- 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
Perfect scores up to twice as fast, and much more...
Sibelius 6 is a giant leap forward in notation software – with amazing new features and improvements for educators, students, composers, arrangers, copyists and musicians of all kinds.
No more cleaning up scores
Only in Sibelius: Magnetic Layout takes care of almost every detail of score layout for you - so effortlessly, you’ll hardly notice. As you write, it gives everything just the right amount of space and avoids collisions – producing beautiful results. This one feature saves you up to half your writing time.
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Track changes and compare versions
Only in Sibelius: Have you ever written something better the first time around? Versions keeps track of revisions to your score, lets you look back at earlier versions of it, and see what changes were made since. Collaboration becomes a joy, and you can even add sticky Comments to leave notes for yourself, or others.
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Conduct your scores
It’s time to take to the podium! Live Tempo lets you conduct the playback of your score to produce a nuanced, musical performance. Simply tap a key on your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or foot pedal, and Sibelius follows your beat. Read more »
Great new sounds – in no time
High-quality playback now needs no set-up at all – just hit the space bar, and Sibelius plays back using amazing sampled sounds. High-quality playback is more seamlessly integrated than ever, thanks to the latest technology from Digidesign’s AIR team. Read more »
Sync with sequencers and DAWs
Only in Sibelius: Add a live performance to an audio recording, or sync a recording with your score playback. You can do all of this and more thanks to ReWire support, which lets you sync Sibelius playback with products like Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, GarageBand and more. Read more »
Beautiful Keyboard & Fretboard windows
If you prefer using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful new windows are ideal. Simply click on the keys or frets to input notes and chords – or “play” your computer’s QWERTY keys just like a piano! They’re great for teaching, too. Read more »
Easy chord symbols & guitar diagrams
Chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams can now be created quicker than ever from your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar. They also feature many enhancements and extra notations, including guitar scale diagrams. Read more »
Unrivalled pro engraving
Sibelius 6 lets you produce scores so stunning, they’re virtually works of art. Slurs are now the most beautiful and controllable of any program. Stemlets and beamed rests can be added and positioned instantly, as can arpeggio lines. Sibelius 6 will even include cautionary accidentals automatically – helping you produce performance-ready scores every time. Read more »
Sell your scores around the world
Only with Sibelius: The brand new SibeliusMusic.com makes it even easier for you to earn an income from electronic sales of your scores around the world. Or you can just share and exchange scores with fellow musicians and Sibelius users. Read more »
Sing in music!
People have been asking for years about inputting music from a microphone – and AudioScore lets you do just that! Developed by Neuratron, creators of PhotoScore, AudioScore lets you input music into Sibelius simply by singing or playing an instrument, then hit a button to put the results into Sibelius. Read more »
Plus more amazing new features…
New! Sibelius 6.1 is here
Windows 7 and Snow Leopard compatible • Enhanced Magnetic Layout for slurs • Improved repeats playback • Live Tempo tap points • MusicXML enhancements • and much more...
New for the classroom
Easy classroom control
Only in Sibelius: A new classroom control panel enables teachers to instantly send scores to every classroom computer, freeze computers, and gather in all student’s files at the end of a class.
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Creative Diaries for students
Only in Sibelius: Using Versions, students can save a commentary, or Creative Diary, along with their score which details their week-to-week progress. Teacher can instantly access this Creative Diary, spot any plagiarism, and generate a detailed report in Word format. Read more »
What users are saying…
“The new features are fabulous time savers, such as Magnetic Layout, repeat bars, which now play, jazz articulations, slur adjustments, and chord symbols. The chord symbol advances alone are just plain smashingly brilliant. Extraordinary! It makes me proud to be a Sibelius user.”
David Blumberg, composer and arranger on American Idol
From the Sibelius Blog
Wed, 18 Nov 2009
NumPad 2.0 for iPhone has dedicated Sibelius mode
I received an email from Luc Vandal of iPhone developer edovia about the release of NumPad 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch... read more »
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Sound on Sound: “Sibelius 6 once again raises the bar”
After we release a new version of Sibelius, the review I most look forward to seeing is the one in Sound on Sound magazine... read more »
Mon, 09 Nov 2009
Hypermusic Prologue revisited
A few months ago I posted a snippet of the manuscript for Hector Parra’s opera, Hypermusic Prologue... read more »
