New post! MuseScore has announced the beta release of MuseScore 3.0. This new version of MuseScore is a separate application from MuseScore 2.x and will be the first major release of MuseScore since it was acquired by Ultimate-Guitar.com earlier in 2018.

So much going on right now in music notation software land! Read our Scoring Notes blog to make sure you don't miss a beat 😉

What a month it's been in the music notation software world! Catch up on new updates from Avid Sibelius and Dorico, Finale Music Notation Software tips, Arne Wallander's NotePerformer 3.1 update, David MacDonald's thoughts on the new iPads, and so much more from Scoring Notes.

Composer, arranger, and orchestrator Jeremy Levy shares his pro tips on using the macro program Keyboard Maestro to make the most of Finale. Examples and sample scripts included!

Technical details you'll need to started with Garritan libraries and Finale, in order to get everything working together correctly.

A review of Logitech's MX ERGO trackball, a highly recommended ergonomic, customizable pointing device that works with Mac and PC and can be configured on a per-application basis.

Composer, arranger, and orchestrator Jeremy Levy shares his pro tips on using the macro program Keyboard Maestro to make the most of Finale. Examples and sample scripts included!

An update on yesterday's review of the Avid Sibelius 2018.11 release, with more information about improvements made to Windows DPI scaling on high resolution displays.

New post! Avid has released Avid Sibelius 2018.11, the latest update to its music notation software. Although there are no significant new features in this release, Sibelius 2018.11 has been rewritten in the latest version of the Qt cross-platform application framework. There are a number of other fixes and improvem...

From our Scoring Notes blog: Steinberg has released Dorico 2.2, another enormous update. Read our full review of all the new or rebuilt features: trills, group bracketing, repeat markers, jazz articulations, tempo track import/export, real-time MIDI recording, flow headings, tacets, and a new music symbols editor. P...