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.

Jeremy Levy first fell in love with Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” in high school; now he's recording 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.

A tutorial on copying and pasting dynamics to many staves quickly, in both Finale and Sibelius

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A Sibelius plug-in automates the tedious process of creating special barlines and manually adding in fake "barlines" in certain instances where you don't want the barline to appear to be joined between staves.

Finale generates a tempo map when it parses a track, but its tempo handling might not behave as you'd expect. Here are some common problems and solutions.

Summer is here! What does that mean? Time to catch up on Scoring Notes, of course!

Save a Sibelius file as both the current version and an earlier version of the software, along with PDF and MusicXML formats, in just one step by using these plug-ins.

In Sibelius, if you expect recently opened documents to appear in the Quick Start dialog or in the list of recent documents in the Ribbon, but they're not appearing correctly, you may need to reset a setting.

Ever wish you could convert a whole lot of free-floating symbols to smarter articulations in Sibelius? Now you can, thanks to a handy plug-in that makes the task easy and fast.