Music notation and score-reading apps on Android.
SheetCue, a music reader app, has you draw the measures, define the repeats and cuts, and it drives a timed, measure-by-measure practice flow from your own PDFs or photos. The idea also opens a bigger question: the vendor lock-in that traps annotated score libraries inside a single app.
Fender has unified PreSonus software under a single brand and repositioned Notion within its creative ecosystem while making a bid for deeper scoring-to-production workflows.
Notation Express Keypad is a series of familiar numeric keypad layouts running on Stream Deck Mobile Pro, to make controlling Dorico and Sibelius from your phone quick and fun.
Sibelius 2024.8 brings more features to Android, and new playback features in all mobile Sibelius platforms. The Sibelius Cloud Sharing experience is also refreshed, with transposition, printing, downloading, full-screen view, and page layout views among the enhancements.
Sibelius is available on Android and Chromebook. As with the mobile versions already on iOS and iPadOS, subscribers to a Sibelius tier have access to Sibelius across any device, desktop or mobile.
Notion Mobile, the cross-platform music composition application from PreSonus, has recently been updated to version 3.3 with many new enhancements and fixes.
At the 2024 NAMM Show, Avid's Sam Butler talks about showcasing Sibelius at NAMM to composers, orchestrators, and publishers, and we learn about upcoming features.
At the 2024 NAMM Show, Avid will preview interoperability between Sibelius and Pro Tools, as well as a version of Sibelius for Android/Chromebook. Updates to Cloud Publishing will also be previewed.
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.
Stream Deck Mobile is now on Android. On iOS, Siri Shortcuts are now supported. Stream Deck powers Notation Express, putting powerful notation software features at your fingertips for Sibelius, Dorico, and Musescore.
