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Sibelius 7 Sounds User Guide

The Sibelius 7 Sounds User Guide wasn’t included with my original installation of Sibelius 7.0, but I would have found it very useful. It provides a complete list of all of the instruments and sounds included with Sibelius 7 as well as details of how to trigger all of the different playing techniques contained in the library.

While the main Sibelius Reference Guide contains some of the same material contained in this resource, if you are trying to get the best results from the Sound Library, you’ll probably want to check this out first. The Sounds User Guide provides informative graphics and illustrations to help you understand Sibelius Sound Library parameters such as ranges and sound IDs:

To help you get started, Avid has also posted a companion example Sibelius 7 score that has every instrument in the Sibelius 7 Sounds library already configured. (The User Guide has instructions starting on page 11).

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Sibelius 7 Sounds User Guide
Sibelius Sounds Configuration File

To download the Sibelius Sounds User Guide PDF above without opening it directly in your browser, right click the image link, then save it to your desktop or downloads folder. 

The Sibelius 7 Sounds User Guide is written by Hugh Smith of The Write Score, providers of documentation and templates for a variety of sound libraries to help you get the most out of your notation software.

The sound library included with Sibelius 7 contains 550 separate instruments and playing techniques, and hundreds of unpitched percussion sounds.


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Add Finale to your music notation software toolbox

MakeMusic is currently offering users of any competing notation program the option to also own Finale for $139.

Unlike most cross-grade offers, this one doesn’t require you to give up your existing install disc or owner’s manual.  To qualify for the “add-grade” pricing, you just need to verify for MakeMusic the serial number or activation ID of the competing program you are using.

Cubase Score, Encore, Freestyle, Mosaic, Music Printer Plus, Musicator, Nightingale, Notion, Overture, Rhapsody, Score and Sibelius all qualify for this offer.

 via Nico Oberbanscheidt


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SIBELIUS NEWS : AVID CEO Gary Greenfield Resigns

February 11, 2013 – Effective today, Gary G. Greenfield, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Avid Technology, Inc. (Nadaq: AVID) voluntarily resigned as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President.

Avid’s Board of Directors has appointed Louis Hernandez, Jr., a director of the Company, to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President.

Greenfield will be entitled to a severance package in connection with his existing employment agreement with Avid, receiving $1,014,000 (1 million, 14 thousand dollars) for the next twelve months.

During the last 6 months of Mr. Greenfield’s tenure, Avid underwent a massive restructuring, which included closing down the Sibelius UK office and selling off company assets.

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Sibelius Gap Before Bar – A Positive Feature With Negative Offsets

Q: I have a very strange Sibelius error that I can’t fix. The piece I am working on shows brackets in the middle of a system that I cannot delete without that all the brackets in the whole piece get deleted. I don’t remember how it ended up there, and I am sure I saved the file in a normal state. After opening it, though, it was like this:

 

Any idea what happened and how I could fix this?

A: Sibelius has a little move handle that appears when you click in a certain place just to the front of a staff:

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Controlling Layout with Auto & Manual Breaks in Sibelius

Q: What I want to achieve is control over the number of bars per line as a general rule in Sibelius (4 per line, as in the jazz chart style), but with occasional exceptions, e.g. an intro or pickup bar followed by 4 bars (drum chart, gap is guitar intro), or 3 or 5 bars on a line here or there where necessary. Can you give me any helpful hints on how you achieve this?

A: As you say, this type of layout is common for drum / rhythm section parts. To achieve this, I use Auto Layout in combination with locking the systems as I go.

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Controlling Symbols, Hooks & Dashed Extension Lines in Sibelius & Finale

Q: I am currently studying Elaine Gould’s “Behind Bars” and on page 30 she states: “Terminate the octave transposition with a corner”. In Finale, octave lines seem to automatically end with a corner whereas in Sibelius the line finishes as a vertical stroke which the writer advises to avoid.

How can I make a proper corner at the end of the extension line in Sibelius, if at all possible?

A: Both Finale and Sibelius by default use line strokes rather than shapes to create both the horizontal extension line and the vertical end “hook” for the Octave up and Octave down symbols and other lines.

Both programs also allow the use of a Symbol to end a line, so you can end a line with an  arrowhead, corner or any other shape. The advantage of using vector lines for this is that it allows the engraver to precisely mate the line width of the extension line and the hook very precisely so that the line and hook appear to be an extension of the same line.

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Installing Plug-ins in Sibelius

Q: I spent far too long today trying to install a Sibelius plug-in after I downloaded it.  I followed the Sibelius site instructions, but it still didn’t work. I’m using Sibelius 6 on Windows 7. Can you help?

A: In addition to the plugins that ship with Sibelius, there are now more than 400 additional plug-ins available for download from the Sibelius web site. A number of these plugins very likely could become indispensable to you, once you’ve tried them out.

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