by Daniel Spreadbury | May 27, 2013 | MAKING NOTES
David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton and Sam Merciers were kind enough to invite me to appear on the SoundNotion podcast this week, and I had a great time chatting with them about the work we’re doing on our new scoring application, SMuFL and Bravura. You...
by Daniel Spreadbury | May 23, 2013 | Design, News
Today I’m at the Music Encoding Conference in Mainz, Germany, where I am giving a presentation on the work I have been doing over the past several months on music fonts for our new application. There are two major components to the work: firstly, a proposed new...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Apr 5, 2013 | Design, MAKING NOTES
We’re now a few days into April and our team has been working for Steinberg for five months (we started work on 5 November last year, which happened to be my birthday). Although I can’t share lots of details about what we’re working on, perhaps a few...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Mar 11, 2013 | Design
I was asked to answer the question, “Does music notation software have a considerable impact on musicians?” on Quora. Here’s my answer. (If you want to follow me on Quora, here I am.) I’m certain that music notation software has had an impact...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Feb 25, 2013 | MAKING NOTES
Nearly two weeks ago, on the morning of 13 February, the whole of the Steinberg scoring team decamped to the London headquarters of the Musicians’ Union, a short walk from the Oval cricket ground, for a meeting with members of the MU’s Music Writers’...