New post! David MacDonald takes a look at UE Now, a new partnership that allows musicians to purchase high quality scores from Universal Edition, delivered instantly to Newzik for performance and study.

While no substitute for a thorough review of your score and parts, here are a few plug-ins that can find and resolve some common errors particular to scores prepared in Sibelius.

Here's an ingenious way to tame the comma beast: Consistent placement of breath marks in Sibelius by creating them as lines instead of symbols. Intrigued? Here's how to do it.

New post! Avid Sibelius's magnetic glissandi automatically snap to notes. What's more, you can change the playback style of a glissando or disable its playback entirely without affecting its notation.

In this post, conductor and composer Claude Lapalme shows you how he composed a meter-less segment of a movement of a chamber orchestra work in Dorico, using its sophisticated note entry and engraving tools.

Microtonal notation in Dorico: Dorico 2's powerful correlation between written symbols and a diversity of possible tonal systems is an absolutely incredible breakthrough in contemporary composition.

Here's how to place fermatas on bar rests in Finale, and why placing them as articulations yields more consistent results than using expressions.

A review of microtonal playback in Dorico, with audio and score samples by Thomas Nicholson.

Notation Express is the fastest way to work in Sibelius. It’s a custom-designed profile for the Stream Deck console that makes powerful Sibelius features easy and fund to use.