Sibelius

Sibelius is the world's best-selling music notation software for Mac. It is as intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in less than the blink of an eye. The demo includes example scores and a demo user guide summarizing the main features of the program.

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Sibelius - A New Single Installer:

• We now have a single application called "Sibelius" that will run with the features based on the license you have activated. In the past, we’ve had separate applications for all the different flavours of Sibelius that would run with different features based on the version you had installed.

BUG FIXES:

• Empty text boxes no longer remain after removing multiple items of text with undo
• Multiple cursors are now displayed when entering expression and technique text across multiple staves
• Keyboard focus is now brought back to a text object after changing the size of it in Text > Format > Size
• As well as several improvements to grace notes, Sibelius will now retain the spacing correctly when copy and pasting passages. This saves the extra step to reset the note spacing.
• When the Quick Start is disabled, the blank score that is automatically created used Version 2 voice spacing instead of Version 3
• Several rare problems entering lyrics and chord symbols have all been resolved. This even included a crash and issues with the Undo queue
• A lyrics extender line now no longer reappears after saving and reopening a score. This would only happen if there were empty bars between two lines of music that contained lyrics.
• In rare cases, Sibelius would crash when working with text
• You can now enter multiple pieces of text or lines using a very short lasso selection
• When entering multiple hairpins onto a minim followed by a minim rest, it no longer results in a hairpin under the rest

Deleting the first bar of a score no longer deletes the time signature:

• Continuing the improvements from April’s release, where we added the ability to delete the first bar of the score without losing your Title page and other blank pages, title, composer and other text etc.. In today’s release, the Time Signature is no longer lost. This works in such a way that it retains the Time Signature that was in the first bar of the score, as you would expect, however Sibelius will now check to see if the next bar contains a Time Signature change, and places that in the new ‘bar 1’ after the deletion. For example, if you’re deleting bars 1 to 5, and there’s a Time Signature Change in Bar 6, Sibelius will now display the Time Signature that was in bar 6, rather than retaining the initial Time Signature that was in bar 1. If you’re used to being cautious of deleting bar 1, try it now - it’s really quite liberating!