New post! NotePerformer 4.4 expands the capabilities of several existing playback engines and adds a brand new free playback engine to support Steinberg's recently released Iconica Sketch.

Here's hoping your holiday season is just ducky! Happy holiday wishes from Scoring Notes, with tremendous thanks for your support of another year of the podcast and web site all about music notation software and related technology.

New post! MuseScore 4.2 sports many new guitar notation and playback features like bends and alternate string tunings, and a new sample library. Improvements in score/part synchronization, harp pedal diagrams, arpeggios, ties, Braille, MusicXML import, sharing, and more round out this update.

New podcast episode! With the Muse Group acquisition of Hal Leonard, and Dorico, MuseScore, Avid Sibelius, and Finale Music Notation Software all freshly updated, 2023 is going out with a bang. We gather round the fire and get ready for the year ahead in music notation software and related technology.

New post! The scope and scale of the improvements in the Dorico 5.1 update runs the gamut, with substantial new features in notation, engraving, productivity, organization, and playback, including the new Iconica Sketch library.