Dive deep into the craft of music preparation with notation software and technology with these detail-packed lessons, often with accompanying videos.
Speed up your workflow by using the Execute Commands plug-in to automate a sequence of Sibelius commands. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how.
Ties in Finale can be a knotty endeavor, but we won’t string you along. Untangle them, and their methods of entry, editing, and manipulation, in this installment of the Conquering Finale video tutorial series.
Using the EastWest Hollywood Choirs library and their built-in WordBuilder 2 engine, you can assemble words, enabling your choir passages to sing text in Sibelius.
A tutorial for using MIDI time code via the free VidPlayMTC tool to synchronize video with playback in Finale on Mac and Windows, resembling an in-app video player experience.
Accidentals, coloration brackets, lyrics, barlines, figured bass, staff lines, ornaments, and incipits are among the various areas in Dorico that come into play when working with early music notation. We bridge the nearly 500-year gap between 21st-century software and the 16th-century plainsong it creates.
How video, tempo, and time are handled with notation apps Dorico, Finale, MuseScore, and Sibelius, how they compare to the unique notation/DAW hybrid approach from StaffPad, and how to use notation software in scoring to picture.
Picture yourself using the Graphics tool in Finale. We draw out its highlights and illustrate some functions lurking in the shadows that might be more useful than you first think.
A comprehensive journey and tutorial about creating the recording of İlkay Bora Öder’s symphonic composition, crafted entirely using Sibelius and NotePerformer’s playback engines.
Finale’s possibilities are truly astronomical, and its settings can seem like a black hole. Jason Loffredo boldly navigates the Finale frontier of space — music space, that is — with a down-to-Earth explanation of its constellation of features to help you reach for the stars.
Finale has a dedicated tool for resizing the noteheads, notes, staves, systems, or pages of your score. We’ll show you all the ways to use it, plus other ways to scale the size of items like accidentals, mid-measure clefs, grace notes, lyrics, and chord symbols.
Detective Jason Loffredo is back with the Conquering Finale video series. His “Special Tools Investigation” will dissect each one of these tools, perform forensic analysis, and present evidence that you have access to a powerful array of engraving tools for individual notes and measures.