New post! File this in the (official) rumors department: We appear to be in for a major week in the world of music notation software. Both Dorico and Avid Sibelius plan on making major announcements within a day of each other.

Podcast episode encore presentation! Katie Wardrobe is the founder and director of Midnight Music, which helps music educators integrate technology into teaching. She tells us about how to music notation software and many other tools to achieve results.

We discuss the essential elements of score preparation and production that make a difference in not only the perception of your music, but how it gets rehearsed and, ultimately, performed.

If you’re a Sibelius 6 (or earlier) holdout still kicking and screaming your way through Sibelius 7 or later, with its Ribbon interface, here’s a little tip to ease the transition: You can still access the old, familiar Create menu.

Are you manually dragging staves up and down to make room for items in your score that are too close together? Have a look at this video tutorial on optimizing staff spacing automatically in your Sibelius scores.

Filed under News & Rumors: Per Sam Butler at the Avid Sibelius forum: "We've been working on something new and ambitious, details of which will start to become apparent soon. I can though let you know it'll be arriving in a week's time (fingers crossed!), so not long to go now."

New post! You hear it at the start of every Scoring Notes podcast episode. But have you ever wondered who wrote the theme and how this bouncy tune came to kick off every discussion we have about music notation software and related technology?

Use your iPad as a second display with Duet, an app designed by former Apple engineers.

Learn about a Sibelius plug-in that exports and imports mixer settings, and many other useful plug-ins as well, from developer Kenneth Gaw.

We discuss the essential elements of score preparation and production that make a difference in not only the perception of your music, but how it gets rehearsed and, ultimately, performed.