Here are half a dozen useful keyboard shortcuts for Sibelius that you should add to your arsenal if they’re not already engrained into your muscle memory. 1. Select More Being able to select objects in the score efficiently is one of the keys to working quickly with Sibelius. Edit > Select > Select More, which […]
Tom Rudolph, a guru on using music technology in education and co-author of a book about getting the most out of Sibelius, has posted some tips for using Sibelius’s powerful Arrange feature on his blog. Arrange is definitely a very sophisticated and useful tool, but it can be pretty daunting when you first get started […]
The Sibelius tutorials continue to come thick and fast! My friend Richard Payne, who worked with us at Sibelius for many years, contacted me today to let me know that he has devised a set of 10 tutorial videos for Sibelius 6 packaged up as an app to download from the iTunes App Store. Called […]
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 […]
It hardly seems possible it was six months ago that I posted a list of five essential plug-ins for Sibelius. But, as I posted a couple of days ago, there are now more than 250 plug-ins available for download. After the jump are five more that you should consider adding to your copy of Sibelius […]
I’ve already linked to Katie Wardrobe’s excellent new blog, Music Tech Tips, but I couldn’t resist linking to Katie’s latest video, which is tantalisingly called The 1 minute drum part. Writing drum parts in notation software is normally pretty involved, and Katie shows you how to create a simple drum part in a matter of […]
Katie Wardrobe (@katiesw1 on Twitter) is a wonderful educator and a music technology expert based in Australia. She worked for Sibelius for a while, before striking out on her own as a music technology consultant through her business Midnight Music. Now she has started a new blog, Music Tech Tips, and she promises to add […]
Sibelius user John Glossenger got in touch with me to share his tips for using third party VST and Audio Units virtual instruments with Sibelius. He says: Before I moved to Sibelius (from SONAR), I created about 2,000 presets for my various VSTs, such as Absynth, Pro53 and FM8. I ran into some problems while […]
Peter Kirn’s excellent blog, Create Digital Music, regularly covers Sibelius and other notation software. Peter was recently asked to speak about his use of Sibelius at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and put together a detailed tutorial that brings together a number of important tips and tricks for producing advanced layouts with […]
Everybody loves lists, so I’m told. So here’s a list of five extra plug-ins available for download from the Sibelius web site that you should consider adding to your copy of Sibelius today. 1. Narrow Two Voices Sibelius automatically aligns notes in two voices, and when they interlock, it positions them “stem-to-stem”. Some publishers and […]