MuseScore has released version 3.6. This release is primarily focused on engraving improvements and also introduces a new, SMuFL-compatible music font called Leland, designed by Martin Keary and Simon Smith, inspired by the legendary SCORE program.
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Figurato, a font for figured bass
Figurato is a specialist font for figured bass notation. It allows for easy input of multiple vertically stacked numbers and accidentals. It can be used in all major commercial desktop notation software, regardless of whether the program supports figured bass notation natively.
Best interview of the year
If you love music and music notation software (whether it be Sibelius or otherwise), it doesn’t get much better than this 75-minute interview from SoundNotion with Daniel Spreadbury, posted over the holiday weekend here in the U.S. No, it’s not Mike Wallace interviewing rogue world leaders — it’s five guys talking about the history, […]
Apple releases OpenType font fix for Mac OS X 10.6.7
Nearly a month ago, Apple released the Mac OS X 10.6.7 operating system update, and (unusually) the update introduced a problem with how Snow Leopard handles OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines, including the music fonts supplied with Sibelius. You can read all about the issues here. Now I’m able to bring you good news from […]
Sibelius 6 users: beware of Mac OS X 10.6.7 update
Update –- 26 April 2011 Apple have released a fix for this problem, which is available now from Software Update. Read all about it. Original post — 29 March 2011 If you are running Sibelius 6.2 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, beware that some users are reporting fairly serious problems relating to font […]