Scoring Notes
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Glisscore 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. Here's how a composition lesson led to the creation of this useful application.
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Notation 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, more than 40 buttons new to Classic, and a rebuilt Keypad.
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Exposition, 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 the AI age. A look back at where we were in 2016, how we got here, and what we…
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Maestro: Finale’s next generation?
Ben Byram-Wigfield puts Maestro, the new free notation app that opens Finale files, through its paces. Simple and Speedy Entry will feel like home to longtime Finale users, and its file import is impressive, but layout and engraving still have a long way to go.
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Maestro 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. Here's a first look at what it offers, where it falls short, and what it could mean for the future of music notation software.
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Getting 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 easier for the next person — or your future self — opening your score.
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Sibelius 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.
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Flat 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 other notation software and DAWs.
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Music 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 silicon-only operating system — and Rosetta's last stand.
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Catching 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 the MS Basic low pass filter, and a long run of crash and engraving repairs…
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Q & 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 keep current with — and how any of this becomes a living.
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Making 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. Also in version 2.0: Dynamics Express, a Scoring Express-exclusive Sibelius plug-in, updates across all five suites,…
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Sibelius 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.
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Icon 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. The Graphical Harp Tool now writes and plays back glissandos across an entire chord.
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Denigma 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. We walk through the options, the caveats, and how the results compare with Finale's own MusicXML export in Dorico and Sibelius.