Often when an anacrusis or pickup measure appears at the beginning of a piece, the last measure of the piece will be truncated to complete the first measure.
Using Finale’s Human Playback in Digital Audio Workstations
Do you use both Finale and a digital audio workstation (or DAW)? Or do use one and collaborate with people using the other?
Quick Fixes to Improve Your Music Notation: Part 2
In part one of this post, we identified some quick ways to make your charts more readable. We focused on beaming, rests, chord symbols, and comping notation.
Finale, SmartMusic, and macOS High Sierra
Sometime in the next month or so, Apple is expected to release High Sierra, the latest Macintosh operating system.
Quick Fixes to Improve Your Music Notation: Part 1
Music notation plays a huge role in both sides of my double life. By day, I work at MakeMusic, where my primary tasks involve transferring published sheet music into SmartMusic.