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Dorico 4.1 review: a better Key Editor; improvements to lyrics, interface and more

June 1, 2022June 4, 2022

Dorico 4.1 further refines the Key Editor, improves the user interface with more color options, overhauls the way lyrics are treated, prints selected flows in a layout, and adds new effects plug-ins and a library export function. Plus, a lifetime unlock option for Dorico for iPad.

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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.

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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.

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2016: The Sibelius plug-in year in review

December 30, 2016March 24, 2017

Thanks to Bob Zawalich, Kenneth Gaw, Hans-Christoph Wirth, and Tom Curran, 2016 brought us more useful Sibelius plug-ins. Bob summarizes the year in plug-in development along with a list of all plug-ins newly created in the past year.

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Sibelius 8.3 released with individual note colors, other fixes

May 5, 2016April 16, 2017

Sibelius 8.3 is available. It introduces the ability to individually color notes, improves upon 8.2’s sliding feature by more intelligently grouping rests, and improves the independent enharmonic spelling feature introduced in 8.2.

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2015: The plug-in year in review

December 28, 2015March 24, 2017

2015 was another active year for plug-in development, thanks to Bob Zawalich and Kenneth Gaw. Bob summarizes the year in plug-ins for us along with a list of all plug-ins newly created in the past year.

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Print and make PDFs using Sibelius’s view options

September 2, 2015

Sibelius gives you the ability to highlight passages of your music, make comments, and, in Sibelius 8, draw freehand annotations. But what if you want to share those markings with non-Sibelius users? Here’s how.

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Plug-in Developer’s Notebook: The Colored Notehead Style Project

July 15, 2015July 15, 2015

Bob Zawalich takes us inside the process of creating a way to color individual noteheads within a chord, eventually resulting in the development of the Colored Notehead Styles plug-in suite.

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