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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.

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.

Tips

Change Sibelius’s color scheme

October 7, 2020October 14, 2020

You can customize your color scheme in Sibelius in lots of ways — including making it resemble another software product entirely, if you like.

Reviews

The focus is on staves with the Sibelius 2020.9 update

September 17, 2020September 23, 2020

Sibelius 2020.9 is available with enhancements to the Focus on Staves feature, enabling new layout and formatting workflows for scores and parts. There are other improvements to MIDI and MusicXML importing, ManuScript, and accessibility.

Reviews

Sibelius 2020.6 brings better MusicXML import, color options

June 3, 2020June 10, 2020

Sibelius 2020.6 brings a more sophisticated method of importing MusicXML files directly into a pre-existing template. There are new options for changing the default colors, along with other updates in the areas of accessibility, ties, exporting, and more.

Reviews

Sibelius 2020.3 released with laissez vibrer ties, other fixes

March 26, 2020April 1, 2020

Sibelius 2020.3 is out with true support for L.V. “laissez vibrer” ties for the first time as well as improvements in many areas such as house styles, accessibility, and automatic staff spacing.

News

NAMM 2020: Sibelius development and accessibility

January 20, 2020January 22, 2020

At the 2020 NAMM Show, we spoke with Avid’s Sam Butler and Sarah Rossy about the Sibelius development process and the emphasis on adding support for accessibility in recent updates.

Reviews

NAMM 2020: Sibelius 2020.1 brings automatic staff spacing, tie improvements, and more

January 16, 2020October 17, 2020

Sibelius 2020.1, released to coincide with the opening of the 2020 NAMM Show, introduces automatic staff spacing, dashed and dotted ties, ties into notes, new house styles, accessibility improvements, and more.

News

Sibelius 2019.12 released; support for older OSs dropped

December 5, 2019December 9, 2019

Avid has released Sibelius 2019.12. This year-end update tidies up a number of items such as accessibility, MIDI import, UX/UI, printing, PDF export, and plug-ins, but also drops support for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

News

MuseScore 3.3 released with redesigned palettes, accessibility and other improvements

October 31, 2019November 5, 2019

MuseScore 3.3 is now available. Redesigned palettes, accessibility enhancements, a new Roman numeral font, and updates to the plug-in framework are among the improvements in this update to the free, open-source music notation software.

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