If you are a Sibelius 7 user who also owns an iPad, you’ll want to check this out:
The iPad Sibelius® Wizard control surface allows you to instantly create and filter favourite Text, Lines, Voices, Plugins and other hard to remember keyboard shortcuts. Created by composer Derek Williams, this multi-page custom keypad specifically designed for Sibelius 7 works in conjunction with the $3.99 Custom Keypad app by iOS Pro Apps. Features include:
Expression Text
- Dynamics including ppp thru fff, cresc. dim.
Technique Text
- Ensemble, Brass, Strings
Lyrics Text
- Above and below staff
- Lyric lines 2, 3, 4
- 6 Lyrics plugins
- Export, Import and Align Lyrics plug-ins
Tempo and Metronome Text
- All Sibelius standard directions, pasted with a single tap
Lines
- Standard and Custom trills above and below with accidentals and without extensions
- Add Bars, Repeat bars, Repeat signs, Capo and Segno
- crescendo and decrescendo below and above staff
- pedal with and without extension, including pedal up
- una corda and tre corde pedal directions
- 8va, 8vb, 15ma, 15mb
- join two notes with Add Line Between Notes plug-in
Call up functions by name, including:
- Tuplets and 6 popular tuplet plug-ins
- Advanced Filter, and Filters for:
- Voices 1-4
- Players 1&2
- 6 Text Types
- Line Types
- Notes & Rests
- Select any notes in any position in any chord
- Set Voices 1-4
- Common, useful Plug-ins
- Add/Delete/Change Instruments
Navigation, Zoom and Transport:
- Control Sibelius remotely with your iPad including:
- Panorama and Zoom
- Full transport functions Play, Record, Rewind, FF
- Built in wireless Trackpad that replicates Mac Trackpad and includes Swipe for paging, and Pinch to control Zoom
- Mixer, File and Edit menu shortcuts
- Full Ribbon control for all Tabs and Sub-options
Currently, the product works with Sibelius 7 running on Mac OS 10.6 or greater, with Windows compatibility expected shortly. For more information, visit Derek William’s website, and the thread on the Sibelius Help Center.
This looks like an awesome app. A good reason to go out and buy an iPad this afternoon. Forget the Olympics. Write an aria or epic-pathetic soundtrack!