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Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsDorico 6.2.40 update brings major improvements to MusicXML import Dorico 6.2.40 preserves more text formatting, page layout, and musical markings when importing MusicXML, a substantial improvement.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsFormer Muse Group team launches Notefinder, a digital sheet music platform Notefinder combines a digital sheet music store, an in-house arrangement team, and a free iPad reader.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsHas AI wrought the right way to write a scorewriter? New notation apps arrive almost daily, and anyone can ask an AI to build the software of their dreams.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsSight-reading the inbox: 16 music apps on our radar New music apps reach my inbox nearly every day, far more than we can review. Here are 16 that have come to our attention, from notation editors and score readers to scanners, arrangers, and teaching…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsGlisscore turns a PDF and a recording into a score video — free in your browser Glisscore makes score videos from a PDF and a recording, with tools for placing page turns, editing the score, and working on the audio — plus, it's free, and works locally in your browser.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsNotation Express for Sibelius 2026 released Notation Express Classic and XL for Sibelius 2026 bring the Note Tools chain commands and the Dynamic Chain to Sibelius, along with key and time signatures that are added directly, a reorganized XL…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsExposition, development, and recapitulation: A decade of movement in music notation software Ten years ago today, Steinberg released Dorico 1.0. Since then, Finale has ended, Muse Group has bought Hal Leonard, Dorico and Sibelius have arrived on the iPad, and new apps arrive almost daily in…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsMaestro: Finale’s next generation? Ben Byram-Wigfield puts Maestro, the new free notation app that opens Finale files, through its paces.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsMaestro opens Finale files — without Finale Maestro is a new, free notation editor for Mac and Windows that can open and save Finale files without Finale installed.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsGetting on the same page We investigate what’s going on in a music notation file before you start changing it. From missing fonts to disappearing instruments, a discussion about where to look for answers and how to make life…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsSibelius 2026.9 improves tremolos, ties, and cross-staff voices Sibelius 2026.9 lets you adjust tremolo positions independently of stems, set tie height globally, and apply voice positioning rules to cross-staff notes, among other fixes and improvements.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsFlat sharpens a natural approach to platform-agnostic music notation software Flat adds Mac and Windows desktop apps and develops its own score-scanning technology. We take a first look at the notation editor and Opuscan, its standalone scanning app with export options for…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsMusic notation software and macOS 27 Golden Gate A summary of desktop notation software compatibility with macOS 27 Golden Gate: how Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore Studio, Fender Notion, Notion 6, and Finale are faring on Apple's first Apple…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsCatching up on MuseScore Studio 4.7.1 through 4.7.5 Muse Group has released MuseScore Studio 4.7.5, the fifth point update since 4.7 arrived in May, with new fretboard diagrams, a dozen new instruments, a macOS notarization fix, an escape hatch for…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsQ & A(gain) Part 2 of our Q&A: An iPad that won't behave like a desktop, an app that has gone quiet, VST vocal and instrumental plug-ins, large-print parts, a lifetime of files to organize, operating systems to…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsMaking it real: Scoring Express Lead Sheets for Dorico and Sibelius The new Scoring Express Lead Sheets suites for Dorico and Sibelius turn one jazz chart into concert, B-flat, E-flat, and bass-clef parts, in four house styles.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsSibelius 2026.8 improves lines and cross-staff ties Sibelius 2026.8 finally allows custom text on the continuation and end of a line, along with proper cross-staff ties, macOS Spotlight support, and a batch of fixes.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsIcon see clearly now: Graphical MIDI Tools 2026.8 update Graphical MIDI Tools 2026.8 for Sibelius adds instrument track icons, triplet and tuplet grid snapping, and better handling of multiple open tracks.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsDenigma Online solves the riddle of opening Finale files — without Finale Robert Patterson's Denigma Online converts Finale .musx files to MusicXML entirely in your browser, with no copy of Finale needed.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsQ & A(I) Part one of our listener Q&A follows the mailbag into AI: scanning, audio transcription, proofreading, language-model bridges, and the “Gould test” — all leading to larger questions about expertise…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsScoreTail joins the browser-based notation field The latest stop in our Overture series of first looks is a browser-based score editor with real-time collaboration and MusicXML support "for people who enjoy sheet music but find traditional tools…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsPage numbers and running heads come to PDF-BatchStitch 1.7.0 PDF-BatchStitch 1.7.0 is now available from Notation Central. The update adds sequential page numbers with placement options, headers & footers, and a "Don't stitch" mode that processes every file in…
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsSheetCue turns your scores into a practice flow SheetCue, a music reader app, has you draw the measures, define the repeats and cuts, and it drives a timed, measure-by-measure practice flow from your own PDFs or photos.
Scoring NotesDAW & pluginsFrom chaos to clarity: Bibliome Library files your hoard of PDFs Bibliome is a new Mac app that files, OCRs, and answers plain-language questions about your whole PDF library — scores, method books, and IMSLP downloads — using AI that runs entirely on your…
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