Sibelius Will Stay with Avid, But Sources Report Principal Sibelius Office to...
Users and developers of the music notation software Sibelius have expressed concern about the software’s future, in the wake of a reorganization at the software’s owner Avid. Sibelius wasn’t singled...
View ArticleAvid’s Sibelius Scoring Tool Marches On, But Without Its Creators, As Users...
As industry giant Avid reorganizes, user fears about the future of popular notation tool Sibelius continue to mount. The chief rival to MakeMusic’s Finale, Sibelius is widely used among composers,...
View ArticleSibelius Core Team Now at Steinberg, Building New Notation Tool
Avid’s Sibelius score writer, seen here, no longer has the team that once led its development. But those veterans are now planning something new – and are now working for Steinberg. In the production...
View ArticleDigital Notation, Like You Imagined It’d Work: Draw Into iPhone, iPad, Android
Through years of struggling with mice, keyboard shortcuts, and the like, stacks of hand-written notation alongside the computer, this was what I imagined – and probably you, too, if you work with...
View ArticleOS X Mavericks Compatibility with Music and Audio Software: Updates,...
The usual advice applies: if you’re thinking of rushing to update to a major new OS, and you’re a musician, take your time. That’s the advice for OS X Mavericks as it would be for any big update to OS...
View ArticleAvid Delays Financial Reporting, But Promises Brighter Future, Including Pro...
Avid, makers of Pro Tools, Media Composer, Sibelius, and other products was on Tuesday suspended from being traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange because of a failure to issue timely financial...
View ArticleThe next Web standard could be music notation
The role of the music score is an important one, as a lingua franca – it puts musical information in a format a lot of people can read. And it does that by adhering to standards. Now with computers,...
View ArticleThis is the next-gen notation tool from original Sibelius team
It’s been a few years since the original development and management team behind Sibelius found themselves unemployed at the company they started, following a restructuring by owner Avid. Since then,...
View ArticleSteinberg brings Dorico to the iPad, for complete tablet notation that starts...
Big news in the world of scoring and notation - Steinberg's Dorico, fast becoming the most compelling notation tool, is now on iPad, too. It realizes the dream a lot of us had years ago of taking this...
View ArticleDorico 4 is finally engraving-level notation with MIDI editing powers, in a...
As Steinberg's Dorico 4 matures, at last, we're seeing a single, elegant tool that produces engraver-quality scores, but also the editing powers you expect from computer music. The post Dorico 4 is...
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