New post! Avid has introduced a new licensing system with the intent of making it easier for a single user to activate and use Avid Sibelius on multiple computers. Sibelius 2021.12 for both desktop and mobile apps is out; headlining the improvements is a new way of entering percussion notation.

Updated post! Plans for the Steinberg Licensing system have been modified so that once your software, like Dorico, has been activated on your computer, it never needs to contact their activation servers again for you to be able to keep using it. Also, the maximum number of activations has been increased from two to ...

It's a parts party on Scoring Notes with David MacDonald!

New post! Understanding how expressions work in Finale Music Notation Software is essential for creating dynamics, tempo indications, and so much more. These detailed video tutorials from Jason Loffredo cover every aspect of expressions, including design, placement, positioning, playback, as well as how to transfer ...

Start your week right. Go with Gould! https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/partying-with-parts-part-1/

New podcast episode! We party on with our second installment on part preparation. Thoughtful consideration of cues, repeats, divisi, percussion — not to mention music notation software know-how — all contribute to the ideal performance document for the player.

Guitar features found in Dorico include matching user-defined chord shapes, a chord diagrams editor, 4-, 5-, or 6-note chord shapes, and fingering.

In addition to using the default keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius and Dorico, you can program your own, and even override the default settings if you so choose.

In music scores, a house style is the collection of dozens or hundreds of rules and preferences governing the look of the music.

Two Sibelius plug-ins to make your life easier: Merge To Voice 1 to convert notes in all voices in a selection into voice 1, and Simplify Part Names, removing all but the first instrument name in the Part Name field in Score Info for each dynamic part.