The Chord Symbols As Polychords plug-in for Sibelius takes pairs of selected Chord Symbols or legacy chord symbols and stacks the first of the pair on top of the second, separated by a Text object made of underscore characters in Chord Symbol text style.
Learn about pitch-before-duration input a.k.a. Speedy Entry, semantic figured bass notation, VST expression maps, and what a graphic slice is in this discussion with Daniel Spreadbury about Dorico 3.5.
A review of new guitar features found in Dorico 3.5: Playback of guitar bends and jazz articulations, new notation of guitar bend runs, vibrato arm dips, scoops, and dives, hammer-on and pull-off, tapping, and tablature with rhythms.
The size of a staff and page determines the overall layout of music. Accurate measurement is crucial to the creation of quality music notation. Here's how to use Acrobat Reader and Preview to measure anything in a PDF.
Here's a clever and useful way in Finale to have the part name, title, and composer consistently appear the same — and in the same place — on your title page and the first page of your part.
Christopher Willis talks about preparing his score to “The Personal History of David Copperfield” and the past, present, and future of music notation technology.
Notation Express is a custom-designed profile for the Stream Deck console that makes powerful Sibelius and Dorico features easy and fun to use.
Zoom has a high fidelity music mode which improves audio quality in ways that make the platform work much better for musicians.
A tutorial on creating complex time signatures and showing custom beaming patterns in Finale or Sibelius
A tutorial on inputting notes (repitching) without changing the rhythms, articulations or dynamics, in Finale or Sibelius.