Sibelius 4 Software

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Sibelius SB2PEW Overview

Sibelius 4 from Sibelius is a fully featured and complete software solution for writing, playing, printing and publishing music notation. From its clear design through all of the deep tools, Sibelius 4 has been designed to be easy to use, save time, produce professional looking scores, publish music world-wide, or create CDs.

Designed for every kind of musician, from students and teachers to professional composers, the software includes features such as preset score templates, multiple entry methods, automatic real-time part extraction, video support and the ability to customize all of these features to produce scores that range from early music to the most modern.

Included applications allow the user to hear their creations, export the audio for use in CD creation and over seventy plug-ins that automate tasks or correct inaccuracies.

Easy to use, score generating software with scanning and playback features
Over one hundred score templates are ready for instant use
Templates can be edited or custom made from scratch
Note input can be either using a mouse and clicking on the score, entered from the computer keyboard, via a MIDI device or any combination of all three
Sibelius includes PhotoScore Lite, a program for scanning printed music. Once a page is read, it can be edited, played back, parts extract and printed
Allows for up to 20,000 undo operations
Puts different types of text, such as dynamics, titles and lyrics in the appropriate font, size and position
Arrange is a feature to help with arranging and orchestration, ideal for students learning instrumental writing and saves hours of time for experienced professionals. The user selects some music, specifies how it should be arranged or orchestrated and the software does the rest in an instant, using appropriate instruments, doubling, etc. It handles anything from keyboard reductions and "exploding" chords onto separate staves, to sophisticated arrangement and orchestration styles
The software will spot all kinds of mistakes such as rhythms that don't add up, or notes that are too high/low to play. Sibelius knows every instrument's range, which can be adjusted for players of different abilities
Dynamic Parts saves having to extract parts from a full score. As soon as a new score is started, all the parts are already there. As music is added to the full score, the relevant parts appear and whatever is done in the score instantly updates in the parts. Or the user can write music in the parts and the score will change to match. Things can also be changed in the parts without affecting the score, such as adding cues
Hearing the score is as easy as hitting a play button. The included KONTAKT Player Silver can play up to eight parts and a mixer is also supplied to vary audio levels. Sibelius reads, understands and plays back all standard markings including trills, repeats, cresc/dim hairpins, octaves, glissandos, percussion and drum sets, guitar tab and even quarter-tones
With a single click of a button, the software will output an audio file that can be used for burning CDs (CD authoring software not included.)
Sibelius supports video playback at different sizes and also will insert hit-points to mark important visual events
Sibelius comes with more than seventy "plug-in" features which do useful things to a score, including checking for mistakes, adding brass fingering and generating drum patterns, amongst others
Makes your scores look professional by automatically applying hundreds of subtle music engraving rules to optimize every aspect of the score's appearance. User changes are of course supported

Sibelius SB2PEW Specs

System Requirements
Sibelius 4 and PhotoScore Lite/Professional:

Mac:
OS X 10.2.8/10.3.9/10.4 or later
256MB RAM or more
250MB hard disk space

PC:
Pentium or faster
Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
192MB RAM or more (128MB for Windows 98SE/Me)
250MB hard disk space

KONTAKT Player Silver and Audio Export (minimum for 1 or 2 sounds):

Mac:
G3 500MHz or faster
250MB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4)

PC:
500MHz processor or faster
Windows XP
250MB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4)
ASIO-compatible sound card

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