Sibelius 5 music notation software debuts
updated 05:35 pm EDT, Tue June 12, 2007
Sibelius 5 debuts
Sibelius Software has unveiled Sibelius 5, the latest revision of its music notation software that boasts a userbase of 180,000 musicians and educators worldwide. Sibelius 5 features an "Ideas Hub" to ease the process of capturing snippets of music, enabling users to tag those snippets with keywords and locate them again within a simple search. New built-in sounds and playback capability offer users a 2GB collection of sounds selected from popular libraries by Garritan, SonicVox, and Tapspace. "SoundWorld" offers a new way of categorizing sounds that aims to help Sibelius choose the most suitable sound available on any device. Sibelius 5 professional is available for pre-order at $600, and students can pre-order an educational edition for $330.
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Finally!
We've been waiting for quite some time for Sibelius 5. While 4.1 worked under Rosetta, some things were quite slow. With the addition of the 'Panorama' feature, i know quite a few Finale users who will ditch it in a heartbeat and switch over. For many, the one deal breaker was the lack of a scrolling endless staff. Even though Sibelius always was significantly more intuitive than Finale, the 800-lb gorilla of music engraving (the Quark) was difficult to abandon, especially lacking this one feature. Now that it's here, and in UB, those still on Finale have a perfect excuse to move to the perennial underdog (InDesign?) with the friendly UI.
Where do we line up for this one?