There are currently almost 200 additional plug-ins for Sibelius available for download from the Sibelius web site. They’re really an incredible resource, and if you’ve never taken the time to have a look at the plug-ins on offer there, you’re strongly recommended to do so. Just about all of those plug-ins have been contributed to […]
Student Colin Griggs says, bluntly, “Sibelius Sucks.” Colin says that Sibelius’s handling of composition is neither elegant nor beautiful, that Sibelius 5 is rather bloated, and that “everything about it screams awkward.” Naturally, I couldn’t disagree more! But Colin does make a good point regarding what happens to existing notes when you decide to change […]
I’ve already written about how to make Sibelius feel as snappy as possible while you’re using it, but today I’m going to explain how to make Sibelius start up as quickly as possible on your computer. On my MacBook Pro, unmodified Sibelius 5 starts up in around 35 seconds, assuming the computer’s not busily doing […]
When a user talks about how slow a particular piece of software is, there are lots of things he could mean. Firstly, he could mean that it takes a long time to start up. Or he could mean that there is a lag between telling the software to do something, and it doing it. Or […]