#Sibelius mac software#
No software can ever sound completely like the real thing in the concert hall. The coders have done a good job here such an improvement alone justifies the modest price ($49.95, Sibelius 7 to 7.5 download $89.95 boxed version) of upgrading. Tempo markings, metric emphasis, grace notes, mordents, caesuras, and breath marks all sound more natural and less as though they’ve been annotated on a computer. This aspect of Sibelius 7.5 has been significantly enhanced. It’s vital that as many nuances of notation as possible can be heard just as they are intended eventually to be played by ‘live’ musicians. Files from version 7 had either been updated or left safely in place.Īfter that good start, major changes to the software’s functionality and features should be summed up (and have been evaluated for this review) in three categories.Ĭentral to any score/notation software is the ability to hear instantly what you have written. And within an equally short period of time (under five minutes) a score written in Sibelius 7 with third party Vienna Symphonic Library tools and an Ivory soundset was playing without hitch.
#Sibelius mac upgrade#
The upgrade process took just a few minutes.Įverything that was described in the clear documentation that comes with the product happened just as expected.
And (it should be noted) after a speedy and reliably-executed download from the Avid server. The installer worked quickly and flawlessly first time, as this review was being prepared. Yet one is understandably nervous that some vital set of data, resource or files could be compromised during a major upgrade. Sibelius logically distributes support files, preferences, soundsets and other settings across the hard drive. Here we concentrate on what’s new in Sibelius 7.5… the strengths of the earlier versions have all been retained. MyMac has looked in depth at both Sibelius 6 and Sibelius 7. In fact, a new version has recently been released here Sibelius 7.5.1 (a significant further milestone release for bug fixes and maintenance) is examined. Yet the market-leading score-writing software did not disappear as some both predicted and feared. Rumors of serious financial trouble circulated and the company’s Vice President, CFO and CTO resigned. Two years ago the Finsbury Park, London, HQ of the Sibelius development team was closed, many developers laid off, and the suite’s coding and maintenance operation relocated to the Ukraine. Avid has received a lot of criticism from Sibelius users of late.