Triplets on single-note tremolos in Sibelius
Creating single-note tremolos with triplets that both look and play back correctly is possible in Sibelius, but it takes some advanced moves to get there.
Musescore 3.4 released with usability improvements
Musescore 3.4 is available with usability and accessibility improvements. On the Musescore.com side, the five-score upload limit has been removed, and all users can now upload an unlimited number of scores.
NAMM 2020: Sibelius 2020.1 brings automatic staff spacing, tie improvements, and more
Sibelius 2020.1, released to coincide with the opening of the 2020 NAMM Show, introduces automatic staff spacing, dashed and dotted ties, ties into notes, new house styles, accessibility improvements, and more.
Change or disable playback of glissandi in Sibelius
Sibelius's magnetic glissandi automatically snap to notes. What's more, you can change the playback style of a glissando or disable its playback entirely without affecting its notation.
Using tone clusters in Sibelius
Tone clusters are a shorthand notation for several adjacent notes played at once. In this comprehensive post, we'll discuss many different ways to represent tone clusters in a notated score, and how to achieve those results in Sibelius.
Sibelius 8.6 released with magnetic glissandi lines
Sibelius 8.6 is available, and its new engraving feature is magnetic glissandi lines — lines that snap to both their start and end note, updating their positions if the notes change. Other improvements and fixes are included in this update.
Sibelius 8.5.1 update available
Avid today released Sibelius 8.5.1, a maintenance update to the recent Sibelius 8.5 update. 8.5.1 fixes a number of bugs introduced in 8.5 and adds a new percentage column to the Staff sizes list, making it possible to change a custom staff size by relative size as well as absolute size.
Bug fixes (and new bugs) in Sibelius 8.5
Some of the most requested bug fixes have finally been addressed in Sibelius 8.5, but there are also a couple of new ones to be aware of, too. Also a new plug-in from Bob Zawalich addresses a bug and improves the process of applying rehearsal marks and double barlines together.
Sibelius 8.5 introduces staff sizes on a per-system basis
The Sibelius 8.5 update introduces the long-awaited ability to change the staff size on a system-by-system basis. A refresh of the Inspector and various other fixes round out this latest update.
Horizontal note spacing in Sibelius
A collection of tips and plug-ins to help space your music not too wide, not too narrow, but just right.
