4 Professional Notation Software

Features

• Dynamic Parts always match the score
• 1,700 ready-made worksheets and resources
• Write music to video capability
• Copy-and-paste to Word
• SibeliusEducation.com for added support
• Optical beams and ties
• Helsinki and other music fonts
• 11 new plug-ins
• On-screen tutorials and reference
• Look and feel
• Hide all tool windows
• Adjust tool window translucency
• More accurate text width on screen (Windows option)
• New screen smoothing options
• New shortcuts for changing bar rest or notehead type
• New shortcuts for laptops without keypads
• School feature set now lets you disable obscure text styles, plug-ins, etc.
• Dashed slurs draw faster
• Undo moves to edit position
• Button to switch between score and part
• Plug-ins
• Chord symbols as factions (writes bass note below a line)
• Show handbells required (compiles handbells used chart)
• Add accidentals to all sharp and flat notes
• Strummer (plays guitar strumming)
• 12-tone matrix (calculates all transpositions/retrogrades/inversions)
• Duplicates in staves
• What Is where (lists all objects in score)
• Check attachments
• Add Note Names now supports French, Spanish and German
• Add cautionary accidentals improved
• Find and replace text now works with lyrics and system text
• Many new manuScript functions
• Playback and MIDI
• Kontakt pre-loads sounds, so no delay when you start playback
• New staff types to play Kontakt Gold extended percussion
• Plays ties between different voices
• Turn page early, for sight-reading from screen (option)
• Multi-channel MIDI guitar support
• Omits spurious MIDI guitar notes
• Set tightness/looseness of MIDI guitar chord input
• Tempo slider in Scorch (Mac)
• Improved playback and Input devices dialog
• Video
• Supports AVI, MPEG, WMV (Windows), MOV formats
• Show hit point name, timecode and/or bar/beat
• Show timecode at start of system or every bar
• Specify positioning of timecode and hit points horizontal
• Set video start time in score
• SMPTE offset imported from MIDI files
• Imports MIDI markers as hit points
• Engraving
• Lyric hyphen centering improved
• New text styles
• Fixed text size even on small staves (option)
• Fingerings on chord diagrams
• Slurs/ties don't flip at page breaks
• Move articulations on rests up/down
• Allow notes and systems to compress to fit more music on a system/page
• Flip fractional beam left/right
• Tremolo positioning improved
• Repeat barline spacing improved
• Pick-up (upbeat) bars show written-out rests automatically
• Extra bar number position options
• New page sizes (9-1/2" x 12-1/2", 10" x 13")
• Files
• Opens and exports Sibelius 2, 3, and Sibelius Student files (also opens Sibelius 1.x files)
• New File>Export menu listing each file type separately
• Export any rectangle of music as graphics file
• Auto-save and auto-backup improved
• Automatically include date, time etc. in extracted part filenames
• Tuplets import better from MIDI files
• Import MIDI file tempos up to 4 decimal places
• MIDI files open faster (Mac)
• Improved EPS export with Illustrator & Inkpen2 Script
• Move word menus between computers as files
• Installing & upgrading
• Drag-and-drop install (Mac)
• Updates old scores with new options
• Checks for future software updates
• Separate settings for each network user
• Non-admin users can't register (to prevent student misuse)
• Other improvements
• New & improved instruments, from Fife to Balalaika family
• Write remote keys enharmonically in transposing instruments (option)
• Wildcards to include title, page number, date, etc. in text
• Print 2-up
• Printing spreads improved
• Reorder words in word menus
• Improved Quick Start dialog
• Many bugs fixed
• Even more features, if you have Sibelius 1 or 2!
• If you still have Sibelius 1 or 2, don't get left behind - now's the ideal time to upgrade! You can open all your existing files in Sibelius 4. You'll find Sibelius 4 much easier to use, and more productive too. And as well as all the new features we've mentioned, you'll get all the improvements that were added before Sibelius 4, including:
• Playback
• Kontakt Player plays high-quality instrumental sounds
• Export audio file for creating CDs or MP3s
• Plays rits, accels, glissandos, D.S., D.C., Coda, etc.
• Type instrument name to change sound, e.g. 'change to Clarinet'
• Rhythmic feel and Rubato for extra realism
• Live Playback plays and edits precise timing & dynamics of Flexi-time or MIDI files
• Mixer
• Look and feel
• Dialog to create new score in 5 easy steps
• New Inkpen2 handwriting font
• Over 200 time-saving keyboard shortcuts
• Define your own shortcuts
• Disable features (for schools)
• Many new paper & desk textures
• Note input
• Caret shows where you're inputting
• 'Shadow note' shows where note will go when you click
• Create text, time signatures, chords etc. from the keyboard during note input
• Flexi-time splits music into 2 voices
• Nnotes too high/low for an instrument shown in red
• Multicopy makes multiple copies of ostinati, dynamics etc.
• Optical note spacing
• Power tools
• Arrange feature saves time arranging and orchestrating by copying music intelligently onto combinations of instruments, with over 140 styles including 'explode' and reduction
• Scanning reads multiple voices, transposing scores, etc.
• Focus on Staves shows just the staves you're working on
• Reorder staves
• Align staves throughout the score
• Copy and paste lyrics to/from word processor
• Print and save from Scorch
• Automatic page turns at convenient places
• Properties window with 7 collapsible panels to tweak objects
• Rulers calculates time position of bars and duration of score
• Edit fonts of all text styles at once
• Many new filters
• Find objects
• Hide almost any object
• House Style menu
• Free subscription to Grove online encyclopedia
• Plug-ins
• Over 50 extra plug-ins, e.g. Scales and Arpeggios, Realize Chord Symbols, Add Brass/String Fingerings, Find Motive, Retrograde
• Notations
• Over 400 instruments
• Intelligently positioned 'magnetic' tuplets
• Import graphics
• Color in or highlight almost anything
• Organize chord diagram (guitar frame) into libraries
• Beams over rests, edit beam groups
• Improved positioning etc. of accidentals and articulations
• Different keys on different staves
• Many new symbols
• Early music barlines
• Comprehensive guitar tab
• Open and export ASCII tab files