New post! Newzik has announced Maestria, a new optical music recognition technology that uses artificial intelligence to become more accurate over time, as well as a new product called LiveScores, which use Maestria to create interactive scores.

What do you get when you combine a catchy children's tune with a young person's guide to the orchestra and a lovable finned friend?

Find out how to adjust the default positions of lines, and learn some tips about working with bracketed hairpins in Sibelius.

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

Times New Roman is ubiquitous as the default text font in Sibelius, Finale, and many other programs. If you're looking for a different look but need the same font metrics as TNR, try the Tinos font.

Express VC is a simple yet powerful custom-designed profile for the Stream Deck console and the Stream Deck Mobile app that makes Zoom easy and fun to use.

A guide to how and why octave-up and octave-down clefs relate to the position of the music on the staff, and how Sibelius is different than other music notation programs in this way.

New podcast episode! Recorded live at the 2021 MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians Conference, we talk all about the developments in MuseScore, Finale Music Notation Software, Avid Sibelius, and Dorico, and take questions. #VirtualMOLA2021

We'll be LIVE today on a special video presentation of the podcast: Monday, May 17 at 2 pm EDT (New York - USA) as part of the MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians Conference, comparing MuseScore, Finale Music Notation Software, Avid Sibelius, and Dorico. Come see us then!

We'll be live on a special presentation of the Scoring Notes podcast, as part of the MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians conference, talking all about the major music notation software applications: Monday, May 17 at 2:00 pm. See you then!