[sib-access] Re: Last Chance to get Sib 7, Perhaps?
- From: Benjamin Blatter <benjaminblatter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:29:06 +0200
Hi all
I consider buying it too. But I have some questions:
1. Does anyone know if it's worth buying audio score ultimate 7 too? Is
it really working and accessible?
2. I bought the east west quantum leap orchestra library a few years
ago, hoping to get to play these sounds with sibelius 6. It didn't work
at all. There went some 1000 swiss francs downhill ...
Well, I'd still consider to buy the vienna orchestra library, provided
this would be really working and be accessible. Does anyone of you use this?
3. What about the sibelius mixer? Could I use a control surface to
access it?
4. Is it true that sibelius 7 provides an instrument which can sing
lyrics? I read somewhere about that, but I can't find it anymore. This
would be so cool ...
5. I don't really like to ask about that, but if the worst would come
true and sibelius 8 wouldn't be accessible anymore ... would Cubase or
Nuendo be an alternative way to produce our scores?
Thanks for your thoughts and kind regards
Ben
Am 17.08.2012 01:44, schrieb Dale Lieser:
> Already bought it. <smile>
>
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> 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, I’m back with some
> news. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to Sibelius 7, but haven’t
> yet taken the plunge, now’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 you’re currently running a single-user copy of Sibelius 6 or
> earlier, whether you originally bought a professional, academic or
> competitive crossgrade license, you’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 you’ve been thinking about
> adding music scanning or audio transcription tools to your arsenal, there’s
> never been a better time.
>
> Why upgrade?
> You might be wondering whether now’s the time to invest in a new
> version of Sibelius, given the recent news about Avid’s corporate
> restructuring. You might have heard that Sibelius 7 is so different to
> Sibelius 6 that it’s like learning a whole new program. You might even have
> received an email from an opportunistic competitor offering you the chance to
> “upgrade†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 we’ve ever built. It’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.
>
> There’s much more to Sibelius 7 than the change to use a
> task-orientated ribbon UI (we’ll come on to that). Firstly, it’s the
> world’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. unrival
> led 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 Sibelius’s note input method: Sibelius 7 includes a new note input
> method that is based around choosing the pitch before the duration (rather
> than Sibelius’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 Europe’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
> Sibelius’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? I’ve already written about the ribbon at
> some length, and I don’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
> ‘Find in ribbon’ box at the top right-hand corner of the windo
> w allows you to fin
> d 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 don’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, it’s the only version of Sibelius that’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 days’ complimentary assisted support by phone or via
> the online support centre, so if you do encounter any problems getting up and
> running, Avid’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, I’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 you’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 you’re using a
> networked or stand-alone site license, again, you’re not eligible for the
> discounted single-user upgrade, but (unless you’re in Australia or New
> Zealand) you can still save 20% on the cost of upgrading your school or
> university’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: “Without Sibelius, we couldn’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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