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September 6, 2012 By John Hinchey 2 Comments

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 …

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September 4, 2012 By John Hinchey 8 Comments

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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February 19, 2012 By John Hinchey 6 Comments

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 …

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November 26, 2010 By John Hinchey Leave a Comment

Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 2 Tools-Articulation & Chord

This post is part 2 in my series of posts translating Sibelius 6 for Finale users. Remember I’m using Finale 2010 as Finale version of reference for these …

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November 22, 2010 By John Hinchey 11 Comments

Sibelius: How to turn off the startup music

Note: There is another installment of “Finale to Sibelius Translation” coming soon.  In the meantime: Can’t you boys turn that music down! When Sibelius …

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November 7, 2010 By John Hinchey Leave a Comment

Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics

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. …

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June 6, 2010 By John Hinchey Leave a Comment

Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 3

Review: basic signal flow chain is: source> chain (with or without modifiers)> output. See my previous posts: "Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 1" …

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May 31, 2010 By John Hinchey Leave a Comment

Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 2

Signal modifiers In my last blog post “Signal Flow & Music Notation part 1” I gave you the examples of signal flow of water in my …

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Laurie discovers signal flow

May 26, 2010 By John Hinchey 4 Comments

Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 1

One Really Important Concept If you could learn one concept that will shorten your learning curve and get you out of the weeds 9 times out of 10 when you are …

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    John Hinchey helps his clients' projects sound beautiful with the notes he puts on paper.

    John Hinchey is a producer, arranger/composer and speaker. He helps musical artists (such as Martina McBride), production companies (for cruise lines and theme parks), and independent singer/songwriters with musical arrangements, composition, music prep and trombone. In addition to arranging for Sting's Rainforest Benefit Concerts, he has also produced, arranged and/or composed music for the 2004 Democratic Convention, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the critically acclaimed CD "Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute To 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and more.

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