Links for 2009-06-30
Changing Notation Software Liz Garnett, a prominent arranger and performance coach, has switched from Capella to Sibelius. Her verdict? "I'm quite impressed... there is a certain consistency and logic to…
Composition professor offers tips on composing using software
Kenneth Froelich, who is currently Assistant Professor in Music Composition at California State University, Fresno, has just started a new blog focused on composing music on the computer. He says:…
LeRoy early music fonts for Sibelius
Sibelius user and early music expert Steve Horn has been working for many months on a suite of new music and text fonts, together with Sibelius manuscript paper templates and…
Reviewing the reviews, part 1
Although we have yet to see any reviews of Sibelius 6 appearing in the specialist press, hundreds and hundreds of customers have already upgraded to or bought Sibelius 6 since…
Links for 2009-06-23
Cheap Impostor Recommended to me by my friend Doug Lebow, this PDF imposition utility will prove invaluable if you're putting together booklets or spreads. Mac only, I'm afraid, but... (tags:…
Links for 2009-06-22
A potential new musical tool Scott Foglesong would love to see Scorch running on the Kindle DX. So would I! No idea whether the Kindle's web browser supports plug-ins like…
Hector Parra’s Hypermusic Prologue prepared in Sibelius
One more story from my friend Wim Hoogewerf for today. He says: Last sunday I assisted at the first performance of Hector Parra's Hypermusic Prologue by the Ensemble InterContemporain at…
Concert in Clermont-Ferrand tonight prepared entirely in Sibelius
I always enjoy hearing from Wim Hoogewerf, about whom I've posted before. Yesterday Wim got in touch with me to let me know about a concert happening tonight (Friday 19…
Using third party virtual instruments with Sibelius
Sibelius user John Glossenger got in touch with me to share his tips for using third party VST and Audio Units virtual instruments with Sibelius. He says: Before I moved…
Learn Sibelius online at BerkleeMusic.com
Summer term at BerkleeMusic.com, the online continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, begins on June 29th, and Tom Rudolph's course, Music Notation Using Sibelius, will be running as…