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Untangling ties in Finale

August 5, 2024

Ties in Finale can be a knotty endeavor, but we won't string you along. Untangle them, and their methods of entry, editing, and manipulation, in this installment of the Conquering Finale video tutorial series.

Syncing video with Finale playback

May 16, 2024

A tutorial for using MIDI time code via the free VidPlayMTC tool to synchronize video with playback in Finale on Mac and Windows, resembling an in-app video player experience.

Adventures in early music with Dorico, volume 2

April 18, 2024

Accidentals, coloration brackets, lyrics, barlines, figured bass, staff lines, ornaments, and incipits are among the various areas in Dorico that come into play when working with early music notation. We bridge the nearly 500-year gap between 21st-century software and the 16th-century plainsong it creates.

Video, tempo, and time (oh my!)

March 18, 2024

How video, tempo, and time are handled with notation apps Dorico, Finale, MuseScore, and Sibelius, how they compare to the unique notation/DAW hybrid approach from StaffPad, and how to use notation software in scoring to picture.

Grappling with graphics in Finale

March 5, 2024

Picture yourself using the Graphics tool in Finale. We draw out its highlights and illustrate some functions lurking in the shadows that might be more useful than you first think.

Music spacing: the Finale frontier

August 24, 2023

Finale's possibilities are truly astronomical, and its settings can seem like a black hole. Jason Loffredo boldly navigates the Finale frontier of space — music space, that is — with a down-to-Earth explanation of its constellation of features to help you reach for the stars.

Be wise, resize, in Finale

August 2, 2023

Finale has a dedicated tool for resizing the noteheads, notes, staves, systems, or pages of your score. We'll show you all the ways to use it, plus other ways to scale the size of items like accidentals, mid-measure clefs, grace notes, lyrics, and chord symbols.

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