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Live tempo
It's time to take to the podium!
Video narrated by Daniel Spreadbury, Senior Product Manager for Sibelius.
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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. Every detail of your interpretation is recorded, so you can play it back again later, or produce an audio or MIDI file of your performance.
And just like a real conductor, change your beating patterns at any point, and Sibelius 6 will follow you: subdivide beats for a rit, tap one in a bar in a fast passage, or stop beating entirely and Sibelius 6 will keep going. At fermatas (pauses), Sibelius 6 holds until your next beat, just like an orchestra. You can even record separate tempos for different repeats of a section.
Should you want to edit your performance, you can delete or re-record sections of Live Tempo, or play back with Live Tempo switched off entirely.
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On Live Tempo...
“The ability to check intuitively whether the tempo at any given moment in your piece is what is marked, by tapping one's way through it, is a brilliantly ingenious addition to our tools. I wish this had been around before as I am going to use it at least once for every single composition I ever do from now on!”
Howard Goodall, 2009 Composer Of The Year, Classical BRITs
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From the Sibelius Blog
Wed, 03 Feb 2010
PC Pro says Sibelius First “hits all the right notes”
The March 2010 issue of PC Pro magazine here in the UK carries a positive review of the new version of Sibelius First, and I’m delighted to say that reviewer Ben Pitt has bestowed the software with a PC Pro Recommended award... read more »
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
Sibelius and Pro Tools come together in “The Fire and the Flood”
My pal John Hinchey was kind enough to send me a copy of Leticia Wolf’s new album, The Fire and the Flood, which is available now on iTunes... read more »
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
NumPad 3.0 for iPhone supports all six Sibelius Keypad layouts
Back in November of last year, I blogged about edovia’s NumPad 2.0 app for iPhone, which included a dedicated Sibelius Keypad layout... read more »
