New post! Jason Loffredo has done it again, with a video tutorial series "outsmarting" Smart Shapes in Finale Music Notation Software — lines, trills, slurs, octave lines, hairpins, pedal lines and other objects that "smartly" adjust their position.

The Sibelius plug-in Create Tuplets Different Units automates creating a tuplet where the "numerator" and "denominator" do not share an equivalent unit.

Save time by using the Re-input Pitches feature in Sibelius, or the Repitch tool in Finale, when you’re writing for several instruments that have the same rhythm but different pitches.

Great fun speaking with Jonathan Newman on the Scoring Notes podcast about the trials, tribulations, and consequences of being a professional music copyist.

On the Scoring Notes podcast: Jonathan Newman becomes a professional copyist for a period of time, and lives to tell about it. https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/jonathan-newman-part-1-of-2/

New podcast episode! Jonathan Newman joins us for the first of a two-part episode, in which we discuss the profession of music copying, balancing a composing career with other obligations, and watershed moments in the history of music notation software.

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.

Our review of Dorico 3, with a first for any music notation program: automatic condensing of individual players into a full score layout. Guitar notation, harp pedaling, harmonics, grouped playing techniques, comments, and more are in this major upgrade.

Bob Zawalich, who for decades has amassed an output of 500 public plug-ins for Sibelius, tells us all about his fascinating life and career, beginning with him being part of the earliest Microsoft teams that developed Word.

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.