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Pinnacle Systems Sibelius - 8.4 Reference Guide

Sibelius® Reference Guide
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Guide Part Number 9329-65736-00 REV A 6/16
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Contents
Introduction 1
0. About this Reference Guide . . . . . . . 2
0. Working with the ribbon . . . . . . . . . . 5
0. Undo and Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
0. Connecting external MIDI devices . 13
1 File tab 15
1.1 Working with files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2 Sharing and emailing files . . . . . . . 20
1.3 Sharing on the web . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.4 Starting a new score . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.5 Opening files from previous versions 31
1.6 Opening MIDI files . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.7 Opening MusicXML files . . . . . . . 39
1.8 PhotoScore Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
1.9 AudioScore Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1.10 Splitting and joining scores . . . . . 63
1.11 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
1.12 Exporting audio files . . . . . . . . . . 73
1.13 Exporting video files . . . . . . . . . . 76
1.14 Exporting graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
1.15 Exporting MIDI files . . . . . . . . . . 85
1.16 Exporting MusicXML files . . . . . 87
1.17 Exporting to previous versions . . 88
1.18 Exporting to Avid Scorch . . . . . . 92
1.19 Exporting Scorch web pages . . . . 97
1.20 Exporting PDF files . . . . . . . . . . 101
1.21 Exporting manuscript paper . . . 102
1.22 Classroom Control . . . . . . . . . . . 103
1.23 Worksheet Creator . . . . . . . . . . . 106
1.24 Adding your own worksheets . . .113
1.25 Working with plug-ins . . . . . . . . .118
1.26 Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
1.27 Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . 128
1.28 Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
2 Home tab 137
2.1 Selections and passages . . . . . . . . 139
2.2 Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
2.3 Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
2.4 Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
2.5 Staves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
2.6 Edit Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
2.7 Bars and bar rests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
2.8 Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
2.9 Filters and Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
2.10 Hiding objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
2.11 Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
2.12 Batch Processing plug-ins . . . . . 199
2.13 Other plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
3 Note Input tab 205
3.1 Introduction to note input . . . . . . 207
3.2 Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
3.3 Mouse input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
3.4 Alphabetic and step-time input . . 213
3.5 Keyboard window . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
3.6 Guitar tab input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
3.7 Fretboard window . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
3.8 Guitar notation and tab . . . . . . . . 227
3.9 Lute tablature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
3.10 Triplets and other tuplets . . . . . . 234
3.11 Transposing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
3.12 Note input options
3.13 Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 44
3.14 Flexi-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
3.15 Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
3.16 Arrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
3.17 Edit Arrange Styles . . . . . . . . . . 272
3.18 Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
3.19 Accidentals plug-ins . . . . . . . . . 280
3.20 Composing Tools plug-ins . . . . . 2 81
3.21 Notes and Rests plug-ins . . . . . . 286
3.22 Simplify Notation plug-ins . . . . 291
3.23 Tuplets plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
3.24 HyperControl™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
4 Notations tab 299
4.1 Clefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
4.2 Key signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
4.3 Time signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
4.4 Free rhythm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
4.5 Barlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
4.6 Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
4.7 Hairpins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
4.8 Slurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
4.9 Edit Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
4.10 Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
4.11 Edit Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
4.12 Noteheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
4.13 Percussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
4.14 Edit Noteheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
4.15 Beam groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
4.16 Beam positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
4.17 Beamed rests and stemlets . . . . . 363
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4.18 Importing graphics . . . . . . . . . . .366
4.19 Brackets and braces . . . . . . . . . . 369
4.20 Accidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
4.21 Arpeggios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .376
4.22 Articulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
4.23 Grace notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
4.24 Jazz articulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
4.25 Repeat bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386
4.26 Stems and leger lines . . . . . . . . .388
4.27 Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .390
4.28 Tremolos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
5 Text tab 395
5.1 Working with text . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
5.2 Common text styles . . . . . . . . . . .404
5.3 Figured bass and Roman numerals 411
5.4 Instrument names . . . . . . . . . . . . .414
5.5 Typography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418
5.6 Edit Text Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .423
5.7 Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430
5.8 Chord symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440
5.9 Edit Chord Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . 449
5.10 Chord Symbols plug-ins . . . . . . . 457
5.11 Guitar scale diagrams . . . . . . . . .461
5.12 Rehearsal marks . . . . . . . . . . . . .463
5.13 Bar numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465
5.14 Page numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .471
5.15 Text plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
5.16 Wildcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .483
5.17 Font equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . .487
6 Play tab 489
6.1 Working with playback . . . . . . . . .491
6.2 Playback Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . .493
6.3 Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506
6.4 Live Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .516
6.5 Live Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .523
6.6 Interpretation of your score . . . . . . 528
6.7 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .534
6.8 Playback dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . .540
6.9 Repeats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .551
6.10 Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .556
6.11 Timecode and hit points . . . . . . .561
6.12 Playback plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . .565
6.13 Sibelius Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . .568
6.14 MIDI for beginners . . . . . . . . . . .571
6.15 Virtual instruments for beginners 574
6.16 Working with virtual instruments 580
6.17 ReWire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .585
6.18 MIDI messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . .588
6.19 SoundWorld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .595
7 Layout tab 599
7.1 Document Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . .601
7.2 Title and blank pages . . . . . . . . . .605
7.3 Staff spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .606
7.4 Focus on Staves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .611
7.5 Magnetic Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . .613
7.6 Auto Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .619
7.7 Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .622
7.8 Multirests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .627
7.9 Layout and formatting . . . . . . . . . .630
7.10 Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .634
8 Appearance tab 637
8.1 Music engraving . . . . . . . . . . . . . .641
8.2 House Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .646
8.3 Note spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650
8.4 Default Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .654
8.5 Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .658
8.6 Music fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .660
9 Parts tab 663
9.1 Working with parts . . . . . . . . . . . .665
9.2 Editing parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .669
9.3 Multiple Part Appearance . . . . . . .673
9.4 Extracting parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .677
10 Review tab 681
10.1 Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .682
10.2 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683
10.3 Highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685
10.4 Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .686
10.5 Analysis plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . .693
10.6 Proof-reading plug-ins . . . . . . . .695
11 View tab 701
11.1 Document view . . . . . . . . . . . . . .703
11.2 Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .706
11.3 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .709
11.4 Invisibles etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .710
11.5 Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .712
11.6 Window options . . . . . . . . . . . . .713
Glossary 715
Keyboard shortcuts 727
Visual index 737
Index 747
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Introduction

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About this Reference Guide

This Reference Guide is a comprehensive guide to all of Sibelius’s features. For explanations of Sibelius’s more basic features, and when familiarizing yourself with the program, you will probably find it easier to refer to the tutorials, which you can find in gram.
The Reference Guide comes both on-screen, and as an optional printed book, which you can buy from Avid’s online store, your distributor, or some book sellers (such as Amazon.com). Both forms of the Reference Guide are identical.

Chapters and topics

This Reference Guide is divided into 11 chapters, corresponding to the 11 tabs at the top of the Sibelius window, containing smaller topics. You will find a list of all these topics in the
tents
, though you will probably find the Index even more useful for finding information on specific areas of the program. Check the look, but you don’t know what it’s called. The

On-screen reference

To start the on-screen Reference Guide, click the button at the right-hand end of the ribbon tab bar, shown on the right, find it within cut
F1 or ?.
Whichever application your computer uses to view PDF files will open – on Windows this is normally Adobe Reader, and on Mac it is normally Preview – and the on-screen Reference Guide will appear. To navigate the on-screen Reference Guide, you can use the bookmarks and
Edit Find features built in to Adobe Reader and Preview.
Bookmarks are like a table of contents that you can have open beside the document you’re reading, allowing you to jump to any chapter, topic, or even sub-heading in the Reference Guide. To show bookmarks:
In Adobe Reader, choose View Navigation Panels Bookmarks; a panel like that shown
below left will appear at the left of your screen
In Preview on Mac, choose View Sidebar Show Sidebar; a panel like that shown below
right will slide out of the right-hand side of the window.
Visual index if you know how you want something to
Glossary explains musical and technical terms.
Help in the File tab, or type the short-
File Help within the pro-
Con-
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About this Reference Guide
To search within the on-screen Reference Guide, use the
In Adobe Reader, you can simply type into the Find box on the toolbar shown below left,
Edit Find feature, or alternatively:
then use the next and previous result buttons to skip forwards and backwards
In Preview on Mac, you can type into the Search box in the drawer, shown below right, then
click in the list of results to skip forwards and backwards.

Typography and cross-references

Names of computer keys, menus and dialogs are written
like this.
The main way in which you find commands in Sibelius is via the ribbon, a wide band of command buttons that appear at the top of the screen when you click a tab like Each tab describes a related set of commands (
Note Input, Notations, Text, Layout, etc.); when
File or Home.
you click a tab, the ribbon changes to show the buttons that let you use those commands. Each ribbon tab contains a number of groups of related commands.
As a quick way of describing how to access a particular command, this Reference Guide uses the following format: “choose
Home Instruments Add or Remove” means “click the Home
tab, look for the Instruments group, and click the Add or Remove button.” The ribbon is explained in greater detail on the following pages, so if this all sounds m ysteri-
ous to you, don’t worry.
9.1 Working with parts means “see the Working with parts topic at the start of chapter 9 of
the Reference Guide.”
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Basic terminology

Most of the computer terminology used in this Reference Guide will be understood b y almost all readers, but has been included in case one or two of the terms are unfamiliar:
Some keys are labeled differently on different keyboards, particularly on Mac. For the pur-
poses of this Reference Guide, these are the conventions:
Mac symbol Mac name Windows equivalent
Command Ctrl (“Control”) ^CtrlNone
Shift Shift Option Alt Return Return Enter Enter (on numeric keypad)
Notice how, somewhat confusingly, the key labeled on the model of your keyboard) on Mac is not the same as the key labeled Mac shortcuts using using the symbol
Ctrl are very rare in Sibelius, but where they appear, they are written
^ (as it appears in menus etc. on Mac) to avoid confusion for Windows
(on main keyboard)
Ctrl (or sometimes Control, depending
Ctrl on Windows.
users.
Sibelius is almost identical on Windows and Mac, but where there are differences, mainly in
keyboard shortcuts, the Windows convention is listed first. For more information on the differences between Mac and Windows keyboard shortcuts,
Keyboard shortcuts at the
end of this Reference Guide, which lists all keyboard shortcuts available.
 “Type Ctrl+A or A” means hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or  (Mac) key and type A.
Even though Similarly, for standard shortcuts like you actually type
Similarly, “Alt+click or -click” means hold down the Alt (Windows) or (Mac) key and
A is written as a capital letter, don’t type Shift unless explicitly told to do so.
Ctrl+? or ? where both / and ? exist on the same key,
Ctrl+/ or / without using Shift.
click.
To click something means to move the mouse arrow over it and click the left mouse button.
To right-click something means to point at it with the mouse and click the right mouse but­ton. If you are using a MacBook or other portable Mac, to achieve the equivalent of a right­click, hold the
To drag something means to point at it with the mouse, and then click an d hold the left
Ctrl key and click the trackpad.
mouse button while moving the mouse. To finish dragging, just let go of the mouse button.
A dialog is a window with buttons on. Some dialogs are divided into several pages and have
labeled tabs at the top, or a list box at the left-hand side, which you can click to switch between pages of the dialog.
The numeric keypad is the rectangle of numbers and other characters at the very right-hand
side of your computer keyboard. (Notebook (laptop) computers usually don’t have a sepa­rate numeric keypad –
“Return” is the large key to the right of the letter keys. On some keyboards it is labeled with
“
Enter” or a special arrow symbol, but we always call it Return.
“Enter” is the large key at the bottom right of the numeric keypad. On some keyboards it is
unlabeled, but it still means
Less well-known terminology is in the
Keyboard shortcuts for more information.)
Enter.
Glossary at the end of this book.
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Working with the ribbon

The ribbon
Ribbon tabs
Help button
Open new tab
Switch tab
Status bar Zoom controlsDocument view
buttons
Information
read-outs
Title bar
Minimize ribbon
Window buttons
(at top left on Mac)
Document tabs
Quick Access Toolbar
(Windows only)
Find box
Working with the ribbon
The ribbon is the w ide band of command buttons that appears at the top of the Sibel ius win­dow, housing all of the features of the program, organized according to task. In addition to the ribbon, every Sibelius document window also contains other useful controls.

The Sibelius window

The picture below shows a typical Sibelius window, so you can see where the ribbon is, and several other useful controls at the top and bottom of the window:
Here’s a quick guided tour to the Sibelius window, starting at the top and working our way down:
Quick Access Toolbar (Windows only): this has three important buttons: Save, Undo and
Title bar: this shows the filename of the document, and the name of the current dynamic part
Window buttons: the title bar contains a set of buttons for working with the current windo w.
Redo. The Undo and Redo buttons also have menus attached to them, allowing you to
quickly undo or redo to any point since you opened the score. (On Mac, these options are found in the
File and Edit menus respectively.)
or version being viewed (if applicable). On Windows, you will see an asterisk (
*) after the
filename if the score has unsaved changes. (On Mac, you will instead see a black dot inside the red close button at the top left-hand corner of the window.)
On Windows, these buttons appear at the top right-hand corner, while on Mac, they appear at the top left-hand corner.
Minimize is the first of the three buttons on Windows, and the middle of the three on Mac.
Click this to make your score window disappear from the screen without closing the file.
Restore down/Maximize (called Zoom on Mac) is the second of the three buttons on
Windows, and is the third of the three buttons on Mac. This button resizes the document
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window. Clicking this button toggles your window between maximum size or its previous
size.
Close is the third of the three buttons on Windows, and the first on the Mac. As the name
suggests, clicking this button closes the current window.
Find box: type one or more keywords into this box to see a list of suggested controls on any
of the ribbon tabs; very useful for finding something if you can’t remember exactly where it is. As you type, Sibelius shows a list of matching controls: use need, then hit
Minimize Ribbon: the ribbon (described below) takes up a reasonable amount of vertical
Return to be taken there. Sibelius helpfully highlights the control for you.
/ to choose the one you
space. If you want to see more of your score as you work on it, click the Minimize Ribbon button. When you do, the ribbon disappears, leaving only the ribbon tabs across the top of the screen. To make the ribbon reappear, click the button again to make the ribbon reappear permanently, or simply click whichever tab you want to use to make the ribbon reappear until you have finished making a choice from it, at which point it disappears again.
Help: click the ? button to open this Reference Guide in its on-screen form. You can find
further help in the
The ribbon: discussed in more detail below.Document tabs: you can open multiple different views of the same document – e.g. a full score
File tab of the ribbon.
and individual instruments’ parts – inside a single window, and switch between them using these tabs. When you start a new score, only one tab will be shown, labeled open new tabs using the options that switch the view (e.g. hitting
+ button at the right-hand side of the document tab bar , or through other
W switches between the full score and the dynamic part
Full Score. You can
corresponding to the current selection). You can re-order tabs simply by dragging them, and you can “tear off” a tab to open the score or part currently being viewed in that tab in a new window of its own: click and hold a tab, and drag it up or down; a Sibelius score icon appears under the mouse pointer. Release the mouse button, and the a new window is created where you dropped the Sibelius score icon.
Open new tab: this + button shows a menu that allows you to open a new tab containing a differ -
ent view from the current score, including dynamic parts and saved versions. You can also choose
New Window, which opens the current tab in a new window. You don’t have to click the
button itself to open the menu: simply right-click anywhere along the document tab bar to do the same thing.
Switch tabs: if you have many tabs open at once, you may not be able to see all of the names
of the tabs clearly across the width of the tab bar. Click this button to show a menu listing all of the open tabs in the current window, allowing you to quickly switch to any of them.
Status bar: the status bar runs along the bottom of the window, which gives you information
about the current document and has some useful buttons for quick access.
Information read-outs: at the left-hand of the status bar is a series of useful read-outs. From
left to right: the current page and the total number of pages; the total n umber of bars; the instrument on which the current selection resides, if there is one; the range of the current selection, if there is one; the timecode of the current selection; the pitches of the selected notes (or the first note or chord of a passage if you have a range of music selected); the har­mony of the chord made up by all of the selected notes at the start of the selection, displayed as a chord symbol; a description of the current operation (e.g.
Edit Passage or Edit Text);
whether or not the current view is currently displayed at concert (sounding) pitch or trans­posing (written) pitch; whether
Layout Hiding Staves Focus on Staves is switched on;
whether or not Magnetic Layout is enabled or disabled for the selected objects; and/or the font and point size of the selected text object.
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Working with the ribbon
Zoom controls: at the right-hand end of the status bar is a slider with – and + buttons at either
end that allow you to change the zoom level of the current view quickly and easily. To the left of the slider is a read-out of the current zoom level, expressed as a percentage.
Document view buttons: to the left of the zoom controls is a set of buttons that allow you to
switch between different types of view quickly, for example between showing the pages of your score laid out horizontally and Panorama view. These buttons are also found on the
View tab of the ribbon.

The ribbon tabs

The ribbon itself is split into 11 tabs. The first tab,
File, is unlike the other tabs: clicking it
hides the score altogether and instead shows you a special view called Backstage, which con­tains everything you might want to do with a file (as opp osed to what you might do to a file, which is what the other 10 tabs are for). From the
File tab you can create, open, save and close
files, import and export them in different formats, print music out, access special learning and teaching features, get detailed help, and more. (The first chapter of this book is devoted to the operations you can perform from the
File tab.)
The other 10 tabs are ordered roughly according to the order in which you typically perform tasks while working on a score, so as you make your way from the start of a project towards its end, you will typically work your way through most of the tabs of the ribbon from left to right. (This book is likewise ordered according to the order of the tabs.)
These 10 tabs contain the following kinds of commands:
Home: basic score setup, like adding or removing instruments and b ars, plus key editing
operations, including clipboard operations and Sibelius’s powerful filters.
Note Input: commands relating to alphabetic, step-time and Flexi-time input, plus not e edit-
ing operations, compositional tools such as explode/reduce, and transformations such as ret­rograde, inversion, and so on.
Notations: all of the basic markings other than notes, rests and t ext, including cl efs, key and
time signatures, special barlines, lines, symbols, notehead types, etc.
Text: font style and size controls, choice of text styles, plus lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal
marks, and bar and page numbering options.
Play: choice of playback configuration, mixer, transport (playback) controls, Live Tempo,
Live Playback, options for how Sibelius should interpret your score during playba ck, and features for writing music to video.
Layout: document setup options such as page and staff size, staff spacing, hiding staves,
Magnetic Layout options, plus formatting controls.
Appearance: options that affect the visual appearance of your score, including choice of
house style, note spacing and instrument name format, plus commands to reset or change the design or position of the objects in your score.
Parts: options relating to instrumental parts.Review: add annotations, add and review sticky note comments, create and manage mult iple
versions of the same score, compare revisions, and access various proof-reading plug-ins.
View: change the layout and size of the music on the screen, show or hide various “invisi-
bles” and other helpful markings that provide useful in formation about your score, hide or show extra panels for advanced operation, and arrange or switch between the open docu­ment windows.
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Groups and controls

Each ribbon tab contains a number of groups, which organize related commands together. The name of each group is shown below the names of the individual commands in gray text, and groups are separated from each other by a vertical line:
The picture above shows the
Common, Lines and Symbols groups from the Notations tab.
Each group contains one or more controls of various types, including buttons, buttons that open menus, split buttons (where half the button is a regular button and the other half opens a menu), checkboxes, combo boxes and galleries, which are menus with special features. Gal­leries come in two flavors:
Drop-down galleries: these may look a lot like normal menus, displaying their contents as
text, or they may display their contents graphically. Unlike regular menus, galleries typically list options organized by category, which can then be filtered (see below). An example of a textual gallery is
Home Select Filters. All of the buttons in th e Notations Common group
shown in the picture above use drop-down graphical galleri es.
In-ribbon galleries: these galleries are embedded directly in the ribbon, allowing you to see
the first few items in the gallery without opening it. In-ribbon galleries allow you to scroll up and down the list using the scroll arrow buttons at the right-hand end, or to open the gallery, making it appear like a drop-down gallery.
Notations Lines and Notations Symbols both
contain in-ribbon galleries, shown in the picture above.
Many galleries in Sibelius contain category filters, which allow you to show only one kin d of thing at a time in a gallery. Category filters are found at the very top of an open gallery; by default, there is no filter (so the filter reads
All), but you can click the filter name to show a
menu in which all the categories are listed. Choose one category and all of the other categories are filtered out.
Depending on the width of the window, the ribbon will do its best to display as many as possi­ble of the controls in all of the groups on the current tab. Some controls may be stacked verti­cally to save space, or perhaps even hide their textual description. If space gets very tight, some groups may end up collapsed, which means that instead of showing each of its controls directly on the ribbon, all of the controls are collapsed behind a single button, which shows the whole contents of the group below the ribbon when clicked, like this:
In the picture above, several of the groups on the
ing
group has been opened by clicking the button that represents the collapsed group.
Layout tab are collapsed, and the Staff Spac-
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Working with the ribbon
Sibelius has so many commands that in order to ensure every group on every tab is not sh own collapsed, your screen display has to be at least 1920 pixels wide!

Keyboard access

The ribbon includes a number of time-saving features to help you to learn and get around the program quickly, chief among them the ability to access every command via the keyboard using key tips. Key tips are special shortcuts that take you straight to a command, whichever ribbon tab it is on.
To show key tips, simply hit
Alt (Windows) or Ctrl (Mac): you don’t need to hold the key
down. A small overlay appears below each tab’s name:
T o access a tab, simply type the key tip shown for that tab. For example, type
Layout tab:
L to switch to the
Now type the key tip shown (usually two letters) for the command you want to use. Once you have set the focus into the ribbon by hitting
Alt (Windows) or Ctrl (Mac), you can
also navigate around the tabs and the controls in each tab using the arrow keys or
Shift-Tab, then use either Space, Return or Enter to activate the button or other control that is
currently in focus.

Screen tips

Every command in the ribbon also has an extended text description, which appears if you hover your mouse over it for a moment. These descriptions are called screen tips, and they provide useful additional context on each com­mand.
On the right, you can see the screen tip for
Clipboard
Selec t Graphic. Notice how a keyboard short-
Home
cut is shown in parentheses after the name of the com­mand. Unlike key tips, which can only be used in sequence after hitting
Alt (Windows) or Ctrl (Mac), this
kind of keyboard shortcut can be used from anywhere, and furthermore you can customize them if you want to.
Tab and

Launching related dialogs

Some groups in the ribbon have a small extra button in the bottom right-hand corner called a dialog launcher button, which when clicked, you will be surprised to learn, launches a dialog containing further options relating to the commands in that group.
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In the picture above, the mouse pointer is over the dialog launcher button in
Closes the window
Closes the tab
Setup
, which launches the Document Setup dialog, in which you can change the page size,
Layout Document
orientation and margins with additional options over and above those on the ribbon.

Single document interface

Sibelius uses a single document interface, which means that each score opens in its own win­dow, complete with its own ribbon and all of the tools you need to work with that score. As you open new parts or versions, they open by defaul t in new tabs within the same window (which you can re-order by dragging, or tear off to open the view in a new window).
To close a score, close the whole window by clicking the close icon at the top right-hand cor­ner (Windows) or top left-hand corner (Mac). By default, when you close the last document window, the Quick Start window opens again, to allow you to open a recent score or create a new one. This also prevents Sibelius from quitting on Windows, because once there are no windows open, the application will quit.
If you don’t want to show the Quick Start again after closing the last score, you can close the last score by clicking the close icon on the last document tab instead, which will clo se the score but leave the window open.
Once you close the last tab in the last window, all of the controls on the ribbon are disabled, but you can now click the open a recent score, or you can click
File tab, which now opens by de fault at the Recent page so that you can
Open to open another existing score, or New to start a new
one. If you work in this way, you can switch off the option
score
(either on the Quick Start window itself, or on the Other page of File Preferences),
Show Quick Start again after closing last
though beware that once you close the empty document window th at is left behind after clos­ing the last tab on the last score, Sibelius will still quit on Windows.
On Mac, applications can still run when they have no windows, so Sibelius remains running until you explicitly quit. If you click the Sibelius icon on the Dock when Sibelius is running but with no windows open, the Quick Start window opens automatically to help you get started again.

Saving your working environment

Sibelius automatically keeps track of the arrangement of windows and tabs while you are working on your score, so that it can restore them the next time you open it. When you re-open a score you have worked on before, Sibelius will:
Open the document window to the same size and position you had used when you last closed
it
Open all the tabs that were open when you last closed it, and bring the last-u sed tab into
focus
Set the zoom level and type of view to the same as those used when you last closed it
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Working with the ribbon
Restore the settings on the View tab of the ribbon for which “invisibles” (useful things that
display on the screen but are not normally printed out) should be shown
Open the panels (such as the Mixer, Ideas panel, etc.) that were open when you last closed it.
You can, of course, tell Sibelius which of the above things you w ant it to do for you, via the
Display and Files pages of File Preferences – 1.28 Display settings.

Notes for upgraders

If you have upgraded from Sibelius 6 or earlier, you may be a little disorientated when you first run your new version of Sibelius and see that the old menus and toolbar have been replaced by the ribbon. But don’t worry: you’ll soon get used to it, and before long you’ll find it much clearer than before. The
Find in ribbon box at the top right-hand corner of the ribbon is
an invaluable tool in searching for features that you have temporarily mislaid. Here, broadly speaking, is how to find things in the ribbon according to the menus used in ear-
lier versions of Sibelius:
File menu items are now found in the File tabEdit menu items are split between the Quick Access Toolbar (for undo and redo), Home tab
(for selecting, filtering, coloring and navigating) and the out and Order settings). You can still access a cut-down version of the
Appearance tab (for Magnetic Lay-
Edit menu by right-
clicking on a selection in your score, just as in previous versions of Sibelius.
View menu items are found in the View tabNotes menu items are split between the Appearance tab (for resetting beam groups and
positions, stems and tab fingering) and the
Create menu items are split between the Notations and Text tabs. You can still access the
Create menu by right-clicking on the score window with nothing selected, just as in previous
Note Input tab (for everything else).
versions of Sibelius.
Play menu items are found in the Play tabLayout menu items are found in the Layout tab, except for Reset Desi gn and Reset Position,
which are on the
House Style menu items appear in many tabs: the various Edit... dialogs are now found by
clicking the dialog launcher arrow in the appropriate ribbon group (e.g. opened by clicking the dialog launcher arrow in the features (including
Appearance tab
Edit Noteheads is
Notations Noteheads group); the other
Engraving Rules and house style import/export) are on the Appearance
tab.
Plug-ins: the most useful ones appear individually on the ribbon next to related features of
the program. Several tabs also have dedicated
Plug-ins galleries, e.g. the Text tab has a gal-
lery of all plug-ins to do with text and chord symbols. Also, any custom folders of plug-ins you have added will appear in the
Window menu items are found on the View tabHelp menu items are found in the File tab, in the Help pane.
Home Plug-ins gallery.
As far as possible, keyboard shortcuts are the same as in previous versions of Sibelius, so power users who have memorized a lot of shortcuts should feel right at home.
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Undo and Redo

Two of the most important features in Sibelius are undo and redo, which allow you to move backwards and forwards through the edits you have made since you opened the score you’re working on. How you access undo and redo is, unusually, different in the Windows and Mac versions of Sibelius.

Windows users

On Windows, undo and redo are found on the Quick Access Tool­bar, which appears in the top left-hand corner of each Sibelius doc­ument window, as shown on the right.
To undo the last thing you did, click the left-pointing arrow , or type the shortcut show the undo history menu: click on any item in the menu to undo directly to that point.
To redo an operation you didn’t mean to undo, click the right-point­ing arrow, or type the shortcut the menu part of the button to show the redo history button. The most recent operation you undid is at the top of the list, so click the top item to redo one step, the second item to redo two steps and the bottom item to redo everything you undid and get back to where you were. (If you see what I mean.)

Mac users

On Mac, undo and redo are found in the
Z to undo the last thing you did. The Edit menu tells yo u what the last thing you did was, in
case you have a very short memory. (Well, it tells you the last thing yo u did in Sibelius – it won’t say
Edit Undo History (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Z or Z) lists all the recent operations you’ve done,
and lets you hop back to a particular earlier point in time. The most recent operation is at the top of the list, so click the top item to undo one step, the second item to undo two steps and the bottom item to undo as far back as you can go.
To redo an operation you didn’t mean to undo, choose Again, the
Edit Redo History (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Y or Y) is like Undo History, but lists all the things
you can redo after you’ve done a load of undoing.
Ctrl+Z. You can click the menu part of the button to
Ctrl+Y. As with undo, you can click
Edit menu. Choose Edit Undo, or type the shortcut
Undo Sneeze, entertaining though that might be.)
Edit Redo, or type t he shortcut Y.
Edit menu tells you what it was you just redid.

Undo level

To set how far back you can undo, choose the slider. You can undo up to 20,000 operations, so if you set the undo level large enough you can undo right back to when you started writing the current score.
If you set it larger still, you can even undo back to before you bought Sibelius.
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Other page of File Preferences and drag the

Connecting external MIDI devices

Connecting external MIDI devices
There are three steps to setting up your external MIDI devices: connecting the hardware, installing the necessary software (if any), and then setting up MIDI in Sibelius. This topic takes you through the first two steps, and the last step is described in page 244.

Connecting MIDI devices to your computer

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard, not a thing – the univer­sal standard for connecting electronic musical instrument s together. MIDI keyboards, synthe­sizers, sound modules, samplers and other electronic music gadgets can all be plugged into one another with MIDI cables, and can also be plugged into your computer. Virtual instruments and software synthesizers are also MIDI compatible, and as they’re already in your computer you don’t need to attach cables at all in order to play music back.
All modern MIDI devices, such as controller keyboards, have USB connections, enabling you to connect your MIDI keyboard directly to your computer using only one USB cable.
For older MIDI devices without direct USB connections, you can connect a separate MIDI interface to a USB port on the back of your computer, and plug your MIDI device into the MIDI interface using MIDI cables.

Connecting MIDI devices directly via USB

All new MIDI keyboards and other devices can connect directly to your computer’s USB sockets without the need for a separate MIDI interface. To install one of these devices, simply connect a USB cable (which may be provided with your device) t o y our compu ter, and follow the on-screen instructions to install the necessary driver software, if any.
Once any required drivers are correctly installed, you can set up input and playback in Sibelius –
3.13 Input Devices.
You should switch on the p ower on your USB-connected MIDI devi ces before running Si bel­ius. Failure to do so may result in Sibelius not correctly detecting your MIDI device when it loads. Be aware that some bus-powered devices, meaning devices that have no separate power supply unit and draw power directly through the USB cable, will only work reliably if con­nected to a USB socket on your computer, not on an external device such as a USB hub or, say, your Mac’s keyboard.
3.13 Input Devices on

Connecting MIDI devices via a MIDI interface

A MIDI interface is a small box that sits between your computer and your external MIDI devices, sending MIDI data back and forth. MIDI interfaces usually connect to a USB port on your computer. You would only need a MIDI interface if your external MIDI device doesn’t have its own direct USB connection.
MIDI interfaces often require additional driver software, which will be supplied by your device’s manufacturer.
We’ll assume your MIDI interface connects via USB, and show you a common MIDI setup. Connections between MIDI devices all use standard MIDI cables, pictured on the right.
To plug in just a MIDI keyboard, connect its “Out” socket to the MIDI interface’s “In” socket. This means that music played on the keyboard will go out of the keyboard, along the cable and in to the computer.
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To make the computer play back music into the keyboard (e.g. if the keyboard has sounds built into it), also connect the MIDI interface’s “Out” to the keyboard’s “In.”
If your keyboard has two “In” or “Out” sockets, it usually doesn’t matter which you use – they’re just convenient duplicates of each other.
So connecting up such a keyboard looks like this:
If you want to connect just, say, a sound module, rather than a keyboard, simply connect the MIDI interface’s “Out” to the sound module’s “In.”
Once you’ve connected your MIDI devices to your computer, you can set up input in Sibelius –
3.13 Input Devices on page 244.
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File tab

File tab
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1.1 Working with files

1.1 Working with files
This topic explains saving scores in Sibelius format, and (for more advanced users) how to access files containing custom Sibelius settings (e.g. house styles). The other topics in this chapter will tell you how to share files with other people, whether or not they have Sibelius, and how to import and export files in various formats.

Creating a score

There are several ways to start a new score in Sibelius –

File size

Sibelius files typically occupy around 20K plus 1K per page (excluding any import ed graph­ics), even for band or orchestral music. This means you can fi t literally millions of pages on your hard disk, and even huge scores can easily be sent by email. So even if your name is J.S. Bach, disk space is unlikely ever to present a problem when using Sibelius.

Saving

Saving works just like in any other program, using
S) and File Save (shortcut Ctrl+S or S). In addition to being able to save Sibelius scores,
you can also export other formats, such as MusicXML, MIDI, audio, and graphics; for more details, see the relevant topics in this Reference Guide. To save lyrics, see page 479.
A convenient place to save is the Windows, the your user
You can change which folder is the defau lt for saving sco res on the of
File Preferences.
When you next open the score after saving, it will open at the point at which you were working on it when you saved, with the window in the same position, the same panels and windows vis­ible, and even at the same zoom factor.
You have complete co ntrol over to what extent Sibelius restores your previous working envi­ronment when reopening a score you have previously saved –
Scores folder is created inside your My Documents folder; on Mac, it is inside
Documents folder.
Scores folder that Sibelius has helpfully created for you. On
1.4 Starting a new score.
File  Save As (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S or
Export Lyrics on
Saving and Exporting page
1.28 Display settings.

Auto-save

Sibelius can automatically save your score at timed intervals so that, should your computer crash, the most work you can lose is a few minutes’ worth. Rather than saving your actual file, Sibelius makes a copy of your score and saves it into a special hidden folder.
If Sibelius doesn’t shut down correctly (for example, if your computer crashes or there is an interruption in power), the next time you start the program, it checks the special folder, and if it finds any scores in that folder, you will be asked if you want to restore them.
When you close Sibelius normally, it deletes all the files in the special folder – so it’s essential that you don’t save any files in there yourself!
Auto-save is switched on by default, but if for some reason you want to switch it off, do so from the how often Sibelius automatically saves your score; the default is 10 minutes.
Saving and Exporting page of File Preferences. You can also specify in this dialog
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Backups

Each time you save, the score (with a version number added to the nam e) is also saved, by default, in
Backup Scores in your Scores folder. If you ever accidentally delete or mess up a
score, look in this backup folder to get the latest version you saved, or earlier versions too. You can specify the number of backups and the folder location for backups from the
and Exporting
page of File Preferences. The default number of backups is 200. Older copies are progressively deleted to stop your disk from filling up, so don’t use this folder to store your own backups!
Backup scores are created when you save manually, not each time Sibelius auto-saves; but unlike auto-saved scores, backup scores are not deleted when you close Sibelius.

Catalog information

The
File Info pane can be used to enter information about your score, such as its title, com-
poser, arranger , copyright, and so on, which is automatically used when you publish your score on the Internet (
1.19 Exporting Scorch web pages). You will find that several fields are
already filled in if you specified title, composer, etc. at the time you created your score. The right-hand side of
File Info shows you useful details about your score, such as the date it
was created, when it was last saved, how many pages, staves and bars it contains, and so on. The values you enter into the fields in the
File Info pane can also be used as wildcards in text
objects throughout your score. For details on wildcards and how to use them in Sibelius,
5.16 Wildcards.

User-editable files

Sibelius allows you to create your own:
 Ideas ( 2.3 Ideas)  House styles ( 8.2 House Style)  Plug-ins ( 1.25 Working with plug-ins)  Worksheets ( 1.23 Worksheet Creator)  Arrange styles ( 3.17 Edit Arrange Styles)  Chord symbol libraries ( 5.8 Chord symbols)  Guitar scale diagram libraries ( 5.11 Guitar scale diagrams)  Text and music font equivalents ( 5.1 Working with text, 8.6 Music fonts)  Manuscript papers ( 1.21 Exporting manuscript paper)  Feature sets ( 1.27 Keyboard shortcuts)  Word menus ( 5.1 Working with text)
As Sibelius comes with its own sets of each of these kinds of files, any additional ones you create are saved in a location separately from those supplied with the program. The standard files included with Sibelius are non-deletable; you should not change anything inside the installation folder itself (or the application package – sometimes known as a “bundle” – on Mac), which is where they are stored.
Your own (user-editable) files are stored in specific folders inside your user account’s applica­tion data folder of your computer, the location of which will differ depending on the operating system you are using:
Windows: C:\Users\username\Application Data\Avid\Sibelius\
Mac OS X: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Avid/Sibelius
Saving
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On Windows, you can go quickly to this location by clicking the in the
Sibelius program group in your Start menu. The application data folder is hidden by
Sibelius (User Data) shortcut
default and will not be otherwise visible in Windows Explorer. If you wish to access this folder via Explorer, go to Click the
View tab and from the Files and Folders list choose Show hidden files and folders.
Control Panel and click Folder Options from any open Explorer window.
Inside the Sibelius application data folder you will find various folders who se names indicate the content they contain. (On Mac, it is possible for there to be no folders at all, as they are only created when you create or edit a file that is saved in that location.)
You can copy any appropriate file to the user area directories and Sibelius will use it when you next start the program. Files you have added or created can also be deleted with no ill side­effects.

Scorch templates and textures

You can create your own Scorch templates and paper/desk textures. Place them inside the rele­vant folder in the application data folder, and Sibelius will detect them. Scorch templates go in the folder called called
Textures.
Scorch templates, and textures (in Windows BMP format only) in the folder

Quick Look (Mac only)

Quick Look is a feature built in to Mac OS X that allows you to preview instantly the contents of your documents directly from the Finder, without having to wait while you open the appli­cations that created them: simply select the document in the Finder, and hit
Space. Many docu-
ments also show thumbnail previews on the desktop and in Finder windows, and if you set Finder windows to use Cover Flow, you can flip through folders of documents very quickly.
Sibelius fully supports Quick Look, so instead of the usual document icon, you will see a thumbnail of the first page o f the score: select it and hit
Space (or click the Quick Look icon in
the Finder) to see a larger preview of the score. You can scroll through pages by grabbing the scroll bar at the right-hand side of the preview.

Spotlight (Mac only)

Spotlight is Mac OS X’s built-in search engine. Simply click the Spotlight icon at the top right­hand corner of the screen, or type the keyboard shortcut
-Space, and type the search term
you’re looking for. You can search for Sibelius scores using Spotlight, simply by typing the filename, or indeed any bit of text you know is contained within (e.g. title, composer, lyrics, instrument names, and so on). Once you’ve found one or more scores, simply hit
Space to pre-
view it using Quick Look (see above), or double-click to open it in Sibelius.
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1.2 Sharing and emailing files

It’s easy to share music you have written in Sibelius with other people. To learn more about how you can easily publish and share your music online (including as
audio tracks or videos), see

Sharing files with other users of Sibelius

If the person you are working with also has Sibelius, then simply send the file by email , or on removable media such as a USB flash drive or CD-R.
Find out what version of Sibelius the person you’re sending files to is using. If they have the same or a later version of Sibelius as you, you can simply save your file as normal and send it to them. If, however, they have an earlier version of Sibelius (or are using an earlier version of Sibelius Student or Sibelius First), you will need to export your score in an earlier file format before emailing. Fortunately, Sibelius makes this very easy –

Sharing files with people who don’t use Sibelius

If the recipient doesn’t have Sibelius, there are a number of other means of sharing files with them:
If the recipient has an iPad, ask them to download and install the Avid Scorch app. Save and
attach your score to an email for them to open on their device –
Scorch
.
Ask them to download and install the trial version of Sibelius from www.sibelius.com, then
send the file to them. After the trial expires, it can only print a si ngle, w atermark ed p age, so if you want them to be able to print your score, this isn’t the best way.
 Publish the music on your own web site –  1.19 Exporting Scorch web pages.  Export a PDF of your score and send it to them –  1.20 Exporting PDF files.  If the recipient has another music program and wants to listen to and perhaps edit your
music, send them a MIDI file ( file (
1.16 Exporting MusicXML files).
If you want to send your music to somebody else so they can hear it, but you don’t need
them to see the score, you could also export an audio file from Sibelius and then either burn it to an audio CD or compress it into an MP3 file and sen d it via email –
audio files
If you want to send your music to somebody else so they can hear it, and you do need them
to see the score, you can export a video file from Sibelius –
If you want to publish your music online for people to view an d print – or use a video- or
audio-sharing service – Sibelius can export a suitable file and upload it directly to your Score Exchange, YouTube, Facebook or SoundCloud account –
.
1.3 Sharing on the web.
Sending files via email below.
1.18 Exporting to Avid
1.15 Exporting MIDI files) or, preferably, a MusicXML
1.12 Exporting
1.13 Exporting video files.
1.3 Sharing on the web.
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Sending files via email

Sending files by email is very easy, using Sibelius’s built -in emailing feature. Simply choose
File  Share Send Using Email and enter your email address at the top of the pane, then type
the email address of the person you want to send your score to, along with any message you wish to send, and click the
Send Email button:
By default, Sibelius also sends a copy of the email and attachmen ts to your email address, which allows you to keep track of emails you’ve sent previously – if you would rather not receive copies of the emails you send in this way, simply uncheck
Send me a copy of this email.
Using the various options above the message details, you can choose to send any com bination of:
A Sibelius score.A file for opening in a previous version of Sibelius.PDF files of the score and or parts.
By default, Sibelius sends a Sibelius score and a PDF file (of the score only). If you choose to send a file for opening in an earlier version, you can choose which version (as
far back as Sibelius 2) from the drop-down list. When you send the email, Sibelius exports a copy of the score in the earlier format and attaches it to the email.
If you choose to send a PDF file, you can choose from three options:
Score only exports only the full score.Score and all parts (one file) exports the full score and a single copy of each part into a single
PDF file.
All parts only (separate files) exports a single copy of each part, with a separate PDF file for
each part.
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In each case, the exported PDF files are attached to the email that will be sent when you click
Send Email. To learn more about exporting PDF files of your score – 1.20 Exporting PDF
files
.
If you wish to send an email in this way to more than one recipient, type their email addresses separated by semicolons, like this:
ent3@example.com
and so on.
recipient1@example.com; recipient2@example.com; recipi-
When sending emails in this manner from Sibelius, please be considerate towards others and do not send any materials that might be thought of as “spam” or which are abusive, illegal, obscene or threatening in any way.
You may not use this service to violate copyright or any other property right and you should not make false or misleading statements of fact or misrepresentations of the origin of the mate­rial you are sending.

Sending files via email from another program

If you prefer to send email from your own email program – or if you’ve chosen to export a score optimized for viewing in the Avid Scorch app – it’s still very easy, but the exact proce­dure differs according to the email program you use:
Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbir d: start a new message, then click the
Attach button (with a paperclip icon), find the file and click Attach to attach it to the mes-
sage. Then send it as normal.
Apple Mail: start a new message, then simply drag and drop the file you want to attach to the
message into the message window, and send it as normal. If you don’t use any of the above programs, consult the documentation for your particular email client for details on sending file attachments.
If you want to send a Sibelius file as a Scorch web page to somebody via email:
First, export it (1.19 Exporting Scorch web pages)  Compress the exported .sib and .htm files into a zip archive, by selecting both files, then
right-clicking them and choosing
press 2 items
Attach just the .zip file to your email message.Tell the recipient that they will need to have Scorch installed on their computer; tell them to
(Mac), which will produce a new file called something like Archive.zip.
Send to Compressed (zipped) folder (Windows) or Com-
save the attached archive to a folder on their computer (e.g. the Desktop), then to uncom-
press the archive and finally to double-click the saved
.htm file to view the score in their web
browser.

Files on Windows or Mac

Sibelius for Windows and Sibelius for Mac use exactly the same file format. You can move a Sibelius score between Mac and Windows without any conversion at all – see below.
Both file formats use Unicode, a standard international character set, which means that special characters (like accented letters) are automatically translated between Mac and Windows. Music and text fonts are also substituted intelligently.
Sibelius files have a
.sib extension. On Mac, Sibelius files are also of kind “Sibelius docu-
ment” (internally the Creator is “SIBE” and the Type is “SIBL”).
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Opening Mac scores on Windows

If you are trying to open a score created on t he Mac given to you on a CD-R or another disk, make sure the disk is formatted for Windows – although the Mac can read Windows disks, Windows cannot read Mac disks.
T o open the file in Sibelius for Windows, you may have to add the file extension
.sib. Although
Sibelius adds this file extension by default on both Windows and Mac, some Mac users prefer not to use file extensions; this causes a problem on Windows, because the file extension tells Windows this is a Sibelius file.
You can add the file extension in Windows by right-clicking on the file icon (in My Computer or Windows Explorer) and selecting
Rename. Change the extension, and then hit Return (on the
main keyboard). You m ay be prompted that changing file types can render them unusable, because Windows assumes that you don’t know what you’re doing. If asked whether you are sure you wish to proceed, click
Yes.
Once you have renamed the file, you can open it in the usual way by double-clicking.

Opening Windows scores on Mac

T o open a file created using Sibelius for Windows, simply choose
File Open and double-click
the name of the file in the dialog.
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1.3 Sharing on the web

The File Share page houses all of Sibelius’ features for sharing and publishing your music, offering integration with social media sites and services as well as more traditional methods of sharing via email and online pub­lishing using Score Exchange.
From here you can choose to send an email directly from within Sibelius, with your score attached in a choice of formats.
Or, using Sibelius’s video export, you can share directly to YouTube and Facebook; you can also export an audio track of your score and upload this to your SoundCloud account. Integration with Score Exchange allows you to publish scores online.
Of course, Sibelius also offers the ability to print (
MIDI, MusicXML or PDF (
1.20 Exporting PDF files), and create audio and video files on disk (1.12 Exporting audio files
, 1.13 Exporting video files).
You can also send your scores to the Avid Scorch mobile app and take them anywhere (
1.18 Exporting to Avid Scorch).
1.15 Exporting MIDI files, 1.16 Exporting MusicXML files,
1.11 Printing), export scores as

Send Using Email

The
File Share Send Using Email pane contains options for sending yo ur score as an email
attachment in a choice of formats, all without ever having to leave Sibelius. For full details on this, see

Publishing for others to view, purchase and print

Sibelius allows you to upload and publish your scores as digital sheet music to ScoreExchange.com.
Score Exchange is a web site for finding and purchasing new sheet music from composers and arrangers all over the world. ScoreExchange.com offers thousands of scores for every instrumentation imaginable – from solo pieces to works for full orchestra, from classical to pop.
With Score Exchange you can upload, publicize, sell or give away your musical compositions and arrangements. For more details, visit
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Sending files via email on page 21.
www.scoreexchange.com.
1.3 Sharing on the web
File Share Publish to Score Exchange pane contains options for preparing and sending
The your score to your ScoreExchange.com account. (If you don’t already have an account, click the
Register button to be taken directly to ScoreExchange.com to sign up for one.)
Enter the email address and password you used to create your Score Exchange account and
Sign In to enable the remaining options. (If you switch on the Keep me signed in checkbox
click before clicking
Sign In, Sibelius will remember your login details between sessions, so that
when you next run the program, you will automatically be signed into your account.) Under the
Score Info heading, you can see at a glance which of the fields in the File Info tab
you’ve already completed, which is useful as Score Exchange is able to use this information to tell people more details about your score once you’ve uploaded it.
You will also see a list of the instrumental parts created automatically by Sibelius for every instrument in your score. You can choose whet her these should be removed from the file you upload to ScoreExchange.com; all parts are included by default. These parts can then be made available separately to purchase or download.
When you click the
Publish button, Sibelius will open your web browser and take you to
ScoreExchange.com where you can provide additional details about your score to make it eas­ier to find – or you can choose to hide the score from public view until it’s ready.

Sharing your score as a video

Sibelius offers seamless sharing on YouTube and Facebook, where you can upload and share a digital video of your score – all without leaving the program.
Choosing either the
Publish to YouTube or Publish to Facebook
panes from the File Share page will d isplay a sub-set of the
options from the
File Export Video pane. These allow you to choose the playback configura-
tion to use for the audio potion and change various settings about the display in the resulting video, including the playback line, paper texture and score layout (including which staves should be visible).
Note that the
Resolution option is missing from this pane, because you will be prompted to
choose from the options supported by the video-sharing provider you’ve cho sen, after you’ve signed in.
Clicking the
Publish button launches the Publish dialog. First, you’ll be prompted to sign into
your Facebook or YouTube account – if you don’t have an account already, follow the instruc­tions to create one. When signing into your Facebook account for the first time in Sibelius, you’ll be asked to connect Sibelius with your Facebook account and allow it to post videos to your wall.
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