What's new in Sibelius 5.1

New features in Sibelius 5.1

If you are a registered Sibelius 5 user you can update to Sibelius 5.1 here ».

Use all the extra buttons, faders and rotary controls on your M-Audio keyboard to control the Playback window and the Mixer in Sibelius
Simply choose the appropriate input map on the Input Devices page of Preferences

Choose a default playback configuration to speed up start-up
Sort and rename devices in Playback Devices
Better playback of rolls and other unpitched percussion effects
Improved pitch bend and glissando playback in Kontakt Player 2
Support for loading and saving VST presets
Use any MIDI device without a sound set by setting up a Manual Sound Set, including program and bank numbers to use for each channel, and the ability to change a staff’s channel in the Mixer

Display program names instead of sound IDs: simply set Display to Program names on the Playback page of Preferences
New “test” button to audition chosen sound
New pan slider for virtual instrument outputs (for e.g. VSL Vienna Instruments)
Change a staff’s MIDI channel directly via the Mixer when that device uses a manual sound set

Now supports MusicXML 2.0
Imports compressed (.mxl) files
Better layout support (e.g. system layout, object positioning, blank pages, multirests)
Better instrument detection
Imports unpitched percussion, nested tuplets, page-attached text, notehead shapes, hidden objects, chord diagrams, tab staves that use capos, and more
Bugs relating to incorrect bar lengths fixed

Spotlight support now included: find Sibelius files by any text contained within them
Quick Look support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard now included: look inside Sibelius scores directly via the Finder without opening them

For full details of the fixes in Sibelius 5.1, see http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/en/a540

A public beta of the Sound Set Editor application is now available. Click here »

More than 30 new plug-ins for Sibelius 5 are now available for download. Click here »