Expert plug-in developer Bob Zawalich gives us an overview not only of some of his most recent additions to the repertoire, but also an inside look into the process behind their creation.
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Spend a little time watching the new “Get Started Fast” series for Sibelius 7.5 and save a lot of time in your daily work.
Sibelius plug-ins: Swap or Replace Text Styles and Gap Before Bar
A Sibelius plug-in which will speed up working with text, allowing you to quickly swap one text style for another; and another plug-in to easily identify bars with gaps before them.
Flow lyrics into Sibelius in a single step
Back in June I wrote a short series of posts about lyrics in Sibelius. In the first of those posts I wrote about Sibelius’s unique feature that allows you to flow lyrics from a text file directly into your score in a single operation. Now Dr Tom Rudolph has dedicated a post on his Making […]
Working with lyric hyphens
Continuing a series of posts about lyrics in Sibelius, today I’m writing about lyric hyphens. The humble hyphen plays a central role in your lyrics… literally. It appears between different syllables to make sure that you can tell that the word is split between two or more notes. Man in the middle If you ever […]
Traditional lyrics beaming and slurs on melismas
Continuing a series of posts looking at lyrics in Sibelius, today I’m going to talk about a couple of plug-ins that can help you achieve a traditional appearance for the lyrics in your scores. Beaming In vocal music published until the middle of the last century, it was customary for beams to be broken for […]
Adding extra lines of lyrics
Continuing a series of posts about lyrics in Sibelius, today we’re going to talk about adding extra lines of lyrics. Each line of lyrics uses its own text style. This has lots of advantages, such as allowing you to change the font or point size in one operation, making it easy to select all the lyrics […]
Making lyrics something to sing about
One of the mature music notation programs recently touted lyrics that “instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out” as one of the major new features of a new version that costs in the region of $150 for their existing users to upgrade. Sibelius users have enjoyed lyrics that look exactly as they will be printed […]