On 26 August 2024, MakeMusic announced the sunset of Finale music notation software. This is not happy news for us at A-R Editions, because Finale has been our official music engraving platform since 2007. (Prior to that, we were pioneers in the development of music engraving by computer with our proprietary program, MusE. You can read more about that story here.)

So, what will we do? For the time being, we will continue to use Finale for all of our music engraving. There's no urgency to change, as the software and all of our customizations are working fine. 

But we are also preparing for the future, when Finale is no longer viable for us. Our production team is learning about and testing Dorico Pro. We are only in the initial stages of evaluation, and no decision has been made. Any updates to the situation will be announced here.

Current and future volume editors, do not fear! Our submission guidelines allow for music manuscripts to be submitted using any engraving software, as well as handwritten music pages and marked-up photocopies. This will not change, although we now ask that digital files be submitted in three formats: native files, .musicxml, and PDF. Our house editors and production team will take it from there!

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