Condensing is the process of combining the parts of multiple players on a single staff. See how this crucial step in the preparation of usable conductor’s scores is done in Dorico 3.

Bob Zawalich shows us how to import only certain elements of a Sibelius house style — lines, symbols and noteheads — without otherwise changing the appearance of your score.

New podcast episode! We talk with John Hinchey about his review of optical music recognition software products PlayScore 2, ScanScore, Neuratron PhotoScore, and SmartScore, and how you can incorporate them into your own work. John also brings along a checklist of the items to look for once you scan in your music and...

New post! MuseScore has released version 3.6. This release is primarily focused on engraving improvements and also introduces a new, SMuFL-compatible music font called Leland, designed by Martin Keary (Tantacrul on Music) and Simon Smith, inspired by the legendary SCORE program.

In this post geared towards Sibelius power users, Bob Zawalich describes the rather generous limitations of the numbers of notehead styles and plug-ins Sibelius can support at a given time, and how to get around those limitations, if needed.

Finale comes with eighteen standard default clefs. If you need something beyond the standard assortment, you can modify any of these clefs or replace them entirely with another symbol.

When a player has finished playing for the remainder of a piece, this is indicated "tacet al fine". Learn how to consolidate remaining multirests in a part and display this instruction in Sibelius.

Bob Zawalich's Open Selected Parts plug-in for Sibelius not only makes it faster to open just the parts you want, but it also quickly closes unwanted parts at the same time.

New post! A review of four leading optical music recognition, or "music scanning" apps, and how they work with music notation software: PlayScore 2, ScanScore, PhotoScore Ultimate, and SmartScore 64 Professional Edition. Plus links to sample files from each app that you can download and test yourself.

The impressive plug-in Flip Selected Notes makes it easy to flip or force the stem direction of notes and beamed groups in Sibelius.