

In both instrumental and vocal writing, they can be used to indicate notes of indefinite pitch. In vocal music, x noteheads are often used tor spoken text, or for unvoiced sounds / vocal effects. For drum set, particularly in jazz or rock charts, cymbals are typically the most active part, and X noteheads help these stand out from the other parts on a 5 line staff. In percussion writing, they are the go-to for non-pitched metallophone instruments such as cymbals or tamtam or gong. X noteheads, also referred to as “cross” or “crossed” noteheads have a number of functions in modern music notation. Original press release from November 22nd can be found here. Please consider joining the beta program to let MakeMusic know how it works for you in order to make the plug-in as useful and widely available as possible. Batch export no longer prompts for saving after each file.Metronome marks with numeric ranges now export correctly.Text that mixes dynamics or musical symbols with words now export correctly.System directions export with the system attribute, providing better results when creating parts from an imported score.Many more standard symbols are now exported.Page-aligned text is now exported except for headers and footers.


It has been over five years since the plug-in has been updated. Original development was centered around being able to transfer Sibelius files into MakeMusic’s SmartMusic more easily, but it was soon apparent that this would be useful more generally.
#Dolet 5 for sibelius download update
Over the past few months MakeMusic has been working to update their free Dolet® for Sibelius plug-in for exporting MusicXML files from Sibelius. This press release just appeared on the website and I thought it worth sharing (source: )
