Finale's nested dialog boxes involve a lot of clicking, but by using shortcuts to dismiss them all at once, you can save yourself a bit of time.

Dorico separates its modes of working. What if we open one window in Write mode and another in Engrave mode at the same time?

Even if your time signatures are irrational, it doesn't mean that your approach to creating partial tuplets needs to be. Let's see how to do it in Sibelius and Dorico.

Dorico 4.3 is out with more powerful controls in the Key Editor and a robust system for automatically generating notes on staves from chord symbols, improvements in the areas of engraving, note input, and editing, and more.

New post! Dorico 4.3 is out with more powerful controls in the Key Editor and a robust system for automatically generating notes on staves from chord symbols. There's also improvements in the areas of engraving, note input, and editing, and the iPad version is updated, too.

Perfect page layout is essential to creating quality output from music notation software. Finale offers a multitude of options to format the music on the page, but understanding where the options are is important in the quest to conquer Finale.

New post! Perfect page layout is essential to creating quality output from music notation software. Finale Music Notation Software offers a multitude of options to format the music on the page, but understanding where the options are is important in the quest to conquer Finale. Jason Loffredo shows us how.

Melissa Smey, the executive director of Miller Theatre at Columbia University, talks with us about her vast experience presenting new music, working with composers, performers, and the community in her "commission mission".

New podcast episode! Melissa Smey, the executive director of Miller Theatre at Columbia University, talks with us about her vast experience presenting new music, working with composers, performers, and the community in her "commission mission".

If your PDFs created from Finale don't output in true 100% black on Mac, a solution is to use the Export Graphic feature instead of Print to PDF.