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The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music is now even better.
Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 makes writing scores a breeze - giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning new features like Panorama mean you don’t need to think about pages while you’re composing or arranging. You can just let you creativity flow. Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second - so you’ll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there’s no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it.
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You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.
Write and refine music easily
Sibelius is so easy to learn and use that you can start writing your first piece within minutes – not days! Discover the joys of writing music with a program that's simple and intuitive. And, of course, being able to change your music in the blink of an eye! Read more »
Hear your music
The easiest way to perfect your music is by hearing it. Just click the play button in Sibelius to hear your music performed with surprising realism, thanks to the built-in Sibelius Sounds Essentials library. Sibelius reads, understands and plays back all standard markings, and you can buy extra sound libraries for choral music, world music and more. Read more »
Print beautiful scores
The world’s largest sheet music publishers use Sibelius to produce the music you see in the shops. Now you can create the same standard of print-out. And with Sibelius, it’s just so easy.
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Instrumental parts that magically update
Sibelius makes producing instrumental parts a joy. In fact, when you start your score,the parts are already there. You can flick between them using a simple drop-down. When you make a change to the full score, the relevant parts are automatically updated, and vice versa.
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Never lose another idea
Ideas are precious. That’s why Sibelius 5 gives you the Ideas Hub - the easy way to capture, tag, find and bring together your musical ideas. With Ideas Hub, you’ll never let another flash of inspiration slip by again.
As well as your own ideas, Ideas Hub comes preloaded with over 2000 ready-made ideas. They cover all styles of music and help provide useful inspiration for your compositions. Read more »
Publish, or sell, your music online
As well as printed music, Sibelius publishes beautifully online, too. You can create web versions of scores which can be viewed by anyone using the free Scorch web browser plug-in. And you can easily start selling your scores online via SIbeliusMusic.com.
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Internet publishing with Sibelius
The Internet is the fastest-growing technology of all time – and Sibelius helps you use it to your advantage. 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, our amazing 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.
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A composer's page on 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.
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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 our new 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 our new 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
How to notate every kind of music
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.
Avant garde notation – all automatically handled
Guitar tab & chord diagrams
Guitar tab with Sibelius couldn’t be easier. You can input tab just like other music (using MIDI, mouse or keystrokes), or you can instantly convert notation to tab, or tab to notation.
Sibelius has comprehensive support for markings such as bends, slides, hammer-on and vibrato bar. These too automatically convert between notation and tab. You can even write tab for any fretted instrument (mandolin, banjo, lute, dobro...), in any tuning you like.
To get a chord diagram, just name the chord you want, and pick the frame from the choice given. In fact, Sibelius calculates all possible positions for any standard chord. And like tab, Sibelius produces chord diagrams for any fretted instrument, in any tuning.
Choosing chord diagrams; automatic guitar tab notations
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 music using the special Inkpen2 font, to emulate handwriting
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.
Early music
Windows
Minimum requirements for Sibelius 5 alone:
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive
You must be running at least Windows XP Service Pack 2 to install and run Sibelius 5. If you have Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.x, you need to purchase an upgrade to a more recent version of the Windows operating system.
Additional recommendations for using Sibelius Sounds Essentials and Kontakt Player 2, especially for scores with many instruments:
1GB+ total RAM, 3.5GB total hard disk space, ASIO-compatible soundcard. 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.
Mac
Minimum requirements for Sibelius 5 alone:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive.
Sibelius 5 is a Universal application, which means that it runs on both older Macs with PowerPC processors and new Macs with Intel processors.
If you are running a version of Mac OS X earlier than Mac OS X 10.4, you cannot install and run Sibelius. You may want to upgrade Mac OS X now, although this normally incurs an upgrade fee. See www.apple.com for details.
Additional recommendations for using Sibelius Sounds Essentials and Kontakt Player 2, especially for scores with many instruments:
G5 or Intel processor, 1GB+ total RAM, 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.
