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Sibelius 2023.2 advances score subsets and dynamic guitar staves

February 28, 2023March 4, 2023

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.

Tips

Heads up: Page numbers and headers

January 31, 2023February 4, 2023

In music scores and parts, page numbers and headers are some of the most underappreciated and overlooked elements of what appears on the page. When you stop to think about it, it’s no mystery why that’s the case.

Tips

Using Dorico’s flows and condensing features to prepare Handel’s Messiah

January 5, 2023January 11, 2023

How many versions of Handel’s Messiah are there? It’s hard to say, but by using Dorico’s flows and condensing features, it’s possible to prepare a version to suit your particular performance.

Reviews

Sibelius 2022.12 is “part”way to more layout independence with score subsets

December 15, 2022December 21, 2022

Sibelius 2022.12 introduces score subsets, which make it possible to have different configurations and layouts of the score, independent of the full score and parts. There are new barline options in this update, too.

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.

Tips

Create a part with an alternate transposition in Dorico

November 2, 2022November 10, 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 Dorico.

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.

News

Sibelius 2022.9: Staff names in groups; more selection commands

September 29, 2022October 5, 2022

Sibelius 2022.9 adds an additional way of labeling staff names that effectively allows groups of instruments and individual staves to be named separately, a long-requested feature.

Tips

Create a part with an alternate transposition in Sibelius

September 22, 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 Sibelius.

Tips

Score system divider plug-in in Finale

July 21, 2022July 28, 2022

The Score System Divider plug-in, included with Finale, inserts or removes system separation marks between staff systems on the same page. Here’s how it works, along with a little history of this useful creation.

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