Keyboard shortcuts are productivity staples for most desktop software, including Sibelius. But did you know you can assign custom shortcuts, including ones for any feature on any Keypad layout?
February 2016
Norfolk Harp, a new addition to the Norfolk font family
The Norfolk family of Sibelius-compatible Bravura fonts gains a new member with the addition of Norfolk Harp Std for use with harp techniques, along with a transfer document and updated house styles.
A solution to the problem of instrument changes, key signatures, and multirests (finally)
A video tutorial that describes a multi-step solution to a persistent problem in Sibelius: instrument changes with key signatures that break multirests and don’t display correctly in the score or part.
Sibelius 8.1.1 update available
Avid today released Sibelius 8.1.1, a minor update to the recent Sibelius 8.1 update. 8.1.1 addresses a few issues, improving the trackpad experience on Mac and fixing sluggishness in some areas of the program.
The big list of plug-ins
A new addition to the blog is a comprehensive, sortable, searchable list of all 500 Sibelius plug-ins available for download. Bob Zawalich assembled the list and we’ll try to keep it updated as frequently as possible.
Sibelius download page plug-ins
A comprehensive, sortable list of all the plug-ins on the Sibelius download page. This list was built by Bob Zawalich and we will try to keep it updated as frequently as possible.
Disable the Avid Application Manager at startup
The Avid Application Manager was introduced with Sibelius 8 and provides information on product licensing and other functions, but it’s not necessary for it to be running in order to use Sibelius. Here’s how to prevent AAM from automatically launching on startup.