Sibelius

Sibelius is the world's best-selling music notation software for Mac. It is as intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in less than the blink of an eye. The demo includes example scores and a demo user guide summarizing the main features of the program.

Highlights

• Sibelius 7.5 Reference and What's New Guide have been fully translated into all 9 languages
• Audio and video export now occurs faster than real-time
• It's now possible to have both Sibelius 7 and Sibelius 7.5 activated on the same computer (within the terms of the license)
• Better support for high resolution displays on Windows; specifically, the QuickStart now displays properly
• An old problem going back several versions of Sibelius has been fixed where Sibelius would crash after the computer was woken from sleep
• A problem where the breath mark "comma" produces staccato playback has been fixed
• Sibelius and the Sibelius License Server will now run correctly once more on OS X 10.6 and 10.7
• Resolved a crash that could happen if a score has more than 128 instruments
• We've fixed a problem where some Rhythmic feels may have been missing from the Performance dialog
• Sibelius 7.5 no longer crashes if using a 'Jump to' and 'Marker' repeat structure
• Mordents and Inverted Mordents now play back correctly
• Ties now play back correctly again when using Repeat Bars
• Preferences stored by plugins are now correctly saved
• Video export and sharing to Facebook have been improved
• Playback line is no longer a beat behind (this accuracy varies depending on your playback device)
• Problems posting to Facebook have been resolved
• The tempo in the score is correctly reflected in the video
• Further fixes to make the connection with Sibelius and Pro Tools more reliable when using ReWire

Timeline

• Long instrument names are now clipped to show more of the Timeline
• Focus on Staves is now reflected in the Timeline
• More musical symbols are displayed in the lanes (Repeats and Metric Modulations, for example)
• Text and symbols are displayed on more appropriate lanes
• It's now possible to click+drag around the Timeline to navigate the score, similar to how the Navigator works
• Hidden objects are now reflected in the Timeline and honor the option in View > Invisibles > Hidden Objects
• F# Minor now shows as F# Minor on the Key Signatures lane
• Comments are now shown in the Timeline with the same color they appear in the score
• Various performance optimizations

Accessibility

• Improvements to the way objects, menus and dialogs in Sibelius are read by screen readers
• Some brand new plug-ins for Sibelius 7.5.1 that aid navigation of staff and system objects in the score