Some more summer summaries
It's time to "summer-ize" summ-more! We consolidate your reading, re-listening (to podcasts), and reductions (in price), all in one place, so you can spend more time at the beach.
Sibelius 2026.6 makes cross-staff notation no accident
Sibelius 2026.6 brings a long-awaited improvement to accidentals on cross-staff notes, auto-save and accessible touch screen navigation on mobile, a dynamic “concert pitch” wildcard, proper banjo tab, tie UX improvements, the return of macOS Quick Look, Cantai support, among other fixes and improvements.
MOLA 2027 heads to San Francisco with Tech Fair 2.0
The 2027 annual MOLA Conference will take place April 30 – May 3 in San Francisco, and with it comes a new Tech Fair, geared not just towards performance librarians, but to the wider community of music notation and technology.
Notation Express for Dorico 6 update: Dynamic chains
Introducing the Dynamic Chain in Notation Express for Dorico — select a passage, arm the chain, press a gradual and two dynamics in any order, and place the complete marking in one move. Also new: smart niente buttons, hairpin line style cycling, poco a poco, and more.
Score preparation and production notes
Originally appearing as a document that composer David MacDonald created for his weekly master class, this bullet-list of score preparation and production notes will improve the quality of your performance materials in no time. To it we have added relevant links from Scoring Notes and other sources.
Dorico 6.2.30 update is available
Dorico 6.2.30 deepens Cantai integration with independent voice playback, adds new options for wiggly glissando line appearance, continues a sustained run of MusicXML export improvements, and fixes more than 40 issues across the application.
