Add-ons that extend notation software—especially Sibelius plug-ins—to automate tasks and add features.
Sibelius 2024.6 introduces native Apple silicon support for the first time. Other improvements in this release include updates to MIDI copy and paste; ManuScript updates; and a number of bug fixes in the areas of clefs, ties, score subsets, and house styles.
Using the EastWest Hollywood Choirs library and their built-in WordBuilder 2 engine, you can assemble words, enabling your choir passages to sing text in Sibelius.
The 2024.5 Graphical MIDI Tools (GMT) update adds support for graphical hit points directly to the GMT interface, which can be used to complement the existing hit point feature in Sibelius.
In Sibelius, when working in a file with a score and parts, you can unintentionally break the link between the wildcards used for title and composer text. It can cause a whale of a problem, but fortunately there's a way to escape.
The 2024.2 Graphical MIDI Tools (GMT) update adds a graphical tempo module directly to the GMT interface, making it easier to interact with GMT directly in the Sibelius environment.
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.
"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.
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.
Graphical MIDI Tools for Sibelius is updated to version 2.1. This significant update adds a transport bar directly to the GMT interface. It also adds several new editing and navigation features.
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.
