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Sibelius 6 Professional [Old Version]

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Sibelius 6 Professional [Old Version]

(7 customer reviews)

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Sibelius 6 is a giant leap forward for the world's best-selling notation software, with new features and workflow improvements for educators, students, composers, arrangers, copyists and musicians of all kinds. Magnetic Layout makes your scores beautiful right from the very first note, Versions allows you to track progress and easily collaborate with others, Live Tempo puts on the podium so that you can conduct your compositions from your keyboard, ReWire makes synchronizing Sibelius with Pro Tools a snap, and the integrated Siblius Player, using technology from the award-winning Structure sampler for Pro Tools and high-quality sampled sounds, means that your creations sound better than ever!

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Product Details

Product Length:	10.0 inches
Product Width:	2.89 inches
Product Height:	7.0 inches
Package Length:	10.2 inches
Package Width:	7.4 inches
Package Height:	2.1 inches
Package Weight:	0.9 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 7 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows XP / Mac OS X
Media:	DVD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music
Magnetic Layout makes your scores beautiful right from the very first note
ReWire makes synchronizing Sibelius with Pro Tools a snap
The same notation software used by music publishers worldwide
Versions allows you to track progress and easily collaborate with others

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 5.0

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41 of 41 found the following review helpful:

This Is The One! Oct 21, 2009 By Solo Goodspeed
After about two years of poking around in Finale (most of that time spent looking at the considerable tool bar and going WTF), I started hearing about this Sibelius in numerous musician forums. I went to their website, downloaded the trial version, and was like "Where have you been all this time?" What grabbed me right off the bat was the comparative ease of using the numeric keypad to enter note values and accidentals, compared to Finale's eye-boggling buttons. Entering notes by mouse (or in my case, pen tablet) is a cinch thanks to the "preview notes" that appear under your cursor as you position them, and you can use regular keys A-G just as easily; top row numeric keys add instant intervals, arrow keys bump notes up and down in case you slipped, and of course you get audio reference for each note entered. Adding "lines" for slurs and crescendo/decrescendos, text for dynamic changes that affect playback, copying, pasting and adding staves, resizing bars to avoid collisions, and I'm sure many other actions I have yet to discover are all so intuitive and sensibly laid out that anyone with a marginal knowledge of notation can get working and be productive in very short order.

At this point I should mention: I've been an ear musician all my life, am just now getting around to using traditional notation, and Sibelius has made the process so accommodating I'm amazed at how quickly I've been cranking out projects in my first month of using it. One function I'm looking forward to conquering is the ability to scan in already printed music. This package includes a standalone app that scans and saves music pages as a PDF, and uses optical character recognition to convert it to note info that Sibelius can use. It's not a perfect science, some tweaking and cleaning up required (kind of like using Adobe Illustrator's AutoTrace), but if you're transcribing, say, piano music for expanded instrumental arrangement it can save you a lot of time in manual entry. Oh yes, and there's always Explode for separating chords into individual parts, and Implode for going the other way. Essentially we're talking one person doing the work of about 3-5... or, rather, the software doing it.

Another exciting feature (the deal breaker as far as Finale is concerned) is the utilization of ReWire, which can be used to slave apps like Logic or Reason (both of which I use); this integration takes production of your music to the next level. Even if you don't have any of those apps, Sibelius ships with six pages worth of sampled instruments (no time here to count each instrument, so I'm going by the reference manual) courtesy of Garritan Personal Orchestra and Big Band which, depending on your Mac/PC's processor/memory capacity, will color your music with all the richness you can imagine.

All this before you even get to printing and handing out copies to your musicians. As you add parts to your master score, Sibelius creates docs in the background for each individual instrument, giving you an instant copyist's assistant. On the production end, there is a mixer window you can use to fine tune the volume and overall sound of each and all "players". Something that may prove very useful, though I haven't tried it yet, is a module you can use to go online and publish and share your work should you choose to go the networking route. For those times when inspiration is hard to come by, there is an ideas library of motifs you can add to for later use. And the list goes on.

I couldn't recommend Sibelius enough for notation-oriented music hobbyists and professionals who want to get up and running quickly and easily. Again, I am moving from purely playing by ear to being more musically "literate", and thanks to this package, moving quickly enough that what I've come up with so far is very gratifying and exciting. I expect to be a lot more productive in the near future.

May it do the same for you.

23 of 24 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius 6 - The State of the Art in Music Notation Mar 18, 2010 By Stephen Cohn "Musicmaker"
I have been a Sibelius Notation Software user since the program emerged and have always found it an invaluable tool for composing, orchestrating and engraving. I am an Emmy winning composer of film and concert music and have used it for all of my projects for the last ten years. About five years ago, I got a phone call from Lalo Schifrin asking if I would help him work with Sibelius in a score he was preparing for the Chicago Symphony. He explained that there were many unusual notation issues and when he called Sibelius, they referred him to me. If you have heard any of his amazing film scores or concert work, you know that he is very innovative, and we pushed Sibelius to its limits. It was on this project that I discovered how much I enjoyed the challenges of problem solving with notation software and helping other composers.

Since that time, I have continued to work with many talented composers in varied settings and find that our collaborations continue to be as valuable to me as it is to them. I have also contued to use Sibelius 6 for all of my projects and find that it facilitates my composing and orchestrating projects and has become an integral part of how I approach my work. It has greatly enhanced my output and my pleasure in doing my work. Sibelius 6 is truly the State of the Art in notation software. I recommend it to anyone who is considering notation sfitware.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius is excellent! Sep 05, 2010 By Brent Jeffrey Monahan
After eight years of using Finale, my professional friends convinced me to switch to Sibelius. I am only halfway through the tutorials, and already I'm happy. The sound palette and how minutely it can be controlled is terrific. So are the intuitive work bars such as Navigation and Notes. It looks like the only negatives (which are really positive) are the range of control over the look of the printed page and the micro-control possible for every aspect of notation, orchestration, and arranging. So much to learn! Now, when they finally figure out how to get real human voices singing the vocals, it will be perfect.
Brent Monahan, Doctor of Musical Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Excellent, excellent, excellent... Jan 12, 2011 By PABLO
Notoriously better than other versions of Sibelius. Once you get used to the shortcuts it is so flexible and fast that I cannot understand why I did not purchase it long time ago. Its improvements in terms of clarity and room give the score a much better aspect and it saves you lots of time moving those dynamics signs by hand because they interfere with other symbols etc. At this level, you have to choose: or Sibelius or one of its competitors. But it takes so much time to learn all the tiny details that I recommend to choose one program and stick to it. And Sibelius is definitely my option.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Sibelius 6 Nov 02, 2010 By tkincaid
I ordered Sibelius 6 so I'd be able to write the music I hae in my heart. I needed a tool that was intuitive and simple to use because I am more interested in getting the music written, rather than spending a long time learning a new tool. There have been a few things that took e a few minutes to figure out, but all-in-all, this tool is amazing. Once you get into the flow of the tool (and that does not take long at all), you will be wrting music very quickly.

I think it is an awesome tool. It is not hard to understand hwy the are currently the standard in musical notation software.

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