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Perfect scores up to twice as fast. And much more.
Sibelius 6 is a giant leap forward in notation software – with amazing features and improvements for educators, students, composers, arrangers, copyists and musicians of all kinds.
Magnetic Layout:
Write perfect scores up to twice as fast.
Magnetic Layout takes care of almost every detail of score layout for you - so effortlessly, you’ll hardly notice. This one feature saves so much time that it may be the greatest revolution in music engraving in 20 years.
Sibelius already has ‘magnetic’ slurs, accidentals, tuplets and so on – which stick to notes, and repel various other objects to avoid colliding with them. Magnetic Layout extends this intelligent behavior to everything else in your score, to produce truly professional results without you doing anything.
As usual, there’s lots of ingenuity under the hood, but you don’t have to think about it – just input the music, and let Sibelius 6 take care of the rest. It’s really that easy.
So, what does it do?
While you’re writing music, the dynamics, lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks and all other objects quietly shift around to make sure your music is as clear as possible. They’re attracted into neat rows and columns, and repelled by other objects, making the best use of space on the page.
Dynamics line up in rows and columns, while avoiding notes, slurs, etc. Lyrics shift out of the way of low notes, but stay lined up in verses. Tempo marks, chord symbols, and many other objects also organize themselves neatly while avoiding collisions.
Drag something across a complex score, and other objects will helpfully jump out of the way. And on the rare occasion things get so tight that Sibelius 6 can’t prevent a collision, it will mark it in red so it’s easy to spot and fix.
Staff room
Staves behave just as intelligently – Sibelius can optimize the space between them to allow room for low/high notes, lyrics, tempo markings and rehearsals marks. It adds extra space between instrument families to make large scores easier to read, and saves space between other staves that don’t have much on them.
Advanced options
But there’s more: advanced users can freeze the positions of objects, for complex engraving situations which you want to stay fixed. Or switch off Magnetic Layout entirely, for individual objects or the whole score. And though you’ll probably never need to, you can even set which objects’ positions matter most, how much white space to allow round them, and which ones to align.
Versions and Comments:
Track changes and compare versions
Versions keeps track of revisions to your score, lets you look back at earlier versions of it, and see what changes were made since.
This is invaluable for all kinds of people. Students can record their progress as they write coursework, and submit an automatic commentary along with their piece. Teachers can track what each student has done since last week. Composers and arrangers can look back at earlier revisions, or see changes made by orchestrators, publishers and other collaborators.
So there’s no need to fish out crumpled-up paper from your bin, or hunt through backups from weeks ago. To see any earlier version of a score, just choose from a list of them on the toolbar. You can print out these past versions, play them back, or export them as separate files. You can also copy music from them, to resurrect an idea you’d discarded – or even revert to an old version entirely.
To save a version at any point, just click a button – the date, time, and a name and optional comment are saved with it, so you won’t have to remember which version is which. And all versions are stored in the same score you’re working on, so you don’t need to go searching for them later.
Comparing versions
What’s more, you can compare two versions of a score, or even two different scores, to see what the differences are. This produces a summary and detailed list of all the differences between them. Objects which have been added, changed or deleted are also color-coded in the music, so they’re easy to spot.
You can even export a Word file which lists all these changes, and graphics of each page with the differences highlighted.
Add comments
Comments are like Post-It™ notes you can add to your score. And just like the real thing, you can use them to write reminders to yourself, or to communicate with someone else you’ll be sending your score to.
To create a comment, just click the new toolbar button, then type – it automatically includes your name, the date and time. Add a comment to a selected passage, and it will also state the instrument(s) and bars referred to.
You can change the appearance of comments, and ones written by different people are automatically color-coded – ideal if you’re sharing a score with a student, teacher, arranger or editor.
Finally, you can resize comments, minimize them (so they don’t get in the way), or hide them throughout the score.
Playback – better than ever
Sibelius 6 includes effortless tempo control, stunning sounds and effects, easy set-up, and sophisticated audio software connectivity.
Integrated playback
No longer does Sibelius need a separate player such as Kontakt Player 2 to get the best results – high-quality playback is seamlessly integrated, thanks to the latest technology from Digidesign’s AIR team. So it’s simpler than ever to use, and needs no set-up at all – just hit the space bar, and Sibelius plays! You don’t even have to wait for sounds to load any more.
Everything can be adjusted directly on the Mixer, including high-quality effects on each staff such as convolution reverb and chorus, and up to six faders for other effects (e.g. EQ, distortion, timbre). All fader positions and settings are saved in the score, so you won’t have to fiddle with them next time you open it.
Stunning sounds
The Sibelius Sounds Essentials library contains a variety of orchestral, choral and jazz sounds from Garritan, Tapspace and AIR. Sibelius 6 provides up to 128 channels, so you can use as many different sounds at once as your computer can handle.
Sibelius 6 also comes with a General MIDI virtual instrument (using technology from M-Audio). This provides the full range of General MIDI sounds – from music box to gunshot – and is particularly suited to playing MIDI files, or for getting good playback on older computers.
Chord symbols & guitar diagrams
Chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams can be created quicker than ever from your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar. They also feature many enhancements and extra notations, including guitar scale diagrams.
Inputting
To create a chord, just type it on your computer keyboard, or play it on your MIDI instrument. Chords can appear as a chord symbol, a guitar diagram (in a choice of voicings), or both together – they’re all treated as the same kind of object.
When typing chords in, there’s no need to use special characters – Sibelius 6 automatically converts them for you. For example, if you type ‘Cmaj7’, Sibelius will display it as Cma7, CM7, or any other convention you like. You can even rewrite chord symbols in different ways, such as turn into the equivalent .
Library
Sibelius’s built-in chord library is easier than ever, including over 600 chord types. It produces suitable guitar voicings for any chord, plus you can design your own diagrams, which are added to the library for future use. You can even send your customized library to other people.
Guitar scale diagrams
Sibelius lets you create these special diagrams which show how to play a scale, lick or riff. Hundreds of diagrams are included for 25 different scales. But you can also add your own ones to the library using white or black circles, squares or diamonds as dots, with optional text inside (for fingerings or note names). You can also number frets, and add letters to the strings.
Advanced options
As usual, there are many subtle options for more advanced users. As well as a huge choice of conventions for writing chord extensions, you can use different ones for root notes - English, German, Scandinavian or Solfege. Draw guitar diagrams and scales vertically or horizontally, and change any diagram’s size. Even normal diagrams can use special dot shapes, with optional text inside.
Live Tempo
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. Every detail of your interpretation is recorded, so you can play it back again later, or produce an audio or MIDI file of your performance.
And just like a real conductor, change your beating patterns at any point, and Sibelius 6 will follow you: subdivide beats for a rit, tap one in a bar in a fast passage, or stop beating entirely and Sibelius 6 will keep going. At fermatas (pauses), Sibelius 6 holds until your next beat, just like an orchestra. You can even record separate tempos for different repeats of a section.
Should you want to edit your performance, you can delete or re-record sections of Live Tempo, or play back with Live Tempo switched off entirely.
Keyboard & Fretboard windows
For anyone who prefers using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful 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
ReWire
ReWire is a standard which lets you record audio from Sibelius 6 on a digital audio workstation (DAW), such as Pro Tools. It also synchronizes Sibelius with your DAW so they can play back at the same time – starting playback in one program sets it going simultaneously in the other.
This opens up all kinds of possibilities for using Sibelius 6 with other audio software. For example, you could add an acoustic solo instrument line to your Sibelius playback by recording your score into your DAW, or by making Sibelius and your DAW play back simultaneously.
ReWire is so widely used that you can connect Sibelius 6 to almost any audio program – not just Pro Tools, but also Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer, CakeWalk, Reaper, and even Garageband. And again, no other notation program can do this.
Notations
Slurs
Sibelius has the most beautiful and controllable slurs of any program. Not only is their default design and position even better in all kinds of situations, but you can adjust their shape using no fewer than six handles, and alter their thickness individually. Engraving Rules options also let you control the default height and shoulder for different slur lengths.
Cautionary accidentals
Sibelius adds cautionary accidentals all by itself wherever they’re needed, so you’ll get fewer wrong notes in performance. It should do just what you want by default, but as usual Sibelius has included various options you can tweak: these include where to use cautionary accidentals (e.g. up to the end of the next bar, between different octaves or voices, or when tying notes between systems), and whether to draw them in parentheses.
Repeat bars
You can add 1-, 2- and 4-bar repeats from the Keypad, which play back just like anything else. Multiple repeat bars can also be automatically numbered (without using a plug-in), so performers won’t lose their place.
Jazz articulations and slashes
Scoops, falls, doits and plops can be added to notes quickly from the Keypad – no need to use symbols. Like other articulations, they are automatically positioned and transpose with the notes, but you can also move them individually. Jazz articulations even play back on suitable MIDI devices (e.g. Garritan Jazz and Big Band).
Slashes stay put when the rest of the music transposes, making rhythm charts quicker to produce. Other jazz improvements include enhanced chord symbols, which you can input faster than ever from your computer or MIDI keyboard).
Modern notations
Sibelius includes optional stemlets (‘half-stems’) for rests in beamed groups. You can either use stemlets throughout the score, or add them to individual rests from the Keypad. There are various other improvements and options for beamed rests too, even without stemlets.
Sibelius 6 also has automatic ‘feathered’ beams, for showing brief accels/rits. Again you choose them from the Keypad, and they even work on two-note tremolos.
In addition to Schoenberg-style Hauptstimme and Nebenstimme lines, you can create extreme tuplets with ratios between 1:4 and 4:1 (previously limited to 1:2 and 2:1), which is useful for special cases.
Other notations
Wiggly arpeggio lines can be added to spread chords instantly, straight from the Keypad. They’re attached to notes, so room is automatically allowed for them, and they transpose with the notes too. Use a normal wiggly line, or one with an up- or down-pointing arrow.
You can make ties break across time signatures (see picture), by being drawn behind them. In fact, you can make any object go in front of or behind any other, like in many drawing programs. This is particularly useful for putting imported graphics in front of or behind staves.
Articulations are positioned better than ever – among various improvements, they’re automatically drawn inside or outside slurs or tuplets depending on the situation, with a host of options. You can also reposition multiple articulations on the same note individually rather than all at once.
Finally, Sibelius 6 includes over 40 new instruments, including several unusual trumpets and flutes, and many General MIDI instruments from Rock Organ to Tinkle Bell, plus improvements to existing instruments.
AudioScore Lite
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.
AudioScore Lite comes with Sibelius 6, or you can buy the advanced version AudioScore Professional with your upgrade. The Professional version also lets you create an 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.
Power Tools
Page direction
You can view pages arranged vertically rather than in a row. This makes many scores easier to read on screen, as it there’s less visual jump from the end of one page to the start of the next. Another option shows pages individually rather than grouped into pairs, depending on whether you’ll be printing separate sheets or joining them together.
Filters and Find
Filters, which let you select and edit particular objects, have proved a popular feature – so there are lots more of them! There are quick filters to select rests, Technique text, any staff text, any system text, the new comments and repeat bars, instrument changes, grace notes, hidden objects, rehearsal marks, symbols and pedal lines. Plus Sibelius has improved various other quick filters, too.
What’s more, there are many options on the Advanced Filter and Find dialogs. Select chords with (say) more than two, or up to five noteheads, or specific note types (e.g. grace-note, cross, slash). Locate written or sounding pitches, pitches in a range (e.g. between C4 and G4), or spelled a particular way (e.g. F# rather than Gb).
You can also select ranges of note values, and notes/rests in specific off-beat positions, such as syncopated notes. Find text in any text style, and perform case insensitive text searches. And if that’s not enough, you can even locate particular symbols, particular clef changes, and multiple types of line at once.
Plug-ins
Sibelius 6 includes a host of plug-ins to help with your composing, arranging and student work, including:
- 11 advanced melodic and rhythmic transformations, such as re-ordering notes cyclically or randomly, retrograding pitches independently of rhythms, and stretching/squashing intervals
- Extend a bar by inserting a note or rest
- Notate dynamics automatically using Live Playback velocities from Flexi-time input or a MIDI file
- Check Palestrina-style counterpoint (using Fux’s first species rules).
Other plug-ins can be downloaded from www.sibelius.com/download.
The ManuScript language used to create plug-ins has also been extended, and can use dynamic parts, features such as Magnetic Layout and Versions, date and time, RTF file export, and much more.
Documentation
Sibelius’s documentation is fully updated and available on-screen from the Help menu, for easy access wherever you are. This includes the Handbook, Reference, Upgrading to Sibelius 6 instructions and ManuScript plug-in language details. The Handbook has five project-based tutorials, ideal for new Sibelius users such as students. But you also get the Upgrading instructions as a printed booklet with your upgrade, detailing all the features, and you can buy the printed Reference book as an optional extra.
Sell your scores around the world
The 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.
Even more features
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 new Macs
Playback
- Set duration of and 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
Plug-ins
- Check Redundancies - hides/deletes unnecessary clef/key/time signature changes etc.
- Export Each Staff as Audio - for importing into a sequencer
- Convert Folder of Scores to Earlier Version
- Other plug-ins improved
Network licenses
- Easier network installation
- Client copies can connect from any IP address
- Largest network license unlimited (previously 255 computers)
- Use same preferences for all users of a computer
Other improvements
- Many editing operations faster, particularly on large selected passages
- Reminds you to save a version when you close a score
- Improved manuscript papers for new scores
- Auto-select US or European paper sizes for new scores or imported files
- Imports octave lines in MusicXML files
- Various bugs fixed
Sibelius Look and Feel
Panorama
Panorama is a clearer way of viewing music in Sibelius. Instead of being chopped up into systems and pages, the music is shown in a single, infinitely-wide strip – far easier to read and navigate around. So you can just think about the notes, and forget about page layout until you’re ready to print.
You can switch between Panorama and normal view whenever you like, or use Panorama in combination with Focus on Staves if you just want to look at a few instruments.
An easier way to compose
As well as allowing you to forget about page layout during composition, Panorama makes the whole experience of inputting music more enjoyable. Because there’s only one system on the page, Sibelius can move smoothly from left to right as you compose, without any disorientating jumps from one system to another. Dragging staves in Panorama won’t effect the layout of the real score. So you really are free to think about your music without any distractions.
Magic Margin
No matter where you navigate to in your music, Panorama’s Magic Margin makes it crystal clear what stave you’re on. It even reflects changes to instruments on the same stave, something that’s incredibly easy to set up.
Getting started
Sibelius is so easy to learn and use that you can start writing your first piece within minutes – not days! It comes with a clear, friendly, non-technical handbook, which explains all the main features in just 70 pages.
But if you don't like reading manuals, don't worry – the program includes an hour of tutorial videos that explain how to use it. It also has comprehensive on-screen reference, so you'll never be stuck for an answer.
Clear, elegant design
The Sibelius screen is simple and intuitive, so you can concentrate on writing music without the constant distraction of menus and dialog boxes. To look around the music, just click and drag the page – it really feels like you’re moving manuscript paper in front of you. Alternatively, drag the Navigator to move smoothly through many pages at once.
You can even choose different colors and textures for the paper and desk on the screen.
Creating music in Sibelius
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.
Then you can input notes in four easy ways:
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.
Keyboard and Fretboard windows
For anyone who prefers using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful 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
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. 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.
Keypad: Choose notes, articulations etc. with the mouse or corresponding numeric key. There are five different sets of symbols to choose from
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.
File conversion
Sibelius seamlessly opens MusicXML and MIDI files in seconds – the ideal way to transfer your existing music to Sibelius.
Composing and arranging in Sibelius
Sketch & refine
Sibelius lets you change music whenever you like. Sketch a solo flute piece, then add a whole orchestra to create a concerto. Write in sounding pitch, then make a transposing score with one click. Add extra bars at the start of a score, and Sibelius instantly reformats every page – far more flexible than pen and paper.
If you completely change your mind, Sibelius lets you undo up to 20,000 operations, and keeps backups of 40 previous versions of your music.
Text & lyrics
Sibelius puts different types of text, such as dynamics, titles and lyrics, in the appropriate font, size and position. You can edit these text styles to change text consistently throughout the score.
To input lyrics, just type – Sibelius positions the words under the notes, puts in hyphens and lyric lines, and allows extra room for long syllables. You can also copy lyrics from a word processor.
To save typing all the lyrics into a score, you can add them automatically from a text file - Sibelius even splits them into syllables for you. Or if you type the lyrics in yourself, Sibelius will check that you’ve split syllables in all the right places.
Cautionary accidentals
Sibelius adds cautionary accidentals all by itself wherever they’re needed, so you’ll get fewer wrong notes in performance. It should do just what you want by default, but as usual Sibelius has included various options you can tweak: these include where to use cautionary accidentals (e.g. up to the end of the next bar, between different octaves or voices, or when tying notes between systems), and whether to draw them in parentheses.
Arrange™
Arrange is a unique feature to help with arranging and orchestration. It’s ideal for students learning instrumental writing, and saves hours of time for experienced professionals.
Just select some music, and specify how you want it to be arranged or orchestrated – Sibelius does the rest in an instant, using appropriate instruments, doublings, etc. It handles anything from keyboard reductions and ‘exploding’ chords onto separate staves, to sophisticated arrangement and orchestration styles, such as:
- Band, using high brass and pitched percussion
- Choir, tenor doubling soprano down an octave
- Jazz, in the style of famous band leaders including Sammy Nestico, Billy Strayhorn and Thad Jones
- Impressionist orchestration with harp and strings.
Over 150 of these styles are provided, and you can even create your own.
Slurs
Sibelius has the most beautiful and controllable slurs of any program. Not only is their default design and position even better in all kinds of situations, but you can adjust their shape using no fewer than six handles, and alter their thickness individually.
Engraving Rules options also let you control the default height and shoulder for different slur lengths. Sibelius makes it easy to write large scores, by allowing you to view just the staves you're working on.
Focus on staves
Sibelius makes it easy to write large scores, by allowing you to view just the staves you're working on.
Repeat bars
You can add 1-, 2- and 4-bar repeats from the Keypad, which play back just like anything else. Multiple repeat bars can also be automatically numbered (without using a plug-in), so performers won’t lose their place.
Copying & transposing
Copying music is far faster than re-writing it, so Sibelius copies anything with one click of the mouse – especially useful for doubled instruments and repeating figures. You can make multiple copies at once, e.g. to put the same dynamics onto every instrument.
Sibelius transposes music instantly into any key, and handles everything about transposing instruments for you. Write music in sounding or written pitch, and switch between the two whenever you like.
Checking for mistakes
Sibelius saves you time by spotting all kinds of mistakes such as rhythms that don’t add up, or notes that are too high/low to play (see picture). Sibelius knows every instrument’s range, which you can adjust for players of different abilities.
Sibelius comes with various proof-reading plug-ins (read more), including ones which add cautionary accidentals and even mark parallel fifths and octaves!
Magnetic Layout
Magnetic Layout takes care of almost every detail of score layout for you - so effortlessly, you’ll hardly notice. This one feature saves so much time, it may be the greatest revolution in music engraving in 20 years.
Sibelius already has ‘magnetic’ slurs, accidentals, tuplets and so on – which stick to notes, and repel various other objects to avoid colliding with them. Magnetic Layout extends this intelligent behavior to everything else in your score, to produce truly professional results without you doing anything.
As usual, there’s lots of ingenuity under the hood, but you don’t have to think about it – just input the music, and let Sibelius 6 take care of the rest. It’s really that easy.
So, what does it do?
While you’re writing music, the dynamics, lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks and all other objects quietly shift around to make sure your music is as clear as possible. They’re attracted into neat rows and columns, and repelled by other objects, making the best use of space on the page.
Dynamics line up in rows and columns, while avoiding notes, slurs, etc. Lyrics shift out of the way of low notes, but stay lined up in verses. Tempo marks, chord symbols, and many other objects also organize themselves neatly while avoiding collisions.
Drag something across a complex score, and other objects will helpfully jump out of the way. And on the rare occasion things get so tight that Sibelius 6 can’t prevent a collision, it will mark it in red so it’s easy to spot and fix.
Staff room
Staves behave just as intelligently – Sibelius can optimize the space between them to allow room for low/high notes, lyrics, tempo markings and rehearsals marks. It adds extra space between instrument families to make large scores easier to read, and saves space between other staves that don’t have much on them.
Advanced options
But there’s more: advanced users can freeze the positions of objects, for complex engraving situations which you want to stay fixed. Or switch off Magnetic Layout entirely, for individual objects or the whole score. And though you’ll probably never need to, you can even set which objects’ positions matter most, how much white space to allow round them, and which ones to align.
Sibelius playback
Sibelius 6 includes effortless tempo control, stunning sounds and effects, easy set-up, and sophisticated audio software connectivity.
Just click the play button to hear your music performed with surprising realism. Sibelius reads, understands and plays back all standard markings – including trills, repeats, cresc./dim. hairpins, 8vas, glissandos, percussion and drum sets, guitar tab, and even quarter-tones.
Sibelius understands musical words and phrases such as: rit., pizz., Allegro, mute, swing, and change to Piccolo. Musical terms in various languages are already defined in a built-in dictionary – and you can add new words to it, too.
Sibelius lets you select specific instruments and sections of music to listen to, automatically playing the correct instrumental sounds through your soundcard or MIDI equipment.
Live Tempo
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. Every detail of your interpretation is recorded, so you can play it back again later, or produce an audio or MIDI file of your performance.
And just like a real conductor, change your beating patterns at any point, and Sibelius 6 will follow you: subdivide beats for a rit, tap one in a bar in a fast passage, or stop beating entirely and Sibelius 6 will keep going. At fermatas (pauses), Sibelius 6 holds until your next beat, just like an orchestra. You can even record separate tempos for different repeats of a section.
Sibelius Sounds Essentials: 150+ high-quality built-in sounds
Stunning sounds
Sibelius 6 contains a Sibelius Sounds Essentials library, with a variety of sounds from Garritan, Tapspace and AIR. Sibelius 6 provides up to 128 channels, so you can use as many different sounds at once as your computer can handle.
Sibelius 6 also comes with a General MIDI virtual instrument (using technology from M-Audio). This provides the full range of General MIDI sounds – from music box to gunshot – and is particularly suited to playing MIDI files, or for getting good playback on older computers.
ReWire
ReWire is a standard which lets you record audio from Sibelius 6 on a digital audio workstation (DAW), such as Pro Tools. It also synchronizes Sibelius with your DAW so they can play back at the same time – starting playback in one program sets it going simultaneously in the other.
This opens up all kinds of possibilities for using Sibelius 6 with other audio software. For example, you could add an acoustic solo instrument line to your Sibelius playback by recording your score into your DAW, or by making Sibelius and your DAW play back simultaneously.
Enhanced realism
You can specify exactly how articulations, lines, tremolos and symbols play back – for example, to change the length and loudness of accents and staccatos, the speed of tremolos, or how fast chords with wiggly arpeggio lines are spread. Hairpins automatically read dynamics to work out how loud or soft they should end up, and sustained notes get continuously louder or softer along the hairpin.
Always chooses the best sounds
Sibelius’ way of categorising sounds, called SoundWorld™, ensures that Sibelius always chooses the most suitable sound available on any device – with no need to reset them if you switch equipment. And if you want to tell Sibelius which device you prefer for particular sounds, e.g. GPO for strings and Synthogy Ivory for piano, you only need do so once – just set and forget.
Flawless recordings, every time
Even if your computer isn’t powerful enough to play a score back in all its glory, Sibelius can create a perfect, glitch-free audio file, by processing it at a speed that suits your computer. And if you have a fast computer, Sibelius creates the audio file faster than real time!
Extra Sound Libraries
Choral: Solo and ensemble samples for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, plus high-quality organ and piano sounds.
Tapspace Virtual Drumline: Pitched and unpitched percussion sounds for marching band music
Garritan Personal Orchestra: The acclaimed collection of orchestral sounds
Garritan Concert & Marching Band: Wind, brass and percussion sounds for band music
Garritan Jazz and Big Band: Over 50 jazz and big band instruments, including scream trumpet
VST and Audio Units
VST (on Windows and Mac) and Audio Units (on Mac only) are state-of-the-art standards for high-quality instrumental sounds. A huge variety of VST and Audio Unit instruments are available from numerous manufacturers – and Sibelius 6 can play back using any of them! So you’re no longer limited to Sibelius’ sounds – you can use world-famous ones such as EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Library, Synful Orchestra, and many others. Plus you can use any Kontakt Player 2 or Kontakt 2-format sounds, too.
Many effects to enhance the results (such as advanced reverb, EQ, filters) are also available, which you can chain and mix together. Plus you can use as many different VST or Audio Unit instruments and effects simultaneously as your computer can handle.
Integrated playback
No longer does Sibelius need a separate player such as Kontakt Player 2 to get the best results – high-quality playback is seamlessly integrated, thanks to the latest technology from Digidesign’s AIR team. So it’s simpler than ever to use, and needs no set-up at all – just hit the space bar, and Sibelius plays!
Everything can be adjusted directly on the Mixer, including high-quality effects on each staff such as convolution reverb and chorus, and up to six faders for other effects (e.g. EQ, distortion, timbre). All fader positions and settings are saved in the score, so you won’t have to fiddle with them next time you open it.
Espressivo™ & Rubato™
Espressivo and Rubato are unique features which add elegant expression as Sibelius plays. Espressivo makes subtle adjustments to the dynamics to produce musical phrasing, and Rubato varies the tempo, just like a human performer.
Rhythmic feel™, SoundStage™ & reverb
Sibelius lets you choose from numerous "rhythmic feel" styles which make subtle enhancements to the rhythm – anything from jazz swing to Viennese waltz!
When playing back scores for ensembles such as orchestra or band, Sibelius’s unique SoundStage feature positions the sounds correctly in 3-D space, as if the instruments were on a concert stage. You can also choose the reverb characteristics of different natural acoustics.
Because Sibelius has such sophisticated playback features, you can use it for far more than just listening to music. Sibelius makes it easy to check the notes you’ve written, accompanies while you practice, and helps you make rehearsal tapes and CD recordings of your music.
Repeats
Sibelius supports every kind of repeat you can imagine - not just D.S., D.C., Coda, Segno and Fine, but complex repeat structures with up to 8 repetitions. You can even make Sibelius jump between arbitrary points in the score during playback, e.g. to skip guitar fill boxes or simulate aleatory performances.
You can make individual notes, dynamics etc. apply only to certain verses or repeats, so you could have the brass play only the second time round, or make verse 3 p and verse 4 f.
The Ideas Hub
Ideas Hub is a unique feature that lets you capture, use and re-use snippets of music. As well as using your own ideas, over 2000 ready-made ones are included – ideal for teaching.
Never lose another idea
When writing music you often come up with a bit of melody, rhythm, accompaniment or chord progression with some potential. Instead of wondering what to do with it, just tap a key to store it in the ideas Hub. Then you can re-use these ideas later in any score, just like pasting from the clipboard; Sibelius even transposes ideas into the right key and range.
Tag, organize and search
An idea can be a passage of music of any length, any kind and for any number of instruments. Once you’ve captured an idea you can edit it, tag it with your own keywords (e.g. canon, lyrical, riff) to help find it later, or even colour-code it. The Ideas window lets you browse and search through all the available ideas by keyword tags, instrument, time signature, key and so on, and even play them back. Plus, you can export them later to share your ideas with other people.
Ready-made ideas for students
Over 2000 ready-made ideas are included for students to use, in a huge range of styles from classical, jazz and band to world music, rock and hip-hop.
By using these ideas in their music, students of all abilities can discover how melodies, harmonies and rhythms can be put together to create differing textures and musical structures.
They could start with just one or two ideas for inspiration, or alternatively use ideas as building blocks to create a complete piece. You can keep track of what they’ve done, because Sibelius marks where ideas are used in the score.
If you prefer, you can switch off all of the ready-made ideas, or just give students a few specific ones, for more focused exercises.
Dynamic Parts™ in Sibelius
Parts in other programs
In other programs, to get instrumental parts you have to ‘extract' them from the full score. You then have to spend time checking them and cleaning them up. And if you make revisions to the score later - which almost always happens in practice - you either have to spend ages making the same revisions in the parts yourself, or extract them all over again. Not so in Sibelius.
Dynamic Parts
Sibelius has a feature called Dynamic Parts. You don't have to extract them – in fact, you don't have to do anything to get parts! As soon as you start a new score, all the parts are already there – and you can look at any of them from a list on the toolbar.
Editing the full score (left) automatically changes the part (right)
As you add music to the full score, it appears in the relevant parts too. In fact, whatever you do to the score, Sibelius instantly updates the parts. Or you can even write music in the parts, and the score will change to match! But you can also change things in parts without affecting the score if you like, such as adding cues.
The parts are transposed if necessary, have bar rests grouped into ‘multirests', and include all the relevant markings such as time signature and tempo changes. So you don't have to think about anything.
Create cues instantly
Creating cues in parts is the work of a moment. Simply copy the music you want to appear in the cue, and choose Paste As Cue. Sibelius does the rest for you – it makes the cue small, puts it in a suitable voice, transposes it or changes clef as necessary, deletes dynamics and articulations (optional), adds a text label, hides the cue in the score, and stops it playing back. You can even add a cue to multiple instruments at once.
What’s more, there are two plug-ins to make cueing even easier. Suggest Cue Locations suggests suitable points for cues in your score, based on either the number of bars rest or the duration of a rest in a part, while Check Cues verifies that cues you’ve previously added are still correct, in case you’ve changed the music.
Paste As Cue makes creating cues the work of a moment – Sibelius automatically makes the music small and stops it playing back.
Customize cue appearance
Sibelius does the work of creating cues for you, but you still have complete control over how they appear. You can choose whether you want articulations and dynamics to be included, and whether you want the cue to have new clefs and octave lines or be transposed to an appropriate pitch for the destination instrument.
Easy instrument changes
Scores often have two or more instruments played by the same person, such as percussion, or clarinet doubling saxophone. Or sometimes you need to rewrite a whole part for a different instrument. Sibelius will do this automatically for you: simply put an instrument change anywhere in the music, and Sibelius will change the instrument from that point onwards – altering its name, clef, sound, even the transposition and staff type if necessary.
Plus, if you write for unusual instruments you can design your own, choosing the name, clef, range, sound, etc. you want. From glockenrimba to trumpet in F#, your imagination is the only limit!
Auto Layout™
Sibelius also takes care of the layout of parts for you. It puts page turns at convenient places, and positions rehearsal marks, new sections, key changes etc. at the start of systems, to make them easier for players to locate. In fact, you'll hardly need to adjust parts at all – just a quick look through and then print.
You can print a complete set of parts with one click of the mouse, and even specify how many copies you want for each instrument.
Print a complete set of parts with one click
Overall, Dynamic Parts will save you many hours of work on every score – all the time spent writing out or extracting parts is a thing of the past.
Worksheet Creator™ in Sibelius
If you teach music, you'll know how long it can take to produce good curriculum materials. That's why there is the Worksheet Creator.
The Worksheet Creator frees up many hours of your time by giving you a comprehensive range of ready-made teaching materials – over 1700 worksheets, projects, exercises, songs, instrumental pieces, lyrics, posters, reference material and other resources.
They can be used by individuals or groups in class, or for homework - either on paper or on computer. All of the materials are carefully designed to fulfil curriculum requirements, and to suit school students of all ages. Some of them (such as the repertoire and reference material) are also useful for universities and instrumental teachers.
Many of the worksheets have random questions that are different each time. You can produce both a worksheet for the student and a completed answer sheet to save time when marking. And it all takes just a few seconds.
Creating a worksheet
Just choose from 6 main categories in the Worksheet Creator:
- Elements of music covers music theory and musicianship
- Writing and creating music includes notation, transposing, arranging, composing and improvising
- Selected repertoire has over 400 pieces for voice, piano and other instruments, including songs in 14 different languages and 50 Bach keyboard pieces, suitable for study, arranging and performance. There are also 45 poems to set to music.
- Reference includes over 200 scales and modes, ranges of different instruments, etc.
- Posters, flashcards & games has nearly 200 of these, from notes and keys to pictures of instruments
- UK KS3 & GCSE Projects has UK-specific projects from African drumming to serialism.
Each of these contains further sub-categories – for example, Elements of Music includes 14 areas, such as rhythm, scales, sight-reading and ear training; so with a few clicks you can narrow down your choice to just what you need.
Then just choose how many questions you want - and up pops the student worksheet, ready to use, plus a filled-in answer sheet to mark with.
Using your own worksheets
But you don't have to use the Worksheet Creator materials as they are. You can either adapt them to your own requirements, or create your own worksheets based on blank templates provided. You can also add your own worksheets to the Worksheet Creator for future re-use; or publish them on SibeliusEducation.com for your students to view, play, print and download.
Video in Sibelius
Sibelius is already used for many films and TV shows – from Quantum of Solace to The Simpsons. And you can use it yourself to write music to video. This is ideal for everything from student multimedia projects to professional scoring. No other notation program can do this.
As usual, it's very easy to do. You can simply add any video file to a score; Sibelius displays the video in a window, and plays it back in sync with the music. In fact, the video and score are always kept in sync, whether you're writing music, playing back, fast-forwarding or rewinding.
You can play the video at different sizes or even full screen to watch the finished result; and Sibelius's audio export feature makes it easy for you to add your finished music to the video soundtrack.
But that's not all. You can add ‘hit points’ in the score to mark important visual events; these make it easy to write music to fit the action. Hit points automatically move when you alter metronome marks, so you can tweak the tempo to make a hit point fall exactly on a beat.
Videos included!
To get you started, you can download a number of sample videos to compose to – ranging from Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition to Charlie Chaplin.
These videos and more are available for free from SibeliusEducation.com. The Internet also has thousands of adverts and trailers to download, which are ideal for students to write for.
Timecode & score duration
Sibelius calculates the time position (timecode) of every bar and the total duration of the score to high precision – useful for film/TV scoring, or for any work which requires timings.
Timecode is written above barlines and shown as a digital clock during playback, taking into account tempo marks, irregular bars and rits/accels. Display formats include seconds, centiseconds and various frame rates.
(This feature does not display or sync to incoming SMPTE or MTC.)
Sibelius power tools
Properties
The Properties window lets you view and edit advanced information about markings in your score – everything from numerical positions to notehead shapes and text sizes. The information is divided into panels, which you can open and close to reduce screen clutter.
Rulers
Sibelius’s smart rulers show you individual position measurements for each marking and staff – ideal for making fine adjustments to layout.
Publishing with Sibelius
Elegant layout
Sibelius's page layout means that you won't have to worry about spacing, formatting, or how your score will look when it's printed. The music is beautifully laid out onto pages for you as you work – you don't need to think about it. If bars get too cramped, Sibelius pushes them onto the next page for you, and instantly adjusts slurs, hairpins etc. to suit. Even if you delete large sections, or change the shape of the paper, Sibelius will reformat the whole score in an instant.
But if you prefer, you can change the layout yourself: you can move staves around, specify where systems and pages end, alter note spacings, and squash up or spread out whole passages of music. You're in complete control.
House Styles™ & engraving rules
Sibelius makes your scores look stunning, because it automatically applies hundreds of subtle music engraving rules to optimize every aspect of your score’s appearance. These include Sibelius's unique Optical™ and Magnetic™ algorithms for positioning notes, ties, beams, accidentals, slurs, etc.
You can set ‘House Style’ options to emulate the high-quality appearance of famous publishers, or design your own house style(s) to make your scores look distinctive. A whole menu of options is included, to control everything from text styles and notehead shapes to complex engraving rules. You can even save house styles to disk and import them into other scores.
Graphics & color
Sibelius imports color and black-and-white graphics, for adding pictures, logos, photos, cover pages and special notations to your music. Sibelius comes with dozens of graphics ready to use – or create your own.
You can color in notes, text, symbols, etc. - useful for educational music, marking up sketches, and making important markings stand out. They print in color, too.
Color anything in
You can also export music from Sibelius to graphics, desktop publishing and word processor programs in a variety of standard file formats, e.g. EPS and TIFF. This makes it easy to incorporate music into anything from coursework and exam papers, to books and posters.
No ‘faking’
Sibelius automatically handles many tricky notations that other programs have to fake, such as: collisions between voices (layers), multi-arc slurs with any number of arcs, beams over rests and across barlines, cross-staff beams between three staves, text and wavy lines at any angle (e.g. gliss.), and ossias.
Music fonts & symbols
Sibelius’s standard music fonts Opus™ and Helsinki™ produce an exceptionally high-quality engraved appearance, supplied with alternative noteheads conforming to the US Music Publishers’ Association design standards. Also included is Inkpen2™, a font which simulates handwritten music and text.
Sibelius’s fonts include over 500 music symbols you can use, such as special noteheads, percussion markings, ornaments and avant garde notations.
But you’re not just limited to Sibelius’s fonts. Sibelius is compatible with all the best-known music fonts, including Petrucci™, Jazz™, Susato™, Sonata™, Tamburo™ and Ghent™. You can even design your own symbols using any combination of characters from any mixture of fonts.
Internet publishing with Sibelius
Sibelius not only prints your music conventionally, but also lets you put it straight onto your own web site, or onto SibeliusMusic.com, the world’s largest site for self-publishing scores.
Additionally, teachers and educators can publish teaching materials onto SibeliusEducation.com for their students to view, play and print at school or home.
Scorch®
From your own web site, anyone, anywhere can view, play, transpose and print your music. Visitors to your site don’t need Sibelius – they just download Scorch, the free plug-in for browsing scores online. You can also let people save music from your site or SibeliusEducation.com onto disk – ideal for giving coursework to students.
SibeliusMusic.com
From SibeliusMusic.com you can publicize and sell your music worldwide. You can even include your biography, photograph, contact details and list of scores on your own page on the site.
Sibelius Internet Edition™
Sibelius Internet Edition™ is a special version of Sibelius for commercial Internet publishing, used by leading publishers such as Hal Leonard, Music Sales and Boosey & Hawkes.
SibeliusEducation.com
SibeliusEducation.com is a web site where you can publish teaching materials and homework for your students (and other teachers) to view, play, print & download from wherever they are, without needing Sibelius themselves.
You get your own school area on the site, where you can organize worksheets and assign them to particular classes of students. The students can then play the music back online to hear how it sounds – much more interesting than a paper worksheet. They can print it out to complete on paper, or download it to work on using Sibelius (at school) or the software Sibelius Student (at home).
SibeliusEducation.com also lets you exchange teaching materials, information and ideas with other teachers worldwide – and get additional free materials & resources from Sibelius Software.
Special notations in Sibelius
Many different forms of music notation have evolved over the past ten centuries. With Sibelius, you can create scores in any of these styles.
Avant garde notation
Sibelius handles modern notations such as quarter tones (which play and transpose), complex tuplets (with multiple nesting), feathered beams, colored markings, extreme note values, music in multiple keys, and special note designs. To cover all eventualities, you can import graphics for invented notations and graphic scores.
Guitar tab & chord diagrams
Chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams can be created quicker than ever from your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar. They also feature many enhancements and extra notations, including guitar scale diagrams.
To create a chord, just type it on your computer keyboard, or play it on your MIDI instrument. Chords can appear as a chord symbol, a guitar diagram (in a choice of voicings), or both together – they’re all treated as the same kind of object.
Library
Sibelius’s built-in chord library is easier than ever, including over 600 chord types. It produces suitable guitar voicings for any chord, plus you can design your own diagrams, which are added to the library for future use. You can even send your customized library to other people.
Guitar scale diagrams
Sibelius lets you create these special diagrams which show how to play a scale, lick or riff. Hundreds of diagrams are included for 25 different scales. But you can also add your own ones to the library using white or black circles, squares or diamonds as dots, with optional text inside (for fingerings or note names). You can also number frets, and add letters to the strings.
Jazz, commercial & rock music
Chord symbols, drum sets, slashes and other popular notations are all included – plus the special Inkpen2 font to make your printouts look handwritten!
Jazz articulations and slashes
Scoops, falls, doits and plops can be added to notes quickly from the Keypad – no need to use symbols. Like other articulations, they are automatically positioned and transpose with the notes, but you can also move them individually. Jazz articulations even play back on suitable MIDI devices (e.g. Garritan Jazz and Big Band).
Slashes stay put when the rest of the music transposes, making rhythm charts quicker to produce. Other jazz improvements include enhanced chord symbols, which you can input faster than ever from your computer or MIDI keyboard.
Early music
For early music, Sibelius easily notates ossias, figured bass, numerous ornaments, incipits, all C-clefs, special barlines (e.g. Mensurstrich), stemless notes and longs. It even writes and plays back lute tablature.
Modern notations
Sibelius includes optional stemlets (‘half-stems’) for rests in beamed groups. You can either use stemlets throughout the score, or add them to individual rests from the Keypad. There are various other improvements and options for beamed rests too, even without stemlets.
Sibelius 6 also has automatic ‘feathered’ beams, for showing brief accels/rits. Again you choose them from the Keypad, and they even work on two-note tremolos.
In addition to Schoenberg-style Hauptstimme and Nebenstimme lines, you can create extreme tuplets with ratios between 1:4 and 4:1 (previously limited to 1:2 and 2:1), which is useful for special cases.
Other notations
Wiggly arpeggio lines can be added to spread chords instantly, straight from the Keypad. They’re attached to notes, so room is automatically allowed for them, and they transpose with the notes too. Use a normal wiggly line, or one with an up- or down-pointing arrow.
You can make ties break across time signatures, by being drawn behind them. In fact, you can make any object go in front of or behind any other, like in many drawing programs. This is particularly useful for putting imported graphics in front of or behind staves.
Articulations are positioned better than ever – among various improvements, they’re automatically drawn inside or outside slurs or tuplets depending on the situation, with a host of subtle options. You can also reposition multiple articulations on the same note individually rather than all at once.
Finally, Sibelius 6 includes over 40 new instruments, including several unusual trumpets and flutes, and many General MIDI instruments from Rock Organ to Tinkle Bell, plus improvements to existing instruments.
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