We are delighted to announce that Sibelius 6 has been honoured by Tech & Learning magazine in their annual Awards of Excellence for 2009. The Awards of Excellence recognise the best education technology products of the year, and Sibelius 6 has won in the category of Best Upgraded Products. The complete list of winners is […]
I’ve written a number of posts about the cool plug-ins that are available for download from the Sibelius web site, and today I want to draw your attention to two more, written by plug-in king Bob Zawalich. These plug-ins make Sibelius’s Focus on Staves feature even more useful. If you’re not familiar with Focus on […]
This tutorial was contributed by composer and Sibelius user Fritz Feger. If you would like to contribute a tutorial for the benefit of Sibelius users around the world, please get in touch. Apple’s Logic Pro contains a number of high-quality virtual instruments and effects that can be instantiated only from directly within Logic itself, so […]
Designorati is an online publication for creative professionals in the fields of visual design (web design, typography, graphic design, illustration, and so on), written by a team of creative professionals who themselves have many years of experience. It’s somewhat unusual for the site to carry a review of music software, but I am delighted that […]
Composer and Sibelius and Pro Tools user Howard Goodall recently added an Emmy to his long list of accolades when his soundtrack for the joint BBC-HBO production Into The Storm picked up the award for Music Composition for a Mini series, Movie, or Special (Dramatic Score). The film, which first aired in the US at […]
Ron Hess makes an interesting point in his latest article for online publication Film Music Magazine, entitled Finale vs. Sibelius: Another Perspective. If I may be so bold as to attempt a précis, it would be that users of notation software (and indeed of software in general) are too quick to look at the features […]
Back at the start of September, I posted about Grammy-winning composer, arranger and trombonist Doug Beavers making the switch to Sibelius from Finale. Doug recently posted a further update on how he’s finding Sibelius after doing his first real gig using his new software. It’s good news: Despite a couple of blank moments where it’s […]
The November issue of Music Tech magazine contains an article about the live tour of Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds, the seminal 1977 album that is as popular as ever some 30 years on. Sibelius played an important part in taking Jeff’s original handwritten scores and bringint them bang up to date. Speaking in […]
Alexander Prior is a 16-year old British composer and conductor who has been studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia for the past four years. A quite remarkable prodigy, he was featured in a Channel 4 documentary series earlier this year called The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies. Alex uses Sibelius, and has prepared many […]
The Music For Youth Schools Prom is one of the musical events I most look forward to each year. More than 3,000 young people from schools all over the UK converge on the Royal Albert Hall in London for a three-night series of concerts that showcase some of the remarkable music that is made in […]