- NumPad 2.0 for iPhone has dedicated Sibelius mode
- Sound on Sound: “Sibelius 6 once again raises the bar”
- Hypermusic Prologue revisited
- Changing music font in an existing score
- Sibelius 6 is a Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence 2009 winner
- Focus Set and Focus Families plug-ins make Focus on Staves more powerful
- Using Logic Pro’s virtual instruments with Sibelius 6
- Designorati: “Sibelius 6 is close to perfect”
- Howard Goodall wins Emmy for soundtrack to Into The Storm
- Love the one you’re with
Sibelius 5.2.5 now available
The latest version of Sibelius is Sibelius 5.2.5. If you have an earlier version of Sibelius, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
Below are the new features added in Sibelius 5.1.
New features in Sibelius 5.1
Input maps
- 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
Playback improvements
- 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
Mixer improvements
- 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
MusicXML support
- 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
Mac OS X support
- 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
Plus many bugs fixed
For full details of the fixes in Sibelius 5.1, see http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/en/a540
Sound Set Editor
A public beta of the Sound Set Editor application is now available. Click here »
Extra plug-ins for Sibelius 5
More than 30 new plug-ins for Sibelius 5 are now available for download. Click here »
