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Trying to achieve a Sibelius look ...

Scoring Notes 03/31/2021 04:30:19 pm

Trying to achieve a Sibelius look in Finale (and vice versa)? Here are a few pointers.

Making Finale's output look more like Sibelius (and vice versa) - Scoring Notes

New post! You can do just ...

Scoring Notes 03/30/2021 02:53:35 pm

New post! You can do just about anything with time signatures in Finale Music Notation Software, if you know how to tame the beast. In this video tutorial series, start with the basics and then learn about composite, alternating and independent time signatures, how to make them film score "oversize" style, pickup me...

Taming time signatures in Finale - Scoring Notes

Synchronized playback between the score on ...

Scoring Notes 03/29/2021 01:01:39 pm

Synchronized playback between the score on an iPad running StaffPad, and a part on an iPad running StaffPad reader. Note the look-ahead feature for page turns.

StaffPad and StaffPad Reader: ScoreSync

PDF-Batch Booklet quickly imposes many ...

NYC Music Services 03/29/2021 01:01:38 pm

PDF-Batch Booklet quickly imposes many booklets or 2-ups from single-page PDFs at once. Available for Mac & Windows.

Make booklets and 2-ups with PDF-BatchBooklet - Scoring Notes

Bob Zawalich was one of the ...

Scoring Notes 03/28/2021 03:18:40 pm

Bob Zawalich was one of the first 100 employees at Microsoft, and was part of the original team that developed Word. We know him as the Avid Sibelius plug-in guru. Hear all about the path he took and the people he met along the way, on our podcast: https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/plugged-in-with-bob-zawalich/


New podcast episode! You might know ...

Scoring Notes 03/27/2021 11:55:41 am

New podcast episode! You might know Bob Zawalich's work from using any of his hundreds of Avid Sibelius plug-ins, or from his Scoring Notes blog posts, or even from hearing about him on this podcast. But do you know the man behind the code?

Plugged in with Bob Zawalich - Scoring Notes

Set a custom playback order for ...

Scoring Notes 03/26/2021 01:03:19 pm

Set a custom playback order for your music, including complex repeats and gaps, using the Manual Repeats feature in Sibelius.

Using manual repeats in Sibelius playback - Scoring Notes

An important part of printed music ...

NYC Music Services 03/26/2021 01:03:19 pm

An important part of printed music is the text that doesn't appear within the staff lines at all, but rather three types of text you're likely to encounter on the margins of the page: headers, footers, and footnotes.

On the margins: Headers, footers, and footnotes in Sibelius - Scoring Notes

New post! Have you listened to ...

Scoring Notes 03/25/2021 11:48:23 am

New post! Have you listened to some contemporary music with irrational time signatures and now want to make use of split tuplets, like 2/3 of a triplet? Today we're going to look at creating these in Avid Sibelius and Dorico.

Making tuplet fragments in Sibelius and Dorico - Scoring Notes

Changing default colors in Sibelius can ...

NYC Music Services 03/24/2021 04:30:26 pm

Changing default colors in Sibelius can help with accessibility and general wayfinding in a score.

Sibelius 2020.6 brings better MusicXML import, color options - Scoring Notes

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