Sibelius 2020.3 is out with true support for L.V. “laissez vibrer” ties for the first time as well as improvements in many areas such as house styles, accessibility, and automatic staff spacing.
March 2020
Notation Central, the marketplace for music notation technology
Notation Central is a marketplace for music notation technology, with fonts, utilities, templates, plug-ins, and more, helping you create music at the highest level.
Command and control in Sibelius
In Sibelius, typing the Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) key in combination with another key often means “do this, but bigger.” Get to know the keyboard shortcuts where this applies.
Work in multiple Dorico modes simultaneously
Dorico’s separation of modes of working — Setup, Write, Engrave, Play, and Print — is unique among the various desktop music notation programs. But what if we open one window in Write mode and another in Engrave mode at the same time?
Stream Deck Mobile now on Android; Siri Shortcuts for iOS
Stream Deck Mobile is now on Android. On iOS, Siri Shortcuts are now supported. Stream Deck powers Notation Express, putting powerful notation software features at your fingertips for Sibelius, Dorico, and Musescore.
Anton Coppola, 1917-2020
Remembering Anton Coppola, conductor, composer, founding artistic director of Opera Tampa, and “maestro”, and the work of engraving the piano-vocal score to his crowning achievement, the opera “Sacco and Vanzetti”.
Customizing beam groups in Sibelius
“Divisions of a beat are beamed together in all meters, in order to simplify reading beats,” says Elaine Gould. Here’s how to change the default beam grouping in Sibelius so that it matches your musical intentions.
Finale version 26.2.2 released
MakeMusic has released Finale version 26.2.2. This maintenance release includes several notation improvements in advance of MakeMusic’s forthcoming musical content sharing mechanism, and some other fixes to MusicXML export/import and elsewhere.
Notion iOS 2.5 and Notion 6.6 desktop updates released
Notion is updated. Notion iOS 2.5 supports document handling, MP3 and SMP Press export, template saving, and more, including handwriting, MusicXML and MIDI import enhancements. Notion 6.6 for Mac and Windows brings over some of these improvements and addresses compatibility issues.