Music Notation Archives - John Hinchey

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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NotateMe Tips: A Great App for Handwritten Music Recognition

John Hinchey — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:10:13 +0000

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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Sibelius 7 Playback Tips: Tweaking ritard and accelerando lines

John Hinchey — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:02:39 +0000

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 a very similar technique to fine tune the way ritard, accelerando and all other tempo based lines affect playback. For the rest of the post I will […]

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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 3: Extra staves, now you see them now you don’t!

John Hinchey — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:26:57 +0000

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 staves for each of the 4 horn parts. As one of my blog readers quickly pointed out this is all well and good but […]

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Sibelius Tutorial: Working with Large Scores Part 2: How do you eat an elephant?

John Hinchey — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:42:09 +0000

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 look at a few more plug-ins that make things move a bit faster in large scores when working in Sibelius. On bite at a time…but how big? There […]

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Sibelius: Yeah, there’s a plugin for that: ‘Run Plugins By Name’ and a follow up to Keyboard Shortcuts

John Hinchey — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:34:05 +0000

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 last blog post about a plug-in of his that fits in with my “Key of the Day” scheme. This is a plug-in I was not aware […]

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Sibelius:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 3:Key Of The Day and A Cousin Named "Key Tips"

John Hinchey — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:19:51 +0000

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 shortcuts. I’ve got just a few more thoughts on this subject so here we go with part 3! Key of the day There are so many features in Sibelius, […]

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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:Keyboard Shortcuts Part 1:The Key To Productivity!

John Hinchey — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:19:12 +0000

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 efficient way to select what you need. If you a Mac user, when was the last time you went to the edit menu in any […]

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ProTools: Change Grand Staff to Single Staff in Score Editor

John Hinchey — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:04:26 +0000

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 ProTools and I’m often sent Protools files by my clients. Sometimes I am transcribing from audio or adding orchestration to existing tracks. […]

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