What's New in Sibelius® Software

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Guide Part Number 9329-65958-00 REV A 06/18 Contents

Introduction ...... 1 New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.6 ...... 1 New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.4 ...... 1 New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.1 ...... 1 System Requirements and Compatibility Information ...... 1 Conventions Used in Sibelius Documentation ...... 2 Resources...... 3

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6...... 4 Sibelius | First...... 4 Single Installer and Application for Sibelius | First, Sibelius, and Sibelius | Ultimate ...... 4 Improved Layout for Grace Notes ...... 5 Improved Layout for Multiple Voices on a Single Staff ...... 6 Transposing Tied Notes in a Chord by Semitone ...... 6

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4...... 7 New Naming Conventions for Sibelius Software ...... 7 Text Entry and Editing Across Multiple Staves ...... 7 Improvements to Transposing Individual Tied Notes in Chords ...... 8 Note Spacing Improvements ...... 8 Additional Improvements...... 11

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1...... 12 Adding Lines to Passage Selections...... 12 Changing Barlines ...... 15 Changing the Rhythmic Value of Selected Notes...... 18 Find in Ribbon Enhancements ...... 19

What’s New in Sibelius iii Introduction

New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.6 Sibelius 2018.6 provides the following new features, changes, and improvements: • Sibelius | First is a free, feature reduced version of Sibelius for beginners • Single installer for all versions of Sibelius: Sibelius | First, Sibelius, and Sibelius | Ultimate • Improved layout for grace notes with multiple voices on a single staff • Improved note layout with multiple voices on a single staff • Transposing tied notes in a chord by semitone

New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.4 Sibelius 2018.4 provides the following new features, changes, and improvements: • “Sibelius” software has been renamed “Sibelius | Ultimate” software and “Sibelius | First” software has been renamed “Sibelius” software • Enter and edit text across multiple staves at once • Improved editing of tied notes in chords • Note spacing improvements • Additional small improvements

New Features and Improvements in Sibelius 2018.1 Sibelius® 2018.1 provides the following improvements: • Adding lines to passage selections—such as slurs, dynamics, and ties—across multiple staves. • Changing multiple selected barlines simultaneously. • Improvements to changing the rhythmic values of selected notes. • Find in Ribbon enhancements.

As of January 2018, Avid® has adopted a new versioning scheme across all its product lines based on the date of release. For example, 2018.1 is released in January 2018. With a regular, subscription-based release schedule, the new scheme lets you readily know if you are running the latest version of Sibelius.

System Requirements and Compatibility Information Avid® can only assure compatibility and provide support for hardware and software it has tested and approved.

For complete system requirements and a list of qualified computers, operating systems, hard drives, and third-party devices, visit: www.avid.com/compatibility

Introduction 1 Conventions Used in Sibelius Documentation Sibelius documentation uses the following conventions to indicate menu choices, keyboard commands, and mouse commands:

: Convention Action

File > Save Choose Save from the File tab

Control+N Hold down the Control key and press the N key

Control-click Hold down the Control key and click the mouse button

Right-click Click with the right mouse button

The names of Commands, Options, and Settings that appear on-screen are in a different font.

The following symbols are used to highlight important information:

User Tips are helpful hints for getting the most from Sibelius.

Important Notices include information that could affect data or the performance of Sibelius.

Shortcuts show you useful keyboard or mouse shortcuts.

Cross References point to related sections in this guide and other Avid documentation.

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Introduction Resources The Avid website (www.avid.com) is your best online source for information to help you get the most out of Sibelius.

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Introduction New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6

Sibelius | First Sibelius | First is a free, feature-reduced version of Sibelius that is ideal for beginners. Sibelius | First lets you: • Create scores with up to four staves. • Insert and edit notes in up to two voices on a staff. • Add basic Line and Text styles to a score.

While Sibelius | First cannot create a score with more than four staves, it can open a score with more than four staves in read-only mode.

For detailed information about what you can and cannot do with Sibelius | First, refer to the Sibelius Reference Guide or visit www.avid.com/sibelius-first/.

Old versus new naming conventions for Sibelius software

Tier Sibelius 2018.1 and Lower Sibelius 2018.4 and Higher Sibelius 2018.6 and Higher

Professional Sibelius Sibelius | Ultimate Sibelius | Ultimate

Intermediate Sibelius | First Sibelius Sibelius

Beginner n/a n/a Sibelius | First

PhotoScore First and AudioScore First Both PhotoScore First and AudioScore First are included free with Sibelius | First. PhotoScore First lets you scan a limited number of pages and staves of printed sheet music and coverts it to a Sibelius Score file.

PhotoScore First PhotoScore Lite PhotoScore Ultimate

Maximum number of staves 21264 per system

Maximum number of pages 1 20 400 per score

AudioScore First lets you transcribe a limited amount of audio and save it as a Sibelius Score file.

AudioScore First AudioScore Lite AudioScore Ultimate

Maximum duration 1 minute 6 minutes 6 minutes

Shortest note value eighth-note sixteenth-note sixteenth-note

Maximum number of 2432 Instruments per score

Upgrade to Sibelius or Sibelius Ultimate to unlock the number of staves and pages of music you can scan, and expand the how much audio you can transcribe at once.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6 4 Single Installer and Application for Sibelius | First, Sibelius, and Sibelius | Ultimate The Sibelius software product line consists of three tiers of feature functionality ranging from beginner to professional: Sibelius | First (perfect for beginners), Sibelius (great for students and skilled amateurs), and Sibelius | Ultimate (a must for professionals). Sibelius software is installed using a single installer and runs the same application regardless of which tier is authorized. Your software license determines which tier of Sibelius software functionality is authorized to run on your computer.

Sibelius | First Runs when no license for either Sibelius or Sibelius | Ultimate is activated on your computer.

Sibelius Only runs when a Sibelius license is activated on your computer.

Sibelius | Ultimate Only runs when a Sibelius | Ultimate license is activated on your computer.

On Mac OS X, Sibelius is installed in /Applications/Sibelius.app

On Windows, Sibelius is installed in C:\Program Files\Avid\Sibelius\Sibelius.exe

New “Welcome to Sibelius” Dialog When launching Sibelius for the first time, the Welcome to Sibelius dialog lets you start a trial of Sibelius or Sibelius | Ultimate, or activate your copy of Sibelius, Sibelius | Ultimate, or Sibelius | First.

Welcome to Sibelius dialog

Continue Sibelius Trial Choose this option if you have not yet purchased your copy of Sibelius and want to try it out first.

Continue Sibelius | Ultimate Trial Choose this option if you have not yet purchased your copy of Sibelius | Ultimate and want to try it out first.

Activate Choose this option to launch the Avid Application Manager and activate Sibelius or Sibelius | Ultimate with the System ID and Activation ID provided with your purchase of Sibelius through your online Avid Master Account.

Sibelius | First Choose this option to launch Sibelius | First.

Specify License Server (Sibelius | Ultimate only) Choose this option if you are authorizing Sibelius | Ultimate using a network shared license. Enter the server name or IP address of the server you are using as the license server and click OK.

Exit Choose this option to close the dialog without launching Sibelius.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6 Improved Layout for Grace Notes When adding or editing grace notes in multiple voices, Sibelius automatically adjusts the layout for optimal clarity.

Automatic layout of grace notes in two voices in previous versions of Sibelius (left) versus Sibelius 2018.6 (right)

Much like when writing main notes in multiple voices, Sibelius now auto-spaces the area under and around grace notes as you enter or edit them. As you enter grace notes in one voice, Sibelius adds hidden grace-note sized rests in other voices to maintain optimal note spacing.

Adding a grace note in one voice automatically adds a hidden grace-note sized rest in any other voices

Scores created in previous versions of Sibelius open unchanged in Sibelius 2018.6. However, you can use Appearance > Reset Note Spacing to apply automatic note spacing and all grace notes snap to the correct location and hidden rests are added where necessary.

Improved Layout for Multiple Voices on a Single Staff Sibelius automatically adjusts the position of notes in chords on staves with multiple voices to avoid stem collision and obscured leger lines. Voice Position Rule 2 avoids stem collision and obscured leger lines, but may not place noteheads and stems optimally. Sibelius 2018.4 introduced Voice Position Rule 3, which provided improved note placement when first introduced, but not in every case. Voice Position Rule 3 has been updated and improved in Sibelius 2018.6 to properly place notes in problem cases. Select the Voice Position Rule that best suits your need in Appearance > Engraving Rules > Notes and Tremolos > Notes.

Voice Position Rule 2 (left), Voice Position Rule 3 in Sibelius 2018.4 (middle), and Voice Position Rule 3 in Sibelius 2018.6 (right)

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6 Transposing Tied Notes in a Chord by Semitone Sibelius lets you transpose the first tied note in a chord by semitone and all subsequent tied notes are transposed as well.

Transposing any other tied note only transposes that note and all of other tied notes remain untransposed. Also, note that transposing any tied note does not break the tie, so if you want to break the tie, you will have to do so manually.

To transpose all tied notes in a chord of the same pitch by semitone:

1 Select the first tied note in a chord that you want to transpose.

2 Do one of the following • Press Shift+Page Up to transpose the selected note (and all subsequent notes in the tie) up by one semitone. • Press Shift+Page Down to transpose the selected note (and all subsequent notes in the tie) down by one semitone.

Transposing a tied note in a chord down by semitone from B-flat (top) to A (middle) to G-sharp (bottom)

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.6 New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4

New Naming Conventions for Sibelius Software “Sibelius” software (version 2018.1 and lower) has been renamed “Sibelius | Ultimate” software (version 2018.4 and higher). Si- belius | Ultimate is the top-tier version of the Sibelius software product line. Likewise, “Sibelius | First” (version 2018.1 and lower) has been renamed “Sibelius” software (version 2018.4 and higher). Old versus new naming conventions for Sibelius software Sibelius 2018.1 and Lower Sibelius 2018.4 and Higher

Sibelius Sibelius | Ultimate

Sibelius | First Sibelius

Text Entry and Editing Across Multiple Staves Sibelius lets you enter text across multiple selected staves at once. Entered text is added to the first note on each staff in the selection. You can also edit multiple selected text objects at the same time. This lets you quickly mark up the score with dynamics and other Technique and Expression text.

System Text and Lyrics can still only be entered on one staff at a time.

To enter text across multiple staves:

1 Make a selection across multiple staves that begins with the notes to which you want to add text.

2 Choose Text > Styles and select the desired Text Style.

Or use the Sibelius keyboard shortcuts for Expression or Technique text entry: Command+E (Mac) or Control+E (Windows) for Expression text, and Command+T (Mac) or Control+T for Technique text.

3 A cursor appears under (for Expression text) or over (for Technique text) the first note on each staff in the selection. Enter the desired text.

Figure 1. Technique text (“dolce”) added to the first note on each staff in the selection

Sibelius adds the entered text on the first note in the selection on each staff in the selection.

To edit multiple text objects of the same style simultaneously:

1 Select the text objects of the same Text Style that you want to edit.

2 Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows), or F2 to start editing the selected text objects.

3 Edit the text as desired.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4 7 Figure 2. Editing multiple selected text objects simultaneously

Edits are uniformly applied to all selected text items.

Improvements to Transposing Individual Tied Notes in Chords Sibelius lets you diatonically transpose the first tied note in a chord and all subsequent tied notes are transposed as well.

To transpose all tied notes in a chord of the same pitch diatonically:

 Click and drag the first tied note up or down.

Figure 3. Transposing a tied note in a chord diatonically

Note Spacing Improvements

Voice Position Rule Version 3 Using Voice Position Rule Version 3 (Appearance > Engraving Rules > Notes and Tremolos > Notes), Sibelius automatically places notes in relation to one another for optimal notational clarity in multiple voices.

Figure 4. Voice position rule, Version 3 selected

Voice Position Rule Version 3 includes the following behaviors for note spacing with multiple voices on a single staff: • Unisons in two voices with different noteheads never collide. • Unison whole notes in two voices are placed side by side and are not super-imposed.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4 • Unison dotted notes of the same value now always share their rhythmic dots. • Spacing and placement for the rhythmic dots of dotted notes never collide with other notes, stems, beams, or rests. • Dotted half notes and whole notes in Voice 1 never collide with simultaneous notes in Voice 2. • Leger lines of voices at the same rhythmic position never touch. • Crossing voices are laid out head-to-head (rather than stem-to-stem as they were in previous versions). • Placement of coinciding start and end repeat barlines is improved, especially after creating and deleting them. • Deleting lyrics or guitar frames automatically respaces the selected music. • Articulations are taken into account when spacing notes, especially in cases of very short note lengths. • Rhythmic dots are taken into account when spacing rests (for example when a dotted rest is followed by a note with an accidental). • The spacing of sixteenth-note rests and eighth-notes is spaced in a rhythmically appropriate manner when using stemlets. • When creating, editing or deleting notes in multiple voices, notes are automatically respaced (especially when those notes overlap).

Notice the difference in note spacing and layout between Voice Position Rule Version 2 (Sibelius 2018.1 and lower) and Voice Posi- tion Rule Version 3 (Sibelius 2018.4) in the following examples:

Figure 5. Voice Position Rule Version 2 (top) and Voice Position Rule Version 3 (bottom). Notice the difference in the position of the eight-note rest in the lower voice

Figure 6. Voice Position Rule Version 2 (top) and Voice Position Rule Version 3 (bottom). Notice that rhythmic dots are not obscured by accidentals with Voice Position Rule Version 3

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4 Figure 7. Voice Position Rule Version 2 (top) and Voice Position Rule Version 3 (bottom). Notice the difference in spacing between the sixteenth-note triplet and the eighth-note triplet

Figure 8. Notes not respaced with Voice Position Rule Version 2 (middle) and notes respaced with Voice Position Rule Version 3 (bottom) after deleting lyrics

Respace Multi-voice Passages During Note Input and Editing When entering notes in multiple voices, Sibelius adds or removes space around notes as you enter or edit them. With the Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing preference enabled, Sibelius resets the spacing for any bar as you enter and edit notes. Disabling or enabling this preference does not change the existing spacing in the score. It only affects the spacing of notes as you continue editing.

To enable (or disable) the Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing preference:

1 Choose File > Preferences > Note Input.

2 Under Editing, enable (or disable) Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing.

Figure 9. Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing preference

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4 3 Click OK.

Opening a Score Created in Sibelius 2018.1 or Lower in Sibelius 2018.4 Scores created in Sibelius 2018.1 or lower open in Sibelius 2018.4 looking exactly as they did before. However, any edits you make to an old score in Sibelius 2018.4 use Voice position rule Version 3 by default. Note that if you have manually set the positions of notes using the X property in the Inspector in a score created in Sibelius 2018.1 or lower, you will need to reset the spacing to use Voice position rule Version 3 for those notes.

To reset the spacing and use the new voice position rules:

1 Go to Engraving Rules > Notes and Tremolos and select Voice position rule Version 3.

2 Select the music you want to respace.

3 Choose Appearance > Design and Position and click Reset Position.

4 Choose Appearance > Reset Notes and click Reset Note Spacing.

Notes and dotted rhythms line up clearly and respace to avoid each other in multiple voices.

Opening a 2018.4 Score in Sibelius 2018.1 or Lower New scores use Voice position rule Version 3 by default. Opening a 2018.4 score that was saved with Voice position rule Version 3 enabled in Sibelius 2018.1 or lower, spacing automatically switches back to Voice position rule Version 2 and notes will move back to their old positions.

Additional Improvements

Remove Overlapping Notes Plug-in Undoable The Remove Overlapping Notes plug-in (Plug-ins > Simplify Notation > Remove Overlapping Notes) can be undone.

Deleting the First Bar of a Score Without Losing any System Text Sibelius lets you delete the first bar of a score without losing any System text that may be attached to it (such as Part Name, Title, Com- poser, Copyright, Tempo, and so on). If you need to delete these objects too, you'll have to actually select them and delete them. You can add bars to the beginning of your score, delete them as your will commands, and you'll find the System text remains attached to bar 1.

Keyboard Shortcut for Find in Ribbon Sibelius lets you access the Find in Ribbon search field using the Comma “ , ” key. This means you can press “,” and type the command you are looking for to focus it in the Ribbon right away.

Change All Barlines in a Selection Sibelius lets you change the types of barlines in a score by making a passage or System selection. Then, when you change the type of barline, it changes all barlines in the selection. Of course, Start and End Repeat barlines are exempt from this and can only be added at the start and end of the selection.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.4 New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1

Sibelius 2018.1 provides significant improvements to reduce redundancy with common editing tasks such as adding lines, editing barlines, adding and editing text expressions, and changing rhythms.

Adding Lines to Passage Selections Sibelius lets you enter any type of staff line across multiple staves in a passage selection (such as slurs, trills, crescendi and decrescendi, and so on). When adding lines to passage selections, lines start with the first note and end on the last note of the selection on each staff.

Adding Slurs Sibelius lets you add slurs to passage selections on multiple staves simultaneously. Sibelius intelligently starts and ends added slurs on the first and last notes of phrases in the selection so they do not run over, or start or end on rests.

To add slurs a selection across multiple staves:

1 Make a passage selection.

Figure 10. Making a passage selection across multiple staves

2 Do one of the following: • Choose Notations > Lines > Slur. • Press S.

Figure 11. Slurs added to each phrase on each staff

Press Space or Shift+Space to lengthen or shorten selected slurs.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 12 Sibelius adds a slur starting on the first note of each passage and ending with the last note of each passage in the selection. If there are rests in the selection, slurs end on the last note before a rest. If there are multiple phrases in the selection, Sibelius add a slur to each phrase.

Adding Hairpin Dynamics Sibelius lets you add hairpin dynamics to a passage selection across multiple staves.

To add slurs a selection across multiple staves:

1 Make a passage selection for the start of hairpins.

Figure 12. Making a passage selection across multiple staves

2 Press H. Hairpins are started for the selection.

Figure 13. Hairpins started on each staff in the selection

3 Make a passage selection for the completion of hairpins.

Figure 14. Making a passage selection across multiple staves

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 4 Press Shift+H. Hairpins are completed for the selection.

Figure 15. Hairpins completed on each staff in the selection

Press Space or Shift+Space to lengthen or shorten selected crescendi or decrescendi.

Adding Ties Sibelius lets you add ties for all common notes in a selected passage across multiple staves.

To add ties to common notes in passage selection across multiple staves:

1 Make a passage selection.

Figure 16.

2 Add a tie. Sibelius adds ties for all consecutive notes of the same pitch in the selection.

Figure 17.

Press Enter to remove all ties in a passage selection. Press Enter again to restore ties.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 Changing Barlines Sibelius lets you select more than one barline and change its appearance to Double, Dashed, Final, Invisible, Normal, Tick, Short, or Between Staves. You can also add in System or Page Breaks to these barlines. This lets you make batch layout changes and create common educational worksheets quickly and easily.

To change multiple selected barlines simultaneously:

1 Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) to select the barlines you want to change.

Figure 18. Selecting multiple barlines

2 Do one of the following: • Choose Notations > Barline and select the desired barline style. • Right-click below one of the selected barlines and select the desired barline style.

Figure 19. Right-clicking below a selected barline to set the barline style

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 All selected barlines are changed to the selected barline style.

Figure 20. Selected barlines changed to selected barline style

Adding System or Page Breaks Sibelius lets you add system breaks or page breaks at multiple selected barlines simultaneously.

To add system breaks at multiple selected barlines:

1 Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) the barlines where you want to add system breaks.

2 Press Return.

Sibelius adds system breaks at each selected barline.

Select any one barline and then use Select More to select all barlines. Then press Enter to apply system breaks for all barlines. This is especially useful for quickly creating worksheets for music education.

To add page breaks at multiple selected barlines:

1 Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) the barlines where you want to add system breaks.

2 Press Command+Return (Mac) or Control+Enter (Windows).

Sibelius adds page breaks at each selected barline.

Adding Repeats Repeats are different from barlines in that they can only add them one at a time. However, Sibelius does let you add both Start Repeat and End Repeat barlines to a a passage or system selection with a single command.

To add both Start and End Repeat barlines to the beginning and end of a passage selection:

1 Select the bars you want to repeat.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 Figure 21. Selecting bars to repeat

2 Do one of the following: • Choose Notations > Barline > Start Repeat or Notations > Barline > End Repeat. • Right-click below the selection and choose either Barline > Start Repeat or Barline > End Repeat.

Figure 22. Adding Repeats to the selection

Start Repeat and End Repeat are added to the beginning and end of the selection.

Figure 23. Repeats added to selection

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 Changing the Rhythmic Value of Selected Notes Sibelius provides improved behavior when modifying the rhythmic value of selected notes.

When increasing the rhythmic value of one or more selected notes, the rhythmic value of any subsequent notes are modified (decreased) accordingly—in lower versions of Sibelius, any subsequent notes are deleted.

Figure 24. Increasing the rhythmic value of a single note modifies the rhythmic value of the subsequent note

When increasing the rhythmic value of notes in a passage selection, the rhythmic value of selected notes are modified in pairs.

Figure 25. Increasing the rhythmic value of passage selections modifies rhythms in pairs

When decreasing the rhythmic value of one or more selected notes, the appropriate rests are added accordingly.

Figure 26. Decreasing the rhythmic value of selected notes adds rests where appropriate

When decreasing the rhythmic value of notes in a passage selection, the appropriate rests are added accordingly.

New Features and Enhancements in Sibelius 2018.1 Figure 27. Decreasing the rhythmic value of passage selections adds rests where appropriate

Sibelius lets you switch between 2018.1 behavior and legacy behavior according to your preferred workflow: File > Preferences > Note Input > Editing > Replace Subsequent Notes with Rests when Extending Duration.

Find in Ribbon Enhancements Sibelius provides a customizable keyboard shortcut to search for any command in the Ribbon and then press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) to execute the command immediately. This lets you quickly execute common commands while the Ribbon is hidden.

Sibelius provide the following improvements to the Find in Ribbon command: • The name of any commands found are displayed in addition to its location in ribbon • Click the command in the Find in Ribbon results list to execute the command. • Search results display any available keyboard shortcut for matching commands.

Find in Ribbon search field

Figure 28. Crescendo commands in the Find in Ribbon Search Results list

Press Control+0 (Mac) or Alt+0 (Windows) to enter the Find in Ribbon Search field.

You can define your own keyboard shortcuts for entering the Find in Ribbon Search field in File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Other > Activate Find in Ribbon.

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