Today MakeMusic announced that it is transferring development of its industry-standard MusicXML format to the new Music Notation Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Steven M. Alper on Preparing Music for Broadway
In a recent Finale Blog post we met composer, author, and orchestrator Steven M. Alper, a long-time user and friend of Finale.
Finale Spotlight on A Cappella Guru Deke Sharon
Back in May I was delighted to discover a video interview with Deke Sharon, the “musical force behind NBC’s ‘The Sing Off’ and both ‘Pitch Perfect’ films.” In the video we see Deke using Finale 2014 to demonstrate one of his arrangements, which have become widely influential in the a cappella world and beyond.
Finale Spotlight on Ben Byram-Wigfield
In our office, Ben Byram-Wigfield is best known as a knowledgeable member of the Finale forum community.
Mark Adler and What’s next: Finale 2014.5
Update: Finale 2014.5 has been released.
Lately we’ve been hearing lots of questions about the next version of Finale and I thought this might a great opportunity to answer those questions and talk a little about my new role at MakeMusic.