Updated post! Prime Day — or Prime Big Deal Days — Amazon's retail-palooza, is here for October 7 & 8. It can be a good time to purchase items that will update and upgrade your setup, especially if you have some downtime. Here's what's on our desk.

Recent updates abound in Dorico, MuseScore Studio, Sibelius, and across the Apple operating systems. Whether you use all of these products or just one of them, we help you get current with the latest features and improvements.

New podcast episode! Recent updates abound in Dorico, MuseScore Studio, Sibelius, and across the Apple operating systems. Whether you use all of these products or just one of them, we help you get current with the latest features and improvements.

Dorico 6.1 brings added functionality to condensing and proofreading, a new piano library, a playback template overhaul, and much more.

New post! Dorico 6.1 brings added functionality to condensing and proofreading, a new piano library, a playback template overhaul, and much more.

MuseScore Studio 4.6 brings improvements in engraving, workflow and playback. Full support for custom SMuFL fonts, improved staff hiding functionality, and increased options for bar numbers and chord symbol display are among the highlights.

New post! MuseScore Studio 4.6 brings improvements in engraving, workflow and playback. Full support for custom SMuFL fonts, improved staff hiding functionality, and increased options for bar numbers and chord symbol display are among the highlights.

Sibelius 2025.8 is now officially supported on macOS 26 Tahoe, as is Dorico 6.0.22 and the forthcoming MuseScore Studio 4.6 release.

Updated post! Sibelius 2025.8 is now officially supported on macOS 26 Tahoe, as is Dorico 6.0.22 and the forthcoming MuseScore Studio 4.6 release.

Sometimes in Sibelius, a lyric hyphen that occurs at the end of a system will collide with the preceding syllable. The best fix is the least obvious one.