Voices—independent rhythmic layers on a single staff.
Sibelius 2025.7 brings more control to automatic music spacing, along with UI improvements to the status bar and voice colors, and other fixes. In addition, the various tiers of Sibelius are more aligned into the user experience.
Notation Express and Notation Express XL are totally rebuilt for Sibelius 2024, adding lots of new buttons and features, along with cross-platform support and language independence.
Notation Express and XL for Dorico 5 add lots of new buttons and features to support many of the newer features in Dorico.
Ian Blick shows how to score a song using Emvoice One and Dorico, how to add vibrato using a plug-in inside a DAW to give the sung line more expression, and also how to use the audio from a video file to synchronize with Dorico.
Ian Blick illustrates how to make the Emvoice One voice synth emulate the voice of a trained singer, adding more realism to a score which has been produced in Dorico Pro.
In Finale you can use up to four different independent lines of notes and rests, known as “layers”, per bar. We layer on the knowledge in these tutorials, starting with the basic properties of layers and how to navigate between them, and then move on to hiding and showing layers and working with their advanced options.
If you work with music that uses two voices and have been stymied by Sibelius's stubborn positioning defaults, you need this longtime plug-in staple in your toolbox.
Ever wonder why some objects in Sibelius are colored dark blue when you select them, and others are colored light blue, or other colors? Here's how to decode the mystery.
Today MakeMusic released , the latest version of its flagship music notation program. Sporting the tagline "Own the Future," MakeMusic is taking clear aim at Avid's handling of Sibelius with…
Two Sibelius plug-ins to make your life easier: Merge To Voice 1 to convert notes in all voices in a selection into voice 1, and Simplify Part Names, removing all but the first instrument name in the Part Name field in Score Info for each dynamic part.
