Hot on the heels of our 2018.11 release, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of our December release, 2018.12.
Those eligible can download the installers from your account at my.avid.com/products. You can also download it though Application Manager (at the time of writing the the notifications hadn't been triggered yet).
This is largely a bug-fix release, with a few little bonuses thrown in. The improvements are:
Stability and bug fixing
Note spacing for whole score is no longer reset when adding an instrument or Ossia stave.
Our Quick Look and Spotlight generators on macOS have not been fixed up yet, and for some, they were causing problems. In this release, we've simply removed them. We'll fix these up soon, but decided it was easier to live without them for now.
Cmd+Shift+Option+B shortcut now functions correctly once more
Sibelius First can now run even if the 'Welcome to Sibelius...' window is hidden
Text Handling
A nasty bug crept into our last release where, in rare cases, Sibelius would crash when sometimes editing text on Mac. We've patched the bug (that was in Qt) and also optimised the multi-touch gesture on Mac to speed up the response times by around 50ms. In doing this, we disabled 'Chord Click' on Mac only (where you could press both left and right mouse buttons together to copy and paste an object). Pressing the middle button, if you have one, continues to work and no changes have been applied to mouse and trackpad interactions on Windows.
In addition to this, Word Menus are much easier to get to when using two-finger gesture on track pads when editing text.
Wide italic text no longer has its edges cut off at certain zoom levels on Mac
Sibelius no longer crashes when clicking on boxed text that used Myriad Pro font
Plugins
The Copy articulation plugin no longer has overlapping text in the dialog
Transformations now work as expected when running Sibelius in French
The Playback line no longer disappears after running the Double Note Value plugin
Video
Video window dimensions are now correct when adding a 1080p video on Mac
Fonts
Support for the new Pori font (as a whole) and added Norfolk Chords to the existing Norfolk set. To check these, go to File > Preferences > Music Fonts.
We hope you enjoy these bug fixes and smaller improvements. We'll have news of our next release in the New Year!
Since installing Sib 2018.12 last night, I now get the attached error message when I try to run Sib 7.5. Sib 6 still runs fine.
Am I okay to delete the licence folder as instructed?
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Win 10 Pro x64, Sib Ultimate (build 1918) 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, 8GB,7TB 7200rpm HDD, Scarlett 6i6, Sib 6.2,7.5, NotePerformer and others.
Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse.
mike@mike-lyons.co.uk
Thanks for the super-fast response, Sam. Much appreciated.
All now working fine.
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Win 10 Pro x64, Sib Ultimate (build 1918) 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, 8GB,7TB 7200rpm HDD, Scarlett 6i6, Sib 6.2,7.5, NotePerformer and others.
Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse.
mike@mike-lyons.co.uk
OS and Sibelius in english
Keyboard language set to Auto (English)
These are the setting in my iMac and my Macbook Pro and in both the shortcut doesn't work properly in 2018.12
I must say, though, that I assigned a different shortcut to filter bottom notes and I'm living great with it. If this behavior is happening just with me, let's not bother with it anymore. If you think is something worth investigate a bit more, i'll be glad to help.
Tks and a great holidays to you
> Thanks for the info. Please let me know:
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> * What language is your OS running
> * What language are you running Sibelius in
> * What keyboard language do you have chosen in Sibelius' prefs?
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> Email me directly if you prefer too and we'll get this logged and checked here.
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> Sam
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> Sam Butler | Product Manager | Sibelius
> sam.butler@avid.com | @avid_sam | @AvidSibelius
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> Contact the Sibelius support team:
> www.sibelius.com/documents/contact_form.html >
> KB and other resources:
> www.sibelius.com/support
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Sibelius 2018.11
iMac 5k (2015) - 32GB / Mac OS 10.13
Macbook Pro i7 (2013) - 16GB / Mac OS 10.13
I never double click a file to open sib and I am not seeing a master fader with any files created in older versions of sib. Clicking that button does not bring it back!
Weirdly, opening files from the Recents list on the File tab seems to bring it back! Hmm!
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Win 10 Pro x64, Sib Ultimate (build 1918) 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, 8GB,7TB 7200rpm HDD, Scarlett 6i6, Sib 6.2,7.5, NotePerformer and others.
Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse.
mike@mike-lyons.co.uk
The master fader issue is an old bug, but I've bumped it up the list for us to consider it soon. From the bug report, you may also have "Release device when Sibelius is in the background" ticked. Try unticking this (found in Audio Engine Options) and see if this helps.
F18-19 on Mac are getting fixed and should be in our next release.
Here's a new one! The Quick Start is not updating properly or consistently. I have cleared my recent files list but the quick start is not updated and when new files are opened/saved they do not appear on the list. I only noticed this because I have had the QS open a lot the last couple of days and been editing a lot of files and I'm not finding them in the QS dialog.
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Win 10 Pro x64, Sib Ultimate (build 1918) 1.6GHz Intel i7 Quad core, 8GB,7TB 7200rpm HDD, Scarlett 6i6, Sib 6.2,7.5, NotePerformer and others.
Si me castigare vis, necesse est me intellexisse.
mike@mike-lyons.co.uk
Thank you for the update! Have you noticed that the fast-forward and rewind now moves the video in larger steps than before. This is quite annoying as when you set hit marks, you might miss something obvious. Is it possible to "fix" this like it was earlier -> sync the playback line and video together to follow each other exactly?
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