Comments on: Announcing the new Sibelius Student http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/announcing-the-new-sibelius-student/ From the desk of Sibelius's Product Manager Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Daniel Spreadbury http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/announcing-the-new-sibelius-student/comment-page-1/#comment-768 Daniel Spreadbury Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:33:43 +0000 http://www.sibeliusblog.com/?p=813#comment-768 Deciding which features to include and which to leave out of the cut-down versions of Sibelius is always very difficult, and not something that we take lightly. Breves are only required in time signatures of 4/2 or greater, which are of course common enough when completing things like Bach chorale harmonisations but otherwise relatively rare. Similarly, you might struggle to input some early music, or Classical period slow movements with particularly short note values, in Sibelius Student, but that's all part of the balancing act of making Student useful enough but not so useful that nobody would need to purchase the full Sibelius product. Deciding which features to include and which to leave out of the cut-down versions of Sibelius is always very difficult, and not something that we take lightly. Breves are only required in time signatures of 4/2 or greater, which are of course common enough when completing things like Bach chorale harmonisations but otherwise relatively rare. Similarly, you might struggle to input some early music, or Classical period slow movements with particularly short note values, in Sibelius Student, but that’s all part of the balancing act of making Student useful enough but not so useful that nobody would need to purchase the full Sibelius product.

]]> By: Be3G http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/announcing-the-new-sibelius-student/comment-page-1/#comment-767 Be3G Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:16:07 +0000 http://www.sibeliusblog.com/?p=813#comment-767 I'm a tad disappointed to see that breves still can't be entered using Student. I remember considering purchasing Student when I was working on my music A-level (there simply weren't enough hours in the day to do all my composition in school), but bizarrely enough I think the thing that stopped me was the breves issue, as I realised I might need them for coursework having already used them for my own personal ‘ditties’. So instead, I had to hold out and wait until I could purchase the full version of Sibelius… which wasn't until my A-levels were pretty much over! (The purchase ended up being more with uni in mind.) Remember that school students have very little money (unless they have generous parents) as there're no multi-thousand pound loans to <del>waste on frivolities</del> spend on essentials, and whilst I can't deny Sibelius are already helping the musically inclined amongst secondary school students with their Student product, the missing breves have always struck me as product-differentiation-gone-a-little-too-far. Or are Sibelius trying to imply that secondary school students can't count to more than four?! (Hello by the way. Have been following the blog since you started it but for some reason have only just got around to commenting on anything… oh and you've probably completely forgotten all about this now, but just to clarify, I most certainly do know how to spell ‘mousse’!) I’m a tad disappointed to see that breves still can’t be entered using Student. I remember considering purchasing Student when I was working on my music A-level (there simply weren’t enough hours in the day to do all my composition in school), but bizarrely enough I think the thing that stopped me was the breves issue, as I realised I might need them for coursework having already used them for my own personal ‘ditties’. So instead, I had to hold out and wait until I could purchase the full version of Sibelius… which wasn’t until my A-levels were pretty much over! (The purchase ended up being more with uni in mind.) Remember that school students have very little money (unless they have generous parents) as there’re no multi-thousand pound loans to waste on frivolities spend on essentials, and whilst I can’t deny Sibelius are already helping the musically inclined amongst secondary school students with their Student product, the missing breves have always struck me as product-differentiation-gone-a-little-too-far. Or are Sibelius trying to imply that secondary school students can’t count to more than four?!

(Hello by the way. Have been following the blog since you started it but for some reason have only just got around to commenting on anything… oh and you’ve probably completely forgotten all about this now, but just to clarify, I most certainly do know how to spell ‘mousse’!)

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