Techniques and habits for working faster and smarter in music notation software.
Dorico 6.2.30 deepens Cantai integration with independent voice playback, adds new options for wiggly glissando line appearance, continues a sustained run of MusicXML export improvements, and fixes more than 40 issues across the application.
Cantai, the vocal synthesis plugin from the Turing Opera Workshop, now works directly in Dorico. Here's a review of how to get started with it, with an assessment of its strengths, limitations, and what's coming next.
Dorico 6.2.20 brings support for Cantai, the new vocal synthesis plug-in from Turing Opera Workshop, with deeper integration and automatic voice detection. A handful of other improvements and more than 25 bug fixes are also included.
PDF-Counter 1.1.0 is now available from Notation Central. The update adds a Columns dialog with ten selectable data fields — including page size, file size, dates, and more — and names the output file after the scanned folder.
A small but meaningful update to the PDF Batch Utilities ensures markings survive processing, improves counting reliability with "incremental" PDFs, and adds a clever new shortcut in PDF-BatchScale.
The PDF Batch Utilities for music printing get their biggest update yet: native Apple Silicon, codesigning, new icons, bookmarks in output files, bug fixes, and a brand new app — PDF-Counter.
Specific lessons about calibrating a Ricoh printer to fine-tune music printing translate into general advice for optimizing your workflow, for the benefit of your future self, and possibly others.
At the 2026 NAMM Show, klang.io's Sebastian Murgul talks about a category that sits just adjacent to music notation — and yet increasingly intersects with it in practical, unavoidable ways: music transcription.
Fender has unified PreSonus software under a single brand and repositioned Notion within its creative ecosystem while making a bid for deeper scoring-to-production workflows.
As we close the book on 2025, it’s time to look back at another year of music notation news, updates, creativity, and conversation.
