A font makes it easy to enter harp pedal settings in a musical way, in any notation program, without needing to remember the order of the pedals.

Sonata provided the blueprint for the core music fonts later created for use in Finale and Sibelius, but it may surprise you to learn that Sonata was created without any one particular music software product in mind.

Sibelius Ultimate comes with a wide range of instruments for playback in the form of Sibelius Sounds. But if you want to use other sound libraries, you need to set up a playback configuration. Here's how to do it.

Sonata provided the blueprint for the core music fonts later created for use in Finale and Sibelius, but it may surprise you to learn that Sonata was created without any one particular music software product in mind.

To make it easier to work with a large selection of many items scattered throughout a score, Bob Zawalich has created a powerful plug-in that could change the way you use Sibelius: Browse Selected Objects.

Jason Loffredo is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, copyist, keyboard player, and music director. We talk with him about the world of musical theatre, using notation software to achieve results, and his Conquering Finale video tutorial series.

Sibelius Ultimate comes with a wide range of instruments for playback in the form of Sibelius Sounds. But if you want to use other sound libraries, you need to set up a playback configuration. Here's how to do it.

Jason Loffredo is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, copyist, keyboard player, and music director. We talk with him about the world of musical theatre, using notation software to achieve results, and his Conquering Finale video tutorial series.

It is not unusual to encounter grace notes at the end of a bar — that is, before the barline. Entering this variety of grace note in Sibelius can be a chore, but there is an approach which involves using tuplets to achieve good results.

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