Overview
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Sibelius Pro 6 Bundle. Order now and get both Sibelius 6 Pro Edition and the Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 6 by Max Tofone (items shipped separately in the US). Sibelius 6 is a giant leap forward for the world's best-selling notation software, and the Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 6 makes it fast to learn.
Sibelius 6 comes with new features and workflow improvements for educators, students, composers, arrangers, copyists and musicians of all kinds. Magnetic Layout makes your scores beautiful right from the very first note, Versions allows you to track progress and easily collaborate with others, Live Tempo puts you on the podium so that you can conduct your compositions from your keyboard, ReWire makes synchronizing Sibelius with Pro Tools a snap, and the integrated Sibelius Player, using technology from the award-winning Structure sampler for Pro Tools and high-quality sampled sounds, means that your creations sound better than ever!
Perfect scores up to twice as fast. And much more…
Sibelius 6 is a giant leap forward in notation software – with amazing new features and improvements for composers, arrangers, copyists, educators, students, and musicians of all kinds.
No more tidying up scores
Only in Sibelius: Magnetic Layout takes care of almost every detail of score layout for you - so effortlessly, you’ll hardly notice. As you write, it gives everything just the right amount of space and avoids collisions – producing beautiful results. This one feature saves you up to half your writing time.
Track changes and compare versions
Only in Sibelius: Have you ever written something better the first time around? The new Versions feature keeps track of revisions to your score, lets you look back at earlier versions of it, and see what changes were made since. Collaboration becomes a joy, and you can even add sticky Comments to leave notes for yourself, or others.
Conduct your scores
It’s time to take to the podium! Live Tempo lets you conduct the playback of your score to produce a nuanced, musical performance. Simply tap a key on your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or foot pedal, and Sibelius follows your beat.
Great new sounds – in no time
High-quality playback now needs no set-up at all – just hit the space bar, and Sibelius plays back using amazing sampled sounds. High-quality playback is more seamlessly integrated than ever, thanks to the latest technology from Digidesign’s AIR team.
Sync with sequencers and DAWs
Only in Sibelius: Add a live performance to an audio recording, or sync a recording with your score playback. You can do all of this and more thanks to ReWire support, which lets you sync Sibelius playback with products like Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, GarageBand and more.
Beautiful Keyboard & Fretboard windows
Only in Sibelius: If you prefer using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful new windows are ideal. Simply click on the keys or frets to input notes and chords – or ‘play’ your computer’s QWERTY keys just like a piano! They’re great for teaching, too.
Easy chord symbols & guitar diagrams
Chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams can now be created quicker than ever from your computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar. They also feature many enhancements and extra notations, including guitar scale diagrams.
Beautiful new slurs and more
Sibelius 6 lets you produce scores so stunning, they’re virtually works of art. Slurs are now the most beautiful and controllable of any program. Stemlets, beamed rests and arpeggio lines can be added and positioned instantly. And Sibelius 6 will even include cautionary accidentals automatically – helping you produce performance-ready scores every time.
Sell your scores around the world
Only with Sibelius: The brand new SibeliusMusic.com makes it even easier for you to earn an income from electronic sales of your scores around the world. Or you can just share and exchange scores with fellow musicians and Sibelius users.
Sing in music!
Developed by Neuratron, creators of PhotoScore, AudioScore lets you input music into Sibelius simply by singing or playing an instrument into a microphone, then hit a button to put the results into Sibelius.
Extra benefits and new features for Education
Faster, neater, scores for students
Only in Sibelius: Magnetic Layout positions almost every aspect of students’ scores in just the right place – dynamics, lyrics, chord symbols and more. Students can produce smarter scores more quickly for coursework and examinations – and Magnetic Layout helps teachers prepare scores for class and school performances in up to half the usual time.
Easy classroom control
Classroom ControlOnly in Sibelius: The network version of Sibelius 6 helps teachers manage a lab of Sibelius copies from a single computer, and ensure students are doing what they’re meant to be!
A classroom control panel lets teachers instantly:
Send a starting worksheet or score to every classroom computer
Freeze computers to get students’ attention
Send messages to all students (for example, “Only five more minutes.”)
Gather all students’ work into a single folder at the end of a class – ready to run through on the interactive whiteboard
Automatic Reports on student progress
Only in Sibelius: The new Versions feature enables teachers to see and report on what changes have been made to a student’s score over time. Students can also add their own commentary with each set of changes. Sibelius 6 collates these together with a record of changes to generate a student’s creative diary – ideal for composition coursework submissions.
Exchange comments with students
Teachers and students can now add virtual sticky notes to their scores – to pass on thoughts and suggestions efficiently, and in just the right places on a score.
Technical Specifications
Computer requirements for Sibelius
Minimum hardware requirements
Minimum requirements for Sibelius 6 alone
Windows XP 32-bit SP2 or later, Windows Vista 32-bit SP1 or later, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, 512MB+ RAM, 550MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive
Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 550MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive
Additional recommendations for using the included
Sibelius Sounds Essentials sound library
Windows: Intel Core Duo or AMD Turion or better, 1GB+ total physical RAM (2GB recommended), 3.5GB total hard disk space, ASIO-compatible soundcard
Mac: Intel Core Duo or better, 1GB+ total physical RAM (2GB recommended), 3.5GB total hard disk space
You can use Sibelius Sounds Essentials if your computer doesn't meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously.
64-bit computing
If you are already running 64-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista, please see our notes on 64-bit computing.
Using external hardware MIDI playback devices with Sibelius 6
If you have an external hardware MIDI playback device that you wish to use with Sibelius 6, please check that a compatible sound set is available: click here for a list of sound sets supplied with Sibelius 6.
Sibelius 6 Network Licences
Technical information
Sibelius's network licenses operate on a client-server model. The Sibelius program itself is installed on the local hard drive of each of the client workstations, and a separate Licence Server program is installed on a single designated server or workstation. The Licence Server program is supplied on a separate CD-ROM from the Sibelius program itself and enables the designated number of licensed client copies to run on the network simultaneously. In conjunction with Sibelius 6's Classroom Control feature, the Licence Server also lets you send messages to users of the client copies, send and receive Sibelius files between client machines, and close copies down from the server machine.
Requirements
Sibelius requires a network using the TCP/IP and UDP protocols. (Your network may use other protocols in addition to TCP/IP and UDP, but TCP/IP and UDP must be present in order for the Licence Server to communicate fully with the client copies.)
The Sibelius Licence Server and the Licence Server Control Panel will run on Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X 10.6 or later. It will also run on a virtual server running VMWare using a qualified Windows operating system as listed above.
Sibelius Book
- Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 6 - Book
- 79 Lessons to Proficiency
- With Screen Shots on Most Every Page
- Exclusive! Mini Workbook with homework examples to apply the concepts hands-on you learned from Max!
by Massimo Tofone
Ill., approximately 450 pps
Max Tofone's Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 6 is a 79-lesson blockbuster organized in a bite-sized step-by-step progression that takes you from beginner to master. Start at the beginning or dip-in where you have a specific need. Nearly every software step has a screen shot to illustrate it.
Composers will appreciate the lessons on over sized time signatures, adding cautionary time signatures, and how to number each bar with the number centered.
Songwriters learn how to create a lead sheet, input the lyric, add chord symbols and guitar fingering charts.
Graphic and MIDI exports also covered.
Sibelius is an easy program to learn. But the Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 6 makes it even easier!
Organized by six sections:
- Section 1 - Score Preparation
- Section 2 - Score Input
- Section 3 - For Songwriters: Lead Sheets, Piano/Vocal/Guitar & More
- Section 4 - Your Score As Document
- Section 5 - Score Playback
- Section 6 - Mini Workbook
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments & Dedication
Introduction
Section 1 – Score Preparation
Lesson 1 - Picking the Score and the Correct Size
Lesson 2 - Assigning the Instruments
Lesson 3 - Choosing the House Style
Lesson 4 - Assigning the Time Signature and Tempo
Lesson 5 - Assigning the Key Signature
Lesson 6 - Score Information
Lesson 7 - Adding More Bars to Your Score
Lesson 8 - Allow a Cautionary Time Signature
Lesson 9 - The Oversized Time Signature
Lesson 10 - How to Create a Pick-up Bar
Lesson 11 - Bar Numbers for Film/TV Scores and Parts
Lesson 12 - Removing Bar Numbering
Lesson 13 - Assigning Rehearsal Letters or Numbers
Lesson 14 - Creating and Saving a Score Template
Lesson 15 - Creating a String Orchestra Sketch Pad
Lesson 16 - Concert and Transposed Scores
Lesson 17 - Viewing Instrument Parts
Lesson 18 - Extracting Parts
Lesson 19 - Changing the Time Signature Size in Parts
Section 2 – Score Input
Lesson 20 - Inputting Notes
Lesson 21 - Inputting Notes Using the Keyboard or Fretboard Window
Lesson 22 - Deleting Notes
Lesson 23 - Correcting Notes
Lesson 24 - Inputting Tied Notes
Lesson 25 - Inputting Chords
Lesson 26 - Creating Two Voices on the Same Stave
Lesson 27 - Flipping Notes & Other Objects
Lesson 28 - Inserting Bars in the Middle of the Score
Lesson 29 - Deleting a Bar(s)
Lesson 30 - Transposing Up & Down an Octave (8ve)
Lesson 31 - Transposing a Melody
Lesson 32 - Selecting Single and Multiple Objects
Lesson 33 - Selecting a Passage of Music
Lesson 34 - Multi-copying Objects and Passages
Lesson 35 - Creating Triplets & Tuplets
Lesson 36 - Clef Change in the Middle of a Line
Lesson 37 - Creating a Key Change in the Score
Lesson 38 - Adding Expression Marks (Dynamics)
Lesson 39 - Adding Hairpins for Dynamic Changes
Lesson 40 - Technique Instructions Like Pizz, Divisi, etc.
Lesson 41 - Adding Articulations Like Staccato, etc.
Lesson 42 - Creating a Fermata (Bird’s Eye)
Lesson 43 - Adding Slurs, Phrase Marks, Trills, etc.
Lesson 44 - Adding Bar Lines, Repeat Marks, etc.
Lesson 45 - Adding Words Like Accelerando, Ritenuto, etc.
Lesson 46 - Adding Text to Your Score
Lesson 47 - Adding Comments to Your Score
Section 3 – Lead Sheets, Piano/Vocal/Guitar (PVG), Hymns
Lesson 48 - Choosing the Lead Sheet Template
Lesson 49 - Inputting a Song
Lesson 50 - Inputting Lyrics
Lesson 51 - Adding Chord Progression Symbols
Lesson 52 - Adding Guitar Finger Charts
Lesson 53 - Hymns & Chorales
Lesson 54 - Inputting a Bach Chorale
Lesson 55 - Adding Figured Bass for School
Section 4 – Your Score As Document
Lesson 56 - Document Setup
Lesson 57 - System & Page Breaks
Lesson 58 - Using Auto Breaks for Instrument Parts
Lesson 59 - Adding a Title Page to Your Score
Lesson 60 - Adding a Blank Page in the Middle of a Score
Lesson 61 - Useful Formatting Commands
Lesson 62 – Magnetic Layout
Lesson 63 - Aligning Objects in a Row/Column
Lesson 64 - Focus on Staves
Lesson 65 - Hide and Show Empty Staves
Lesson 66 - Adding/Removing Instruments and Staves
Lesson 67 - Panorama View
Lesson 68 - Moving Around Your Score
Lesson 69 - Saving & Backing Up Your Score
Lesson 70 - Saving Multiple Versions
Lesson 71 - Exporting As a Graphic
Lesson 72 - Exporting & Importing a MIDI File
Lesson 73 - Exporting As Audio
Lesson 74 - Creating a PDF of Your Music
Lesson 75 - Printing Scores on a Desktop Printer
Lesson 76 - Printing Out Multiple Instrument Parts
Lesson 77 - Printing Out Multiple Copies With a Plug-In
Section 5 – Score Playback
Lesson 78 - Playing Back Your Score
Lesson 79 - Using Virtual Instruments
Final Thoughts
Biography: About Max Tofone
Section 6 – Mini Workbook
God Save the Queen
Sinfonia 15, by J.S. Bach
First Arabesque, by C. Debussy
Piece Heroique, by C. Franck
Arietta, by E. Grieg
Le Polichinelle, by H. Villa-Lobos
Sonata, No. 5, by W. A. Mozart
Siegfried Idyll, by R. Wagner
Mother Goose Suite, II., by M. Ravel
Mother Goose Suite, III., by M. Ravel
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