JOHN HINCHEY'S THOUGHTS ON MUSIC NOTATION, ARRANGING AND MUSIC PREP
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In the last post I showed you how to use plug-ins to quickly voice 4 horns and setup staves for the score (Horns 1&2 and Horns 3&4) and also separate staves for each of the 4 horn parts. As one of my blog readers quickly pointed out this is all well and good but [...]
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In my first post in this series I introduced you to the Focus Family and Focus Set plug-ins, which I find indispensable when working with large scores. Let’s look at a few more plug-ins that make things move a bit faster in large scores when working in Sibelius. On bite at a time…but how big? There [...]
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In this series of blog posts I’m going to share some tips on working with large scores in Sibelius. Some scores are just plain BIG! When working on a large score, no matter what the ensemble, the score page and your monitor are only so big. The more staves you have, the smaller they must [...]
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One of the the great things about writing a blog like this is, I learn new things all the time. Master plug-in programmer Bob Zawalich left a comment on my last blog post about a plug-in of his that fits in with my “Key of the Day” scheme. This is a plug-in I was not aware [...]
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In part 1 of this series we looked at Sibelius‘s built in keyboard shortcuts, in part 2 we explored organizing, memorizing and creating your own keyboard shortcuts. I’ve got just a few more thoughts on this subject so here we go with part 3! Key of the day There are so many features in Sibelius, [...]
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In my last blog post, I talked about learning the keyboard shortcuts built into Sibelius and how this can boost your productivity. In this post I’ll walk you through setting up your own user defined keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius. But before you charge into setting up all those shortcuts it helps to have a plan. Let’s look [...]
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Weather it’s pulling down a menu in Sibelius 6 or pointing and clicking on the ribbon in Sibelius 7, using your mouse, track ball or trackpad is not the most efficient way to select what you need. If you a Mac user, when was the last time you went to the edit menu in any [...]
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Yeah, there’s an easier way to install plugins With all these recent blog posts on plugins, I thought it might be a good time to talk about the new Install plug-ins feature in Sibelius 7. I realize looking back at these posts that I’ve created links to Extra plugins for Sibelius download page but really that is [...]
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Yeah there’s a plugin for that: Move System Objects For Delete Bar plugin and Add Pickup Bar plugin Continuing with my series on plugins, let’s take a look at a common issue and a couple of plugins that can help you out. But first here’s something you really need to know about Sibelius… ALL PAGE [...]
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In my previous blog post in this series I talked about the Line Between Notes plugin. Shortly after that blog post, Bob Zawalich updated this great plugin and it is on the Sibelius website on the Extra Plugins For Sibelius page. I want to show you some of the new features. Line Between Notes update When [...]
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