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September 2020

Opinion

Preparing music scores for screens — the challenges and opportunities

September 30, 2020October 7, 2020

What are the best practices when preparing a score with the expectation that it will be read from a screen, not paper? This is an excellent question — one whose answer today may likely change in the coming years.

Tips

Set a shortcut to export PDFs in Sibelius

September 23, 2020September 30, 2020

How often do you export PDFs from Sibelius? More often than you access the fretboard? Yet the fretboard has a default shortcut, and Export PDF doesn’t. Let’s fix that.

Reviews

The focus is on staves with the Sibelius 2020.9 update

September 17, 2020September 23, 2020

Sibelius 2020.9 is available with enhancements to the Focus on Staves feature, enabling new layout and formatting workflows for scores and parts. There are other improvements to MIDI and MusicXML importing, ManuScript, and accessibility.

Tips

Pitch before duration note input in Dorico

September 15, 2020September 17, 2020

Beginning in the 3.5 update, Dorico officially added support for note input using pitch-before-duration, fulfilling a request of many users coming from other notation software accustomed to this entry method.

People

The multi-cello universe of Samara Ginsberg

September 12, 2020September 15, 2020

Samara Ginsberg’s multi-part cello arrangements of TV and movie themes have created a sensation on social media. We learn more about Samara’s approach to arranging, using music notation software, and her experience playing from charts of all kinds.

Tutorials

Create tuplets over a barline in Sibelius

September 8, 2020September 12, 2020

A plug-in creates tuplets in Sibelius that appear to cross barlines. You can specify a tuplet starting position, a tuplet ratio and size, and some other tuplet properties, such as a tuplet bracket and number that will span the entire tuplet.

News

Better music experiences come to Zoom with high fidelity audio

September 2, 2020September 8, 2020

A recent release of Zoom brings high fidelity audio to the popular videoconferencing platform. The new mode improves audio quality in ways that make the platform work much better for musicians by disabling Zoom’s aggressive dynamic compression.

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