Have you noticed that a typical internet search doesn’t always produce relevant results for music notation? For instance, if you do a Yahoo, Bing or Google search for “articulation”, you’ll get dozens of results, with none of them related to Finale or Sibelius, and only a handful related to music . . .
I hope you find this to be a useful resource…
Search Finale Sites is part of the Finale Resources Page at musicprep.com. This is a quick way to search for answers to Finale related questions on the Finale forum, the Finale Blog and any of the MakeMusic family of sites. An added bonus – since the Finale User Guide is an online document, this search provides answers from the Finale User Guide!
source : musicprep.com search
Search Sibelius Sites is powered by the Sibelius Resources Page of musicprep.com. One handy use for this search is to quickly locate plugins on the “Extra Plugins for Sibelius” page on the Sibelius website, which has plugins listed by categories, but provides no way to search for them (as of July 2012). Find answers posted in the Sibelius Help Center, the Tech Support Chat page and even the Sibelius Blog. It also searches the Avid.com family of sites, including Neuratron (Photoscore & Audioscore), M-Audio and Score Exchange.
source : musicprep.com search
If you can’t find the answer to your notation question using the above focused search tools (also in the Sidebar), please leave me a comment here or email me – I’ll do my best to answer it for you!
~robert
A great aid in navigating the often murky waters of music notation software. Thanks!
Very cool resource, thanks!
Your search does work well for finding plugins. If I had understood how it
worked I would not have bothered with my alphabetical list. For one thing,
it requires no maintenance!
Anyway, nice search thing.
Bob Z.
(via email)
Thanks for this – Great way to search for notation program specific info on the web.
Excellent! Thanks Robert!
thanks very much for this useful resource! much appreciated.
INVALUABLE..thanks so much:)
Thanks for this resource!
Dear Robert, I have written a piano-duet score, 4 hands, Secondo is on the left side and Primo is on the right side.
I cannot align the staves even I have tried everything as it is described in the book “Sibelius 7, Music Notation Essentials”.
Can you help to solve the problem? Thank you.
Best regards
Esther
Esther – there is a guest blog post about this topic, written by Andre van Haren here:
Piano Music for Four Hands in Sibelius
~robert
Robert.
I looked up to you.
I work in the Sibelius and Finale programs.
Regards,
Boguslaw.