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A Scoring Notes Prime Day primer [updated]

October 8, 2025

Prime Day — or Prime Big Deal Days — Amazon's retail-palooza, is here (again). It can be a good time to purchase items that will update and upgrade your setup, especially if you have some downtime. Here's what's on our desk.

An easy upgrade: Using a portable display with a laptop

February 8, 2023

Real estate is valuable, and that's true with digital real estate. Adding a second portable display is easier and cheaper than you might think, and is a good investment in your productivity when working with music notation, or any software.

Finale version 26.3 released [updated]

June 16, 2020

MakeMusic has released Finale version 26.3. In addition to a fully-translated Spanish version, this release brings support for Dark Mode on Mac, better performance while editing and scrolling, MusicXML improvements, and a handful of bug fixes.

Work in multiple Dorico modes simultaneously

March 17, 2020

Dorico's separation of modes of working — Setup, Write, Engrave, Play, and Print — is unique among the various desktop music notation programs. But what if we open one window in Write mode and another in Engrave mode at the same time?

Dorico – what’s your Preference?

June 18, 2019

There are preferences and then there are the Preferences, with a capital P — settings in an application that can significantly shape your regular work. Whether or not Dorico is your preferred program, let's find out what Preferences it offers.

NAMM 2019: GVIDO gets a 2.0 software update

January 26, 2019

At the 2019 NAMM Show, the GVIDO music reader was on full display. We visit with GVIDO representatives to talk through the version 2.0 GVIDO software update and explore how GVIDO is evolving in the market.

GVIDO music reader: a review

April 25, 2018

The GVIDO music reader aims to change the way music is read by merging the old with the new. It's a dual-display hinged device that can show two facing pages with a large display size for each screen, using e-ink technology. Our hands-on review explores whether the product is ready for the consumer market.

Preferential treatment

August 19, 2013

Why should you care if your preference file was deleted? What are the Preferences and what do they do? Here are some tips about preference settings that may shed a little light on, if not improve upon, the way you use Sibelius.

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