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Dorico Pro 5 – Review

Dorico Pro 5 Mark Sealey Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Dorico is a superb product. It just keeps getting better and better. It’s a versatile,

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Claris FileMaker 2023 – Review

Claris FileMaker 2023Mark SealeyClaris, Inc. It’s almost three years since MyMac reviewed FileMaker Pro – version 19.  For several years before that, the FileMaker

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FileMaker Pro 19 review

Claris, Inc. www.claris.com MyMac last reviewed FileMaker Pro (version 18) a year ago. Filemaker, the product which began life as a database, had already

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Dorico Pro 3.5 – Review

Dorico 3.5Steinberg Media Technologies GmbHDorico Pro 3.5 full version: $559.99 Steinberg’s Dorico is remarkably sophisticated and intuitive software for musicians. Composers, arrangers and performers

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Dorico Pro 3 – Review

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Dorico is the highly successful music notation software from Steinberg, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha, one of the world’s

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MacUpdater – Review

MacUpdaterCoreCode Ltd$9.99Operating requirements: macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later Every so often you come across a real gem. A piece of software that does everything

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Dorico Pro 2 – Review

Mark Sealey, 2018-06-22 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH   A major new version of Steinberg’s advanced music notation software Dorico was released last month. Dorico Pro

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FileMaker Pro 16 Review

  FileMaker Pro 16: $329 or by subscription (upgrade $197) FileMaker Pro 16 Advanced: $549 or by subscription (upgrade $329) FileMaker Pro 16 Server:

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Dorico – Review

Dorico music notation software from Steinberg Price: $559.99; discounts of 50% (71% for education) for cross-grades from Sibelius, Finale, Notion available Until October last year

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Vienna Ensemble Pro 6 – Review

Version 6 of Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP 6) has just been released. We take a look to see what’s new and how well the product works as part of a highly sophisticated audio and music studio environment.

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FileMaker Pro 15 – Review

Last May, Apple subsidiary, FileMaker, released version 14 of its market-leading multi-platform and cross-device application—now not so much a database as an app itself to create all manner of apps in their own right.

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Capture One Pro 9 – Review

Its an impressive alternative to Apple’s own Aperture, which is no longer being developed and – although the Digital Asset Management system of choice for many – is not guaranteed to work on unspecified future operating systems. Version 9 of Capture One Pro was released this month. Its every bit as good as its predecessor and remains the preferred alternative to Aperture over Adobe’s Lightroom.

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Sibelius 8 from Avid

Sibelius 8 – Review

Jean Sibelius, the 150th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year (he lived from 1865 to 1957), officially composed only seven symphonies. Certainly only seven were published. Yet fragments of an 8th do exist; and indeed were performed in 2011 barely three minutes long, though. Sibelius certainly withdrew and tried to suppress his 8th.

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Sibelius 7.5 – Review

Avid has received a lot of criticism from Sibelius users of late. Two years ago the Finsbury Park, London, HQ of the Sibelius development team was closed, many developers laid off, and the suites coding and maintenance operation relocated to the Ukraine. Rumors of serious financial trouble circulated and the company’s Vice President, CFO and CTO resigned. Yet the market-leading score-writing software did not disappear as some both predicted and feared. In fact, a new version has recently been released; here Sibelius 7.5.1 (a significant further milestone release for bug fixes and maintenance) is examined. Its found to be as good as ever.

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