![]() ![]() What’s truly remarkable is the extreme ease and transparency with which Sibelius does all of this. The result is a fully-publishable score with parts that conforms 100% to the expected musical and performance conventions. Sibelius works with these music objects (notes, rests and so on) using a variety of input methods… via a QWERTY keyboard, using a MIDI controller, by dragging and dropping the symbols onto the staff and so on. Sibelius thus reflects and furthers your creativity – at the same time it removes the drudgery. But you are sensibly restricted where it would not make sense… the correct number of beats in a bar for the current time signature, for example. Ultimately, you have the final say, though you can override the automatic and default positioning of most objects where it would make sense to do so. ![]() ![]() But Sibelius‘ power extends far beyond that of even the most complex and sophisticated DTP software.Īvid’s Sibelius 6 has massive and broad “internal musical intelligence”, which – in addition to placing musical events (notes and rests) on the staff or staves – means that it handles the precise and correct placing in and around the bars and staves of every conceivable music object: key and time signatures, instructions for expression, dynamics, system markings, text, comments, rehearsal notes, slurs, stems and ties and so on. It’s a package that allows music composition as a score following the conventions of “engraving” music – in much the same way as a word processor allows a novel or play to be written as text. ![]() Although its output is music, it’s neither a sequencer nor a synthesizer nor Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Sibelius 6 has several major enhancements: it’s hard to believe it’s even better. It’s certainly the most comprehensive, robust, easy to use, well-designed, flexible, and satisfying score-writing/notation package available for the Mac (or indeed any platform) currently available. There are standards, industry standards – and gold standards. Price: $599 ( Sibelius 6 Educational: $295 upgrade: $169) ![]()
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