Features:
Sibelius is the world's favorite music notation software, a tool that is
sophisticated enough for the world's top professionals, but as easy to
use as a pen and paper. Used in schools, publishing houses, film and TV
studios, and in the homes of thousands of people in more than 100
countries, whether you are a composer, arranger, publisher, copyist,
teacher, student or instrumentalist, you will find Sibelius enables you
to express your musical ideas quickly and easily, with the same
professional output used by leading publishers.
Creating music in Sibelius
Start writing music quickly and easily -Starting off
Start a score from scratch – specify instruments,
page size, title, tempo etc. with a few clicks. Your score is set up instantly, all of the instruments
with the correct names, clefs, transpositions and layout.
Watch movie: Starting
a score »
Five ways for note input:
1. MIDI input
Flexi-time™ is Sibelius’s unique system
for notating music as you play it on a MIDI keyboard in real time.
There’s no need to tap a pedal or play mechanically –
just play naturally with both hands, and Sibelius will actually
follow you as you speed up or slow down.
You can even listen to the music you’ve already
written as you play in more music on top.
It takes just seconds to set up your score,
ready for inputting notes
Step-time lets you play pitches from your MIDI keyboard
with one hand, and choose rhythms and articulations with the other from
the keypad (see picture).
2. Keyboard and Fretboard windows
For anyone who prefers using a keyboard or guitar to
notation, these beautiful new windows are ideal. Simply click on the
keys or frets to input notes and chords – or ‘play’ your computer’s
QWERTY keys just like a piano!
But they’re not just for inputting. Select any
note/chord, and the keyboard or fretboard shows how it’s played. And
when you play the score back, you can follow the music on the keyboard
or fretboard, too – even if it’s written for other instruments.
- Click keys or ‘play’ your computer keyboard to input
- Colors show voices
- Scroll through octaves
- Drag to resize
- Choose which staves’ music to show when playing
- Click frets to input notes & chords
- Acoustic, maple or rosewood neck in 3 sizes
- 6-string guitar or 4/5-string bass
- Choose which staff’s music to show when playing
3. Mouse & keystrokes
To input without a MIDI keyboard, pick note-values
and accidentals from the keypad with the mouse, and click to place
them in the score. For extra speed, use the computer keyboard
instead – specify pitch using the letters A to G, and rhythms
from the keypad using the numeric keys (see left). There are many
other useful keyboard shortcuts for "power users."
You can get other markings such as clefs, slurs
and time signatures from menus; Sibelius even positions them in
the right place for you.
Watch movie: Note input »
Keypad
Choose notes, articulations etc. with the mouse
or corresponding
numeric key. There are five different sets of symbols to choose
from
4. Scanning
Sibelius includes PhotoScore™ Lite – the state-of-the-art
program for scanning printed music. It takes just seconds to read
a page, and you can then edit or transpose the music in Sibelius,
play it back, extract parts and print – just as if you’d
input it yourself. It will also read music in PDF files.
The advanced version PhotoScore
Ultimate (which you can buy with Sibelius) has many extra
features, such as reading handwritten music, slurs, articulations, hairpins and text.
PhotoScore Lite comes with Sibelius 6, or you can buy the advanced version PhotoScore Ultimate with your Sibelius 6.
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5. Sing in music or play instrument!
Inputting music from a microphoneCreate musical scores by singing or playing into your computer using only a microphone - no prior musical knowledge required! (Monophonic only). People have been asking for years about inputting music from a microphone – and AudioScore
lets you do just that! Developed by Neuratron, creators of PhotoScore,
AudioScore lets you input music into Sibelius simply by singing or
playing an instrument, then hit a button to put the results into
Sibelius. Watch movie: AudioScore - Sibelius 6 » 
AudioScore Lite comes with Sibelius 6, or you can buy the advanced version AudioScore Ultimate
with your Sibelius 6.
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arrangement with unlimited tracks using your microphone, MIDI keyboard
or mouse, input into Sibelius in real-time (Windows only), and can even
help you improve your playing skills with its on-screen display of the
precise tuning of each note you play.
AudioScore
Ultimate 6 gives instant graphical feedback about the pitch of a
performance over time, so it is possible to see exactly where mistakes
are being made and improve whilst performing. Train to sing and play
perfectly in tune and immediately see the improvements on screen. What’s
more, unless you really need it, the built-in metronome is not
required.
File conversion
Sibelius seamlessly opens and exchange files from previous version and MusicXML and MIDI files in seconds – the ideal way
to transfer your existing music to Sibelius. Finale and other notation programs files can be imported by first converting to MusicXML and MIDI files.
Other Features
No more tidying up scores
Sibelius' Magnetic Layout takes care of almost every detail of score
layout for you—so effortlessly, you'll hardly notice. As you write, it
gives everything just the right amount of space and avoids
collisions—producing beautiful results. This one feature saves you up to
half your writing time.
Track changes and compare versions
Have you ever written something better the first time around? Siblius
6's Versions keeps track of revisions to your score, lets you look back
at earlier versions of it, and see what changes were made since.
Collaboration becomes a joy, and you can even add sticky Comments to
leave notes for yourself, or others.
Conduct your scores
It's time to take to the podium. Live Tempo lets you conduct the
playback of your score to produce a nuanced, musical performance. Simply
tap a key on your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard, or foot pedal, and
Sibelius follows your beat.
Great new sounds—in no time
High-quality playback now needs no set-up at all—just hit the space bar,
and Sibelius 6 plays back using amazing sampled sounds. High-quality
playback is more seamlessly integrated than ever, thanks to technology
from Digidesign's AIR team.
Sync with sequencers and DAWs
With Sibelius 6, you can add a live performance to an audio recording,
or sync a recording with your score playback. You can do all of this and
more thanks to ReWire support, which lets you sync Sibelius playback
with products like Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, GarageBand, and more.
Beautiful Keyboard & Fretboard windows
If you prefer using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful
new windows are ideal. Simply click on the keys or frets to input notes
and chords—or 'play' your computer's QWERTY keys just like a piano.
They're great for teaching, too.
Easy chord symbols & guitar diagrams
Chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams can now be created quickly from
your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard, or MIDI guitar. Sibelius 6 also
features many enhancements and extra notations, including guitar scale
diagrams.
Unrivalled pro engraving
Sibelius 6 lets you produce scores so stunning, they're virtually works
of art. Slurs are beautiful and controllable. Stemlets and beamed rests
can be added and positioned instantly, as can arpeggio lines. Sibelius 6
will even include cautionary accidentals automatically—helping you
produce performance-ready scores every time.
Sell your scores around the world
SibeliusMusic.com makes it even easier for you to earn an income from
electronic sales of your scores around the world. Or you can just share
and exchange scores with fellow musicians and Sibelius users.
New features for Version 6- Power tools
- Shift-drag moves objects horizontally/vertically
- Alt+drag or Option-drag moves object without moving attachment position
- Ctrl+drag or Command-drag suspends Magnetic Layout while moving
- Tab advances to next bar when inputting chord symbols
- Keypad button to stop note input or deselect (for smartboards)
- View handles—makes ends of lines etc. easier to select
- Use F13-F19 as shortcuts on newer Macs
Playback - Set duration of silence after fermatas (pauses), individually or throughout
- Double-click fader in Mixer resets it to default position
- Shift or Ctrl/Command when opening instrument strip opens all similar/all other strips
- Omit muted staves when exporting MIDI file (option)
Look & feel - Hide particular toolbar buttons
- Auto-hide toolbar buttons if insufficient room
- Tile multiple open scores
- Move around Symbol and Edit Symbols dialogs with arrow keys, and see symbol names
- Smoother zoom with Ctrl+mouse wheel
- Command+mouse wheel zooms on Mac
- Better keyboard access for dialogs (e.g. Clefs, Symbols, Key Signature) on Mac
- Set paper & desk texture of versions
- Many other look & feel improvements
Engraving & notations - Dynamics automatically above vocal staves
- Lines split between systems more controllable—e.g. two halves have independent vertical positions and slur/tie shape
- Line ends easier to select
- Chord symbols appear by default as diagrams on guitar notation staves, chord text on other staves
- Tie thickness adjustable
- Tuplets always above notes on vocal staves (option)
- Accidentals persist after mid-bar clef changes
- Width of empty bar varies with bar length (option)
- Automatic breve bar rests in 4/2
- Special staff spacing for multi-staff instruments (e.g. keyboards, divided winds)
- Move rehearsal marks & tempo text up/down without affecting ones on other staves in same place
- Better default positions of many text styles and lines
- Cross-staff beams improved
- Ossia staves improved
New in PhotoScore Ultimate 5 - Handwritten score recognition
- Dual-engine printed music recognition
- Edit while PhotoScore reads in background
- Advanced scanned image management
- Now recognizes repeat endings, Coda and Segno, cross-staff notes and
beams, ornaments (including trills, mordants, turns) and pedal on/off
markings
- Universal Binary application
- Text recognition in up to 120 different
Computer
requirements for Sibelius
Minimum hardware requirements - Sibelius 6 aloneWindows:
- Windows XP 32-bit SP2 or later,
Windows Vista 32-bit SP1 or later,
Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit,
- 512MB+ RAM,
- 550MB hard disk
space,
- DVD-ROM
drive
Mac:
- Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or Mac OS X 10.6 or later,
- 512MB+ RAM,
- 550MB hard disk
space,
- DVD-ROM drive
Additional recommendations for using the included Sibelius
Sounds Essentials sound library
Windows:
- Intel Core Duo or AMD Turion or
better,
- 1GB+ total physical
RAM (2GB recommended),
- 3.5GB total hard disk
space,
- ASIO-compatible
soundcard
Mac:
- Intel Core Duo or better,
- 1GB+ total physical
RAM (2GB recommended),
- 3.5GB total hard disk
space
You can use Sibelius Sounds Essentials if your computer doesn't meet
the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as
many sounds simultaneously.
Sibelius Tutorials
Learn Sibelius in 1 hour - Lesson index
From the website of James Humberstone - Composer, educator and technology specialist
- Setting up a score
- Moving around your score in Sibelius 6
- Mouse input
- Adding articulation and repeating
- Flexi-time recording
- Step-Time entry
- Alphabetic entry
- Dynamics, copy and multicopy
- Dynamic parts
- Ideas
- Versions
- Sharing your Sibelius scores
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