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Create scores, tab and lead sheets
It’s time to share the songs in your head with the rest of the world.
If you’re more comfortable with guitar and keyboard than the intricacies of musical notation, Sibelius First is for you.
It’s the fast and easy way to create great-looking scores using Sibelius’s acclaimed notation technology – ready to print, share, perform and post online.
Top features:
•Automatic collision avoidance: score elements move into their perfect position automatically
•Great-sounding playback out of the box, or use any VST/AU virtual instrument or effect
•Add chord symbols and guitar fretboard diagrams simply by playing the chord on your MIDI keyboard or guitar
•Easily add lyrics, titles, other text and graphics
•Turn guitar tab into notation, and back again
•Scan in printed sheet music or open PDF files to transpose, edit and print
•Parts automatically update when you change your score
•ReWire support
•Share and sell your scores worldwide on SibeliusMusic.com
New features in Sibeilus 6 First:
- New Quick Start window to get you up and running right away, including a Guided Tour video and shortcuts to common tasks, like scanning printed sheet music, importing MIDI files, etc.
- Score Starter templates. Choose from more than 40 pre-defined score templates in 10 different styles, including country, jazz, pop, rock, blues, funk, classical and choral. Each template includes a riff or introduction to get you started, and provides you with loops to copy and paste into the score to quickly build your arrangement.
- Magnetic Layout. The revolutionary new automatic collision avoidance system from Sibelius 6 is included in the new Sibelius First, ensuring that scores look perfect first time, avoiding the need for time-consuming manual positioning and editing.
- Virtual instruments and effects support. Use any VST or Audio Unit virtual instrument or effect in Sibelius Student, for greater realism of playback sounds.
- On-screen Keyboard and Fretboard window. These beautiful onscreen representations of a piano keyboard and a guitar neck provide a familiar interface for musicians who are still developing their familiarity with notation. You can even play your computer keyboard’s keys like a piano!
- Improved chord symbols. Input complex chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams in seconds, simply by playing the chord on your MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar, or typing it in using plain English terms.
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- Write for ensembles of up to 16 staves. Expand your horizons to compose for larger ensembles than ever, with the newly-increased limit of 16 staves per composition
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Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, 512MB+ RAM, 500MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive.
Recommended: MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar, TWAIN-compatible scanner, printer, Internet connection, ASIO-compatible soundcard or audio interface (Windows only).
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Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 500MB hard disk space, DVD ROM drive.
Recommended: MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar, TWAIN-compatible scanner, printer, Internet connection.
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