 7 can go pretty deep if you really want to …
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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. No worries all is well! I've been producing, arranging, and, …
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 the score (Horns 1&2 and Horns 3&4) and also separate …
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 indispensable when working with large scores. Let’s …
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 scores are just plain BIG! When working on a …
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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. Master plug-in programmer Bob Zawalich left a comment on my …