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Sibelius comes to the iPhone

October 26, 2021October 30, 2021

Sibelius has come to the iPhone, with all of the same features that appear on the iPad version. Panorama view is enabled on mobile along with some other improvements, and Cloud Sharing gets a new setting to allow downloading.

Reviews

Sibelius arrives on iPad

July 29, 2021August 14, 2021

Sibelius for iPad has arrived. We take a comprehensive first look at what you can expect from the experience, including multi-touch gestures, the revamped Create menu, and new pitch correction and chord input tools.

Reviews

Dorico arrives on iPad

July 28, 2021January 9, 2022

Dorico for iPad has arrived. This major release for Apple’s tablet platform brings over all the familiar elements of the desktop music notation software program, along with some new features and ways of working.

Opinion

Preparing music scores for screens — the challenges and opportunities

September 30, 2020October 7, 2020

What are the best practices when preparing a score with the expectation that it will be read from a screen, not paper? This is an excellent question — one whose answer today may likely change in the coming years.

Reviews

forScore 11 release further refines the best-in-class iOS score reader

May 2, 2019May 6, 2019

forScore has released forScore 11, the first major update to the iOS score reader since 2016. It’s largely an evolutionary update, but the improvements are thoughtful, practical, and welcome.

Reviews

The best iPad score reader for most people

January 10, 2019June 10, 2019

We spent time with each of the leading iPad score reader apps — forScore, Newzik, nkoda, Blackbinder, and Piascore — to assess the current state of the category, and to help musicians decide which of the excellent options best suits their needs.

Opinion

iPad Pro 2018 thoughts from a composer and music educator

November 9, 2018November 12, 2018

The release of the iPad Pro 2018 edition presents some truly astonishing hardware that has the potential to replace a lot of what composers, performers, educators, and librarians are doing with notated music. Just don’t throw out your laptops yet.

Reviews

Symphony Pro 5 takes several steps toward our mobile notation future [updated]

October 30, 2017July 13, 2018

David MacDonald has our in-depth review of Symphony Pro 5 — the latest offering of the iOS scoring app. The latest version’s marquee feature is handwriting recognition with Apple Pencil support. See how Symphony Pro stacks up in a burgeoning marketplace of tablet-based scoring apps.

News

News in brief: Sibelius upgrade plans, new Finale features, Logic update — and e-ink for sheet music

June 10, 2016

A take on the week’s news in music notation and technology, from Sibelius upgrade plans to new Finale features, Logic Pro X updates, and a dual-screen e-paper music reader that may be in our future.

News

New Surfaces announced; StaffPad for Windows 10 on the horizon

October 7, 2015October 29, 2015

Microsoft’s new Surfaces do an admirable job of pushing the all-in-one tablet/PC concept forward, and the forthcoming StaffPad update for Windows 10 takes full advantage.

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