Jeremy Levy first fell in love with Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” in high school; now he's recorded his arrangements of the work for jazz band. Learn about his process and pick up some Finale tips along the way from this top orchestrator and arranger.

Bob Zawalich explains how to use Sibelius's dialog editor to change plug-in dialog default values, should you wish to tailor certain plug-ins to suit your workflow.

New post! Dorico 3.5.10 is available. It's the first minor revision to Dorico 3.5 and it brings finesse and refinement to a wide range of the notation app’s functions in the form of feature enhancements and bug fixes.

Numbers with Rings is a sophisticated font that can bring the beauty of many enclosure styles to your scores. Learn how to use it by setting up your document to work with it.

Metatools are Finale shortcuts that are programmed to a letter or number so you can quickly modify your score. In this short video, learn how to use them with articulations.

New post! The Mozarteum University has provided videos from everything filmed from their music engraving conference. The playlist is available on YouTube and contains 26 videos totaling approximately 17 hours of material.

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New podcast episode! Justin Tokke is the technical lead at the music publisher Carl Fischer Music, and you may also know him as the founder and admin of Music Engraving Tips, a web site and Facebook group with more than 20,000 members. Justin tells us all about music publishing and gives us his thoughts on the futur...

If you have a passage in Finale with eighths and sixteenth rests (and vice versa) which you want to automatically combine into a dotted eighth rests, the solution is far from obvious — but it's possible, if you know where to look.

Metatools are Finale shortcuts that are programmed to a letter or number so you can quickly modify your score. In this short video, learn how to use them with articulations.