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Are we seeing more Finale users migrate to Musescore than to Dorico? I don't think we (the public) are likely to get the data on that. How many active users of Finale were there? The Dorico "move to Finale" videos, linked in the sunset announcements, have only received c. 23K views. What ...

Yes, I'd agree -- I rarely do *any* manual adjustment of staves. Happy to look over a sample score and advise.

I have +/- octave buttons on my MIDI keyboard, and I'm constantly pressing them to set the relative octave. I play high Treble lines with my left hand at the bottom of the keyboard! I'm surprised it's such a big deal. I'm itching to see what's in Dorico 6 -- though no doubt if it's too soon, we'll g...

... and another: the 5.1.70 update. Mostly bug fixes. Possibly of interest are a new option to play octaves transposing instruments at written pitch (I think :???:); also the tuplet popover "self-populates" with 3, when appropriate, so you can just press Enter to get a triplet of the curre...

I'll have a look at it, if you'd like.

jrethorst wrote: ↑16 Nov 2024, 22:16 I wonder what they wanted, since it's hard to justify investment in a free program.

Well, they've bought Hal Leonard, too, so they have the rights owned by one of the largest music publishers, and MuseScore is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for digital sheet music.

thousands of users, many professional, some with decades of files, who would be willing to pay for an upgrade. One thing that has become clear: there are thousands of users who were still content to use Finale 2012 or similar, and hadn't paid for an upgrade in over a decade. Arguably, there hadn't ...

How long was it?

The team have pulled out another maintenance update, with some tweaks to allow Finale users of Speedy Entry to feel more at home.

https://blog.dorico.com/2024/10/dorico- ... available/

The Save As Default button applies to all the Engraving Options. You can save defaults for Layout Options (score & parts), Notation Options, and all the other options (playback, Note input... etc!) Similarly, you can save changes to Paragraph Styles, Notehead Sets, Music Symbols, etc as defaults...