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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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 be a good time to talk about the new Install …
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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 my series on plugins, let’s take a look …
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 to another one of my favorite plug-ins that I …
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Sibelius: Yeah, there’s a plug-in for that: Edit Instrument Names
Something that I say over and over again about Sibelius is, if you think to yourself, “There must be an easier way to do this,” there probably is. Often the …
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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 can’t exchange scores with someone using …
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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 often overlooked attribute of the …
Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way
Have you ever had a problem, then you find the solution and the next thing the sound you utter resembles Homer Simpson saying, “D’oh!” ? Discovering this …
Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”)
The great majority of charts I deliver to clients are now attached to an email and sent as PDFs. No more running to FEDEX and scrambling to get the charts …