There are preferences and then there are the Preferences, with a capital P — settings in an application that can significantly shape your regular work. Whether or not Dorico is your preferred program, let's find out what Preferences it offers.

New post! Music engraving dates back well before the computer age, but it's easy to forget that the computer-aided portion of the history spans back a good long time. We summarize that history and explore a few key moments leading up to the present. Thanks to Ben Byram-Wigfield for a terrific write-up!

No new podcast episode this week, so have fun digging through the back catalog during this holiday break, and we will see you in a few weeks!

Updated post! Get three free months of Backblaze, the simple and affordable backup solution for Mac and PC. Check off that new year's resolution early by getting serious about backing up all your hard work!

The week's news of audio updates to notation software continues with today's StaffPad announcement of "Audio Staffs" and other new audio-related features.

New post! The StaffPad “Audio Update” brings new features like audio staves, tempo mapping, adaptive audio to keep your audio in sync with your score tempo, royalty-free production sounds and loops, and studio-quality effects, along with more improvements.

Graphical MIDI Tools 2 is now a fully-functioning native-code application by Santiago Barx that actually runs within Sibelius and communicates with it via Sibelius’s scripting language (ManuScript) to provide a piano roll window!

New post! A major upgrade is out for Graphical MIDI Tools for Avid Sibelius, which allows the user to manipulate MIDI information in the score in a graphical manner. It has been completely overhauled as an application that runs within Sibelius to provide a piano roll window. Amazing work by Santiago Barx!

New podcast episode! We wrap up 2021 with new year’s resolutions in the form of tips and recommendations: 22 items, for 2022, delivered to you in 22 minutes, all about music notation software and related tech.

We love printing your music! We'll be closed from Dec. 22 - Jan. 1, so get those print orders in now if you need them before the new year. Otherwise, we'll see you in 2022!