And handled in such a way that they’re fixed to the bar in question. Annotations are intelligently grouped: make a few annotations within a sufficiently short time – even lifting the pen off your (tablet’s) surface – and they’ll be bound together. And you add them using a pen – with the appropriate hardware environment – or a mouse/finger (though this isn’t really practical). You can now circle items, write (or type) well-formatted comments or instructions for arrangers, players or students, for instance.
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Sibelius version 8’s new Annotate feature allows you greater flexibility in drawing directly onto the score with the appropriate input device – mouse, trackpad, USB tablet, (Surface Pro 3) pen etc.
Such additions – usually above the staff – can help you find your way around, act as reminders, or prompts: “this needs to be completed next session…â€, “discuss tempo with players at first rehearsalâ€, “change back to arcoâ€, or “return to this passage and transpose after orchestrationâ€. Sibelius has long supported notes – as in written comments in English or a localized language, as well as crotchets/quarter notes and quavers/eighth notes. The other major change is in Avid’s pricing structure and policy. The only major new innovation – but one that will be very useful to many who work this way – is the addition of integrated control and data input via other devices that the keyboard… Annotations and gestures on a tablet etc.
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Version 8 itself, though, offers fewer new features than other upgrade versions have done.
Some of this comes bundled with Sibelius (8) in ‘lite’ versions – see the end of this review.
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Indeed, the hundreds of third party plugins, ancillary tools and score scanning and capturing software make Sibelius still the richest option for serious composers. They continue to provide an excellent environment in which to compose music – many orders of magnitude above what the likes of GarageBand offers. Happily, the software and company have held their own. MyMac reviewed Sibelius 7.5 a year ago, and put the continued development of the product in the context of then recent changes at Avid. (As version 8 loads we hear a few swelling bars from the first movement of the Sixth.)
Particularly with regard to since the short musical extract which plays over the program’s splash screen on loading: it’s traditionally been taken from the corresponding symphony number. So Avid, who have owned the iconic score-writing software, Sibelius, since 2006, were faced with a something of a quandary when naming the latest release, which followed less than a year and a half after Version 7.5. Sibelius certainly withdrew and tried to suppress his 8th. Yet fragments of an 8th do exist and indeed were performed in 2011… barely three minutes long, though. Jean Sibelius, the 150th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year (he lived from 1865 to 1957), officially composed only seven symphonies. Switch from Finale, Notion, Encore, Mosaic: $199 Upgrade from all previous versions (1 to 7.5) of Sibelius, including one year’s upgrades: $89 per annum
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