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 …
Music Notation
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 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: 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 …
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, memorizing and creating your own keyboard …
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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. In this post I'll walk you …
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 your mouse, track ball or trackpad is not the most …
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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, Digital Performer is my DAW of choice. But a lot people do use …
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