Hi All,
We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of our July maintenance release of Sibelius. This includes a number of good improvements across the program, from MusicXML import and export, to overall stability.
The update is available to all those with a current Update and Support plan or Subscription and can be downloaded and installed via Avid Link, or from your account at https://my.avid.com/products.
Although the development team are making excellent progress with our next major feature release, we’ve managed to work on these smaller improvements too. Since they are ready, there’s no reason not to release them to you now rather than wait for the next major release.
In summary, the improvements are:
General
- It’s possible, once more, to check-in a checked out license (this affects School Network licenses only)
- It’s possible to resize the Video window again using the controls in the Ribbon (Mac only)
- Added new Japanese translations in File > Preferences > Note Input
- When exporting MIDI files as type 0, the initial Time Signature is now correctly included.
- The list of Recent Scores is now more reliable (previously, it was limited to only 500 scores).
Overall Stability
- In rare cases, Sibelius could crash on Windows. Thankfully this no longer happens.
- In similar rare cases, memory could have become corrupted in audio
- Both the Sibelius and Sibelius First Sounds installers have been updated to 64-bit. This is in preparation for macOS Catalina that drops support for 32-bit applications.
- Note Input tab > Transformations > Retrograde no longer fails to run on a selection involving grace notes
- Sibelius no longer crashes when editing chord diagrams
Fonts, Printing and PDF export
- A number of small problems regarding PDF export have been resolved, especially for scores that use italic-face fonts.
- PostScript outline fonts now print correctly on Windows
- The underline line is no longer too near to the text in some cases on Windows only
Playback
- Forward scrub no longer causes the newly added Replay Position line to jump forward by a constant value
- When scrubbing over chords, where some notes are tied and others not, Sibelius no longer crashes.
- While using NotePerformer, the playback line is now more reliably in sync with the audio
MusicXML
- Lyrics are now spoken with Narrator in a score that was imported from a MusicXML file
- Guitar bends and slides are now exported to MusicXML
- Metronome marks in tempo text are now correctly exported to MusicXML
- Sibelius now reliably includes rhythm information for all TAB instruments when exporting to Music XML. This only happens if you have the “Rhythms (stems, dots, ties, rests etc.)” defined in the instrument.
We hope you enjoy the latest round for improvements. If you are on an older version of Sibelius and wish to get current with the latest, you can upgrade at a discounted rate. Follow this page to choose the version you’re upgrading from:
https://www.avid.com/sibelius-ultimate/upgrades-and-renewals
From all of us here,
Sam
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Sam Butler | Product Manager | Sibelius
sam.butler@avid.com | @avid_sam | @AvidSibelius
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