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Daniel Spreadbury on music fonts: past, present, and future

December 19, 2020December 24, 2020

Daniel Spreadbury returns to Scoring Notes to talk about the common set of font specifications known as the Standard Music Font Layout, or SMuFL. We get into the history of music fonts and how we got to where we are today with this essential component of music notation software technology.

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Talking about music notation software design and development

July 20, 2020July 23, 2020

It’s possible to make a really beautiful, usable application that produces terrible scores, and it’s possible to create a terrible application that produces beautiful scores. The goal is to put those things together into a beautiful application that produces beautiful scores.

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Are your plug-ins up-to-date?

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020

A handy tool for keeping current on your Sibelius plug-ins was itself recently updated, so now is a good time to check to make sure you’re running the latest versions.

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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.

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NAMM 2020: An interview with MakeMusic’s Jason Wick

January 19, 2020January 22, 2020

Our 2020 NAMM Show coverage continues as we talk with Jason Wick, senior manager at MakeMusic, about the latest Finale developments and what to expect for the future.

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NAMM 2020: An interview with Musescore’s Daniel Ray

January 19, 2020January 22, 2020

Our 2020 NAMM Show coverage continues as we speak with Daniel Ray, who is in charge of Musescore’s product strategy, about how the product has fared in the nearly two years since the Ultimate Guitar acquisition, its recent progress, and its future.

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Introducing the Norfolk and Pori chord symbol fonts for Sibelius — and an angled slash variant

December 6, 2018December 10, 2018

At NYC Music Services, we’ve released seven new free chord symbol fonts for Sibelius. Four of the fonts are part of the Norfolk family. The other three fonts are the inaugural members of a new font family called Pori. Pori is a derivative of Petaluma, the handwritten font that first appeared in Dorico 2.0. One of the Pori fonts is something very special.

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MuseScore 2.2 released with playback updates and other improvements

April 12, 2018July 13, 2018

MuseScore has released the 2.2.1 update to its desktop notation software, introducing a new default soundfont and other playback improvements, a handful of other new features, and hundreds of bug fixes and user interface enhancements. This is the first release of MuseScore since the company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar.

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NAMM 2017: Talking Sibelius with Sam Butler

January 22, 2017January 22, 2017

Our NAMM 2017 coverage continues as we talk with Sam Butler, Avid’s senior product manager for Avid‘s music notation and learning products, about the road ahead for Sibelius.

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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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