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Written By David MacDonald

Reviews

Long-awaited MuseScore 4 release brings major improvements to engraving and audio

December 14, 2022January 7, 2023

MuseScore 4 is out. It’s the first update in nearly two years, with major improvements to the user interface, layout, engraving, playback features — and a brand-new sound library to top it all off.

Reviews

Dorico 4.3 brings Key Editor power tools and chord symbol note generation

November 15, 2022November 21, 2022

Dorico 4.3 is out with more powerful controls in the Key Editor and a robust system for automatically generating notes on staves from chord symbols. There’s also improvements in the areas of engraving, note input, and editing, and the iPad version is updated, too.

Reviews

Odla, an input device that “touches” the music

July 19, 2022July 23, 2022

A review of Odla, a hardware controller for MuseScore and Dorico, that aims for “music you can touch” by directly modeling the five-line staff itself.

News

Dorico for iPad adds one-time purchase in addition to subscriptions

June 1, 2022June 3, 2022

With Dorico for iPad 2.3, users can access all the app’s premium features with a single in-app purchase via a new “Lifetime Unlock” option. This update also keeps pace with the newest version of Dorico on the desktop (version 4.1).

Tips

Upgrade your desk [updated]

May 7, 2022May 17, 2022

What’s on and around our newly upgraded desks — not to mention, the desks themselves.

News

Dorico for iPad adds “Open In Place” for better file management

April 12, 2022April 15, 2022

Dorico for iPad 2.2 adds Open in Place, bringing a more desktop-like file opening and saving process to the app and making it easier to handle files when moving between different devices.

Reviews

Dorico for iPad 2.0 brings over many desktop features, plus annotations

February 9, 2022February 16, 2022

Steinberg has released Dorico 2.0 for iPad, a major update to the app that shares many features with its desktop counterpart. Many of the additions in Dorico 4 are now available on the mobile platform, as well as a bonus: freehand annotation for marking up scores in Read mode.

Reviews

StaffPad brings live recordings into your scores with Audio Update

December 21, 2021November 20, 2022

The StaffPad “Audio Update” brings new features like audio staves, tempo mapping, adaptive audio to keep your audio in sync with your score tempo, royalty-free production sounds and loops, and studio-quality effects, along with more improvements.

Reviews

Newzik Maestria review: The score reader that promises to read scores

November 13, 2021November 16, 2021

Maestria is a technology that allows Newzik to not just display a score, but also to understand it musically. The resulting score is a LiveScore, which includes the ability to view the score as with any other, and also the ability to play it back and export it.

Tutorials

Preparing teaching materials in music notation software

September 22, 2021September 25, 2021

How to prepare learning materials like quizzes or scale sheets using music notation software, whether you’re printing traditional worksheets or creating assignments for students to complete in the software directly.

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