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Dolet 5.3 Updates Now Available

Recordare has released version 5.3 maintenance updates for both the Dolet 5 for Sibelius and Dolet 5 for Finale plug-ins. Version 5.3 of Dolet for Sibelius improves export of lyrics created by importing a MIDI or PhotoScore file into Sibelius. Continue reading

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Dolet 5.2 Updates Now Available

Recordare’s Dolet plug-ins for Sibelius and Finale improve on the MusicXML support provided by these music notation editors. Dolet 5 for Sibelius lets you export MusicXML files from Sibelius. Sibelius will import MusicXML files out of the box, but it … Continue reading

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Dolet 5.1 Updates Now Available

Recordare now has version 5.1 maintenance updates available for both the Dolet 5 for Finale and Dolet 5 for Sibelius plug-ins. The Dolet 5.1 for Finale update was just released today, and includes a dozen new features and fixes compared … Continue reading

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Dolet 5 for Finale Now Available

Dolet 5 for Finale, Recordare’s plug-in for reading and writing MusicXML files from the Finale music notation program, is now available. Dolet 5 for Finale adds support for Finale 2010, including the new chord features, the new percussion features, and … Continue reading

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How to Convert Sibelius Files to Finale Files

With Recordare’s release of the Dolet 5 for Sibelius plug-in, we have updated our video on “How to Convert Sibelius Files to Finale Files” to use Sibelius 6, Dolet 5 for Sibelius, and Finale 2010. The video compares the results … Continue reading

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Dolet 5 for Sibelius Now Available

Dolet 5 for Sibelius, Recordare’s plug-in for converting Sibelius files into MusicXML files, is now available. While it has over 30 improvements for Sibelius 5 users – including running about 20% faster – the big news is for Sibelius 6 … Continue reading

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Dolet Plug-in Updates for Sibelius and Finale

Recordare has released new Dolet updates for Sibelius and Finale. Dolet 4.2 for Sibelius adds support for Sibelius 6 and includes bug fixes for double-note tremolos and cue-size noteheads. The Dolet 1.6 for Sibelius plug-in, intended for people using Sibelius … Continue reading

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Liskov Wins Turing

Prof. Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s Turing Award, often described as the Nobel Prize of computer science. This was great news to hear because Prof. Liskov was another of my very influential professors at MIT. When … Continue reading

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