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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.

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Use Shortcuts to quickly create score templates on macOS and iOS

November 4, 2021November 6, 2021

Apple’s Shortcuts, with its easy drag-and-drop interface, is the future of automation on all their platforms. Learn how to use it to automate actions in apps like Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico.

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Sibelius 2021.9 updates search, ManuScript, Keypad gestures

September 30, 2021October 2, 2021

Sibelius 2021.9 brings updates in the areas of searching, the Keypad, ManuScript, and a handful of other areas, including features first seen on the iPad version.

Tutorials

Command Macros, Command Plug-ins, and cmdutils for Sibelius

September 1, 2021September 4, 2021

Bob Zawalich takes us on a tour of a mega-plug-in library of routines that can be treated the same as commands in Sibelius, and gives an overview of the kinds of things these commands will enable you to do without having to go directly into ManuScript code.

Tutorials

Using commands in plug-ins in Sibelius Ultimate

March 18, 2021March 20, 2021

Sibelius’s Commands feature extends the program’s capabilities in many ways. If you’re willing to dig in a little more, there are some tools available for you to extend it even further by building powerful automations directly within Sibelius.

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Your search is a command in the Sibelius 2021.2 update; M1 Mac support under Rosetta [updated]

February 25, 2021April 15, 2021

The Sibelius 2021.2 release continues the ongoing evolution of the Find in Ribbon function into an increasingly comprehensive launch bar, now called Command Search. This update also expands Sibelius’s scripting and plug-in capabilities.

Tips

Use Dorico’s tuplets-over-barline feature for proper mensural notation

September 20, 2017July 13, 2018

In Dorico, tuplets can cross barlines easily. Learn how to apply this feature, with an easy tweak, to properly render certain Renaissance notations that have been difficult to achieve with other software.

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