Avid Sibelius Ultimate User Guide

Sibelius

The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music

From concert halls and scoring stages, to sheet music stores and classrooms, more composers, arrangers,
publishers, and educators use Sibelius®—the world’s best selling notation software—than any other. And now
with new Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, plus many recently added features and advancements, Sibelius makes the
entire music writing, collaboration, and delivery experience even easier than ever. Whether you’re composing for
a live performance, media entertainment, or in the classroom, nothing empowers you to write music like Sibelius.

COMPOSE AND ARRANGE SCORES WITH EASE

Whether you’re well versed in writing music notation or prefer
to use a keyboard, guitar, or your voice to enter notes, creating
music has never been easier. Save tons of time with unique tools
such as Magnetic Layout and Dynamic Parts. Get access to over
150 plug-ins that help you edit, arrange, and clean up layouts.
You can even store ideas and small snippets of music in the Ideas
library for later reuse.

SHARE SCORES IN THE CLOUD

Sibelius | Cloud Sharing opens up a whole new way of working.
This groundbreaking technology enables you to share scores
from Sibelius to your own personal cloud space (included free),
or embed scores in a webpage, and invite anyone to flip through
pages and play your compositions using any computer, laptop,
or mobile device. It’s ideal for previewing and reviewing musical
works in the studio, in the classroom, or on a sound stage.

HEAR YOUR MUSIC THE WAY YOU INTENDED

With 36 GB of professional content, including a specially
recorded symphony orchestra; rock, pop, and jazz
instrumentation; world-class licensed sounds; and much more,
you can play back and hear every nuance of your composition in
stunningly realistic detail. Plus, Espressivo 2.0 enables you to
add more expressive and realistic “feel” or rhythmic swing to any
part of your score.

STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOW

Sibelius integrates with both music and audio post workflows.
Compose themes in the software, then move your composition
to Pro Tools® to build cues to picture. Share scores with
collaborators and musicians in the cloud, printed on sheet music,
through MusicXML, or on an iPad running Avid Scorch®. And
easily communicate changes and feedback using annotations.

LAYOUT, EXPORT, AND PRINT

Create beautiful, professional-looking scores easily using a full
accompaniment of desktop publishing tools. Colorize notes.
Customize staff sizes. Perfect text with tracking, leading, and
other typography tools. Add graphics using drag-and-drop.
When finished, you can easily export publisher-quality scores as
PDFs with just one click.

TRANSCRIBE AND SCAN MUSIC
RIGHT INTO SIBELIUS

Sibelius comes bundled with Neuratron AudioScore Lite and
PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite, enabling you to transcribe and scan
music into Sibelius. With AudioScore Lite, you can input notes
into Sibelius by singing or playing an instrument, or importing
music from a CD. With PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite, you can
scan printed and handwritten music and send to Sibelius for
playback, transposing, and editing. You can even draw music
notation with your finger or Surface Pro Pen and see it convert to
notation instantly.

PUBLISH INTERACTIVE SCORES

Only Sibelius offers a complete end-to-end workflow that takes
you from initial idea to publishing and selling music online.
Sibelius | Cloud Publishing technology enhances the sheet music
shopping experience, enabling your customers to view, play,
change instruments, and transpose your music on any device
before buying—without requiring a plug-in—and then print a high­quality version of the score once they do.

TEACH MUSIC COMPOSITION

Sibelius is ideal for teaching music notation, composition, and
theory to students of all ages. It includes over 1,700 ready-made
teaching materials, including worksheets, projects, and exercises,
as well as a Classroom Control window to track and freeze your
students’ progress. In addition, Sibelius network licensing makes
it easy to assign licenses to students on any computer—even
their own.

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Sibelius—The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

• Compose quickly and easily with a task­oriented interface that leads you through
your entire score creation

• Share scores with anyone on your own free
personal cloud space

• Effortlessly glide through music with
Magnetic Glissando

• Work faster with the new and improved
Inspector

• Access Sibelius easily through a low-cost
monthly or annual subscription or purchase
and own it outright

• Get access to all new Sibelius releases,
plus support, with the Avid Upgrade and
Support Plan—included with all active
subscriptions, or provided with perpetual
licenses as a renewable annual plan

• Write and edit scores using a Microsoft
Surface Pro 3 tablet and pen

• Create reminders for yourself and
communicate feedback to others with the
Annotate feature

• Get unrivaled expressiveness and feel with
the fully redesigned Espressivo 2.0

• Navigate through large scores quickly with
the Timeline window

• Get professional-quality sound with the
included 36 GB Sibelius Sounds library

• Save hours of time with powerful features
such as Magnetic Layout and Dynamic
Parts

• Create beautiful, professional-quality
scores with full DTP-level layout, text, and
typography tools

• Scan and transcribe music with
PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite and
AudioScore Lite, included

• Send your scores to Pro Tools and other
DAWs using ReWire, included

• Collaborate with others by sharing scores
over email or through MusicXML

• Share scores on ScoreExchange.com

• Export a video file of your score online or
to a DVD for others to see and hear
your work

• Export scores directly to Avid Scorch
on your iPad for playback, practice,
performance, and publishing

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For the latest Mac and Windows requirements and MIDI device compatibility, visit avid.com/sibelius

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH SIBELIUS

• Sibelius perpetual or subscription license
with download access to:

• Sibelius software

• 36 GB Sibelius Sounds library

• 1 GB free cloud space for Sibelius |

Cloud Sharing

• AudioScore Lite audio transcribing

software

• PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite music

scanning software

• ReWire audio/data transfer software

• Avid Upgrade and Support Plan (includes
all new releases for 12 months with a
perpetual license purchase or throughout

an active subscription)

Sibelius is available as a software
download—a DVD Media Pack is also
available for purchase from our online store
or from one of our resellers. An Internet
connection is required for software activation
and for downloading the installers. A
high-speed Internet connection is highly
recommended for downloading Sibelius and

the Sibeilus Sounds library.

NETWORK LICENSES

Sibelius’s network licenses operate on a
client-server model. The Sibelius program
itself is installed on the local hard drive
of each of the client workstations, and a
separate License Server program is installed
on a single designated server or workstation.
The License Server program is supplied
with your copy of Sibelius and enables the
designated number of licensed client copies
to run on the network simultaneously. In
conjunction with Sibelius’s Classroom Control
feature, the License Server also lets you send
messages to users of the client copies, send
and receive Sibelius files between client
machines, and close copies down from the

server machine.

LICENSE SERVER REQUIREMENTS

Sibelius requires a network using the TCP/
IP and UDP protocols. (Your network may
use other protocols in addition to TCP/IP and
UDP, but TCP/IP and UDP must be present in
order for the License Server to communicate
fully with the client copies.)

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Add comments and feedback directly to par ts of a score with the Annotate feature.

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