We talk with David William Hearn, founder and lead designer of StaffPad, the revolutionary music composition app for Windows Surface and iPad.

Scoring Express is the collection of professional templates and tools for Sibelius to help you get results as quickly and easily as possible. Learn some tips on how to get the most out of it in this video.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out the omission of a MIDI controller recommendation on yesterday’s “desktop” post — a notable oversight on a blog about music notation software ☺️ We’ve updated our post accordingly; check it out!

It can be worthwhile to have a consistent workspace for a long time. Sometimes, though, the opportunity presents itself to start anew. David MacDonald shares how we made those upgrades — from the desk itself, to what's on and around it.

New post and podcast episode! It can be worthwhile to have a consistent workspace for a long time. Sometimes, though, the opportunity presents itself to start anew. Here's how we made those upgrades — from the desk itself, to what's on and around it.

You can move notes and rests horizontally in Sibelius, which we call “sliding” notes. Learn how to do it in this brief tutorial.

The fastest way to work in Sibelius and Dorico — XLerated.

Improve the layout of your score automatically by using the Optimize Staff Spacing feature in Sibelius

Cory Davis from Dunvagen Music shares the detailed method that he used to create custom line ends in Sibelius for a new edition of Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, by taking SVG files made in Illustrator and importing them into Sibelius.

Before you do any work on parts, you’ll want to get one basic parameter from the librarian: the paper size their orchestra prefers for their instrument parts. Here's a video tutorial from Thomas Goss of Orchestration Online.