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MuseScore Studio 4.7 adds new engraving and workflow improvements

May 13, 2026May 13, 2026

MuseScore Studio 4.7, the final 4.x release, adds arrowheads on lines, chord brackets, guitar dives, ASIO support on Windows, and workflow improvements for repeat and duration changes.

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Cantai now sings straight from Dorico

May 1, 2026May 7, 2026

Cantai, the vocal synthesis plugin from the Turing Opera Workshop, now works directly in Dorico. Here’s a review of how to get started with it, with an assessment of its strengths, limitations, and what’s coming next.

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Dorico 6.2.20 released with Cantai vocal synthesis support

April 30, 2026May 1, 2026

Dorico 6.2.20 brings support for Cantai, the new vocal synthesis plug-in from Turing Opera Workshop, with deeper integration and automatic voice detection. A handful of other improvements and more than 25 bug fixes are also included.

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Dorico 6.2.10 update is available

March 31, 2026April 2, 2026

Dorico 6.2.10 arrives with further guitar tablature refinements, a more granular approach to smart quotes controlled at the paragraph and character style level, a new option for tuplet bracket position, and more than three dozen bug fixes.

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Dorico 6.2 gives a repeat performance with engraving refinements

March 10, 2026March 18, 2026

Dorico 6.2 adds smarter handling of repeats, expanded guitar tablature features, improved harmonic notation, engraving refinements, and workflow updates.

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New and updated fonts from Music Type Foundry

November 10, 2025November 24, 2025

Three more fonts from the legendary Music Type Foundry are now available for the first time in SMuFL format: MTF-Gutenberg 1939, MTF-Ross, and MTF-Improviso. In addition, each of the original five MTF fonts receives significant updates.

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Dorico 6.1: Select more [updated]

October 1, 2025October 16, 2025

Dorico 6.1 brings added functionality to condensing and proofreading, a new piano library, a playback template overhaul, and much more.

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MuseScore Studio 4.6 adds full SMuFL support, other engraving and playback updates [updated]

September 30, 2025December 1, 2025

MuseScore Studio 4.6 brings improvements in engraving, workflow and playback. Full support for custom SMuFL fonts, improved staff hiding functionality, and increased options for bar numbers and chord symbol display are among the highlights.

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Improve lyric hyphen position at the end of a system in Sibelius

September 24, 2025September 30, 2025

Sometimes in Sibelius, a lyric hyphen that occurs at the end of a system will collide with the preceding syllable. The best fix is the least obvious one.

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Scoring Express Choral & Vocal templates released for Dorico and Sibelius

August 19, 2025August 30, 2025

The Scoring Express Choral & Vocal suites for Dorico and Sibelius make their debut, including hymnal, octavo, and piano-vocal templates with exceptional layout and engraving settings.

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