Sibelius 4 features include:
- Create CDs & MP3s of your music
- High-quality sounds built-in
- Auto page breaks
- Focus on staves
- Live Flexi-time, editing and playback
- School feature set
- Optical note spacing
- Over 50 plug-ins
Sibelius is designed around a single tool palette called
the 'keypad' which acts as the center of operations for your composition. You can select
and edit any object in the score at any time - no need to switch between layers and tools
first.
There are three easy ways to input notes into
Sibelius:
FLEXI-TIME is Sibelius' unique system for notating
music as you play it straight in from a MIDI keyboard in real time. There's no need to tap
a pedal or play mechanically - just play naturally with both hands, and Sibelius will
actually follow you as you speed up or slow down. What's more, you can even listen to the
music you've already written as you play in more music on top (overdubbing).
STEP-TIME lets you play pitches from your MIDI
keyboard with one hand, and choose rhythms and articulations from the keypad with the
other.
MOUSE AND KEYSTROKES allow you to input quickly
without using MIDI. Pick note-values and accidentals from the keypad with the mouse, and
click to place them in the score. For extra speed, use the computer keyboard instead -
specify pitch using the letters A to G, and rhythms or other markings from the keypad
using the numeric keys. There are many more keyboard shortcuts for 'power users'.
Sibelius can transform Standard MIDI Files straight into
clean scores - far more intelligently than some notation products. This is an ideal way
to notate music transferred from sequencers, other music programs, or the Internet.
You can also input music by scanning
it in using the included PhotoScore Liteฎ from Neuratron Software - the state-of-the-art plug-in program
which scans and reads printed music into Sibelius. Once the music is read, you can edit or
transpose the score in Sibelius, play it back, extract parts and print - just as if you'd
entered it yourself.
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