Sibelius 2025.12 adds an option to customize the order of parts, along with numerous minor improvements and bug fixes. In addition, upgrade pricing for perpetual licensees has been simplified.
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Leaving Finale behind
The last in a series of several articles about the end of Finale’s support. How to archive your work, update the Finale files, and exporting to MusicXML and PDF. And, some thoughts about alternatives to Finale.
Exporting PDFs from Dorico with better filenames
Dorico has a remarkable set of features to assist with producing PDF files that are reliably organized, but you need to know how to finesse the settings to get a consistent set of results.
Scanning the current OMR landscape
A review of six music scanning products that run the gamut from machine-learning web tools, to mobile apps, to desktop software: Newzik, Soundslice, PlayScore 2, Sheet Music Scanner, SmartScore 64 Pro 64 NE, and ScanScore Professional.
Sibelius 2023.2 advances score subsets and dynamic guitar staves
Sibelius 2023.2 refines score subsets and dynamic guitar staves, allowing them to behave more independently for greater flexibility. Elsewhere, the ManuScript language can export audio in all bit depths and sample rates.
Dorico 4.1 review: a better Key Editor; improvements to lyrics, interface and more
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.
PlayScore 2 adds text, lyrics, guitar chords, and more
The most recent updates to PlayScore 2 support lyrics, guitar chords, and multi-measure rests. A count-in feature, better rehearsal instrument support, and more improvements are also included. Plus, a preview of what’s to come.
Export PDF to true black in Finale, and a macro for all parts [updated for any PDF]
A reliable way to actually create true 100% black output in PDFs from Finale, and a Keyboard Maestro script to automate the process for an entire set of parts. Plus, how to convert existing PDFs to true black, regardless of what software was used to create them.
Newzik Maestria review: The score reader that promises to read scores
Maestria is a technology that allows Newzik to not just display a score, but also to understand it musically. The resulting score is a LiveScore, which includes the ability to view the score as with any other, and also the ability to play it back and export it.
Newzik introduces interactive LiveScores with Maestria, AI-based optical music recognition
Newzik has announced Maestria, a new optical music recognition technology that uses artificial intelligence to become more accurate over time, as well as a new product called LiveScores, which use Maestria to create interactive scores.