Tom Rudolph explodes Arrange mysteries

March 1, 2010

Tom Rudolph, a guru on using music technology in education and co-author of a book about getting the most out of Sibelius, has posted some tips for using Sibelius’s powerful Arrange feature on his blog.
Arrange is definitely a very sophisticated and useful tool, but it can be pretty daunting when you first get started with [...]

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Expert Reviews: “Sibelius First is by far the best package available”

February 28, 2010

Expert Reviews, the online presence for several of Dennis Publishing’s magazines, has posted a review of the new version Sibelius First, which was released in January.
I’m delighted to say that reviewer Ben Pitt, who has already reviewed Sibelius First for PC Pro magazine, has once again praised our entry-level notation software, bestowing upon it the [...]

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MusicEdMagic.com says Sibelius Student “is an excellent value”

February 21, 2010

Educator and blogger Chad Criswell, whose site is MusicEdMagic.com, has posted a review of the new version of Sibelius Student, and says:
Sibelius Student has greatly improved its utility as an educational tool for both classroom and home use.
He concludes:
Sibelius Student is an excellent value and provides an excellent set of included features at such a [...]

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Sibelius tutorial videos for the iPhone

February 18, 2010

The Sibelius tutorials continue to come thick and fast! My friend Richard Payne, who worked with us at Sibelius for many years, contacted me today to let me know that he has devised a set of 10 tutorial videos for Sibelius 6 packaged up as an app to download from the iTunes App Store.
Called Sibelius [...]

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Sibelius helps Australian Idol to sing

February 14, 2010

Australian Idol is part of the global phenomenon that is the “Idol” franchise, which has spawned no fewer than 42 different shows around the world since its debut in the UK as Pop Idol in 2001. The show has aired in Australia since 2003, and has so far crowned seven talented winners.
Sibelius has always played [...]

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MacProVideo’s Sibelius 6 101 course now available

February 12, 2010

The fine folks at MacProVideo.com have just launched a series of tutorial videos for Sibelius 6, devised and hosted by Sibelius ambassador Gary Atkins.
The tutorials are split into four sections, lasting more than three hours in total, and taking you through the creation of a lead sheet, from starting a score all the way through [...]

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PC Pro says Sibelius First “hits all the right notes”

February 3, 2010

The March 2010 issue of PC Pro magazine here in the UK carries a positive review of the new version of Sibelius First, and I’m delighted to say that reviewer Ben Pitt has bestowed the software with a PC Pro Recommended award.
Giving Sibelius First the maximum rating of six stars for value for money, Ben [...]

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Sibelius and Pro Tools come together in “The Fire and the Flood”

February 2, 2010

My pal John Hinchey was kind enough to send me a copy of Leticia Wolf’s new album, The Fire and the Flood, which is available now on iTunes. Among his many talents, John is a brass and string arranger extraordinaire, and worked on four songs on Leticia’s new album, including Comfortable in Hell, which eagle-eared [...]

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NumPad 3.0 for iPhone supports all six Sibelius Keypad layouts

February 2, 2010

Back in November of last year, I blogged about edovia’s NumPad 2.0 app for iPhone, which included a dedicated Sibelius Keypad layout. This morning I received another email from developer Luc Vandal to let me know that NumPad 3.0 has just been released on the App Store, and the support for Sibelius has been further [...]

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Introducing a new way to buy Sibelius products

February 1, 2010

It has always been possible to buy Sibelius from our network of expert distributors and resellers around the world, and in select countries (namely the UK, US and Australia) it has also been possible to buy some of our products directly from the Sibelius web site.
Today marks the start of an exciting new era, as [...]

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