Sibelius 4.1.5f105 review

Sibelius is the world's best-selling music notation software for Mac.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Sibelius, Inc. Buy Now Price: $599.00 Updated: 07 Sep 2006

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Sibelius is the world's best-selling music notation software for Mac. It is as intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in less than the blink of an eye. The demo includes example scores and a demo user guide summarizing the main features of the program.

Here are some key features of "Sibelius":
The new version Sibelius 4 takes another giant leap forward, with astonishing new features no other program can touch:
Dynamic Parts™ View movie
Beautifully laid-out instrumental parts that magically update themselves whenever you change the full score
Worksheet Creator™ View movie
Save time by choosing from over 1700 high-quality worksheets, exercises, songs, instrumental pieces, lyrics, posters & other resources
Video View movie
Now you too can compose a film/TV score! For professionals and students alike. Includes videos to write for, from Charlie Chaplin to Mr Bean.

What's New:
Support for new Garritan Personal Orchestra Sibelius Edition and Sibelius Rock and Pop Collection products
Two new plug-ins
Bar number ranges on multirests (and bar numbers can be dragged any distance)
Advance through attached video files one frame at a time
Create any MIDI controller change message via Play > Dictionary
Easily create dynamic parts in different transpositions from the same instrument
New timecode formats (15fps, 29.97 (drop) fps) and improved timecode import from MIDI files
Supports new Apple Mighty Mouse (Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later)
Supports PostScript (Type 1) music fonts
Fixed a problem that caused Sibelius to slow down during editing in scores using French beams.
Fixed a problem that caused Sibelius to crash sometimes after stopping playback when using GPO Sibelius Edition.
Fixed a problem whereby lines following text (e.g. lyric lines, or guitar lines) would appear at different distances away from the text at different zoom levels.
Fixed a problem that could cause Sibelius to crash upon exiting after editing instrument names.