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Sibelius 5 Professional Edition

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Sibelius 5 is the essential software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It will keep you inspired and help you take your ideas even further. Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 music notation software makes writing scores a breeze-giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning features like Panorama mean you don't need to think about pages while you're composing or arranging. You can just let your creativity flow. Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second-so you'll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there's no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it. You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.

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Product Details

Package Length:	10.1 inches
Package Width:	7.4 inches
Package Height:	2.0 inches
Package Weight:	1.0 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 7 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows Vista / Windows XP / Mac OS X
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

Easy-to-use music-writing software makes writing scores a breeze
High-quality, built-in sounds play back scores with astounding realism
Create audio files, which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD
Ideas Hub instantly captures ideas; 2000+ pre-installed ideas included
Produce instrumental parts effortlessly; compose for video; sell online

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

A powerful, versatile program Apr 06, 2008 By S. Tang
It is easy enough to use if you just jump right in, yet at the same time the wealth of keyboard shortcuts for just about everything allows power users to perform tasks quickly and efficiently.

The handbook is well written and organized and provides most of the basics for a new user. I highly recommend reading the Quick Tour, as it provides some very useful keyboard and mouse commands for navigating and editing that I never discovered while using the demo version.

The best way to evaluate Sibelius is to try out the free demo from the official website. The demo is fully functional with just two main restrictions: it cannot save files and it can only print the first page of a score. No review can substitute for trying it out yourself.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius 5 is Great May 20, 2008 By Charles C. Lambert
I have wanted Sibleius since I used version 2 for my music theory classes in college. I took advantage of there $[...] and purchased Sibelius 5. I love it. The basic functionality of the software is easy to learn. It is loaded with features that may take a little bit to master, but it is amazing what you can make this program do. Also, you do not NEED an ASIO compatible soundcard. I am able to use my motherboard integrated card and still use the playbak feature. I am sure the sound may be better with the proper card though. Also, you will need a newer DVD-ROM. The older DVD-ROMs will not read the DVD's formatting.

7 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius delivers again Nov 14, 2007 By Manuel Gutierrez Rojas "Musician"
This is my review of the Professional Edition of Sibelius 5.

At our conservatory we have Sibelius 4, which I really liked. You can easily write out a whole compositions with time signature changes, different claves, dynamics, you name it.

<>The only few things that I found faulty is

1>There isn't a preference options menu. Everytime you start a new score, you need to re-input your preferences again.

2>Some graphic inputs are not so logical to do (very awkward), even though with some of them I understand it's hard to come up with a way to program it.
For instance if you want to input a triplet feel symbol you need to make one of your own by selecting a quarter note, paste, selecting an eight note, paste, select a triplet bracket, paste it on top, and so on. Okay, so maybe there's a better way of doing it, but this is the way the official reference guid explains it!

3>I really love the jazz notation font, but there's just something I find missing with all the other fonts. This is more of a aesthetic thing, and very subjective. That you can't zoom in the example page when selecting a house style is weird, though.

I think that's it for Sibelius 4, on to Sibelius 5.

Yesterday I got the package, it costed me $599 USD, and it was delivered very safely. It includes:
1>the installation CD with:
Sibelius 5 (notation software)
Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 (software you need for Sibeliu 5 to run)
Sibelius Sound Essentials (High Quality sound samples)
Scorch (browser plug-in, which is freeware by the way)
Photoscore Lite (Music scanning programme, which isn't that great, from what I've heard.)

2>The Sibelius 5 Handbook of 156 pages.

After installing the software, I felt like home right away, because the look is basically the same as Sibelius 4. There is a new Panorama thing, which lets you see the music bars only next to each other.

Kontakt 2.0 with the Sound Essentials give some decent Garritan sounds when playing .sib files, but I find it actually a bit disappointing. I wouldn't want to buy the Garritan Personal Orchestra by this 'demonstration' of sounds from the same company, even though I know that packages is a whole lot better than these 'Sound Essentials'. Sure, if you're normally only using standard GM-synthesized midi, this is a sure plus, but for others having experienced GigaStudio, Reason or the like, this is really nothing interesting.

I tried the new "reprise" House Style, which resembles handwritten notation. It does look quite nice, especially the font for the Title, but other than that, like with lyrics, it's a bit messy. Time signatures exceed the 5-staves bar, which I actually find quite unpretty. Again, this is a very subjective part, as I guess it's a very well done compared to the 'style' of the era, when this handwriting was used for notation.

Point 1 and 2 of my complaints (starting at <>) hasn't been resolved, unfortunately, or maybe I need to read the handbook better.
To be honest with you, I haven't tried anything more as of yet, I just wanted to give a very first impression, as it seems I'm the first one who got the product (or who BOUGHT it, then).

That is a point I do want to give concluding my review. This software, the professional one, costed me $599 USD, as I said earlier on. I bought it from amazon.com, as here in Europe (I'm Dutch), in the store it would've cost me 800,- which is $1174.21! That's almost TWICE as much. I agree about the market being more expensive in Europe, but this is preposterous. No wonder it's been pirated pretty badly.

This review will continue later.

Manuel

4 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius Dec 21, 2007 By Marjorie A. Curtis "LA to London"
The product is amazing, my eleven year old took to it immediately and we now have compositions in proper sheet form. We enjoy playing them back on the computer and will be getting a lead to feed his playing directly into the program.

0 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Don't Waste Your Money May 26, 2009 By Mark En Clarinet
I upgraded to Sibelius 5 last year. As with another reviewer, since upgrading I have experienced frequent crashes and freezes. This can be particularly frustrating and time-wasting (as you typically lose your work).

Considering the price of this program, you would expect that, at the very least, it would run longer than 30 minutes before crashing.

Save your money. Steer clear of this product.

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