New post! MakeMusic has released Dolet 8 for Avid Sibelius, its latest version of the free plug-in that writes MusicXML files that can then be read and used in more than 200 applications that support the interchange format.

Save time in Sibelius by using the Import House Style into Folder of Scores plug-in, and apply it just once or twice rather than dozens of times for each large project.

Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon talks to Scoring Notes about his film scoring process, technique, aesthetic, and use of Sibelius in his score to the film profiling the legendary Morgenthau family.

If you ever work with MIDI files that were created in a sequencer and you've opened them in Sibelius only to find lots of unwieldy decimals in your metronome marks, this plug-in will make them nice and tidy.

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.

Samara Ginsberg's multi-part cello arrangements of TV and movie themes have created a sensation on social media. She tells us how she uses music notation software to get results.

Fortunately for us, Dave Metzger has always had a deep interest in music technology, and his state-of-the-art studio consists of many of the notation software and products we talk about on a regular basis. We discuss it all on the Scoring Notes podcast.

New podcast episode! Daniel Spreadbury returns to Scoring Notes to talk about Dorico 4, the huge update to Steinberg’s scoring software. We discuss the new Write mode features, the Library Manager, and the overall development approach to the product.

Hungry for more podcast episodes? Apparently so is the AI transcript service… We dish up a new episode with Daniel Spreadbury tomorrow, talking all about the Dorico 4 release. https://www.scoringnotes.com/category/podcast/

Please see this page for information about our plans for Notation Express for Dorico 4.