New plug-in: Rhythm Paste

February 28, 2013

In Sibelius it is often very useful, as the Reference says, “to be able to change the pitches of a sequence of notes/chords without re-creating their rhythm.” To do this, there is a feature called Re-input Pitches where you copy existing music from a source to a target staff, and re-input the pitches without concerning [...]

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New plug-in: Add Interval

February 22, 2013

Plug-in guru Bob Zawalich has added a new plug-in, Add Interval, that fills a void in Sibelius’s abilities to manipulate notes by interval. Currently, one can add notes above existing notes, but only by diatonic intervals. It’s also possible to transpose by chromatic interval, but then one loses the original notes (in other words, there [...]

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Daniel Spreadbury launches Steinberg notation blog

February 20, 2013

Update — February 22, 2013: Because of a trademark conflict with “Keeping Score”, the new name of the Steinberg notation blog is “Making Notes”, per Daniel. The trademark owner in the United States is the San Francisco Symphony, registered in 2010. Original post — February 20, 2013 With his usual combination of wit and wisdom [...]

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Use Paste into Voice to create double-stemmed unison notes

February 12, 2013

Occasionally there is a need to write unison notes in two voices, as shown below: To do this, first enter the music in one voice (typically voice 1). Then select the music, and copy it to the clipboard using Cmd-C on Mac, or Ctrl-C on PC, or Home > Copy in Sibelius 7. Keep the [...]

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Block click-through on Mac in Sibelius 7

February 7, 2013

On the Mac, if you are working in another application and use the mouse to switch to Sibelius 6 (or earlier versions) by clicking anywhere on your score, your click will not actually do anything other than switch your Mac’s focus to Sibelius, which may be exactly what you want. However, in Sibelius 7, such [...]

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Beam over rests with more control by using the keypad

January 31, 2013

This blog post is written by Alexander Plötz, a music engraver, editor, proof reader and more based in Dresden, Germany. Read on to learn more about using Sibelius’s third keypad layout to exert fine control over beams that continue over rests. This tutorial originated from a discussion over at the Sibelius help forum on how [...]

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Sibelius compatibility with Windows 8

January 29, 2013

Microsoft released Windows 8 in the fall of last year, and while its adoption rate has reportedly been slow, more and more people are using it each day—including Sibelius users. Fortunately, Avid announced today that Sibelius 7 is fully supported on Windows 8. Previous versions of Sibelius should work as well, with some caveats. According [...]

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A nip here, a tuck there

January 28, 2013

If you’re an “avid” reader of this blog, you may have noticed that it quietly received a modest face-lift a couple of days ago. Since taking over the blog in the fall of last year, I’ve enjoyed hearing from a wide range of fellow Sibelius users about many topics. Sometimes, though, folks understandably mistook me [...]

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Avid launches IdeaScale Sibelius Feedback Community

January 24, 2013

This week, Avid has announced a new Sibelius Feedback Community, powered by IdeaScale. According to Avid’s Sam Butler: Open to all Sibelius users, the feedback community is a great way to collaborate, share, and discuss new features and enhancements for Sibelius and Scorch. Getting started with IdeaScale is easy. You can browse the currently submitted [...]

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Speeding up some Sibelius plug-ins

January 22, 2013

This blog post is written by Bob Zawalich, creator of hundreds of useful plug-ins for Sibelius. Read on to learn more about how to improve the performance of some Sibelius plug-ins. Some Sibelius plug-ins are intended to perform one quick action, usually with no dialogs. Sometimes you will find them taking a few seconds to [...]

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