Composer and orchestrator Jeremy Borum shares his tips about sheet music preparation to streamline your process and get from raw MIDI to a printed score, regardless of what DAW or notation software you use.

In addition to using the default keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius and Dorico, you can program your own, and even override the default settings if you so choose.

New post! Three significant improvements to lyrics have been made in Dorico 3. Syllabic pasting, a new Edit Lyrics dialog, and adjusting lyrics on a line-by-line basis make working with lyrics faster and easier.

The glamorous side of the music preparation business.

The glamorous side of the music preparation business.

Cory Davis from Dunvagen Music shares the detailed method that he used to create custom line ends in Sibelius for a new edition of Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, by taking SVG files made in Illustrator and importing them into Sibelius.

Robert Piéchaud talks music software and more about Medieval 2, a comprehensive package that works within Finale to create early music notation.

Sibelius isn't particularly well suited to having different headers in the same document for use in files with multiple sections. But with a little ingenuity, you can learn how to achieve this by setting up your text style in a particular way.

Ever since Sibelius 4 introduced Dynamic Parts feature in 2005, and Finale 2007 followed in due course with Linked Parts a year later, I've hardly ever needed to extract parts from a Finale or Sibelius file — and you shouldn't have to, either.

Comments have been a useful tool in Avid Sibelius for many years, and now they’ve come to Dorico 3. Read our full review (and comment, if you like): wp.me/p1OLc1-4Xb