Dorico 6.2 adds smarter handling of repeats, expanded guitar tablature features, improved harmonic notation, engraving refinements, and workflow updates.
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Dorico 6.1: Select more [updated]
Dorico 6.1 brings added functionality to condensing and proofreading, a new piano library, a playback template overhaul, and much more.
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.
The weekend listen: Catching up on the archive
A recent visit with Michael Good inspires a trip down the podcast archive with some of the most notable people in the field of music notation.
NAMM 2025: Decondensing Sibelius with Avid’s Sam Butler
At the 2025 NAMM Show, Avid’s Sam Butler reflects on the past year of progress and industry news, the path forward, and breaks down Sibelius’s marquee new feature, decondensing parts from a score staff.
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.
Dorico 5.1.70 update is available
Dorico 5.1.70 brings updates in the areas of note input, printing, project templates, and tuplets. Additionally, more than 40 bugs have been fixed.
Cubase 14’s Score Editor puts the power of Dorico in the DAW
Cubase 14 offers a Dorico-based score editor that can be capable of producing a score that looks like it belongs on a music stand.
Sibelius 2024.10 targets MusicXML import, Sequoia support
Sibelius 2024.10 improves MusicXML importing, adds a new feature for quickly notating glissandi, and brings official macOS Sequoia support, among other improvements and bug fixes.
MuseScore Studio 4.4.3 update available
MuseScore Studio 4.4.3 addresses issues in the areas of stability, score interaction, file saving and reopening, text layout, engraving, playback, MusicXML import, and accessibility. Various issues related to Qt have also been addressed on Windows.