Sibelius 5
Professional Edition

How will Sibelius help me?

Sibelius 5 is the essential software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It will keep you inspired and help you take your ideas even further.

Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 music notation software makes writing scores a breeze-giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning features like Panorama mean you don't need to think about pages while you're composing or arranging. You can just let your creativity flow.

Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second-so you'll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there's no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it.

You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.

Write and refine music easily

Sibelius is so easy to learn and use that you can start writing your first piece within minutes--not days! Discover the joys of writing music with a program that's simple and intuitive. And, of course, being able to change your music in the blink of an eye--no more rubbing out!

Hear your music

The easiest way to perfect your music is by hearing it. Just click the play button in Sibelius to hear your music performed with surprising realism, thanks to the built-in Sibelius Sounds Essentials library. Sibelius reads, understands, and plays back all standard markings, and you can buy extra sound libraries for choral music, world music, and more.

Print beautiful scores

The world’s largest sheet music publishers use Sibelius to produce the music you see in the shops. Now you can create the same standard of print-out. And with Sibelius, it’s just so easy.

Instrumental parts that magically update

Sibelius makes producing instrumental parts a joy. In fact, when you start your score, the parts are already there. You can flick between them using a simple drop-down. When you make a change to the full score, the relevant parts are automatically updated, and vice versa.

Never lose another idea

Ideas are precious. That’s why Sibelius 5 gives you the Ideas Hub--the easy way to capture, tag, find, and bring together your musical ideas. With Ideas Hub, you’ll never let another flash of inspiration slip by again. As well as your own ideas, Ideas Hub comes preloaded with over 2000 ready-made ideas. They cover all styles of music and help provide useful inspiration for your compositions.

Publish, or sell, your music online

As well as printed music, Sibelius publishes beautifully online, too. You can create Web versions of scores which can be viewed by anyone using the free Scorch Web browser plug-in. And you can easily start selling your scores online via SIbeliusMusic.com.

Arranging & transposing

The Arrange feature saves hours of time in creating arrangements and keyboard reductions. It’s also ideal for students who are learning arranging, composition or even orchestration.

Transposing is another great time-saver for putting pieces into suitable keys, and adjusting exercises for different instruments or abilities.

Playback

When playing, Sibelius selects the right instrumental sounds, reads markings straight from the score and adds expression, so students get a realistic rendition of their music right away. And they can check for mistakes, just by listening.

You can also use Sibelius to play aural tests, accompaniments, and even create CDs and MP3 files of your music.

Color & graphics

Notes which are too high/low are shown in red; you can adjust instrument ranges to write for players of different abilities. Music can be hidden, so students can fill in an exercise on computer and then reveal the right answer.

Sibelius lets you add color, pictures and graphic notations to coursework; lots of graphics are included. You can also take music from Sibelius into word processors and graphics packages, for creating worksheets, posters, etc. in other programs.

Plug-ins

Sibelius includes many plug-ins, to automate tasks such as writing note names and beats above notes, creating sets of scales and arpeggios, adding brass/string fingering and tonic sol-fa, and identifying motives for musical analysis.

Computer requirements for Sibelius

Mac

Minimum requirements for Sibelius 5 alone:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive.
• Sibelius 5 is a Universal application, which means that it runs on both older Macs with PowerPC processors and new Macs with Intel processors.
• If you are running a version of Mac OS X earlier than Mac OS X 10.4, you cannot install and run Sibelius.

Additional recommendations for using Sibelius Sounds Essentials and Kontakt Player 2, especially for scores with many instruments:

• G5 or Intel processor, 1GB+ total RAM, 3.5GB total hard disk space
• You can use Sibelius Sounds Essentials if your computer doesn’t meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously.

Windows

Minimum requirements for Sibelius 5 alone:

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, 512MB+ RAM, 350MB hard disk space, DVD-ROM drive
• You must be running at least Windows XP Service Pack 2 to install and run Sibelius 5. If you have Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.x, you need to purchase an upgrade to a more recent version of the Windows operating system.

Additional recommendations for using Sibelius Sounds Essentials and Kontakt Player 2, especially for scores with many instruments:

• 1GB+ total RAM, 3.5GB total hard disk space, ASIO-compatible soundcard. You can use Sibelius Sounds Essentials if your computer doesn’t meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously.