How to create composite time signatures in Sibelius, including what Elaine Gould’s Behind Bars book calls “meters of mixed denominators” like 6/8 + 2/4.

New post! Intelligent figured bass is one of the new features in Dorico 3.5, and that’s no empty boast. Dorico’s insistence on understanding the meaning of music symbols provides some very powerful capabilities. Let’s dive right in with a real-world task: adding figures to a Bach chorale.

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.

Tame the tempestuous tuplets, tremolos and beams in Sibelius with Notation Express.

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Along with a bit of history behind the convention, the how and why to use and create instruments that don't display a key signature in Sibelius, Finale, and MuseScore.

Eight since 8: Our favorite new features in Sibelius since version 8.0 was released. If you haven’t yet updated from 7.5 (or earlier), or even if you have, you'll want to watch this video.

New podcast episode! A roundup of the latest Dorico and Avid Sibelius updates, as well as an answer to the age-old question: When should you take the plunge and update your software? Philip Rothman and David MacDonald discuss. Please subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/scoring-notes/id1514590215

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.

Explore along with Bob Zawalich as he takes us through the inner workings of Sibelius's user folders and user-editable files, what their purposes are, where to find them, and how to modify them.