User Manual

COMPOSE AND ARRANGE SCORES WITH EASE
Whether you’re well versed in writing music notation or prefer
to use a keyboard, guitar, or your voice to enter notes, creating
music has never been easier. Save tons of time with unique tools
such as Magnetic Layout and Dynamic Parts. Get access to over
150 plug-ins that help you edit, arrange, and clean up layouts.
You can even store ideas and small snippets of music in the Ideas
library for later reuse.
SHARE SCORES IN THE CLOUD
Sibelius | Cloud Sharing opens up a whole new way of working.
This groundbreaking technology enables you to share scores
from Sibelius to your own personal cloud space (included free),
or embed scores in a webpage, and invite anyone to flip through
pages and play your compositions using any computer, laptop,
or mobile device. It’s ideal for previewing and reviewing musical
works in the studio, in the classroom, or on a sound stage.
HEAR YOUR MUSIC THE WAY YOU INTENDED
With 36 GB of professional content, including a specially
recorded symphony orchestra; rock, pop, and jazz
instrumentation; world-class licensed sounds; and much more,
you can play back and hear every nuance of your composition in
stunningly realistic detail. Plus, Espressivo 2.0 enables you to
add more expressive and realistic “feel” or rhythmic swing to any
part of your score.
STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOW
Sibelius integrates with both music and audio post workflows.
Compose themes in the software, then move your composition
to Pro Tools
®
to build cues to picture. Share scores with
collaborators and musicians in the cloud, printed on sheet music,
through MusicXML, or on an iPad running Avid Scorch
®
. And
easily communicate changes and feedback using annotations.
LAYOUT, EXPORT, AND PRINT
Create beautiful, professional-looking scores easily using a full
accompaniment of desktop publishing tools. Colorize notes.
Customize staff sizes. Perfect text with tracking, leading, and
other typography tools. Add graphics using drag-and-drop.
When finished, you can easily export publisher-quality scores as
PDFs with just one click.
TRANSCRIBE AND SCAN MUSIC
RIGHT INTO SIBELIUS
Sibelius comes bundled with Neuratron AudioScore Lite and
PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite, enabling you to transcribe and scan
music into Sibelius. With AudioScore Lite, you can input notes
into Sibelius by singing or playing an instrument, or importing
music from a CD. With PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite, you can
scan printed and handwritten music and send to Sibelius for
playback, transposing, and editing. You can even draw music
notation with your finger or Surface Pro Pen and see it convert to
notation instantly.
PUBLISH INTERACTIVE SCORES
Only Sibelius offers a complete end-to-end workflow that takes
you from initial idea to publishing and selling music online.
Sibelius | Cloud Publishing technology enhances the sheet music
shopping experience, enabling your customers to view, play,
change instruments, and transpose your music on any device
before buying—without requiring a plug-in—and then print a high-
quality version of the score once they do.
TEACH MUSIC COMPOSITION
Sibelius is ideal for teaching music notation, composition, and
theory to students of all ages. It includes over 1,700 ready-made
teaching materials, including worksheets, projects, and exercises,
as well as a Classroom Control window to track and freeze your
students’ progress. In addition, Sibelius network licensing makes
it easy to assign licenses to students on any computer—even
their own.
Sibelius
The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music
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From concert halls and scoring stages, to sheet music stores and classrooms, more composers, arrangers,
publishers, and educators use Sibelius
®
—the world’s best selling notation software—than any other. And now
with new Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, plus many recently added features and advancements, Sibelius makes the
entire music writing, collaboration, and delivery experience even easier than ever. Whether you’re composing for
a live performance, media entertainment, or in the classroom, nothing empowers you to write music like Sibelius.