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The engraver’s lament: On a ...

Scoring Notes 08/24/2019 02:02:06 pm

The engraver’s lament: On a deadline and a tight budget, the notesetter pleads for mercy and longs for the ideal.

The engraver's lament - Scoring Notes

Save time by using the Re-...

NYC Music Services 08/24/2019 02:02:05 pm

Save time by using the Re-input Pitches feature in Sibelius, or the Repitch tool in Finale, when you’re writing for several instruments that have the same rhythm but different pitches.

Re-input pitches in homophonic music - Scoring Notes

Once and for all, correct Sibelius'...

Scoring Notes 08/23/2019 01:02:10 pm

Once and for all, correct Sibelius's incorrect default behavior of placing a brace on the glockenspiel and vibraphone staves.

Prevent a brace from automatically appearing on glockenspiel and vibraphone in Sibelius - Scoring Notes

A talk with PreSonus’s chief ...

NYC Music Services 08/23/2019 01:02:08 pm

A talk with PreSonus’s chief operating officer Jim Boitnott about the history of Notion and the product's evolution.

A Notion conversation with Jim Boitnott

Talking about Changes, a music transcription ...

Scoring Notes 08/23/2019 01:00:32 am

Talking about Changes, a music transcription app for iPad that can automatically recognize — you guessed it — chord changes.

NAMM 2019: Changes, a music transcription app

Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon talks ...

NYC Music Services 08/23/2019 01:00:32 am

Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon talks to Scoring Notes about his film scoring process, technique, aesthetic, and use of Sibelius in his score to the film profiling the legendary Morgenthau family.

Michael Bacon's "Good Fortune" with Sibelius - Scoring Notes

A few brief thoughts about the ...

Scoring Notes 08/21/2019 04:31:08 pm

A few brief thoughts about the size of music paper.

A few brief thoughts about the size of music paper - Scoring Notes

If you ever work with MIDI ...

NYC Music Services 08/21/2019 04:31:08 pm

If you ever work with MIDI files that were created in a sequencer and you've opened them in Sibelius only to find lots of unwieldy decimals in your metronome marks, this plug-in will make them nice and tidy.

Sibelius plug-in: Round Metronome Marks - Scoring Notes

New post! The Edit Instrument Names ...

Scoring Notes 08/20/2019 12:33:36 pm

New post! The Edit Instrument Names plug-in for Avid Sibelius can now handle various formatting conventions and apply preset formatting patterns to names, and you can multiselect instruments and apply formatting to all selected instruments at once.

Format text in the Edit Instrument Names plug-in for Sibelius - Scoring Notes

Why should you care if your ...

NYC Music Services 08/19/2019 01:00:59 pm

Why should you care if your Sibelius preference file was deleted? What are the Preferences and what do they do? Here are some tips about preference settings that may shed a little light on, if not improve upon, the way you use Sibelius.

Preferential treatment - Scoring Notes

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