New post! 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 on the subject, with a complete transcript.

Newsletter: Dorico and Avid Sibelius from A to Z; Repeats redux in Finale Music Notation Software; Robert Puff obituary; Dorico and Sibelius iPad updates

New post! The latest update for Avid Sibelius for Mobile adds transposing for both staff and system selections, along with other improvements. Separately, Avid is once again bringing back upgrades for perpetual license users who have older versions.

New post: Robert Puff, one of the foremost music preparers working in concert and commercial music, and music notation software expert whose advice was available on his highly-regarded industry web site Of Note, died on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

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.

Sibelius isn't particularly well suited to having different headers in the same document for use in files with multiple sections. But with a little ingenuity, you can learn how to achieve this by setting up your text style in a particular way.

Place a graphic on the first page of all the parts and the score in Sibelius. This is technically a hack, so be forewarned!

Placing bar numbers on every bar of your score can save precious rehearsal time. Learn how to get a studio look to your bar numbers in Sibelius by placing them on their own separate one-line staff.

There's nothing like a good run through the alphabet, from A to Z, and then some. Here's what pressing each of those 26 letters does in Dorico.

New post! There's nothing like a good run through the alphabet, from A to Z, and then some. Here's what pressing each of those 26 letters does in Dorico.