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February 2017

News

Third Dorico maintenance update released

February 28, 2017April 16, 2017

The third Dorico update, version 1.0.30, is available, with some new features particularly in the areas of rests, barlines, bar numbers, tremolo and grace note playback, as well as other areas of the program. In addition, dozens of bugs and other performance issues have been addressed.

Tips

Get accidentals to display correctly on cross-staff notes in Sibelius (updated)

February 21, 2017July 13, 2018

Cross-staff notes and accidentals have long been problematic in Sibelius — sometimes they stubbornly won’t appear when they should, no matter what you try. Here’s a way to finally get those pesky accidentals to show up.

Tips

Change the appearance of octave lines in Finale and Sibelius

February 17, 2017July 13, 2018

Here’s how to change the default appearance of octave lines in Finale and Sibelius, if, for instance, you’d like the octave line to simply read “8” instead of “8va”.

Tutorials

How to tape and fold pages for parts: a video tutorial

February 13, 2017July 13, 2018

The question often gets asked: How does one print and tape music accordion-style? In this blog post and accompanying video, learn the technique and tools you need to accomplish that very task.

News

OpenScore: Open-sourcing sheet music

February 10, 2017July 13, 2018

In this guest post, Peter Jonas, software developer and OpenScore project manager for MuseScore, describes OpenScore — a collaborative sheet music digitization project by MuseScore and IMSLP.

Tips

Combine 8th and 16th rests into a dotted 8th rest in Finale

February 7, 2017July 13, 2018

If you have a passage in Finale with eighths and sixteenth rests (and vice versa) which you want to automatically combine into a dotted eighth rests, the solution is far from obvious — but it’s possible, if you know where to look.

Tips

Quick fix: Clean up the list of recent documents in Sibelius

February 3, 2017July 13, 2018

In Sibelius, if you expect recently opened documents to appear in the Quick Start dialog or in the list of recent documents in the Ribbon, but they’re not appearing correctly, you may need to reset a setting.

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