New post! The importance of the Staff Tool in Finale Music Notation Software cannot be underestimated. This very large series of videos from Jason Loffredo will be well worth your time, because a deep understanding of how staves work is a critical part of "conquering Finale."

The Check Pizzicatos plug-in ships with Sibelius and it has saved me many minutes of work on many scores, and saved many minutes of rehearsal time. Its sole purpose is to locate suspect arco and pizz. markings in your score.

In Dorico, tuplets can cross barlines easily. Learn how to apply this feature, with an easy tweak, to properly render certain Renaissance notations that have been difficult to achieve with other software.

PDF-MusicBinder takes the tedium of setting up PDF files for accordion-style and booklet printing and turns it into a one-click process.

An essential element of Sibelius's dynamic parts feature is the ability to make certain changes in a part without affecting the score. This extends to the ability to have different names for instruments in parts than what they are in the score.

Newsletter: Avid Sibelius 2022.7 update; Finale Music Notation Software plug-ins; Dorico 4.2 update; ODLA - Music you can touch review and more

Nicole Jordan, principal librarian of The Philadelphia Orchestra, visits with us at the conclusion of the successful 2022 MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians, hosted by her hometown orchestra.

New podcast episode! Nicole Jordan, principal librarian of The Philadelphia Orchestra, visits with us at the conclusion of the successful 2022 MOLA :: An Association of Music Performance Librarians Conference, hosted by her hometown orchestra.

Avid Sibelius 2022.7 adds dynamic guitar staves, which dynamically link a guitar notation staff with a guitar tab staff in the score at the same time. The update also includes more instruments, more templates, and other improvements and fixes.

New post! Avid Sibelius 2022.7 adds dynamic guitar staves, which dynamically link a guitar notation staff with a guitar tab staff in the score at the same time. The update also includes more instruments, more templates, and other improvements and fixes.