When considering the uses of sheet music, music notation software and digital sheet music reader applications (hereafter referred to as score readers) can be said to be tools at opposite ends of the musical score usage; music notation software at the entrance and score readers at the exit.  I've written many articles about music notation software, but this time I'd like to write about score readers.  A few couple of years ago, while installing a score reader on an iPad was co

Music scores typically consist of many notation elements, including glyphs like clefs and accidentals, and text elements like titles and composer names. Professional music notation software allows you to choose from a variety of fonts for each notation element. In Finale, music fonts are set from the “Document menu > Set Music Fonts”, and many other fonts can be set from “Document Options > Fonts”. For individual text, double-clicking often takes you through the editing scree

Following the end of support for the Japanese version of Finale, we co-hosted a Steinberg Seminar titled “ Complete Migration from Finale to Dorico: Experts on both products will provide a detailed explanation ” with Yamaha Music Japan, the domestic distributor of Dorico, at the Yamaha Ginza Store on Sunday, October 5, 2025. This article provides a digest of the archived video and links to related information introduced during the seminar. For those who were unable to attend,

Following the end of support for the Japanese version of Finale, we will be co-hosting the above seminar with Yamaha Music Japan Co.,...

In the previous article , I mentioned that Dorico and Guitar Pro have the ability to display harmonic node positions precisely with...

Back in March 2024, I wrote an article titled “ Comparison of guitar harmonics expressions in music notation software ”, but at the time,...

In the opposite of the previous article “ How to automatically create an accompaniment track from chord symbols in Dorico ”, this time...

Dorico Pro has a feature called “Generate Notes from Chord Symbols” that automatically creates an accompaniment track from chord symbols,...

In the previous article , I talked about how Dorico Pro version 6 finally allows users to create their own chord symbol libraries with a...

As a continuation of the previous article , which mainly introduced the chord symbol editing function before Dorico Pro 5, this article...

Dorico Pro 6, which was released on May 1st in Japan, 2025, has been updated with many features . In terms of chord symbols, the most...

Sibelius comes with PhotoScore & NotateMe First (hereinafter referred to as “PhotoScore First”), a simplified version of Neuratron...

For example, let's think about a case of inputting the following music symbols that indicate a swing feel into a score. In Finale, this...

In response to the decision to end support for the Japanese version of Finale on August 25, 2025, we are offering an online course via...

There are about four months left until August 26, 2025, the end date of technical support for the English version of Finale, as stated in...

Since the occurrence of the Finale sunset problem in the summer of 2024, page layout corruption when importing MusicXML files from Finale...

When using music notation software, there may be times when you want to hide certain symbols. For example, cautionary symbols such as...

In the previous article , I introduced the NotePerformer Playback Engine  (NPPE), a tool for listening to orchestral music with the best...

These days, music notation software has improved playback functions and has a wide range of third-party sound sources. By combining...

In a previous article titled “ How to achieve Finale's “Speedy Entry” in Dorico ”, I introduced how to achieve Finale's “Speedy Entry”...