Sibelius 6.0.0

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and RISC OS. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and TV music. In addition to editing and printing scores, Sibelius can also play music back using high-quality sounds, scan in printed scores for editing, and publish scores on the Internet.

Sibelius claims to be the world's best-selling scorewriter, with "hundreds of thousands of users in 100 countries".

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Sibelius's primary function is the creation, editing and printing of musical scores. It supports virtually all music notations, enabling even the most complex of scores (such as modern orchestral music) to be reproduced to publication quality.

Additionally, it allows scores to be played back realistically or turned into MIDI or audio files, e.g. to create a CD. A range of sounds called Sibelius Sounds Essentials is included, and Sibelius Software sells other sounds. Sibelius also supports any MIDI device, and allows VST and Audio Unit plug-ins to be used as playback instruments, giving Sibelius users access to third-party sample libraries (such as Vienna Symphonic Library or MOTU's Symphonic Instrument).^[3] Score playback can also be synchronized to video, or to audio software via the ReWire standard.

The third-party program PhotoScore can be used to scan and create a Sibelius score from printed music; a lite version of PhotoScore is bundled with the Sibelius software. Similarly, the third-party program AudioScore (with bundled lite version) can be used to turn singing or an acoustic instrument into a score.

The program plays a brief passage from a Jean Sibelius symphony as it starts. Each Sibelius version has used a different excerpt.

Cut down and 'Student' versions

Cut down or 'Lite' versions of Sibelius (with a smaller feature set) were released for Acorn computers from late 1993 onwards (Sibelius 7 Student, Sibelius 6 and Junior Sibelius) and more recently for Windows and Macintosh platforms (Sibelius Student, Sibelius Instrumental Teacher Edition and Sibelius First). A Sibelius version for guitarists and songwriters called G7 was also available for several years.

Sibelius Student is now updated with the regular Sibelius editions, but the new features in fully-featured editions are often left out.

Sibelius

Sibelius 6, running on Mac OSX.
Developer(s)	Sibelius Software
Initial release	1993
Stable release	6.1 / 28 September 2009
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, RISC OS
License	Proprietary

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