What’s new?

If you’re not up to date, then you’re missing out on the latest features. That’s always been true, but perhaps never more so than now, with regular updates being the norm for music notation software.
Philip Rothman and David MacDonald review the latest updates to Dorico, Sibelius, Finale, and MuseScore, and highlight the most useful new features — and what’s in those updates that may portend well for the future.
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Dorico 4.2 adds percussion to the Key Editor and improves linked mode
Dorico 4.1.10 update is available
Dorico 4.1 review: a better Key Editor; improvements to lyrics, interface and more
Guitar tab can be fun in the Sibelius 2022.7 update
Sibelius 2022.5 brings multi-section headers, other workflow boosts
Sibelius for Mobile adds transpose feature
Finale version 27.2 adds new jazz template, native Apple silicon support
Finale to include and support eight JW plug-ins in next update
Daniel Ray “muses” about Audacity and StaffPad
Daniel Ray, Martin Keary, and Musescore
MuseScore 3.6 focuses on engraving upgrades, new fonts