Encore podcast episode! Nicole Jordan, the principal librarian of The Philadelphia Orchestra, makes sure that the right piece of music is with the right person at the right time — and music notation software was crucial in helping her nail the biggest audition of her career.

New post! The latest update to Avid Sibelius for Mobile brings step-time note entry via a MIDI keyboard. Support for pickup bars, merging bars, and better keyboard integration round out this update.

New post! Finale Music Notation Software v.27.1 is released, with deeper SMuFL integration into Finale. It is now possible to convert legacy non-SMuFL-based documents to SMuFL-compliant documents, and to import font metadata directly into Finale's document settings. Plug-ins and libraries are also updated to use SMuFL.

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

Often in published scores, we encounter text that extends beyond the barline. Here's how to use the Erase background option to mask barlines in Sibelius.

New post and podcast episode! Maestria is a technology that allows Newzik to not just display a score, but also to understand it musically. The resulting score is a LiveScore, which includes the ability to view the score as with any other, and also the ability to play it back and export it. We review it and, on the ...

For the creators of critical editions, we take a comprehensive look at Dorico's formidable set of tools for making editorial marks.

Notation Express XL for Sibelius and Dorico: a fully customized profile for the Elgato Stream Deck XL console that puts powerful features at your fingertips by pushing a button on the expansive 8x4 grid.

New post! Dorico 4, to come in early 2022, will be the first application to use Steinberg's new identity-based licensing system, which will enable single-user activation on two computers simultaneously.

The W3C Music Notation Community Group held its 2021 annual meeting. The major discussion topic was the status of MNX, the new music notation format. In addition, the group reviewed recent achievements such as MusicXML 4.0, SMuFL 1.4, and a new documentation generator.