From the 2025 NAMM Show, a conversation with Oriol López Calle, the founder of My Sheet Music Transcriptions, about his service, approaches to transcribing and music preparation, and rapid technological innovations in the field.
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NAMM 2025: An interview with Avid’s Sam Butler
From the 2025 NAMM Show, a conversation with Sam Butler, Avid’s director of product management, about Sibelius’s new decondensing parts feature, the TEC award for the Android version, and the direction of the industry.
From cylinders to streaming
Today, we can enjoy lossless streaming anywhere we go… but getting here wasn’t easy. Our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz chart the 150-year history of audio mediums, from cylinders made of tin foil and wax, to vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CDs, and mp3s.
A snapshot of music scanning apps, and picturing the future
Music scanning technology has existed for decades, and yet in many ways is still barely out of infancy. But that could soon change as classic algorithm-based desktop programs converge with newer mobile apps and web-based machine learning tools.
Stock ‘n shop
We take stock of the year’s updates to the music notation software products MuseScore, Dorico, and Sibelius, and then do some Black Friday shopping for deals in related (and not-so-related) technology.
On the record about higher education
Composer and music tech professor Ben Fuhrman joins us to discuss the collegiate educational experience from a music recording and production perspective.
Finale’s coda
MakeMusic has discontinued development of Finale after 36 years and has endorsed a crossgrade to Steinberg’s Dorico software. Jason Loffredo joins us to discuss the news, and what it means for the companies and their customers.
MOLA 2024 conference and tech fair wrap-up
We recap the 2024 MOLA Conference from Cleveland, with a summary of the tech fair and the rest of the event: from the intricacies of percussion setup to licensing, copyright, and commissioning agreements, and much more.
Print perfect (encore); MOLA 2024 preview
Printing scores and parts is a staple of the music preparation process. Here’s how to do it by the book so that everyone’s on the same page. Plus, a preview of the 2024 MOLA conference and tech fair.
Video killed (it with) the notation star
Steve Morell takes a look at how video, tempo, and time are handled with the four most popular desktop music notation software options — Dorico, Finale, MuseScore, and Sibelius — and how they compare to StaffPad’s tablet-based notation/DAW hybrid approach, among other options.