Transitioning from Sibelius 6 to Sibelius 7.5
If you are thinking about finally upgrading to Sibelius 7.5 from Sibelius 6, whether it's from desire or necessity, you'll want to know these useful pointers to ease the move.
Access the Create menu in Sibelius 7 or later
If you’re a Sibelius 6 (or earlier) holdout still kicking and screaming your way through Sibelius 7 or later, with its Ribbon interface, here’s a little tip to ease the transition: You can still access the old, familiar Create menu.
Advanced selection techniques in Sibelius
In this guest post, Bruce Munson, explains some of the advanced selection techniques you can employ in Sibelius. Bruce is a composer, arranger, copyist and Sibelius trainer, based in the San Francisco…
Use your iPad as a Sibelius control surface
If you have an iPad and are interested in using it as a control surface for Sibelius 6 or the new Sibelius 7, then Sibelius user Tobias Escher (@NovatlanSound) has…
Jazz legend Bob James in concert, with a little help from Sibelius
Bob James is a jazz pianist, composer and arranger whose career has spanned five decades. Having been discovered by Quincy Jones in 1963, he has recorded 37 solo albums to…
Sibelius 6 Essential Training at Lynda.com
My friend Jenny Amaya has been hard at work for the past several months designing and creating a training program for Sibelius 6 through Lynda.com, and the course is now…
Come and see Avid at Frankfurt Musikmesse 2011
Next to the winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, Musikmesse is the largest music trade show in the world. Taking place from tomorrow, Wednesday 6 April until Saturday 9 April…
An inside look at Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion
I've written about Pat Metheny's remarkable album Orchestrion on this blog before, but I hope you'll excuse one further mention of this amazing piece of work. This past weekend, CBS…
Sibelius 6 users: beware of Mac OS X 10.6.7 update
Update –- 26 April 2011 Apple have released a fix for this problem, which is available now from Software Update. Read all about it. Original post -- 29 March 2011…
Read five pages from Hal Leonard’s new Sibelius book
Last month I posted an interview with Tom Rudolph and Vince Leonard, the authors of the second edition of Hal Leonard's book, Sibelius: A comprehensive guide to Sibelius music notation…
