Academic Sibelius 4

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Sibelius 4 is the complete software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It's designed to save you time, produce outstanding results, and allow you to accomplish any musical creation you can imagine. Whether you're a professional composer or arranger, an educator, or a student, Sibelius 4 will make your musical life easier.

Sibelius 4 Notation Software at a Glance:

• New Dynamic Parts mean your parts automatically update!
• Loads of workflow-enhancing new features
• Setting up a score is automatic!
• Four different ways to input notes and articulations
• Clear, easy-to-follow interface
• Amazingly flexible and realistic playback
• Kontakt Silver sample player and sound library included
• Stunning scores in user-selectable formats

Sibelius 4 - Your parts automatically update to the score!
A huge new feature of Sibelius 4 is Dynamic Parts. Imagine what it would be like if you never had to extract parts again! In Sibelius 4, you don't have to do anything to get parts. As soon as you start a new score, all the parts are already there - you can choose any of them from a list on the toolbar. As you add music to the full score, it appears in the relevant parts too. In fact, whatever you do to the score, Sibelius instantly updates the parts. Or you can change the parts, and the score will change to match!

Sibelius 4 New Features:

• Dynamic Parts always match the score
• 1700 ready-made worksheets and resources
• Write music to video
• Copy-and-paste to Word
• SibeliusEducation.com
• Optical beams and ties
• Helsinki and other music fonts
• 11 new plug-ins
• On-screen tutorials and reference
• ...and much more

Sibelius 4 - Setting up a score is automatic!
Start a score from scratch - specify instruments, page size, title, tempo etc. with a few clicks. Your score is set up instantly, all of the instruments with the correct names, clefs, transpositions and layout.

Sibelius 4 - Four different ways to input notes and articulations
Sibelius 4 allows you to input notes in four easy ways:

• MIDI Input - Flexi-time is Sibelius's unique system for notating music as you play it on a MIDI keyboard in real time. There's no need to tap a pedal or play mechanically - just play naturally with both hands, and Sibelius will actually follow you as you speed up or slow down. You can even listen to the music you've already written as you play in more music on top.
• Mouse and Keystrokes - To input without a MIDI keyboard, pick note values and accidentals from the keypad with the mouse, and click to place them in the score. For extra speed, use the computer keyboard instead - specify pitch using the letters A to G, and rhythms from the keypad using the numeric keys. There are many other useful keyboard shortcuts for "power users."
• Keypad - Choose notes, articulations and other marks with the mouse or corresponding numeric key. There are five different sets of symbols to choose from.
• Scanning - Sibelius includes PhotoScore Lite - a state-of-the-art program for scanning printed music. It takes just seconds to read a page, and you can then edit or transpose the music in Sibelius, play it back, extract parts and print - just as if you'd input it yourself.

Sibelius 4 - Clear, easy-to-follow interface
The Sibelius screen is simple and intuitive, so you can concentrate on writing music without the constant distraction of menus and dialog boxes. To look around the music, just click and drag the page - it really feels like you're moving manuscript paper in front of you. Alternatively, drag the Sibelius Navigator to move smoothly through many pages at once. You can even choose different colors and textures for the paper and desk on the screen. Sibelius is as intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in less than the blink of an eye. Created by musicians for musicians, Sibelius gives you the freedom to do whatever you want, the way you want to.

Sibelius 4 - Amazingly flexible and realistic playback
Just click the play button to hear your music performed with surprising realism. Sibelius 4 reads, understands and plays back all standard markings - including trills, repeats, cresc./dim. hairpins, 8vas, glissandos, percussion and drum sets, guitar tab, and even quarter-tones. Sibelius understands musical words and phrases such as: rit., pizz., Allegro, mute, swing, and change to Piccolo. Musical terms in various languages are already defined in a built-in dictionary - and you can add new words to it, too. Sibelius lets you select specific instruments and sections of music to listen to, automatically playing the correct instrumental sounds through your sound card or MIDI equipment. The Sibelius 4 mixer lets you adjust sounds, volume, and pan position, solo or mute particular staves, and control playback any way you want.

Sibelius 4 - Kontakt Silver sample player and sound library included
Sibelius 4 includes Kontakt Player Silver, which produces surprisingly realistic playback of your music using top-quality instrumental samples. Kontakt Player Silver includes a useful selection of brass, woodwind, strings, percussion, voices and a Bosendorfer piano. You can expand this to 64 or more pitched sounds and 110 unpitched percussion sounds, including a wide range of useful orchestral and band instruments, by upgrading to Kontakt Player Gold. The sample library includes sounds from Sonic Implants, Peter Seidlaczek (Best Service), Northstar, Zero-G, Tap Space, and Dan Dean Productions. If you already have a good MIDI sound module or sampler, you can use it in conjunction with Sibelius 4 and Kontakt Player.

Sibelius 4 - Stunning scores in user-selectable formats
Sibelius makes your scores look stunning, because it automatically applies hundreds of subtle music engraving rules to optimize every aspect of your score's appearance. You can set Sibelius "House Style" options to emulate the high-quality appearance of famous publishers, or design your own house style(s) to make your scores look distinctive. A whole menu of options is included, to control everything from text styles and notehead shapes to complex engraving rules. You can even save Sibelius house styles to disk and import them into other scores.

Sibelius 4 Notation Software Features:

• Comprehensive, easy-to-use notation and playback software
• Auto score setup according to your preferences
• Four note entry options
• Included sample library and Kontakt Silver for realistic playback
• Create CDs & MP3s of your music
• Live Flexi-time MIDI input, editing, and playback
• Special school feature set
• 30 new plug-ins