Violist and composer Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin (Photo: Peter Gannushkin)
Violist and composer Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin has shared his productivity tips for working effectively with Sibelius on a laptop computer on his blog. He says,
I’ve been using Sibelius on a laptop for several years, and have just recently figured out a really comfortable mobile setup, which makes my relationship with Sibelius a lot more productive, at a cumulative cost of approximately $35.
What mythical items does Ljova say you should buy for the princely sum of $35 to transform your work with Sibelius? Read on to find out.
A bee buzzing, yesterday (courtesy autan on Flickr)
The Avid Community site features a number of blogs from other people around Avid, and it’s worth checking out if you’re interested in the wider world of Avid products in the fields of digital video and audio.
The Buzz blog is currently running a series of four posts written by guest blogger Martin Smith, who is writing about why Sibelius is such an essential tool for music notation. So far two parts have been posted: check them out here and here, and keep an eye out for the remaining two parts.
I am a crazy French Horn player from France who once had this weird idea of playing some progressive metal stuff on the horn.
Marc’s YouTube channel contains a number of medleys of music by Neal Morse, Dream Theater, and John Williams (as embedded above). Bruce asked Marc about the tools he uses, and he says:
I’ve been playing a Holton H179 for a good 10 years now, with a Schilke 30 mouthpiece. I record with a Behringer C-3 microphone via Cubase 5 and use Soundforge 10 to polish the final sound when needed.
For me, Sibelius 6 is just the best music notation software out there.
SoundSpike.com today carries a profile of up-and-coming New York-based band, Tauk, a quintet of classically-trained young musicians aged between 22 and 26 whose sound and influences are eclectic: says Melissa Henderson in her profile, “a definite resemblance to the stank of the Chili Peppers, the swirling arrangements of Mike Keneally and the soaring vision of another of their heroes, Stevie Wonder.”
The band first got together more than 10 years ago, and has managed to stay together despite each of the members going to a different university. Says Melissa:
The guys used Sibelius, a musical notation software program, to e-mail bits and pieces of songs back and forth to each other as they wrote the bulk of what became [debut album] Brokedown King.
In April of this year, a remarkable concert took place at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of founder and director Frank Strobel, performed Gottfried Huppertz’s score to Fritz Lang’s epic 1924 film Die Nibelungen. Just as epic as the film itself was the work involved in restoring [...]
Pixels on Devour.com Fantastic video on a fantastic curated site that gathers the best of YouTube, Vimeo and other video sites. (tags: video, youtube, pixels)
I’ve been able to post about several opportunities to attend Sibelius training in northern California, so now it gives me great pleasure to be able to post about a forthcoming opportunity to attend training given by an expert Sibelius user in New York city on Saturday 25 September 2010. The trainer is Philip Rothman, a [...]
The fine folks at Headliner.fm have written a blog post running down 10 essential programs for musicians. In with a bullet at number 8 is Sibelius 6, about which Nick from Headliner writes: When it comes to notation software, nobody does it better than Sibelius. This intelligent and highly capable program allows you to score [...]
MIDI Mockup Madness Interesting thoughts on how close MIDI mock-ups come to live performances. (tags: midi composer mockup computer) How Sibelius 6 changed my workflow Composer Colton J. Provias on how the virtual instruments support in Sibelius 6 has changed his composing workflow. (tags: sibelius vst kontakt vi) Steve Bird reviews the app NumPad with [...]
Here’s another little question for you to answer over the weekend: what kind of printer do you use with Sibelius? Most of the work I do in Sibelius for my own use is adapting and arranging choral music for my choir. As such, I have a large format laser printer with an automatic duplexer at [...]
