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New post! Finale Music Notation Software's HyperScribe tool is a method of recording music into the software in real-time. Jason Loffredo shows you how to get the setup correct and gives you a few pointers for getting the most accurate transcription possible, along with lots of power user features.

Automatically move all the rests contained within a beam group so that the beam is positioned normally, by using this Sibelius plug-in.

Learn about features and a few shortcuts in Sibelius to help you quickly enter tuplets, slurs and lines during note input.

New podcast episode! Have you ever wanted to export audio from your favorite music notation software, seen the terms “sample rate”, “bit depth”, and “bit rate”, and wondered what they really mean? We explain it all in a convenient podcast format 😃

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.

We spent time with each of the leading iPad score reader apps — forScore, Newzik, nkoda, Blackbinder, and Piascore — to help musicians decide which of the excellent options best suits their needs.

Quickly enter and modify dynamic text in Sibelius

By knowing a few easy-to-learn codes, you can be a formatting change wizard and get Sibelius to automatically apply line-breaks and make font, character and style modifications.

Updated post! Finale Music Notation Software is officially supported on Apple Silicon M1 Macs, under Rosetta 2. This now means that all five products covered in this article are now supported on M1, under Rosetta 2.