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Music spacing: the Finale frontier

August 24, 2023August 31, 2023

Finale’s possibilities are truly astronomical, and its settings can seem like a black hole. Jason Loffredo boldly navigates the Finale frontier of space — music space, that is — with a down-to-Earth explanation of its constellation of features to help you reach for the stars.

Tutorials

The missing link(ed) parts in Finale

March 16, 2023March 22, 2023

“Part”-y on with this installment of the Conquering Finale video tutorial series, where we discuss linked parts, how they work, and how to manage them effectively within your Finale documents.

Tips

RGP Lua is a powerful plug-in for Finale

March 9, 2023March 16, 2023

Finale has long been at its most powerful when combined with third-party tools. If you have basic coding skills and have ever wished you could automate Finale yourself, check out RGP Lua, a free plug-in that uses Lua scripts to interact with Finale documents.

News

Dolet 8.2 MusicXML plug-in for Sibelius is released [updated]

December 7, 2022January 5, 2023

MakeMusic has released Dolet 8.2 for Sibelius, its latest version of the free plug-in that writes MusicXML files, and the first version of the plug-in to be released under the permissive MIT License.

Reviews

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.

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.

News

News roundup: Michael Good retirement; W3C meeting; Finale price cut; Sibelius team licensing [updated]

September 8, 2022September 17, 2022

Let’s get up to speed on some recent developments in the music notation software industry, like software updates, Michael Good’s retirement, the next W3C group meeting, Sibelius team licensing, and more.

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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