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A point update to Cubase (v 14.0.20) has brought the ability to open native Dorico files.

There's still work to be done, as much of playback data isn't read (VST Endpoints, Expression Maps, etc); but it's another step forward in the integration of the two programs that many have been asking for.

I agree it is too clean and sharp and also am still looking for a SMUFL converter script for fontforge :( trying to rebuild my own font to SMUFL Not even every font for Finale followed the Maestro mapping, so I doubt there's much demand for such a script. It doesn't take long to copy all the symbol...

odod wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025, 00:21 better to stick with the free one inside of FInale's installer

... Except that it's not a SMuFL version.

TBH, I'm not a big fan of it. It's a bit too crisp and clean!

¥16,500 is over $100...!

Here's a Scoring Notes article about a new feature in Sibelius, allowing the creation of parts from a single score staff with two parts. https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/sibelius-2025-2/ It's interesting that they've taken the opposite approach to Dorico, which condenses the score staves, rather...

It seems it's found its way to Scoring Notes.

I don't know if this has been posted before: a little Pathé News magazine reel about Music Engraving from 1936.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyEcRZ3ZzgA

I don't have those handy: what staves are included in those? Both soloists, choir, and piano reduction (a)? Only choir and piano (b)? Only choir (c)? If (c), does the pianist get another part, possibly (a)? If (b), do soloists sing from the full score? They are complete scores for all the voices, w...

Reason to ask is that, for a 70-min work, the vocal score could be north of 200 pages, which may be very cumbersome. Vocal Score of the Matthew Passion (Baerenreiter) is 270pp. Novello Messiah is 258pp. 200pp at 80gsm is 500g. Singers are used to it -- though "folder shoulder" is a recogn...

That's tragic. Interesting to know if there are any more such 'eliminations'. We can only speculate about internals, but I would presume that to save money, they've given overall responsibility to someone else (who is likely in charge of something else as well), meaning that Sibelius will be a secon...