Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 27 Apr 09:00PM (edited 27 Apr 09:05PM) Hide picture We are pleased to announce that we have released Sibelius 6.2, which is a free update for existing Sibelius 6 users. What's new Sibelius 6.2 does not contain any significant new features, but it does include a number of important bug fixes, including a (partial) solution for the intermittent crashes that some Mac users have been experiencing when saving PDF files (see here). Sibelius 6.2 is a multi-lingual application, allowing you to choose which language to run the software in (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish), and also includes support for different keyboard languages. A high-level overview of the changes, and a comprehensive PDF listing every change in detail, is available here: http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/updates/sibelius6/6_2_0_improvements.html Downloading the update To get the update, simply choose Help > Check For Updates from within Sibelius, and you will be taken to the appropriate page on the site. Alternatively, you can download the installer from here: http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/updates/sib6_2_download.html The download is only accessible to customers who already have Sibelius 6: you will be asked to provide your serial number when you download the software in order to verify that you are entitled to download the installer. There is no updater that updates previous versions of Sibelius 6 to Sibelius 6.2, due to some major changes in the way the application is organised on disk to accommodate multi-language support. You should download the Sibelius 6.2 installer and simply run it: the installer will uninstall your previous version and replace it with the new version. Sibelius 6.2 is not currently available on DVD-ROM, and new copies of Sibelius purchased for the time being (either physical copies or downloads from the Avid online store) will continue to be Sibelius 6.1 until Sibelius 6.2 stock is available. Customers who purchase Sibelius 6.1 can of course download a free update to Sibelius 6.2. Running Sibelius 5 and Sibelius 6 on the same computer If you run Sibelius on Mac and need to run both Sibelius 5 and Sibelius 6.2 on the same computer, please read this information carefully. Scorch We have also updated Scorch to version 6.2 today, and you can download the latest version here. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Bob Zawalich - 27 Apr 09:08PM Hide picture Thanks for this, Daniel! I notice a couple of small items that might be of interest to some on this forum: * new option: Truncate notes at end of bars when using Edit > Repeat on the Note Input page of Preferences This appears to be the "reinstatement of the old R behavior" that had been requested a number of times * New Hyphens allowed to disappear when syllables are too close together option on the Text page of House Style > Engraving Rules, switched on in both new scores and existing scores. This looks like it will allow you to ask Sib to never remove hyphens, no matter how tight the spacing is. Some folks should be made very happy by these changes, not to mention the rather large fact that you can now change the language on the fly. Very cool! -- Bob Sib 1.4 - 6.1, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo; Audiophile 2496; 4 G RAM. Year 2010. I am an experienced Sibelius user, but am not affiliated with Sibelius Software. Sib Plugin downloads: www.sibelius.com/download/plugins (see How to Install Plugins) Alphabetical plugin list: www.bobzawalich.com/AllPluginsOnDownloadPage.htm Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Ren� Rovers - 28 Apr 07:19AM Hide picture And this one I like very very much! •Sibelius 6 now correctly recognizes Kontakt 4 as a Kontakt-type device, allowing it to load sounds automatically, provided a suitable sound set is available. I love Sibelius! Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Andrew Moschou - 28 Apr 09:00AM Hide picture I'm most excited about embedding OpenType fonts in EPS files and forcing hyphens to always appear in lyrics. My Sibelius 6 upgrade package arrived today and I'm installing as I write. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by David Hitchin - 28 Apr 10:01AM Hide picture The new version installed OK and seems to work. However, when it first loaded it displayed a message, something like, "This is a competitive cross-upgrade, you must fill and and mail something". Mine ISN'T what it was accused of being, and I have nothing to mail in. This is just to check that it will continue working, and isn't just on a short-term registration that will lapse if I don't mail in the paper that I don't have. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Sibelius_ComposerUK - 28 Apr 11:11AM Hide picture Good job Sib team. Many thanks for the update. Regards. JQ -- DELL_P4_3.4Ghz_3Gb_1Tb~Creative_SBAudigy2ZS~Tannoy_Reveal_6Ds WindowsXP_Pro_SP2~Sib_5.2.5~GPOSE~NI_Kontakt2~Cubase_CS4.1 http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/sm ~MMX~ Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Francesco - 28 Apr 11:18AM Hide picture Thank you for the update, only a small question: Must I download the full DVD contents including sound libraries (2.4GB) or there're no new sounds respect to my 6.1? -- Francesco --- Sib6.1, Reaper3.0, GPO4, MyOrgan (Litomysl/Antegnati) Win XP Pro SP3, Intel Core2 Duo E6400, 2.13 GHz, 4GB Ram (OK: 3GB...), SB X-Fi Xtreme Music (working well...:-) Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Jan Steele - 28 Apr 12:23PM Hide picture Yes it isnt clear if its necessary to download the DVD contents Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Spin - 28 Apr 12:25PM Hide picture Slooowwww download speeeeeed..... -- Sibelius 6.1 Mac | GPO standalone | iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz and MacBook Pro 2.4GHz| 4 GB RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 28 Apr 03:09PM Hide picture > Yes it isnt clear if its necessary to download the DVD contents It isn't necessary, unless for some reason you have lost your Sibelius 6 DVD-ROM and need to reinstall everything, including Sibelius Sounds Essentials. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 28 Apr 03:08PM Hide picture > However, when it first loaded it displayed a message, something like, "This > is a competitive cross-upgrade, you must fill and and mail something". > Mine ISN'T what it was accused of being, and I have nothing to mail in. It sort of is: the SWEX or SCEX serial number you have was once used for crossgrading from the Acorn version and is nowadays used for crossgrading from Finale et al. In any case, no need for you to worry: Sibelius won't bother you with that message again. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Glenn - 04 May 01:04AM Hide picture new option: Truncate notes at end of bars when using Edit > Repeat on the Note Input page of Preferences Thank you for putting this back,, it saves me a lot of time with input..... Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Robin Walker - 28 Apr 02:10PM Hide picture > We have also updated Scorch to version 6.2 today, and you can download the latest version here. Is it possible for the URL to the "AllBrowsersInstaller" version of Scorch be made more readily accessible? -- Sibelius 6.1, PhotoScore Ult 6, Dolet 5.2 for Sibelius, Windows XP Pro SP3 & Vista SP2, 2GB RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 28 Apr 03:12PM Hide picture > Is it possible for the URL to the "AllBrowsersInstaller" version of Scorch be > made more readily accessible? In theory you shouldn't need it! -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Claude Lapalme - 28 Apr 04:44PM Hide picture Truncate note thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!!!!!!!!! Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Spin - 28 Apr 07:18PM Hide picture I get 0.8 KB/sec speed. Can't download the updater... any solution to this? -- Sibelius 6.1 Mac | GPO standalone | iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz and MacBook Pro 2.4GHz| 4 GB RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Laurence Glazier - 28 Apr 09:10PM Hide picture Me too, very slow download speed. I've given up downloading it at the moment and will wait for the rush to subside :-) Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Gábor Orth - 28 Apr 09:20PM Hide picture I do not know to download and keep trying since yesterday! You might not have another link? Gabor Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 28 Apr 11:05PM Hide picture I'll see whether it's possible to get the download hosted on another server. This may take a few days to sort out. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Roos - 28 Apr 11:59PM Hide picture Congratulations Daniel and team! Lots of cool changes - ia the six language support (be careful before you switch to Japanese just for kicks or you might not be able to get back to English ;-), recognition of Kontakt 4 as a kontakt type, option to adjust page size when adding instruments, etc. Quick question: does the recognition of Kontakt 4 also work if the 64 bit version of Kontakt 4 is used, jBridged? The 'Kontakt' version of Kontakt in my playback window appears to be the version that has 64 outputs which isn't supported in jBridge (and unless I am mistaken neither in Sibelius). When trying to activate it it crashes jbridge. That hasn't changed btw, occurred in 6.1 as well. ps download here on the West Coast took little over an hour -- Peter Roos www.summeroflovemusic.com Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Ronald Pearl - 29 Apr 03:35AM Hide picture While I will almost certainly move up to 6.2, is it necessary if 6.1 is working fine? Or is that there might be a 6.3 which requires 6.2 to precede it? Things are fine as they are, so I'm loath to mess with a good thing. And maybe a little lazy... -- Ron Pearl 6.1, Mac OS 10.4, G5 1.8Ghz, 2G RAM, GPO, JABB http://web.mac.com/ronpearl Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Ronald Pearl - 29 Apr 01:35PM Hide picture Spoke too soon - read the pdf and it seems like a lot of cool new improvements. Now just have to wait for a little less traffic to download. I didn't see this, but is there a soundset for JABB w/ARIA? -- Ron Pearl 6.1, Mac OS 10.4, G5 1.8Ghz, 2G RAM, GPO, JABB http://web.mac.com/ronpearl Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by GraphiteGal - 29 Apr 03:01PM Hide picture Jeez but is the site slow at the moment as everyone tries to download the update. Just a quick question - I have downloaded the update only. Can I just install this on top of the existing Sibelius 6.1? Do I need to de-register just in case anything happens and I have to reinstall from my DVD? Cheers Debbie Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 29 Apr 07:28PM Hide picture Peter: yes, Sibelius will detect Kontakt 4 when run via jBridge. Ron: there are no plans for any future versions of Sibelius 6. Sibelius 6.2 does include a sound set for JABB3. Debbie: you don't need to unregister before you start. Simply install Sibelius 6.2 on top of your existing copy and all will be well. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 29 Apr 10:18PM Hide picture I'm now on my ninth attempt to download the file. Even though I'm using DownThemAll, the download is apparently non-resuming, so that after each failed attempt I have to start again from the beginning rather than picking up from the point where the download failed. I'm not sure quite what is involved in making a download resumable, but for a large file like this, it would surely make sense, both in terms of keeping the customers happy and in saving Avid’s bandwidth - I have now downloaded the first part of the file nine times! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by scoreperfect - 30 Apr 06:58AM Hide picture I had no problem at all with the download at 9:15PM Pacific Time (California). 500KBPS for a 585MB file on Comcast cable connection. Just blasted right through the download process... -- ___________________________________________ Daniel Léo Simpson www.danielsimpson.com http://www.youtube.com/user/danielleosimpson www.FaceBook.com/danielleosimpson San Francisco Bay area Sib.6.x Win.XP Dell XPS Core 2 GPO 4 w/Aria Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 30 Apr 07:06AM Hide picture You're lucky, Daniel. My latest attempt is still running after some nine hours - the current rate is 11.4KB/s. I'm in London using a standard ADSL connection. I get much higher download speeds from other sites. -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Jeremy Hughes - 30 Apr 07:21AM Hide picture Hi Peter I have the same experience as you, and live an hour or so east of London. My ISP says that there are serious problems around London with re-routing of internet traffic due to the Paddington fire last month which knocked out an important node. This would only affect users with some ISPs, as it's dependent on the path of the download through sub-ethernet spacetime. Or something. I tend to glaze over during conversations with my ISP's tech support. Anyway, that's his excuse for recently terrible download speeds from particular servers. Does anyone think that seems likely? Jeremy -- music editor/engraver Sibelius 6.1 | iMac | OS X Version 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Henrik Hermansen - 30 Apr 08:11AM Hide picture In the third attempt I succeeded! I was sleeping - maybe that's the way ;-) However now I came to think - why are there two versions, is it just to have a full install for the next time you need to install Sib62 on e new pc, or would we miss any content by upgrading with the small file? If I use the full, are we recommended to uninstall 6.1 first? (sorry if this is already covered). -- Henrik Hermansen, Denmark Sibelius 6.1 on Windows 7 + Choral and Rock&Pop Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 30 Apr 09:22AM Hide picture I left mine running when I went to bed last night, and it's still running this morning! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by scoreperfect - 30 Apr 09:54AM Hide picture I left mine running when I went to bed last night, and it's still running this morning! Oh dear - here, there was no difference in download time. I just chose the same link up at the top of this thread - of course 500+MB is huge but there was no "netcongestion" or anything to indicate a slower download time. I'm sure sorry. Hope that will work soon - I've only had a plug-in issue with 6.2 which I'm going to address in a new thread now... Daniel -- ___________________________________________ Daniel Léo Simpson www.danielsimpson.com http://www.youtube.com/user/danielleosimpson www.FaceBook.com/danielleosimpson San Francisco Bay area Sib.6.2 Win.XP Dell XPS Core 2 GPO 4 w/Aria Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by GraphiteGal - 30 Apr 02:55PM Hide picture Thanks Daniel, Fingers crossed then that nothing goes wrong!. Thankfully, although I am in the UK, Sheffield in fact, my download of the full Sibelius 6.2 included Sound Libraries only took 1 hour. I'm on talktalk and was getting 500kb/sec plus. I sympathise with those others in the UK that live in congested areas, where lets face it we are not all getting the fantastic speeds that have been advertised for broadband. Anyway, here I go with the update. Debbie Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 30 Apr 05:10PM Hide picture Well my latest effort has timed out at 434MB. So I start again... I would love to hear Daniel's response to my earlier point about resumable downloads! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Mike Lyons - 30 Apr 07:20PM Hide picture Well, I'm having speed problems as well, here in Wigan. It's currently down to 43KB per sec and I'm used to speeds here of 1.5MB to 2MB per sec.Resumable downloads seems like a bloody good idea to me, Tommy! -- 1.8GHz PIII Desktop, 512MB 300GB Audigy 2 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, Windows 7 Pro (x64), 8GB, 450GB + 320GB HDD, Blu-Ray, Edirol SD-20, Sib 6.1 Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 30 Apr 09:03PM Hide picture The downloads are not resumable because they're protected behind a serial number check, which affects how they are served. I am working on getting the downloads hosted on faster, dedicated servers, but I'm not having any luck just yet. Hopefully I'll manage to accomplish this next week. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 30 Apr 09:52PM Hide picture > The downloads are not resumable because they're protected behind a serial number check, which affects how they are served. I don't want to make a meal of this, but you don't have to enter your serial number to start the download, so I don't really understand that, Daniel. Still trying, by the way! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Jean Jacques Reymond - 30 Apr 11:26PM Hide picture Hi all, Two things : 1) Sibelius 6.2 is great ! I like it very much; the possibility to choose the langage is perfect. 2) Yes it was really difficult to get the download ! And I also was not asked to enter my serial to be allowed to download, nor to enter it once runing Sibelius 6.2 for the first time on my Mac. I also got a strange "invisible" Sibelius.app icone in the Mac OS X Dock ! I could manage it and get the normal icone back by setting the "Authorisations" to "Read and write" for the Sibelius.app ! Some troubles, but all seam's to be ok for now. Jean Jacques -- Classical guitar teacher, player, and veena player from France iMac - OS X 10.6.3 - 4 GB RAM - Sibelius 6.2 - Logic Studio GPO 3 and 4 - VSL Concert Guitar and Solo Strings Attachment Sibelius 62 newicone.jpg (18K) Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Sibelius_ComposerUK - 30 Apr 11:31PM Hide picture Hi Daniel - Installer downloaded over here no problem - at a respectable 400KB/Sec average. Thanks also for the reworking of the mixer to scale the midi note on velocity as before. That should save some work in rebalancing the many legacy scores I still have to migrate from Sib5. Regards. JQ -- DELL_P4_3.4Ghz_3Gb_1Tb~Creative_SBAudigy2ZS~Tannoy_Reveal_6Ds WindowsXP_Pro_SP2~Sib_5.2.5~GPOSE~NI_Kontakt2~Cubase_CS4.1 http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/sm ~MMX~ Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Andrew Moschou - 01 May 02:33AM Hide picture If you didn't need to enter your serial number, it is because you were already logged into the website (this chat page for example). Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by David Rance - 01 May 03:39PM Hide picture > > The downloads are not resumable because they're protected behind a serial number check, which affects how they are served. > > I don't want to make a meal of this, but you don't have to enter your serial number to start the download, so I don't really understand that, Daniel. I had to enter my serial number. And I'd had to log in to Sibeliusmusic when I don't normally have to! David -- Organist/choirmaster, etc. Sib. 6.1 Windows XP, 3Ghz, 2Gb RAM Creative Sound Blaster Laptop Vista Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 01 May 03:44PM Hide picture Thank you for the clarifications, gentlemen. I still think there should be a better way. (And I still haven't been able to download the wretched thing.) -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Jeremy Hughes - 01 May 05:23PM Hide picture I am waiting until Daniel can host the d/l on a better server, which he says he is trying to do. J Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 01 May 08:49PM Hide picture Yes, I've given up too for the moment. -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Mike Lyons - 02 May 06:49AM Hide picture My download of the smaller file too 4 hrs and 6 minutes! But it is there, installed and working. Good job I had other things to do! -- 1.8GHz PIII Desktop, 512MB 300GB Audigy 2 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, Windows 7 Pro (x64), 8GB, 450GB + 320GB HDD, Blu-Ray, Edirol SD-20, Sib 6.1 Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Matthew Fields - 03 May 11:49AM Hide picture Observations since installing it last night: 1) I don't normally run as Administrator--I work most of the time in a limited-rights profile. If malware were to try to use my credentials to install itself, it'd be blocked by the limited rights of my profile. So naturally I switched to my administrative account to install the update, then switched back to try it out. 2) In my orchestra score, bar numbers now appear over the strings even when the first violins are off the score. This is a good bug fix, though it did mean a full pass through the score looking for format errors. 3) As with 6.1, at startup, 6.2 opens its main window in front of its splash screen on my system, but the main window doesn't respond to events until the startup sequence finishes and the splash screen is dismissed. Nothing new here, but apparently there's some combination of features of WinXP that just make this happen. 4) On a per-user-profile basis, the first time it is launched, it opens a modal dialog box reminding the user of the licensing terms. Once that is dismissed, it continues loading, and that dialog box doesn't appear on subsequent launches. -- Splendor in Sound! [Sib6.1,XP-SP2,3.4GHz,3Gb] Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by petey forrest - 04 May 02:21AM Hide picture I'm in awe and I can't believe it! You actually fixed the ukulele "red" fretboard bug that I had identified! I know there are only a few ukesters who use a full fledged notation program like Sibelius and I really appreciate it!!! Thanks a million!!! petey forrest PS: the 530 MB download only took about 20-30 minutes for me (to Canada). -- Sibelius 6.2, Win XP (SP3) Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 07 May 03:38AM Hide picture This is getting beyond a joke! I've now made more than twenty separate attempts to download the file, but without success. There must be a better way. -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 07 May 09:35AM Hide picture Why not save your frustration until I update this thread with information about a new, faster download location? -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 07 May 11:18AM Hide picture As you know better than I, Daniel, we Sibelius users are an impatient lot! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Sibelius_ComposerUK - 07 May 02:00PM Hide picture Hi Peter - I feel your frustration! In the circumstances, as I see you are UK based, if you pm me your snail mail address I would be happy to send you a CD of the upgrade installer, if this would help. And, of course, if this would be in keeping with any Sib user license obligations, Daniel? It would give me something positive to do while following the mire that has become the post UK election TV coverage! JQ -- DELL_P4_3.4Ghz_3Gb_1Tb~Creative_SBAudigy2ZS~Tannoy_Reveal_6Ds WindowsXP_Pro_SP2~Sib_5.2.5~GPOSE~NI_Kontakt2~Cubase_CS4.1 http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/sm ~MMX~ Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 07 May 02:13PM Hide picture Yes, I'd be happy for you to send Peter a copy of the installer on CD-ROM. I only wish we had the wherewithal to be able to offer that as a standard service these days, but unfortunately we don't. (And in any case the Sibelius 6.2 DVD-ROMs have not yet returned from the factory.) -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Colin Douglas - 08 May 05:25PM Hide picture Thank you Daniel and the Sibelius programmers for giving us the option to reintroduce the very useful buggy functionality of the R key :-) -- Sibelius 6.2 GPO4 XP Home SP3 3Gb Ram Intel Core2Duo E6700@2.66Ghz Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by John K Conway - 08 May 07:19PM Hide picture I have been trying for a week to download the up date and it keeps timing out. I have used 3 different browsers to do this and turned off the firewall. same result. what gives? Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 08 May 10:07PM Hide picture As you will see from a number of earlier messages in this thread, I am working on getting these downloads hosted on a faster server. I will post when this has been done. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Mark Taylor - 11 May 11:17AM Hide picture I have to say like many who have posted here I to have been trying for weeks to download the new update. I find it hard to believe a large global company like AVID who owns Sibelius is having trouble hosting an update file ! ? and then have to try and find a faster server, which so far seems to have taken over a week to resolve and is still not resolved. Is the company still run from someone's bedroom? A large company should have had thought of the potential problems and hosted the file in more than one place. It shouldn't be taking this long to find a server. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Nathan Shirley - 11 May 09:39PM Hide picture Yes, thank you sibelius for allowing the old 'r' behavior back in. I was really afraid it was gone permanently. One question regarding the improvements made to slur appearance and spacing improvements in general. If we have made our own manuscript paper, are there specific settings somewhere in house-styles that we should turn on to get these improvements? I saw the note about sibelius' manuscript papers being updated in this regard, and wondered how we could update our own. I'm looking forward to the update, many thanks! Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 11 May 11:30PM Hide picture Mark: the company is not run from somebody's bedroom, but for various boring internal reasons there is currently nobody dedicated to handling these sorts of requests for me, and the folks I'm working with to resolve the situation have yet to provide a solution. It's complicated by the fact that we do need to protect the download behind a serial number check. I am still working on this and I will post here when more information is available. Nathan: all of the new settings in Engraving Rules are documented in the release notes provided, so you can simply read about them and decide whether or not you want to switch them on. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Nathan Shirley - 12 May 02:57AM Hide picture Right. I guess what I was getting at is the statement (8.8) in the PDF where it says- "The default house styles included with Sibelius have been updated to ensure they have the most up-to-date Magnetic Layout settings." And then in 8.2 regarding Magnetic Layout, it lists many tweaks like this one- "The bounding box of flat signs has been tweaked to allow slurs to route a little closer to them than before." Are these Magnetic Layout changes things that are not by default applied to our existing manuscript papers? If I need to go into 'Magnetic Layout Options' and make this tweak for my own manuscript papers, the PDF doesn't list a number for how much the flat sign bounding box has been adjusted. Perhaps this is under engraving rules? Or are all of these Magnetic Layout adjustments made permanent, so that even with an old manuscript paper, no updates are necessary? Thanks again, hopefully the last question is correct and I've just overcomplicated things. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 12 May 09:26AM Hide picture There is no option to determine whether or not Magnetic Layout should use the new, more precise routing around flats. In practice this makes a very small difference anyway, and only when the last note of a slur has a flat and the slur goes above. You don't need to do anything to update the settings. If in doubt, and you're not married to a given score's particular settings, you can simply click Restore Defaults in Magnetic Layout Options to get the latest and greatest settings. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Nathan Shirley - 12 May 03:09PM Hide picture Thanks Daniel that's good to know. One last thing, are the default magnetic layout settings in Helsinki font the same as in the default music font, or are the newly updated Helsinki manuscripts slightly different in regards to magnetic layout? Thanks again. I do like to have the 'latest and greatest' appearance settings up to date, as I've noticed sibelius always makes them ever more elegant, requiring less manual tweaking. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 13 May 10:00AM Hide picture No, the Magnetic Layout Options settings in the Helsinki manuscript papers/house styles are not any different from the settings in the Opus manuscript papers/house styles. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Andrew Ling - 13 May 02:55PM Hide picture > It's complicated by the fact that we do need to protect the download behind a serial number check. It's interesting that you are so worried about this, when the existing download doesn't seem to need serial numbers. I have downloaded the update on two different computers and haven't once been asked for any serial numbers. Comments here suggest this is true for some others too. So the existing system isn't exactly secure. I didn't do anything special to download, just clicked on the link given. Presumably the downloaded program gets your serial number and registration information from the existing installation, so I don't see the need for the check on the download. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 13 May 03:14PM Hide picture I eventually managed to download the file via my employer's network, which has a very fast internet connection. I wasn't asked for a serial number, and I certainly haven't got Sibelius installed on my work computer. Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Robin Walker - 13 May 03:44PM Hide picture > I wasn't asked for a serial number, and I certainly haven't got Sibelius installed on my work computer. But you *do* have a valid Sibelius serial number embedded in a cookie in the web browser on your work computer. I can tell that is the case, because you are posting here. And that's why you didn't have to quote a serial number again. -- Sibelius 6.2, PhotoScore Ult 6.1, Dolet 5.2 for Sibelius, Windows XP Pro SP3 & Vista SP2, 2GB RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 13 May 11:16PM Hide picture It's not that the serial number itself is embedded in the cookie, but the fact that you have a cookie from this forum means that we can look up your serial number based on that cookie, and if the serial number shows in our system as having been upgraded to Sibelius 6, then you're given access to the download. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 14 May 09:15AM Hide picture OK, fair enough, Daniel. It's a pity you weren't able to find a faster server from the start. -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 15 May 11:14PM Hide picture Well, we were under the impression that our current server was fast enough, because it certainly is in theory, but that proved to be a misapprehension. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Peter Smith - 16 May 10:02AM Hide picture Unfortunately an awful lot of theories fall foul of practicalities! -- Peter Smith Sib 6.1, Windows XP Pro SP2/64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (dual boot), Sibelius Gold, GPO4, Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.4 Ghz, Audiophile 2496; 4Gb RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Matthew Scott Phillips - 18 May 06:46PM (edited 18 May 06:50PM) Hide picture Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Matthew Scott Phillips - 18 May 06:47PM Hide picture Hi Daniel When I try to run the installer, I get an error message saying "the set up files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program." Any ideas what that means? Matt -- Matthew Scott Phillips mattssound@hotmail.com http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/msp Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Terry Carter, Rural Michigan USA - 18 May 07:26PM (edited 18 May 08:56PM) Hide picture It may mean your download stopped before the entire installer was downloaded. My download was 528MB, 553,819,416 bytes. Make sure your downloaded install file is at least that big. Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Jerome - 18 May 11:49PM Hide picture Wow... I'm having a LOT of issues with 6.2. It's completely unstable on our system here... crashes all the time for no apparent reason (it's completely random). We're using a Symphony 64 as an audio interface and It *seems* that it's not crashing when it's not selected as the playback device. Could the problem come from there? It's really horrible right now. I have to save every 30 seconds because I never know when it's going to crash... on average I'd say I have to restart Sibelius ever 15 minutes. I've tried reseting the preferences... but... same problem. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Jerome -- Sibelius 6.2 / Mac Pro / Mac Os X 5.8 www.jeromeleroy.com Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 19 May 09:13AM Hide picture Please email me the crash logs from /Users/[your username]/Library/Logs/CrashReporter and we'll take a look at them. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 20 May 06:19PM Hide picture I am happy to report that the downloads have finally been moved to a faster server, so if you have been having problems downloading Sibelius 6.2 so far, please try again now. -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Werner de Witte - 21 May 09:08AM Hide picture Yes Daniel This is better First i couldn't even connect, now i'm downloading with 2.4Mb/s Thanks Werner Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Geoff Culbertson - 23 May 12:43PM Hide picture I have been trying for a week to download v6.2 and was getting nowhere fast, until this morning (23rd) when the upgrade downloaded very quickly. I had almost given up! The Installer loaded well but my added plugins are no longer available to me, despite being in the plugins folder. Geoff Culbertson Petersfield, UK Back to top | All threads

Re: Sibelius 6.2 update now available for download Posted by Daniel Spreadbury - 23 May 07:23PM Hide picture Sounds like you have been putting the plug-ins in the wrong place. Please see this page for information about the correct location to install plug-ins (hint: it's not inside the Sibelius 6 folder in Program Files): http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?help=install -- Contact Sibelius technical help: USA & Canada: sibhelpUSA@sibelius.com / 1-888-280-9995 UK: sibhelpUK@sibelius.com / +44 (0)20 7561 7997 Australia: helpAU@sibelius.com / 1300 652 172 Other countries: www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads