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These include old friends such as the 'classic' Sibelius Navigator and Keypad windows, along with the newer Mixer, Kontakt Player and Properties windows, a few new windows we'll be looking at in this review, and the final button to the far right of the Tool window buttons, which toggles the visibility of open Tool windows. Getting back to the toolbar, there's a new pop-up menu and button for the new Dynamics Parts feature (discussed later in the review), and new group of buttons for opening and closing Sibelius ' various Tool windows.
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This new version 4 will be a free upgrade for Sibelius 4 users. Speaking of Photoscore Lite, although version 3.10 is still included (the same version bundled with Sibelius 3), a new version 4 is apparently on the way with the ability to interpret percussion staves and up to four polyphonic voices, along with many other improvements.
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The toolbar now includes the Scan button again (as it did in Sibelius 2), which launches the bundled Photoscore Lite software for scanning music into Sibelius, and loses the Colour button. I actually quite liked this change, which also has a functional advantage in that the toolbar takes up slightly less vertical space on the screen. From an aesthetic point of view, the translucent bubble-styled buttons used on the toolbar from versions 2 and 3 have been replaced by flat icons, with the toolbar itself taking on a slightly bevelled appearance.
Prelude In UI MajorĪfter installing and running Sibelius 4 for the first time, existing users will notice that the user interface's appearance has changed again, as it seems to in every version. Both books follow Sibelius Software's previous high standards, and made discovering the new features a pleasure.
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In Sibelius 4, the documentation is now supplied in two perfect-bound books: the first is a 151-page handbook that introduces the main concepts of Sibelius and explains how to carry out the most common tasks, while the second is a larger, 562-page reference that explains all aspects of the application in more detail.
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Sibelius ' manual has always played an important part in a user's learning experience, being perhaps one of the best manuals ever supplied with a piece of music software, with clear explanations described in a musical context, and sensible organisation so you don't become frustrated by not finding a subject you're looking for. In Sibelius 4, the company have gone a step further by supplying a set of tutorial videos that guide a new user through the basics of the program, and get existing users familiar with the new features and changes. In the this respect, Sibelius Software have strived to keep Sibelius clean and straightforward-looking with each new release. Indeed, both companies announced the release of their latest offerings within 20 days of each other, Sibelius 4 being introduced on 5th July 2005 and Finale 2006 on 25th July.Īs an application matures and new features are added, it's a challenge for the developers to retain ease of use for existing users, and to ensure that it's still welcoming for new users. During the late '90s, Sibelius ' popularity grew worldwide, partly due to the fact most users agree that it's the easier of the two powerful application to get to grips with and, in recent years, Finale 's developers Make Music have been aggressively releasing new versions to combat Sibelius ' growing dominance. Finale was first released for Macintosh in 1989 and has gained a large user base since, especially in Northern America, while Sibelius came to life on the Acorn platform in 1993, gaining popularity in the UK, especially amongst music publishers and in education. When it comes to score-writing software, there really are just two products that come to most musicians' minds: Finale and Sibelius. Following the success of three releases on the Mac and Windows platform, can it maintain its simple user interface as the powerful feature set continues to expand? Viewed by many musicians as the modern standard in computer-based score-writing software, Sibelius has an impressive pedigree and reputation. The box above the Playback Line is how Sibelius 4 indicates hit points on the score, to help you write to the picture.
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Notice the new Playback window at the top right of the screen, and the green Playback Line just below showing the current position of the movie against the score. Here you can see one of the included example scores and movies showing how Sibelius can now integrate movie playback with your score.
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