Registration is now open for the 10th Term (commencing May 2026) of our practical, hands-on curriculum, brought to you by a dedicated team of music notation software support specialists. To everyone who has long relied on Finale: Do you feel anxious about making the switch to Dorico? To dispel these worries, in October 2025—immediately after technical support for the Japanese edition of Finale completely ended—we co-hosted a seminar titled "The Complete Switch from Finale to

Recently, while speaking with a Finale user, I received a consultation regarding a problem where scrolling in Finale was not smooth on both Mac desktops and notebooks. While this is a rare issue with Finale, there was no effective solution even when Finale was being developed and sold. As far as I can recall, this issue was confirmed around 2023 on macOS 13 with Finale 27, but it remained unresolved. Originally, Finale had some issues with its drawing functions, and various p

When I was working for a Finale distributor in Japan, I wrote an article explaining how to recreate a film scoring Finale template I learned while attending Berklee College of Music in the current version of Finale. Unfortunately, this article is no longer available as the domestic distributorship agreement for Finale has ended, but it featured a dedicated staff for large bar numbers, which were highly visible to the conductor, along with a similarly large time signature. In

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