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7.5 Legacy Upgrade from Sibelius 6 and earlier

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Overview

The official legacy upgrade.

Stay current with the latest iteration of the full version of Sibelius. This is the upgrade path for Sibelius 6.0 and even earlier to 7.5, the brand new, fully reimagined notation, playback and performance suite. It will upgrade any qualifying licensed Sibelius product to all aspects of Sibelius 7.5. New functionality, streamlined GUI, Scorch app integration, easy sharing and export, accelerated navigation and more.

Sibelius is the world's best-selling music notation software, trusted by top composers, publishers, and students alike. With Sibelius 7.5, you can express, accelerate, and promote your creativity in more ways than ever before, enabling you to deliver beautiful, professional scores faster and share audio and video versions of your work-with stunningly realistic musical phrasing-to make your talent stand out from the crowd. It's the fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music for live performance, film and television, media entertainment, or in the classroom.

Expressiveness and feel
With the unique and fully redesigned Espressivo 2.0 feature, Sibelius gives you complete control over and customization of the rhythmic feel of any individual part to produce more expressive and realistic musical phrasings. And because the software can now better interpret such notation distinctions as tempo markings, metric emphasis, grace notes, mordents, caesuras, and breath marks on playback, you can hear every nuance of your score-the way you intended it to be heard.

Accelerated navigation
With the new Timeline window, you get a quick view of the entire structure of your score-no matter how large or complex-enabling you to navigate to any part fast for editing or playback. Simply click on any bar, in the timecode ruler, or on any landmark-the important objects that make up your score, including rehearsal marks, repeat structures, comments, key signatures, tempo, and more-to jump immediately to that section.

Easy collaboration and sharing
Get all of the score sharing and social media features of Sibelius | First in Sibelius, enabling you to collaborate more easily with others and distribute your compositions for the world to hear. Share scores through email, upload and publish them as sheet music on ScoreExchange.com, and even share your composition as a video or audio file on YouTube, Facebook, and SoundCloud.

Export video of your composition
Save a video file of your score to share your work with others on a DVD or online. Sibelius can export in a variety of resolutions-up to 1080p-in QuickTime format (.mov) on Mac or Windows Media Video (.wmv) on Windows, enabling others to see and hear your work without requiring Sibelius.

Full Scorch app integration
Export Sibelius scores directly to Avid Scorch on your iPad (available on iTunes) for fully interactive playback, practice, performance, and publishing. Sibelius automatically optimizes your score for iPad display, paying special consideration to page orientation, number of staves, margin sizes, and more.

Localized for Brazil and Russia
If Brazilian Portuguese or Russian is your native tongue, Sibelius 7.5 offers new native support for these languages in addition to English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Features

  • Compose and edit
  • Playback with quality sounds
  • For recording, performance or notation
  • Layout options, export options, beautiful print fonts
  • Special notations

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Specs

7.5 Legacy Upgrade from Sibelius 6 and earlier Specifications:

Minimum requirementsWindows
  • :
  • 32- or 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1 or later) or Windows 8 (not Windows RT)
  • 1+ GB of RAM
  • 750 MB hard disk space for Sibelius software only; 36 GB additional hard disk space for the Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation)
  • DVD-ROM drive (box versions only)
Mac
  • :
  • Mac OS X 10.6.7, 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9
  • 1+ GB of RAM
  • 750 MB hard disk space for Sibelius software only; 36 GB additional hard disk space for the Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation)
  • DVD-ROM drive (box versions only)
  • Recommendations for the Sibelius Sounds library*
Windows:
  • Intel Core 2 Duo or better (or equivalent)
  • 4+ GB of RAM
  • 40 GB hard disk space (SSD preferred)
  • ASIO-compatible soundcard
Mac:
  • Intel Core 2 Duo or better
  • 4+ GB of RAM
  • 40 GB hard disk space (SSD preferred)
  • Using external hardware MIDI playback devices with Sibelius
  • If you have an external hardware MIDI playback device that you wish to use, please check that a compatible sound set is available: see the list of sound sets supplied with Sibelius 7.5.
  • * You can use Sibelius Sounds if your computer doesn't meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously, and that sounds take a long time to load.
  • What's included*
  • Sibelius software
  • 36 GB Sibelius Sounds library
  • AudioScore Lite audio transcribing software
  • PhotoScore Lite music scanning software
  • ReWire audio/data transfer software
  • 90 days of complimentary phone and online support
  • Sibelius is available both as a boxed product and a software download. A computer with a DVD-ROM drive (or equivalent) is required for boxed purchases; a high-speed Internet connection is highly recommended for download.
Sibelius network licenses
  • Sibelius's network licenses operate on a client-server model. The Sibelius program itself is installed on the local hard drive of each of the client workstations, and a separate License Server program is installed on a single designated server or workstation. The License Server program is supplied with your copy of Sibelius and enables the designated number of licensed client copies to run on the network simultaneously. In conjunction with Sibelius's Classroom Control feature, the License Server also lets you send messages to users of the client copies, send and receive Sibelius files between client machines, and close copies down from the server machine.
License Server requirements
  • Sibelius requires a network using the TCP/IP and UDP protocols. (Your network may use other protocols in addition to TCP/IP and UDP, but TCP/IP and UDP must be present in order for the Licence Server to communicate fully with the client copies.)
  • The Sibelius License Server and the License Server Control Panel will run on Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Mac OS X 10.6.7, or Mac OS X 10.7 and later. It will also run on a virtual server running VMWare using a qualified Windows operating system, as listed above.
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