Yesterday (Sep 15th), I was invited by a professor from a university who has been helping me for a long time to give a presentation about...

In response to the discontinuation of development and sales of Finale, we have decided to start a new course in October to support...

Expressions, articulations, smart shapes, chord suffixes, and other symbols entered in Finale can be transferred to other software,...

When migrating a Finale file to other software such as Dorico via MusicXML, various issues may occur. From what we have researched so...

【Updated 2025/7/28】 There is a sequel to this article, please check it out. ▼ Switching from Finale to Dorico: Issues and solutions...

Our company has held the “Finale Intensive Course” for the past few courses, and in this article, based on our experience holding the...

During our Finale Intensive Course, someone asked me how to apply vibrato to a flute. It is true that the flute sound “Flute Player 1” of...

After creating a score in Finale using the Setup Wizard, you may occasionally encounter a problem where the entire staff is displayed at...

One of the features of Finale is the beauty of the default spacing and the wide range of customizations. By using a function called a...

Please take a look at this first. This is an example of an electric guitar score, and just like a guitarist steps on the effects pedals...

IMSTA FESTA is a music technology festival held periodically around the world. This year, our company will be in charge of the local...

Our Finale Intensive Course, which has been highly acclaimed for its unique content based on the experience and knowledge we have gained...

The first part covered Steve's early career, and the second part covered his development period as a world-renown musician. This 3rd part covers his career from his 50s onwards to the present, which is generally considered the culmination of one’s life. In the 2000s which corresponds to his late 40s to early 50s, in addition to his stable work with Deep Purple, Steve continued his activities with his roots Dixie Dregs and Steve Morse Band, and also developed various new side

The first part covered the early years of Steve's career, but in this second part, I’ll start with the times when he took a break from the music industry to work as a co-pilot for a commercial airline, and then came back with the new members of Steve Morse Band / Dixie Dregs which read to his brilliant career of world-renowned guitar legend. In terms of age, it was his 30s and 40s which are generally the time when people are both physically and mentally fulfilled and can be t

I have been writing blogs almost every week since last August, and the number of blogs I have published reaches to 50 now. Looking at the first blog again now, I see I wrote “In this blog, I would like to discuss various topics related to music in general, with a focus on music notation software from now on” but as a result, up until now I have only written about music notations. So this time I would like to take a little break from the topic of notation and write about my fa

Finale comes with a sample sound source called Garritan Instruments for Finale (GIFF), which is of decent quality, and since setting up...

I think there are many people who use the piano when composing and arranging music, even if they can't play the piano freely. For...

In the previously published article “ Listening and comparing various sound sources (GIFF, GPO5, NotePerformer, BBCSO Discover) ”, I...

There are some changes to the user interface in v27.4, although they are not currently covered in the “User Interface Changes” section of...

Finale v27.4 Japanese version updater, released on March 26 2024, does not have spectacular new features like the JW plug-in installed in...