November 18th, 2011Task-oriented user interface:
· The brand-new Sibelius 7 user interface provides task-focused tabs that lead you through the process of creating a score from start to finish. Every feature has both an icon and a text description—which you can access via a button or a keyboard shortcut—with full contextual help available when you need it.
Professional sound library—only in Sibelius:
· You finesse every detail of your score—you want to hear every nuance during playback. Sibelius 7 includes more than 38 GB of professional content, including a specially recorded symphony orchestra, rock and pop instruments, and much more. This exclusive content is only available in Sibelius 7.
Native 64-bit support—only in Sibelius:
· Today’s 64-bit capable hardware and operating systems provide big speed and memory advantages. Sibelius 7 is the world’s first 64-bit notation software, enabling you to unlock the full power of your 64-bit system—and work more quickly, with more virtual instruments and effects, than ever before.
Optimized for single monitor use—only in Sibelius:
· We understand that many of our customers favor laptops or other single-display systems. That’s why we designed the Sibelius 7 interface to allow you to focus on the music at all times—and easily hide information that you only need to see occasionally.
Switch to Sibelius from Finale:
· There’s never been a better time to switch from Finale® to Sibelius. Sibelius now features a step-time note input method that is very similar to Finale software’s Speedy Entry method—right down to using many of the same keystrokes. So if you know how to input notes in Finale, you know Sibelius too. And because today’s workflows include a wide variety of software applications, Sibelius 7 now includes full MusicXML export capability, so you can exchange files with hundreds of other applications, including Finale.
Text and typography enhancements:
· Take advantage of the latest OpenType fonts, including advanced features like ligatures, and employ them in text frames with full DTP-level capabilities. There’s no need to export projects to a separate DTP application—now you can complete many of them within Sibelius 7.
Graphics import and export:
· Sibelius 7 makes it easy to import graphics in all major formats, then manipulate them to build complex layouts for publishing, creating teaching materials, instructional books, and more. You can export the full score as publication-quality graphics in PDF format, plus individual pages or smaller sections in EPS, PNG, and SVG formats. It’s never been faster or easier to finish the job to the highest standards.
November 2nd, 2009Power 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 & 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 now 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
June 8th, 2007· Universal Binary
· As usual, Sibelius 5 supports the very latest technologies. It’s now a Universal Binary application, so it runs at top speed on Intel-based Macs. You can use it on the new Leopard operating system (Mac OS X 10.5), and it also has improved tab, mouse and scroll wheel support.
· Power tools
· Clefs change where necessary if you switch between sounding pitch and transposing score
· Transpose to specified key (rather than by interval)
· Add blank pages up to next left/right-hand page (for page turns in complex parts)
· Go To Bar steps through each occurrence of the bar number if it recurs in several movements or songs
· Select & delete system/page breaks & other layout marks
· Export graphics in PNG format, plus BMP on Mac too
· Cue-sized graphics
· Graphics scale on small staves
· 400 different instruments
· Delete Bar menu item
· Plug-ins
· Make Piano Four Hands Layout splits the music between left- and right-hand pages
· Add Capo Chord Symbols: for guitars with capos
· Add Continuous Controller Changes: produce special MIDI effects for sample libraries
· Groovy Music Mark-Up: for exporting music to Groovy Music educational software
· Improvements to: Accidentals plug-ins, Calculate Statistics, Pitch Mapping, Scales & Arpeggios
· Engraving
· Edit aperture of either end of hairpins individually
· Hairpins no longer cross system breaks unnecessarily, and always point the right way after a system/page break
· Hidden music no longer affects visible note stems and rest positions
· Hide empty staves even if they have hidden objects (e.g. cues) on them
· Accidentals now at correct size when normal and cue-sized voices coincide
· Text
· Plain & boxed system text styles (for instructions to appear in score & parts)
· Text styles for composer, title etc. on title pages
· You can make text cue-sized
· Correctly number bars split between two systems
· Select all bar numbers on a system using Select More
· Bar number changes automatically centered in the bar when bar numbers are
· Various new & improved characters in various fonts
· Align page-aligned text to margin of first page or current page
· Look & Feel
· Fit Page Height zoom level (useful with Panorama)
· Extra tutorial videos covering main new features
· On-screen Reference is now in PDF format – opens faster and easier to read
· Improved dialogs, e.g. Edit Text Style, playback dictionary
· Extra keyboard shortcuts
· New desk textures
· Use different textures when editing ideas
· Texture preview
· Playback & MIDI
· Show/hide empty staves when importing a MIDI file
· Export Type 0 MIDI files
· Set tick resolution (PPQ) of exported MIDI files
· Choose which sound set to export a MIDI file for
· Multiple input devices – no need to choose which one you’re using
· Alternate pitched & unpitched percussion playback on same staff
· Other improvements
· Easier network installation using standard Windows Installer (.msi) package
· Scorch now fully Firefox-compatible on Windows and Mac
· Sibelius files much smaller – about 20K plus typically just 1K per page
· Export in Sibelius 4 format
· Various bugs fixed
April 18th, 2007· New Dynamic Parts: full score and all instrumental parts are in the same file, and any changes made in the score are automatically reflected in the part, and vice versa; no more part extraction!
· New Worksheet Creator: more than 1700 ready-made worksheets, resources and other teaching and learning materials, covering a broad spectrum of music curricula, age ranges and levels of ability. Easily create your own worksheets and add them to the Worksheet Creator, or publish them online for your students to download at SibeliusEducation.com!
· New video feature: add a digital video to your Sibelius score, and play it back in sync with your composition. New hit points and other improvements to timecode and playback controls make it simple to "compose to picture," opening up new possibilities both in education and for professional composers.
· Copy and paste directly from Sibelius into other programs, e.g. Microsoft Word, to make the preparation of music examples a breeze
· Fresh new look and feel, with a clean new look, redesigned playback controls, new functions for hiding and showing Sibelius's tool windows, improved zooming and navigation, streamlined menus and dialogs, and more
· The complete text of the Sibelius Reference book is available on-screen in searchable, printable HTML format
· New tutorial videos, presented by Sibelius co-founder Ben Finn, will help you learn the main features of Sibelius, especially the new ones
· SibeliusEducation.com web site, to help the increasing number of schools, colleges and universities that are making use of the internet and virtual learning environments to help organize classes, teaching materials and homework. SibeliusEducation.com will make it easier for you to organize your teaching materials, will save you having to print out or photocopy lots of copies of worksheets, and will prevent your students losing work they have been set: you and they can access work from anywhere.
· New Optical ties and Optical beam positions produce the best default appearance of any notation program, and offer many new options for customizing the defaults to match your own house style
· Improved importing of files created in Finale and other music programs, with the addition of the ability to import MusicXML files
· Many new music fonts, including a new music font family, Helsinki, which offers an elegant alternative to Opus, plus other new fonts for Roman numerals, figured bass, complex tempo markings, and more
· 11 new plug-ins, including Copy Articulations and Slurs (copies articulations without copying the notes), Add Simple Harmony (creates a simple accompaniment to a given melody for guitar or piano, with a variety of accompaniment styles), Strummer (creates realistic-sounding guitar strum patterns for playback), and Smarten Quotes (automatically converts straight quotes in text into "smart" curly ones). A number of existing plug-ins have also been improved.
· Sophisticated new behavior prevents Sibelius from moving the score around on the screen unnecessarily during note input and editing
· New "z on stem" symbol for percussion buzz rolls on the F10 Keypad layout
· Sibelius can now print the current date and time at the footer of every page you print, making it simple to keep track of revisions as you work
· Export files that can be opened directly by Sibelius 3 and Sibelius 2 - no need for third-party plug-ins to enable backwards compatibility
· Improvements to supplied PhotoScore Lite scanning package, including the ability to read 2-, 3- and 4-line staves, up to four voices per staff, and more. Full PhotoScore Professional 4 package is also available separately
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