Annotating music in Sibelius (promotional image provided by Avid) If you use annotations to write in musical markings, however, it does not appear that they will automatically convert into Sibelius’s customary musical or text objects you’ll need to input those in the usual way. Annotations will be grouped intelligently and always attached to the bar you add them to, and that the annotation layer can be optionally hidden.

There is good potential for this to be an effective tool for collaborators and educators, or simply to jot a note to oneself. Users will be able to add annotations in the next version of Sibelius, allowing you to draw directly on the score using a mouse, trackpad, USB tablet, or Surface Pro 3 Pen. Selecting music in Sibelius using a Surface Pen (promotional image provided by Avid) We haven’t yet seen this in action, but one can envision the process being very similar to how StaffPad works for music that has been rendered in its scores. The next Sibelius version will also take advantage of the pen technology, by allowing users to add, select and delete objects in the score. The Surface Pro 3 has been receiving a lot of attention from music notation aficionados recently, thanks to the new Windows app StaffPad, a music handwriting recognition tool which makes full use of the tablet’s features and active pen-and-touch technology.

Going forward, Avid plans to move away from version numbers with Sibelius and instead offer more frequent releases, which will likely be less comprehensive than previous major releases but also have the potential to be more responsive to user requests and changes in technology. Sibelius version numbers, like the symphonies of its namesake, will end at 7 (well, technically 7.5). Visit the Scoring Notes Product Guide to read about the latest updates to Sibelius.Īvid today announced plans for the next version of Sibelius and, with it, plans for future Sibelius upgrades and licenses. Note: This post about Sibelius 8 is from April 2015.

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