Dynamics—louds, softs, and the marks that show them.
The new Scoring Express Lead Sheets suites for Dorico and Sibelius turn one jazz chart into concert, B-flat, E-flat, and bass-clef parts, in four house styles. Also in version 2.0: Dynamics Express, a Scoring Express-exclusive Sibelius plug-in, updates across all five suites, and web documentation.
Introducing the Dynamic Chain in Notation Express for Dorico — select a passage, arm the chain, press a gradual and two dynamics in any order, and place the complete marking in one move. Also new: smart niente buttons, hairpin line style cycling, poco a poco, and more.
Avid has released Sibelius 2025.4 across its desktop and mobile platforms. This is a small maintenance release to refine certain workflows related to Dynamic Parts, along with other bug fixes and improvements.
MuseScore Studio 4.5 features improvements in the areas of percussion, engraving, text handling, and input. Several features are designed specifically to appeal to Finale users switching to MuseScore.
MuseScore Studio 4.4 introduces integrated support for a new percussion playback library, Muse Drumline, tailored for marching band composition and arranging. Engraving improvements abound in the areas of hairpins, dynamics, accidentals, beams, text, and more.
Dorico 5.1.50 brings better automatic chord symbol playback, and engraving improvements for barlines, bar numbers, hairpins, instrument changes, and multi-bar rests, among other areas. In addition, more than 50 bugs have been fixed since the last release.
Dorico 5.1.21 includes more options for hairpin placement, better spacing, and workflow enhancements, among other improvements. In addition, more than 30 bugs have been fixed since the 5.1.10 release.
The Lelandia music fonts for Sibelius have been updated. This is a minor update, with a few fixes for clefs and dynamic text.
MuseScore 4.1 includes the ability to customize ornaments, harp pedaling, guitar capo, better dynamics, an upgrade to the playback engine, new auxiliary channel strips in the mixer, and performance improvements.
Sibelius 2022.10 adds a command for making a part from a selection of instruments in the score, or one instrument that's part of a group. This update also automatically stylizes dynamic text when entered in the Expression text style.
