Sibelius Ultimate

Sibelius Ultimate Key Features:

• Composing, arranging, and publishing scores and parts of any size and complexity; creating notation worksheets and exercises for education.
• Subscribe monthly or annually, purchase and own a perpetual license, trade-up from other notation software, or get network licensing.
• Compose smoothly and flexibly with cutting-edge features.
• Updated interface lets you work faster and with greater detail.
• Write music with a pen on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet.
• Use multi-touch gestures to interact with scores.
• Compatible with the latest Mac and Windows operating systems.
• Included PhotoScore and NotateMe Lite software.
• Includes 1 year of Standard support (web support) and software updates.

NOTATION:

• Accidentals: Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed.
• Metadata: Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed.
• Bar numbers: Full range of formats.
• Barline types: Single, double, repeat, dotted, early music.
• Bars, irregular: *.
• Beams cross-staff in (keyboard music): *.
• Beam/rest groupings: Customizable.
• Brackets and braces: Customizable.
• Change transposition of tranposing instruments: *.
• Chord symbols appearance and MIDI/text input.
• Cue (small) notes: *.
• Dotted notes: single, double, triple: *.
• Guitar chord diagrams: *.
• Guitar scale diagrams: *.
• Guitar tab: Full.
• Instruments: Customizable.
• Jazz articulations: scoops, falls, doits, and plops.
• Lines, custom: *.
• Lines gallery: *.
• Note values: 512th note (7 beams) to "long" (double breve): *.
• Noteheads, custom: *.
• Ossia staves: *.
• Page numbers.
• Special symbols: *.
• Split multirests in parts: *.
• Staves: Unlimited number.
• Stemlets (half-stems) and "feathered" beams: *.
• Symbols: All.
• Tuplets: Any (such as 2, 7, 44:31, and nested tuplets).
• Voices per stave: 4 voices:

NOTATION:

• Advanced notation interpretation.
• Edit MIDI data.
• Included sampled sounds.
• Espressivo 2.0.
• Live Tempo (conduct playback by tapping).
• Loop playback.
• Watch the video.
• Manual Sound Sets.
• Playback markings on specified repeats.
• Playback of hairpins, rits, and accels.
• Playback of fermatas.
• Playback support of n players.
• Scrub playback.
• Watch the video.
• Words that affect playback (e.g. legato):

PLAYBACK:

• Advanced notation interpretation.
• Edit MIDI data.
• Included sampled sounds.
• Espressivo 2.0.
• Live Tempo (conduct playback by tapping).
• Loop playback.
• Watch the video.
• Manual Sound Sets.
• Playback markings on specified repeats.
• Playback of hairpins, rits, and accels.
• Playback of fermatas.
• Playback support of n players.
• Scrub playback.
• Watch the video.
• Words that affect playback (e.g. legato):

UTILITIES:

• Annotate.
• Arrange: automatic arranging and orchestration.
• Comments (sticky notes).
• Compare different scores or versions.
• Copy and paste to Word and other programs.
• Display timecode.
• Edit Dynamic Parts.
• Edit word menus.
• Export a log of changes to a score.
• Export lyrics as text file.
• Filters for editing similar objects.
• Find.
• Watch the video.
• Focus on staves.
• Graphics export (for creating worksheets and other content).
• Hide and show objects in score and parts.
• Highlight music.
• Ideas Hub.
• Import MIDI files.
• Import MusicXML files.
• Intelligent MIDI Import.
• Watch the video.
• Intelligent MusicXML Import.
• Watch the video.
• Instrument changes.
• Join scores together.
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Lyric verses allowed.
• Watch the video.
• Lyrics from text file.
• Navigator window.
• Note input options.
• Watch the video.
• Panorama scroll view.
• Paper and desk textures.
• Part extraction.
• Paste As Cue.
• Plugins.
• Inspector window to edit individual objects.
• Rehearsal marks.
• Repeat structures.
• Rulers.
• Score Starter: (40 genre-specific templates).
• Slide notes and rests.
• Special page breaks.
• Timeline window.
• Swap voices.
• Versions.
• Video, including timecode and hit points.
• Viewing options for Magnetic Layout, page margins, note colors, full screen, and more.
• Worksheet Creator:

PUBLISHING:

• Advanced layout features.
• Auto Layout options.
• Auto Optimize.
• Watch the video.
• Edit fonts.
• Edit staff types.
• Edit text styles.
• Engraving rules (edit hundreds of).
• Headers/footers.
• House Style import/export.
• Watch the video.
• Intelligent Rests.
• Magnetic Layout.
• Manage Dynamic Parts.
• Manuscript papers (preset score layouts).
• Multiple staff size.
• Note spacing rules.
• Reset position/design of objects.
• Set default object positions.
• Staff spacing:

EXPORTING & SHARING:

• Audio recording export.
• Avid Scorch optimized export (app available on the iTunes App Store).
• Email score as .sib or .pdf.
• Graphics file export.
• MIDI file export—Type 0 and Type 1 for any device.
• MusicXML file export (compressed or uncompressed).
• Previous version export.
• Publish directly to ScoreExchange.com.
• Review mode.
• Watch the video.
• Sibelius | Cloud Sharing.
• Watch the video.
• Video file (export your score as).

Import intelligently.

Take the stress out of collaborating with non-Sibelius composers. With a single click, Sibelius transforms MusicXML files into beautifully formatted scores without any manual work. You can import score data directly into your go-to template or into a new Sibelius file. All notation, markup, and layout details are automatically and intelligently assigned, so you can start immediately and spend more time on the music—not toiling away conforming elements to a template.

Customize color to help whole range of sight loss

We're pleased to introduce a further swathe of accessibility improvements. This time, we are addressing the whole range of sight loss by introducing features to allow you to customize the color of the four voice colors, notes out of range, and the color of the Staff and System selections.

Sibelius comes with 5 presets to get you started, and you can create your own. These are:

• Default – as they always have been
• Vivid – very high contrasting colors
• Monochromatic – mostly blue with a hint of pink
• Grayscale – mostly gray with a hint of pink
• Working late – specifically chosen to reduce eye strain in low light conditions

{See video at top of page}

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