After every major new Sibelius version release, we like to ask you, our customers, about your opinion of the latest version. Have you upgraded? If not, why not? If you did upgrade, has the product lived up to your expectations? And, most fun of all, you get to provide us with your feedback on a […]
Rob Sandall of DV Magazine, the magazine published by the UK’s largest music retailer, Digital Village, has reviewed Sibelius 7, and he loves it: When it first booted up I thought I’d accidentally clicked on a Microsoft Office application. If that sounds harsh, it wasn’t meant to be, as with their thinking caps on the […]
This fierce-looking gentleman (courtesy jp_ns on Flickr) would like to remind you that this Saturday, 29 October, Sibelius sensei Ernie Jackson will be running two hands-on training sessions at Hunter College in New York City. Full details were posted a few weeks ago. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn many tips and tricks […]
The Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles is the home of Cirque du Soleil’s latest spectacular show, a journey through cinema entitled Iris featuring music by one of the film industry’s most celebrated composers, Danny Elfman. Overture, the monthly publication of Pro Music Local 47, the musicians’ union in Los Angeles, carries a story […]
In March of last year, I received a letter from a young composer by the name of Julian Pombo, who had won the Strictly Composing competition organised as part of the UK government’s Year Of Music initiative. Julian wrote his winning piece, a tango called Amor Joven, using Sibelius Student, and we were so thrilled with […]
While we were working on Sibelius 7.0.3, one of the things we spent a lot of time on was optimizing the new Mixer’s drawing performance. To put the Mixer through a torture test, we added our own version of the Vegas mode diagnostic option that’s been part of Avid’s hardware consoles for years now. And […]
The Sibelius 7 Sounds library that is included with Sibelius 7 includes more than 36GB of data, spread across more than 550 individual patches, and many hundreds of thousands of individual sample files. But what’s really inside the library? Since Sibelius 7’s release back in July we’ve been promising documentation for the library so that […]
One of the unique things about Sibelius is that anybody can develop a plug-in for the program using its built-in ManuScript programming language. Over the years, a handful of especially dedicated Sibelius users – chief among them the legendary Bob Zawalich – have developed hundreds of plug-ins for Sibelius, and made them available for users […]
We’re pleased to announce that a new update for registered Sibelius 7 users is now available for download from the Sibelius web site, bringing the program to version 7.0.3. This update addresses a number of problems reported by users since Sibelius 7.0.2 was released towards the end of August. Some of the specific highlights of […]
As with many areas of emerging musical practice, there are a number of different (some might say competing) approaches to representing microtones in music notation, and perhaps one of the most elegant is Sagittal microtonal notation, developed by George Secor and Dave Keenan. Sagittal is so named because its symbols are arrow-like (the creators had […]