[sib-access] Last Chance to get Sib 7, Perhaps?
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:35:02 -0700
Sibelius BlogMay also be the last Blog we see.
Here's your chance to get Sib 7 at a lower price. Frankly it may be the last
version that has any chance of being accessible, if we get any future scripting
work.
I think it's better to have this one "in the can" so to speak, just in case,
given how cheaply we can upgrade.
Dave Carlson
Tastefully composed and launched near the Pacific Ocean using a Dell Latitude
E6520, JAWS 13.0.718, and Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
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Upgrade to Sibelius 7 and save 25%
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 02:21 AM PDT
This cute piggy just saved 25% on his upgrade to Sibelius 7 (courtesy
05com on Flickr)
With apologies for the extended radio silence, Iâ??m back with some news.
If youâ??ve been thinking about upgrading to Sibelius 7, but havenâ??t yet
taken the plunge, nowâ??s a great time to get your feet wet: for a limited
time, Avid has cut the price of the single-user Sibelius 7 upgrade by 25%. If
youâ??re currently running a single-user copy of Sibelius 6 or earlier, whether
you originally bought a professional, academic or competitive crossgrade
license, youâ??re eligible for the discounted Sibelius 7 upgrade.
The discount also extends to the bundles with PhotoScore Ultimate 7 and
AudioScore Ultimate 7 (or both), so if youâ??ve been thinking about adding
music scanning or audio transcription tools to your arsenal, thereâ??s never
been a better time.
Why upgrade?
You might be wondering whether nowâ??s the time to invest in a new
version of Sibelius, given the recent news about Avidâ??s corporate
restructuring. You might have heard that Sibelius 7 is so different to Sibelius
6 that itâ??s like learning a whole new program. You might even have received
an email from an opportunistic competitor offering you the chance to
â??upgradeâ?? to an inferior product at a favourable price.
Well, the reality is that Sibelius 7 is the best, fastest and most
feature-rich version of Sibelius weâ??ve ever built. Itâ??s the culmination of
the work of the dedicated team of designers and programmers here in London who
have been working on the product for more than a decade. Speaking personally,
I worked very hard to design the best possible version of Sibelius that I
could, and I want everybody in the community to be benefiting from it.
Thereâ??s much more to Sibelius 7 than the change to use a
task-orientated ribbon UI (weâ??ll come on to that). Firstly, itâ??s the
worldâ??s only fully-native 64-bit notation software, able to use all of the
RAM in your computer so that you can use the most demanding professional sample
libraries directly within Sibelius with ease (check out the Sound Set Project
to see which libraries can be seamlessly integrated into Sibelius 7).
Secondly, the foundations of the program have been completely rewritten
to use a modern, cross-platform application framework, which has provided
benefits all over the program: the on-screen display is more beautiful than
ever, the difference being especially striking on Windows, which uses the very
latest DirectWrite technology for rendering type with sub-pixel anti-aliasing;
dialogs look and feel better, with many of them now resizable, and all of them
fully mouse and keyboard accessible (e.g. using the mouse wheel to scroll
through custom lists, or tabbing through all of the controls); there is much
greater support for graphics import and export, including high-quality PDF
export directly from within the program, and support for the open vector format
SVG for both import and export; the handling of text and typography is
significantly improved, with a level of control over font families and styles,
and character effects such as tracking, leading, scaling etc. unrivalled by any
other notation software (and some desktop publishing software!).
Thirdly, Sibelius is more interoperable than ever. MusicXML import has
been improved, and Sibelius 7 supports MusicXML export directly, providing
faster and more complete export than the Dolet plug-in. Sibelius 7 now supports
the latest ReWire technology from Propellerhead, allowing you to ReWire
directly to 32-bit or 64-bit hosts. If you traded up to a previous version of
Sibelius from another notation program, you may have struggled to learn
Sibeliusâ??s note input method: Sibelius 7 includes a new note input method
that is based around choosing the pitch before the duration (rather than
Sibeliusâ??s customary approach of choosing the duration before the pitch).
Fourthly, Sibelius 7 includes an astonishingly broad and high-quality
sound library, with beautiful sounds recorded by one of Europeâ??s top
orchestras and engineered by a leading sound designer, plus a wide range of
vintage keyboards, drums, guitars, synths, jazz and rock instruments, with a
variety of extended techniques and tweakable parameters (check out the complete
documentation for an idea of just how comprehensive it is). Sounds of this
scope and quality have never before been included with any notation program.
Fifthly, the program is full of small touches that collectively make a
big difference to how efficiently you can work in it. For just a small
selection: the new status bar, that provides detailed information about where
you are in the score at a glance; the new, faster way to create time
signatures, where you can simply hit T then type (say) 4 Space 4 and hit Return
to create a 4/4 time signature; sticky slurs, which automatically extend during
note input, and, more generally, sticky lines of all kinds; sticky tuplets,
which makes inputting long sequences of triplets much quicker and more
efficient; Full Screen mode on Mac; the ability to save your preferred window
positions so that every score you work on opens up with Sibelius set up just
how you like it; the Inspector window, which shows only the parameters that are
contextually relevant, and is completely keyboard accessible; the ability to
quickly and easily install new ManuScript plug-ins from directly within the
software; the beautiful Plantin font licensed from Monotype Imaging as the
default text font in new scores; the Quick Start window, with its handy
thumbnails of your recent scores and quicker, more efficient way to start a new
score with manuscript papers organised into categories; and many more besides.
These small improvements alone would be enough for one of Sibeliusâ??s
competitors to call a major new version, but they are just examples of the
touches we have tried to add throughout Sibelius 7 to make it faster, smarter
and easier.
And what about that ribbon? Iâ??ve already written about the ribbon at
some length, and I donâ??t wish to repeat myself, but in summary: yes, the
ribbon looks very different to the old menus and toolbar that Sibelius 6 and
earlier sported, but it has many advantages. Features are more logically
grouped together. More important or commonly-used features are more prominent
(with larger buttons located towards the left-hand side of each group, and more
important groups located towards the left-hand end of each tab).
Commonly-required features that previously required trips into dialogs are
accessible directly from the ribbon (such as changing staff size, page size,
staff spacing, instrument name visibility, bar number frequency, and so on).
Every button and menu on the ribbon has an extended tool tip (called a screen
tip) that explains in detail what it does and why you should use it. The
â??Find in ribbonâ?? box at the top right-hand corner of the window allows you
to find practically any feature of the program instantly, simply by typing in
one or two keywords. Every single control is keyboard accessible, using a
sequence of keystrokes called key tips.
And, of course, you can hide the ribbon if you donâ??t want to see it
(simply double-click a ribbon tab, or click the little green arrow at the top
right-hand corner). Once the ribbon is hidden, it, together with the document
tab bar below it, takes up no more vertical space than the toolbar in Sibelius
6 and earlier. You can set the ribbon to be hidden by default if you wish
(using the options on the Files page of Preferences). Plus I took great care to
retain as many keyboard shortcuts as possible from previous versions of
Sibelius. If you know how to drive Sibelius 6 or earlier using keyboard
shortcuts, you can drive Sibelius 7 using those same keyboard shortcuts, ribbon
or no ribbon.
Finally, itâ??s the only version of Sibelius thatâ??s fully supported on
the latest operating systems, including Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (and it
will be supported on the forthcoming Windows 8). And, with your upgrade, you
will receive 90 daysâ?? complimentary assisted support by phone or via the
online support centre, so if you do encounter any problems getting up and
running, Avidâ??s expert team of Sibelius support staff (who are not affected
at all by any other recent internal reorganisations at the company) will be
there to help you every step of the way. Plus, of course, you can draw on the
expertise of fellow experienced users who freely offer their expertise on the
Sibelius user forum.
In summary, Iâ??m very proud of Sibelius 7, and I want everybody to have
the chance to use it.
The small print
If you have Sibelius First, Sibelius Student, or another of the cut-down
versions of Sibelius, then youâ??re not eligible for the discounted Sibelius 7
upgrade, but you can still trade up to Sibelius 7 at a very special price.
If you are at an educational institution and youâ??re using a networked
or stand-alone site license, again, youâ??re not eligible for the discounted
single-user upgrade, but (unless youâ??re in Australia or New Zealand) you can
still save 20% on the cost of upgrading your school or universityâ??s site
license to Sibelius 7, but be quick, because that offer ends on 30 September.
Related posts:
a.. Sibelius 7.0.3 update now available
b.. Sibelius 7 is here!
c.. Video tutorial: Using the Inspector in Sibelius 7
d.. Advanced selection techniques in Sibelius
e.. Film composer John Powell: â??Without Sibelius, we couldnâ??t meet
our deadlinesâ??
f.. How to run Sibelius 7 without the Quick Start window
g.. Everything old is new again: Sibelius 7 now supports Windows XP
h.. Sibelius 7.1.2 update now available
i.. Sibelius 7 Essential Training on Lynda.com
j.. Come and see Sibelius at Musikmesse Frankfurt
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