The MusAnalysis font aims to address and correct the deficiencies evident in printed literature: even in some widely-used theory textbooks, spacing and font weight are inconsistent and, at times, barely legible.

Placing notes in parentheses in Sibelius is easy (and downright fun, too).

New post! Finale Music Notation Software version 27.2 runs natively on Apple silicon Macs for the first time. All default documents and document styles in v27.2 are now SMuFL-based, and, in a welcome surprise, there is a fully revamped SMUFL-compliant jazz default file and document style, thanks to Darcy James Argue.

Using Musitek’s SmartScore Music-to-XML music notation recognition software to analyze scanned PDF files of music and send them directly to Finale, Sibelius, or Dorico.

Robert Piéchaud talks music software and more about Medieval 2, a comprehensive package that works within Finale to create early music notation.

Add Fingering To Notes for Sibelius 7+ is a rewrite of an earlier plug-in to help add fingering numbers to notes more quickly.

If you’re going to make a music font, there’s no point in making it identical to existing ones. Here's how to make your own SMuFL font.

New podcast episode! There was a time when there were no music fonts — and then there was one. Cleo Huggins, the designer of Sonata, the very first music font, tells us all about setting the standard for a new era in music notation.

The MusAnalysis font aims to address and correct the deficiencies evident in printed literature: even in some widely-used theory textbooks, spacing and font weight are inconsistent and, at times, barely legible.

Ever since Sibelius 4 introduced Dynamic Parts feature in 2005, and Finale 2007 followed in due course with Linked Parts a year later, I've hardly ever needed to extract parts from a Finale or Sibelius file — and you shouldn't have to, either.