Sibelius is a complete software application for playing, writing, printing and publishing music notation.
Sibelius will make your life easier, save you time, produce fantastic results ·� and enable you to do things you might never have dreamed of, like publish your music on the Internet, or create your own CDs.
Sibelius is designed for every kind of musician, from students and teachers to professional composers.
Here are some key features of "Sibelius":
· Dynamic Parts View movie
· Beautifully laid-out instrumental parts that magically update themselves whenever you change the full score
· Worksheet Creator View movie
· Save time by choosing from over 1700 high-quality worksheets, exercises, songs, instrumental pieces, lyrics, posters & other resources
· Video View movie
· Now you too can compose a film/TV score! For professionals and students alike. Includes videos to write for, from Charlie Chaplin to Mr Bean
· Extra sounds
· 2 new collections of high-quality sounds available, for playing back and creating CDs and audio files - Garritan Personal Orchestra and Rock & Pop Collection
Requirements:
· 512MB+ RAM,
· 350MB hard disk space,
· DVD-ROM drive
Limitations:
· The Save option is disabled
· 'Add to Worksheet Creator' is disabled
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
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
· New Keypad button to stop note input or deselect (for smartboards)
· View handles – makes ends of lines etc. easier to select
Playback:
· Set duration of and silence after fermatas (pauses), individually or throughout
· Double-click fader in Mixer resets it to default position (new since v5.0)
· Shift or Ctrl/Command when opening instrument strip opens all similar/all other strips (new since v5.0)
· Omit muted staves when exporting MIDI file (option)
Look & feel:
· Hide particular toolbar buttons
· Auto-hide toolbar buttons if insufficient room
· Move around Symbol and Edit Symbols dialogs with arrow keys, and see symbol names
· Smoother zoom with Ctrl+mouse wheel
· Set paper & desk texture of versions
· Many other look...
