My colleague Scott Church, Pro Tools Software Strategist and one of the product managers for the music creation features in Pro Tools, posted a video tutorial for the new score editor in Pro Tools 8 on his Pro Tools Blog over the weekend.
The score editor in Pro Tools 8 uses technology from Sibelius. The Sibelius developers in London worked on an improved version of the Flexi-time real-time transcription engine especially optimised for Pro Tools, and the result is really top-notch transcription of live input from a MIDI keyboard. Meanwhile, the developers in Daly City got to grips with the code for the core Sibelius application, integrating the score display into Pro Tools as both a separate window and a docked editor, in partnership with the fantastic new MIDI editor. The result is a very beautiful score display in Pro Tools, with music that looks just as good in Pro Tools as it does in Sibelius.
An extra neat feature is that you can export a Sibelius score directly from Pro Tools and then open it up in Sibelius to perform more advanced layout, add dynamics, articulations, slurs and other markings, work on the dynamic parts, and so on. Because you don’t have to export a MIDI file and import it into Sibelius, resulting in the music getting re-transcribed, this makes for a very powerful workflow: work in Pro Tools until your mock-up or arrangement sounds perfect, then export the Sibelius file to produce the parts for the live musicians in Sibelius.
Hopefully this is just the beginning of a closer integration between Sibelius and Pro Tools that will make this partnership uniquely powerful into the future.
Watch Scott’s tutorial here (full screen video here).
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