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Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 14 Apr 05:23PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Alec, 14 Apr 09:36PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 15 Apr 08:51AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Musix4me, 15 Apr 06:23PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Kyle Smith, 16 Apr 06:31PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - D Bray, 17 Apr 08:28AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 17 Apr 11:35AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Bob Zawalich, 21 Apr 09:33PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - vincent ollier, 22 May 05:45AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Robin Walker, 22 May 08:41AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Eksa35, 10 Jun 12:06PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Eksa35, 10 Jun 01:02PM

Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Sam at Sibelius - 14 Apr 05:23PM

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Hi All,

Hot on the heels of our releases in February and March, we're back with another update for Sibelius. The downloads are waiting for you in your account at https://my.avid.com/products and the update covers Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

Thank you all for the feedback you've given us recently. We've logged it, and included as many of them as we can in this release.

You'll find a number of improvements across Score Subsets and Dynamic Parts, making it easier to add dynamics for the recent decondensing feature; plus a good slew of stability improvements, and much more (some dating back a really long time).

You can read all about it, here:
https://www.avid.com/resource-center/sibelius-april-2025-release

Enjoy!

Sam (and the Sibelius team)

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Sam Butler | Product Manager | Sibelius and Audio SDKs
[email protected] | @avid_sam | @AvidSibelius

Contact the Sibelius support team:
https://www.avid.com/learn-and-support/contact-audio-and-music-support

KB and other resources:
https://www.avid.com/sibelius/learn-and-support

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Alec - 14 Apr 09:36PM

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Hi Sam,

Great updates! I was wondering if there’s a new Soundset Editor available for creating Soundsets compatible with Sibelius 2025.4 and Kontakt 8.3.0. I'm still using Soundset Editor v1.5.0, which, of course, still includes the Library ID selector. I haven’t come across any documentation on how Sibelius now identifies libraries by name—has that changed?

Thanks,
Alec

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Sib 2025.4
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Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Sam at Sibelius - 15 Apr 08:51AM

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Hi Alec,

No new Sound Set Editor at this stage. One of the changes Native Instruments did was to move the library IDs for Kontakt instruments into their Native Access.xml file, located here:

/Library/Application\ Support/Native\ Instruments/Service\ Center

Each sound library comes with a unique library ID, which you'll find in the tag, for example the library ID for "Hemisphere Guitars" is R83.

Hope this helps!

Sam

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Sam Butler | Product Manager | Sibelius and Audio SDKs
[email protected] | @avid_sam | @AvidSibelius

Contact the Sibelius support team:
https://www.avid.com/learn-and-support/contact-audio-and-music-support

KB and other resources:
https://www.avid.com/sibelius/learn-and-support

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Musix4me - 15 Apr 06:23PM

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Yay! Keep it up, ladies and gents.

Even though this is a comparatively more minor update, I love the attention to the smaller issues.

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Windows 11, Sibelius Ultimate 2025.3, Note Performer 4
Intel Core I9 13900K @ 5.8 GHz, 128.0GB DDR5 6000, 24Gb NVIDIA 5080, 1Gbit Fiber

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Kyle Smith - 16 Apr 06:31PM

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Any chance there is a new wildcard for whether the score subset is transposing or concert pitch?

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by D Bray - 17 Apr 08:28AM

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I'm very glad that the grace note bug is fixed. That was a major problem for me. Thank you.

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Sibelius Ultimate 2025.4 (PC)

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Sam at Sibelius - 17 Apr 11:35AM

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Glad you're all enjoying the update.

> Any chance there is a new wildcard for whether the score subset is transposing or concert pitch?

Yes, this is quite high up on the list.

Sam

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Sam Butler | Product Manager | Sibelius and Audio SDKs
[email protected] | @avid_sam | @AvidSibelius

Contact the Sibelius support team:
https://www.avid.com/learn-and-support/contact-audio-and-music-support

KB and other resources:
https://www.avid.com/sibelius/learn-and-support

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Bob Zawalich - 21 Apr 09:33PM

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Cool. That has been requested to be available for any score, subset, or part.

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An experienced user of Sibelius. Sib 1.2 - 2025+, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, 32 G RAM. Year 2025.
Install plugins at File>Plug-ins>Install Plug-ins
Free Resources: Notating Harp Music In Sibelius: http://www.bobzawalich.com/sibelius/
Execute Commands plugin documentation: https://bobzawalich.com/execute-commands-plugin-documentation/

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by vincent ollier - 22 May 05:45AM

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Hello,
I'm not sure where to report a bug, so I'm doing it here: the "decondense" feature does not work properly in documents created with the Moderna style.

merci

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Robin Walker - 22 May 08:41AM

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> I'm not sure where to report a bug, so I'm doing it here: the "decondense" feature does not work properly in documents created with the Moderna style.

For assistance with your problem, you should start a new thread, rather than hi-jacking an announcement thread. Please provide full evidence of the issues, including attaching the Sibelius .sib score file which demonstrates the problem.

I can assure you that de-condense does work, regardless of House Style.

You may wish to study the instructions given here:
https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/sibelius-2025-2/

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Sibelius 2025.4/7.5.1/7.1.3/6.2/5.2.5, PhotoScore Ult 2020.1, Windows 11 64-bit 64GB Desktop, and Microsoft Surface Book Studio.

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Eksa35 - 10 Jun 12:06PM

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Hi
Yesterday was running good but i Reset Pram and now I can't open sibelius.

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available
Posted by Eksa35 - 10 Jun 01:02PM

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> Hi
> Yesterday was running good but i Reset Pram and now I can't open sibelius.
I already solve the problem

Seach in
library / preference:
com.avid.sibeliuss.plist

move the file to desktop
this will force sibelius to create a new file

Messages in this thread

Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 14 Apr 05:23PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Alec, 14 Apr 09:36PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 15 Apr 08:51AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Musix4me, 15 Apr 06:23PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Kyle Smith, 16 Apr 06:31PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - D Bray, 17 Apr 08:28AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Sam at Sibelius, 17 Apr 11:35AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Bob Zawalich, 21 Apr 09:33PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - vincent ollier, 22 May 05:45AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Robin Walker, 22 May 08:41AM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Eksa35, 10 Jun 12:06PM

Re: Sibelius 2025.4 Now Available - Eksa35, 10 Jun 01:02PM