New post! David MacDonald spends time with each of the leading iPad score reader apps — forScore, Newzik, nkoda, BlackBinder, and Piascore — to help musicians decide which of the excellent options best suits their needs.

A brief excerpt of Aaron Copland’s suite from Billy The Kid, exported from Sibelius to Dorico with MusicXML and using the default settings from NotePerformer

The GVIDO music reader aims to change the way music is read by merging the old with the new. It's a dual-display hinged device that can show two facing pages.

A brief excerpt of Aaron Copland’s suite from Billy The Kid, exported from Sibelius to Dorico with MusicXML and using the default settings from NotePerformer

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 post! Take maximum advantage of the new articulation features in Finale Music Notation Software v26 with this script that automatically splits precomposed articulations (such as the combined accent-tenuto) into separate articulations that automatically stack and position correctly.

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

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.

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.

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.