Dorico 6.2.30 deepens Cantai integration with independent voice playback, adds new options for wiggly glissando line appearance, continues a sustained run of MusicXML export improvements, and fixes more than 40 issues across the application.
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Sibelius 2026.5 adds VST3 support
Sibelius 2026.5 adds VST3 support, expands Sibelius Cloud Sharing to individual parts and score subsets, improves handling of bar rests, and fixes other items.
Cantai now sings straight from Dorico
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.
Dorico 6.2.20 released with Cantai vocal synthesis support
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.
MuseScore Studio 4.6.4 released with Cantai support
MuseScore Studio 4.6.4 brings support for Cantai, a new machine-learning-based vocal and lyric synthesizer, within a major music notation software application for the first time.
Dorico 6.0.22 extends proofreading capabilities [updated]
Dorico 6.0.22 extends the proofreading feature introduced in Dorico 6 by allowing the user to mark an identified item as ignored. Many other improvements and bug fixes abound in this update.
NotePerformer reverses course, drops support for third-party VST3 instruments
NotePerformer has discontinued support for third-party VST3 instruments. NotePerformer 5.0.1 no longer includes the Playback Engines (NPPE) extension, which was the main focus of the NotePerformer 5 update.
NotePerformer 5 released with new instruments and NPPE overhaul [updated]
NotePerformer 5 is available, with new instruments added to NotePerformer core, and a complete overhaul of the architecture for NPPE, its system for integrated playback of third-party VST3 instruments.
Dorico 5.1.81 update is available [updated]
Steinberg has released Dorico 5.1.80, a minor update to Dorico 5, with improvements on how VST plug-ins are accounted for during the application launch sequence, as well as more than 40 bug fixes.
Syncing video with Finale playback
A tutorial for using MIDI time code via the free VidPlayMTC tool to synchronize video with playback in Finale on Mac and Windows, resembling an in-app video player experience.