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Written By David MacDonald

News

Dorico for iPad 1.1 removes player limit for subscribers

August 10, 2021August 12, 2021

Dorico for iPad 1.1 removes the 12-player limitation for subscribers. There are many smaller but notable tweaks and bug fixes in this update, totaling nearly 50 in all.

Reviews

Dorico arrives on iPad

July 28, 2021January 9, 2022

Dorico for iPad has arrived. This major release for Apple’s tablet platform brings over all the familiar elements of the desktop music notation software program, along with some new features and ways of working.

Tutorials

Super-powered keyboard shortcuts with BetterTouchTool

June 3, 2021June 5, 2021

Extend your keyboard shortcuts on a Mac by using BetterTouchTool, an app which allows the user to define a trigger, and then associate one or more actions that will be launched when that trigger is detected.

Tutorials

How to keep your iPad from lighting up your face while performing

April 20, 2021May 5, 2021

Using an iPad as a score reader in performance is great, but its backlight looks weird from the audience. Fortunately, there are tools and settings on your iPad that can help, in apps like forScore and Newzik.

Tutorials

How to transfer your forScore library to a new iPad

March 23, 2021May 5, 2021

In lots of ways, the data you create in forScore after importing scores is more valuable than the scores themselves. So when you upgrade to a new iPad, you’ll want to take every piece of your forScore library with you. It’s not hard to do.

Tutorials

Paperless composition lessons with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

January 30, 2021February 2, 2021

Composer and educator David MacDonald describes in detail how he teaches composition using the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and a suite of apps, and why he can’t imaging returning to the dead-tree way of doing things.

Tutorials

Graphic notation workflow with Sibelius and Adobe Illustrator

November 15, 2020November 18, 2020

In this video tutorial, David MacDonald demonstrates his current workflow for creating graphic elements using the basic drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator and placing them in his scores in Sibelius.

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.

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.

News

Add your own scores to the nkoda library with Escobar Digital

May 6, 2020May 8, 2020

Escobar Digital is an aggregator for the digital sheet music subscription service nkoda, allowing scores from small publishers and self-published composers to appear in the nkoda catalog alongside larger publishers.

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