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Tackling the text tool in Finale

December 21, 2022December 27, 2022

Like many things in Finale, the text tool offers a lot of power and control, but also many options to navigate. Here’s how to tame the type.

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22 in 22: November music font on sale for 22% off

December 9, 2022December 14, 2022

The Notation Central Black Friday sale continues with November 2, the premium music font with more than 1400 symbols for Finale, Sibelius, and Dorico, which mimics the slightly weathered look of traditional music engraving.

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Finale version 27.3 adds eight powerful JW tools, fixes some linked part issues

December 2, 2022December 6, 2022

MakeMusic has released Finale version 27.3, adding native installation of eight of the most popular and powerful JW Tools. Longstanding issues affecting voiced linked parts and other areas have also been addressed.

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22 in 22: All NorFonts are on sale for 22% off

December 1, 2022December 3, 2022

The Notation Central Black Friday sale continues with NorFonts. This is the beautiful and growing catalog of music and text fonts by Nor Eddine Bahha, who has fully embraced SMuFL font design, giving Dorico and Finale v27 users more distinctive options.

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22 in 22: Scoring Express on sale for 22% off

November 22, 2022November 28, 2022

We kick off the Notation Central Black Friday sale with Scoring Express, the collection of professional templates based on the same templates we use at NYC Music Services, for 22% off.

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Black Friday 2022 deals for music notation software and related tech [updated]

November 21, 2022December 3, 2022

All the Black Friday deals in the world of music notation software and related technology, so you can make the most of your holiday spending budget, and still have plenty of time to take advantage of some serious savings.

Tutorials

Perfecting page layout in Finale

November 10, 2022November 15, 2022

Perfect page layout is essential to creating quality output from music notation software. Finale offers a multitude of options to format the music on the page, but understanding where the options are is important in the quest to conquer Finale.

People

Michael Good, the inventor of MusicXML [transcript]

October 26, 2022October 30, 2022

A transcript of one of our most popular podcast episodes. If you’ve ever needed to open a music notation file in a different program, you’ve relied on MusicXML. Michael Good tells us how it happened.

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Music notation software, macOS Ventura, and Apple Silicon [updated]

October 24, 2022December 15, 2022

A summary of desktop notation software compatibility with macOS Ventura (macOS 13) and Apple Silicon-powered Macs: How Sibelius, Finale, Dorico, MuseScore, and Notion are faring on Apple’s latest operating system and hardware.

Tips

Create a part with an alternate transposition in Finale

October 5, 2022November 2, 2022

Need to make a clarinet part in a different transposition than the original part? Or a treble clef baritone part linked to the bass clef euphonium part? Here are the step-by-step instructions to set it all up in Finale.

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