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If you want to see more of your score as you work on it, click the Minimize Ribbon button. When you do, the ribbon disappears, leaving only the ribbon tabs across the top of the screen.

To make the ribbon reappear, click the button again to make the ribbon reappear permanently, or simply click whichever tab you want to use to make the ribbon reappear until you have finished making a choice from it, at which point it disappears again. Help: click the? You can find further help in the File tab of the ribbon. The ribbon: discussed in more detail below. Document tabs: you can open multiple different views of the same document — e. When you start a new score, only one tab will be shown, labeled Full Score.

Release the mouse button, and the a new window is created where you dropped the Sibelius score icon. You can also choose New Window, which opens the current tab in a new window.

Switch tabs: if you have many tabs open at once, you may not be able to see all of the names of the tabs clearly across the width of the tab bar. Click this button to show a menu listing all of the open tabs in the current window, allowing you to quickly switch to any of them.

Status bar: the status bar runs along the bottom of the window, which gives you information about the current document and has some useful buttons for quick access. Information read-outs: at the left-hand of the status bar is a series of useful read-outs. From left to right: the current page and the total number of pages; the total number of bars; the instrument on which the current selection resides, if there is one; the range of the current selection, if there is one; the timecode of the current selection; the pitches of the selected notes or the first note or chord of a passage if you have a range of music selected ; the harmony of the chord made up by all of the selected notes at the start of the selection, displayed as a chord symbol; a description of the current operation e.

To the left of the slider is a read-out of the current zoom level, expressed as a percentage. These buttons are also found on the View tab of the ribbon.

The ribbon tabs The ribbon itself is split into 11 tabs. The first tab, File, is unlike the other tabs: clicking it hides the score altogether and instead shows you a special view called Backstage, which contains everything you might want to do with a file as opposed to what you might do to a file, which is what the other 10 tabs are for.

From the File tab you can create, open, save and close files, import and export them in different formats, print music out, access special learning and teaching features, get detailed help, and more. The first chapter of this book is devoted to the operations you can perform from the File tab. The other 10 tabs are ordered roughly according to the order in which you typically perform tasks while working on a score, so as you make your way from the start of a project towards its end, you will typically work your way through most of the tabs of the ribbon from left to right.

This book is likewise ordered according to the order of the tabs. Notations: all of the basic markings other than notes, rests and text, including clefs, key and time signatures, special barlines, lines, symbols, notehead types, etc. Text: font style and size controls, choice of text styles, plus lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks, and bar and page numbering options.

Play: choice of playback configuration, mixer, transport playback controls, Live Tempo, Live Playback, options for how Sibelius should interpret your score during playback, and features for writing music to video. Layout: document setup options such as page and staff size, staff spacing, hiding staves, Magnetic Layout options, plus formatting controls.

Appearance: options that affect the visual appearance of your score, including choice of house style, note spacing and instrument name format, plus commands to reset or change the design or position of the objects in your score. Parts: options relating to instrumental parts. Groups and controls Each ribbon tab contains a number of groups, which organize related commands together. The name of each group is shown below the names of the individual commands in gray text, and groups are separated from each other by a vertical line: The picture above shows the Common, Lines and Symbols groups from the Notations tab.

Unlike regular menus, galleries typically list options organized by category, which can then be filtered see below. In-ribbon galleries allow you to scroll up and down the list using the scroll arrow buttons at the right-hand end, or to open the gallery, making it appear like a drop-down gallery.

Choose one category and all of the other categories are filtered out. Depending on the width of the window, the ribbon will do its best to display as many as possible of the controls in all of the groups on the current tab.

Some controls may be stacked vertically to save space, or perhaps even hide their textual description. If space gets very tight, some groups may end up collapsed, which means that instead of showing each of its controls directly on the ribbon, all of the controls are collapsed behind a single button, which shows the whole contents of the group below the ribbon when clicked, like this: 12 Working with the ribbon In the picture above, several of the groups on the Layout tab are collapsed, and the Staff Spacing group has been opened by clicking the button that represents the collapsed group.

Sibelius has so many commands that in order to ensure every group on every tab is not shown collapsed, your screen display has to be at least pixels wide! Keyboard access The ribbon includes a number of time-saving features to help you to learn and get around the program quickly, chief among them the ability to access every command via the keyboard using key tips. Key tips are special shortcuts that take you straight to a command, whichever ribbon tab it is on.

For example, type L to switch to the Layout tab: Now type the key tip shown usually two letters for the command you want to use.

Once you have set the focus into the ribbon by hitting Alt Windows or Ctrl Mac , you can also navigate around the tabs and the controls in each tab using the arrow keys or Tab and Shift-Tab, then use either Space, Return or Enter to activate the button or other control that is currently in focus.

These descriptions are called screen tips, and they provide useful additional context on each command. Notice how a keyboard shortcut is shown in parentheses after the name of the command. Unlike key tips, which can only be used in sequence after hitting Alt Windows or Ctrl Mac , this kind of keyboard shortcut can be used from anywhere, and furthermore you can customize them if you want to.

Launching related dialogs Some groups in the ribbon have a small extra button in the bottom right-hand corner called a dialog launcher button, which when clicked, you will be surprised to learn, launches a dialog containing further options relating to the commands in that group. Single document interface Sibelius uses a single document interface, which means that each score opens in its own window, complete with its own ribbon and all of the tools you need to work with that score.

As you open new parts or versions, they open by default in new tabs within the same window which you can re-order by dragging, or tear off to open the view in a new window. To close a score, close the whole window by clicking the close icon at the top right-hand corner Windows or top left-hand corner Mac. By default, when you close the last document window, the Quick Start window opens again, to allow you to open a recent score or create a new one. This also prevents Sibelius from quitting on Windows, because once there are no windows open, the application will quit.

Closes the window Closes the tab 14 Working with the ribbon Once you close the last tab in the last window, all of the controls on the ribbon are disabled, but you can now click the File tab, which now opens by default at the Recent page so that you can open a recent score, or you can click Open to open another existing score, or New to start a new one. On Mac, applications can still run when they have no windows, so Sibelius remains running until you explicitly quit.

If you click the Sibelius icon on the Dock when Sibelius is running but with no windows open, the Quick Start window opens automatically to help you get started again. Saving your working environment Sibelius automatically keeps track of the arrangement of windows and tabs while you are working on your score, so that it can restore them the next time you open it. Notes for upgraders If you have upgraded from Sibelius 6 or earlier, you may be a little disorientated when you first run your new version of Sibelius and see that the old menus and toolbar have been replaced by the ribbon.

The Find in ribbon box at the top right-hand corner of the ribbon is an invaluable tool in searching for features that you have temporarily mislaid. You can still access a cut-down version of the Edit menu by right-clicking on a selection in your score, just as in previous versions of Sibelius. Play menu items are found in the Play tab Layout menu items are found in the Layout tab, except for Reset Design and Reset Position, which are on the Appearance tab House Style menu items appear in many tabs: the various Edit Plug-ins: the most useful ones appear individually on the ribbon next to related features of the program.

Several tabs also have dedicated Plug-ins galleries, e. Window menu items are found on the View tab Help menu items are found in the File tab, in the Help pane.

As far as possible, keyboard shortcuts are the same as in previous versions of Sibelius, so power users who have memorized a lot of shortcuts should feel right at home. How you access undo and redo is, unusually, different in the Windows and Mac versions of Sibelius. Windows users On Windows, undo and redo are found on the Quick Access Toolbar, which appears in the top left-hand corner of each Sibelius document window, as shown on the right.

The most recent operation you undid is at the top of the list, so click the top item to redo one step, the second item to redo two steps and the bottom item to redo everything you undid and get back to where you were. If you see what I mean. Mac users On Mac, undo and redo are found in the Edit menu.

The Edit menu tells you what the last thing you did was, in case you have a very short memory. The most recent operation is at the top of the list, so click the top item to undo one step, the second item to undo two steps and the bottom item to undo as far back as you can go.

Again, the Edit menu tells you what it was you just redid. You can undo up to 20, operations, so if you set the undo level large enough you can undo right back to when you started writing the current score. If you set it larger still, you can even undo back to before you bought Sibelius.

This topic takes you through the first two steps, and the last step is described in b 3. It is a standard, not a thing — the universal standard for connecting electronic musical instruments together. MIDI keyboards, synthesizers, sound modules, samplers and other electronic music gadgets can all be plugged into one another with MIDI cables, and can also be plugged into your computer. To install one of these devices, simply connect a USB cable which may be provided with your device to your computer, and follow the on-screen instructions to install the necessary driver software, if any.

Once any required drivers are correctly installed, you can set up input and playback in Sibelius — b 3. This means that music played on the keyboard will go out of the keyboard, along the cable and in to the computer. To make the computer play back music into the keyboard e.

File tab 1. File tab 22 1. The other topics in this chapter will tell you how to share files with other people, whether or not they have Sibelius, and how to import and export files in various formats. Creating a score There are several ways to start a new score in Sibelius — b 1. File size Sibelius files typically occupy around 20K plus 1K per page excluding any imported graphics , even for band or orchestral music.

This means you can fit literally millions of pages on your hard disk, and even huge scores can easily be sent by email. So even if your name is J. Bach, disk space is unlikely ever to present a problem when using Sibelius. To save lyrics, see Export Lyrics on page A convenient place to save is the Scores folder that Sibelius has helpfully created for you.

On Windows, the Scores folder is created inside your My Documents folder; on Mac, it is inside your user Documents folder.

When you next open the score after saving, it will open at the point at which you were working on it when you saved, with the window in the same position, the same panels and windows visible, and even at the same zoom factor. You have complete control over to what extent Sibelius restores your previous working environment when reopening a score you have previously saved — b 1. Rather than saving your actual file, Sibelius makes a copy of your score and saves it into a special hidden folder.

You can also specify in this dialog how often Sibelius automatically saves your score; the default is 10 minutes. Backups Each time you save, the score with a version number added to the name is also saved, by default, in Backup Scores in your Scores folder.

If you ever accidentally delete or mess up a score, look in this backup folder to get the latest version you saved, or earlier versions too. The default number of backups is Backup scores are created when you save manually, not each time Sibelius auto-saves; but unlike auto-saved scores, backup scores are not deleted when you close Sibelius.

You will find that several fields are already filled in if you specified title, composer, etc. For details on wildcards and how to use them in Sibelius, b 5. The standard files included with Sibelius are non-deletable; you should not change anything inside the installation 24 1. The application data folder is hidden by default and will not be otherwise visible in Windows Explorer.

If you wish to access this folder via Explorer, go to Control Panel and click Folder Options from any open Explorer window. Click the View tab and from the Files and Folders list choose Show hidden files and folders. Inside the Sibelius application data folder you will find various folders whose names indicate the content they contain. On Mac, it is possible for there to be no folders at all, as they are only created when you create or edit a file that is saved in that location.

You can copy any appropriate file to the user area directories and Sibelius will use it when you next start the program. Files you have added or created can also be deleted with no ill side-effects. Place them inside the relevant folder in the application data folder, and Sibelius will detect them. Scorch templates go in the folder called Scorch templates, and textures in Windows BMP format only in the folder called Textures. Quick Look Mac only Quick Look is a feature built in to Mac OS X that allows you to preview instantly the contents of your documents directly from the Finder, without having to wait while you open the applications that created them: simply select the document in the Finder, and hit Space.

Many documents also show thumbnail previews on the desktop and in Finder windows, and if you set Finder windows to use Cover Flow, you can flip through folders of documents very quickly. Sibelius fully supports Quick Look, so instead of the usual document icon, you will see a thumbnail of the first page of the score: select it and hit Space or click the Quick Look icon in the Finder to see a larger preview of the score.

Sharing files with other users of Sibelius If the person you are working with also has Sibelius, then simply send the file by email, or on removable media such as a USB flash drive or CD-R. If they have the same or a later version of Sibelius as you, you can simply save your file as normal and send it to them.

If, however, they have an earlier version of Sibelius or are using an earlier version of Sibelius Student or Sibelius First , you will need to export your score in an earlier file format before emailing.

If the recipient has another music program and wants to listen to and perhaps edit your music, send them a MIDI file b 1. If you want to send your music to somebody else so they can hear it, and you do need them to see the score, you can export a video file from Sibelius — b 1.

If you want to publish your music online for people to view and print — or use a video- or audiosharing service — Sibelius can export a suitable file and upload it directly to your Score Exchange, YouTube, Facebook or SoundCloud account — b 1.

By default, Sibelius sends a Sibelius 7. If you choose to send a file for opening in an earlier version, you can choose which version as far back as Sibelius 2 from the drop-down list. When you send the email, Sibelius exports a copy of the score in the earlier format and attaches it to the email. In each case, the exported PDF files are attached to the email that will be sent when you click Send Email. To learn more about exporting PDF files of your score — b 1. If you wish to send an email in this way to more than one recipient, type their email addresses separated by semicolons, like this: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] and so on.

You may not use this service to violate copyright or any other property right and you should not make false or misleading statements of fact or misrepresentations of the origin of the material you are sending. Then send it as normal. Music and text fonts are also substituted intelligently. Sibelius files have a. Opening Mac scores on Windows If you are trying to open a score created on the Mac given to you on a CD-R or another disk, make sure the disk is formatted for Windows — although the Mac can read Windows disks, Windows cannot read Mac disks.

To open the file in Sibelius for Windows, you may have to add the file extension. Although Sibelius adds this file extension by default on both Windows and Mac, some Mac users prefer not to use file extensions; this causes a problem on Windows, because the file extension tells Windows this is a Sibelius file.

Once you have renamed the file, you can open it in the usual way by double-clicking. You can move a Sibelius score between Mac and Windows without any conversion at all — see below. From here you can choose to send an email directly from within Sibelius, with your score attached in a choice of formats.

Integration with Score Exchange allows you to publish scores online. Of course, Sibelius also offers the ability to print b 1.

You can also send your scores to the Avid Scorch mobile app and take them anywhere b 1. For full details on this, see Sending files via email on page Publishing for others to view, purchase and print Sibelius allows you to upload and publish your scores as digital sheet music to ScoreExchange.

For more details, visit www. If you switch on the Keep me signed in checkbox before clicking Sign In, Sibelius will remember your login details between sessions, so that when you next run the program, you will automatically be signed into your account. You will also see a list of the instrumental parts created automatically by Sibelius for every instrument in your score.

You can choose whether these should be removed from the file you upload to ScoreExchange. These parts can then be made available separately to purchase or download. When you click the Publish button, Sibelius will open your web browser and take you to ScoreExchange. Sharing your score as a video Sibelius offers seamless sharing on YouTube and Facebook, where you can upload and share a digital video of your score — all without leaving the program.

These allow you to choose the playback configuration to use for the audio potion and change various settings about the display in the resulting video, including the playback line, paper texture and score layout including which staves should be visible. Clicking the Publish button launches the Publish dialog. File tab to create one. Choose Start to tell Sibelius to begin creating your video before uploading it to YouTube or Facebook.

To learn more about how this part of the process works, see Exporting and uploading your audio or video to the web below. Sharing your score as an audio track Sibelius also offers seamless sharing on SoundCloud, where you can upload and share an audio track of your score — again without ever leaving the program.

Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks.

For more information visit www. You can choose whether to make your video publicly available, or restricted only to those people who you specifically share it with. Choose Start to tell Sibelius to begin creating your audio track before uploading it to SoundCloud. The Upload to dialog keeps you informed as to the progress. The Upload to dialog now gives you access to more information about the speed of your connection and the remaining time needed to finish the upload.

Helpfully you can carry on using Sibelius as normal while the upload continues in the background — see Exporting and uploading in the background below. Once the upload is complete and your audio track or video file is ready for sharing, the Upload to dialog now displays a link to the media online, as well as details about the audio track or video you just uploaded.

Clicking Copy Link copies the URL to the clipboard ready for you to paste it into a web browser or other program, or embed it in a web page.

To show the Upload to dialog again, or to cancel, choose Click for details. Helpfully, Sibelius will also display the upload progress in a tooltip if you hover with the mouse over the progress indicator in the status bar. Once the upload is complete and your audio track or video file is ready for sharing, Sibelius shows an Upload complete notification in the status bar. Note that Sibelius cannot upload more than one audio track or video to the Internet at a time.

If you wish, you can cancel the upload in order to begin a new one. If you try to quit Sibelius while an upload is continuing in the background, Sibelius will warn you and ask you if you want to cancel or continue with the upload. Manuscript paper In either case, you will end up looking at a list of templates, called manuscript papers, organized into folders, and showing a thumbnail view of each one. The preset manuscript paper choices have various combinations of instruments, along with other less obvious settings to improve the look and playback of your score.

You do not have to use the instruments exactly as provided — feel free to delete instruments or add new ones. File tab To browse through the categories more quickly, you can collapse a category by clicking its title bar, or hold Shift and click any heading to collapse or expand all of the categories at once. You can also create your own manuscript papers if you like — b 1.

Setting up your score To get started with your score right away without modifying the instruments it contains, or setting an initial key or time signature, simply double-click your chosen manuscript paper. To modify the manuscript paper, click it just once, and you will see a zoomed-in version of the template, together with some options to its right. For now, you can make as many or as few of these decisions as you like, and to get started on the score itself, click Create at any time.

Sibelius 7. Update Score dialog As each new version of Sibelius comes with a new set of features, when opening a score created in Sibelius 5 or earlier you will be presented with the Update Score dialog so you can choose which aspects, if any, of your score you wish to update.

You will only be able to choose options that were not available in the version of Sibelius that your score was saved in. This option will only take effect if you have compatible sound sets installed for the devices you were using when you were working on the score in your previous version. Play repeats determines whether Sibelius should pay attention to any repeat barlines in the score.

Normally this checkbox will be disabled, since the option has been switched on by default in all but the earliest versions of Sibelius, but if it is enabled, you should switch it on to ensure correct playback and display of bar numbers in the score. Keep custom beam groupings determines whether Sibelius should retain any individual edits made to beam groups in the score.

Use Magnetic Layout allows you to enable automatic collision avoidance for your score. Convert chord symbol text updates text-based chord symbols from Sibelius 5 and earlier into newer, more intelligent chord symbol objects. Version 5 vertical text positioning rule should be switched on, unless you know you have adjusted the vertical position of text objects such as bar numbers to compensate for the text appearing too close to the staff following instrument changes along a staff that change the number of staff lines.

Position slurs on mixed stem notes above the notes applies an improved rule for the direction of slurs: if all of the notes under the compass of the slur have stems pointing upwards, the slur will curve below the notes; if any of the notes have stems pointing downwards, the slur will curve above the notes b 4. Extend tuplet brackets to last note in tuplet resets the duration of tuplets to use improved positioning for the left- and right-hand ends of tuplet brackets b 3.

Also, if you prefer to follow the convention whereby accents should be positioned inside slurs, switch on the appropriate Inside slur checkbox for that articulation. The majority of the above options can be set quickly to their recommended settings by importing one of the supplied house styles — b 8. A dialog appears with importing options you can set detailed below.

Some MIDI files contain no program changes even though they contain instrument names , which means that the instruments have to be guessed. If so, Sibelius warns you that the instrument names, sounds, clefs, and other details may be wrong. This helps Sibelius guess what the instruments are. Switch on this option and each hand will be written as one staff, not two; you can then clean it up by creating a new piano and copying the two hands into it.

Finally, delete the original two pianos. Keep track order is switched off by default; this makes Sibelius choose the order of the instruments. Switch it on to keep the instruments in the same order as the tracks in the MIDI file. Keep track names makes Sibelius use the name of each track as the instrument name; switch it off to use the default instrument names for the instruments Sibelius guesses Hide empty staves is switched on by default; this makes Sibelius hide empty staves throughout the resulting score, which is often useful because many MIDI files have tracks that are empty except for short passages; as a result, hiding empty staves can make the score easier to read Import markers as hit points makes Sibelius convert all markers in the MIDI file into hit points in the score it creates.

When switched off, Sibelius will import the markers as standard text objects. Use tab for guitars specifies whether Sibelius should import any guitar tracks in the MIDI file onto tab staves; if the option is switched off, guitars will be imported onto notation staves Use multiple voices determines whether Sibelius should use two voices where appropriate to produce cleaner notation; normally this option should be switched on Show metronome marks makes all metronome marks visible.

If there are lots of changes of tempo e. The Document Setup options allow you to choose the Page size, House style and orientation Portrait or Landscape of the resulting score. The default Notation tab settings work well in most cases, as follows: Adjust rhythms on, Minimum note value sixteenth note semiquaver , Staccato and Tenuto on.

If you set Minimum note value unrealistically long — e. Sibelius will have to approximate the runs of sixteenth notes using tuplets of eighth notes or by joining some pairs of sixteenth notes together to form eighth note chords. Batch conversion Sibelius includes a plug-in to convert a complete folder full of MIDI files at once. You are asked to find the folder to convert; find it and click OK.

Similarly, if the MIDI file uses channel 10 for pitched instruments, these may be imported by Sibelius as percussion instruments. If you have access to a sequencer, you could try re-quantizing the file and opening it in Sibelius again. Sometimes you may find that you end up with unwanted rests between notes, or with unwanted unisons two noteheads sharing the same pitch. When importing, Sibelius intelligently works out which instruments to use using track names if they are present, otherwise using the sounds , and is able to distinguish between, say, Violin and Viola, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, or Soprano and Alto by the range of the music in each track.

Sibelius cleans up the rhythm using the Flexi-time algorithm, and retains as much or as little MIDI message data as you specify e. Sibelius also automatically reduces the staff size if there are too many instruments for the page size. If you are looking for a particular piece, you can try a search using www.

Some may even be in an audio format, like MP3, which cannot be opened by Sibelius. So look carefully to see what the actual format of the file is, before you try and download it. Sibelius can, however, open files in various formats — check the other topics in this chapter for details. Do not click on the link directly, as that will simply make the MIDI file play inside your web browser: we want to download it, not play it.

MIDI files are normally very small, so this will probably take only a second or two. Copyright infringement is illegal. Most music states if it is copyright and who the copyright owner is. The purpose of the file convertor is to save you time, not to convert every score so that it is identical to the original.

Sibelius can open MusicXML files with either extension. If you switch this off, you can set the paper size and orientation for the imported MusicXML file, and Sibelius will use the default staff size as determined by the house style chosen below in the dialog. If you switch this off, Sibelius will effectively unlock the format of the resulting score, using its default layout and formatting. If you choose another house style, 45 1. File tab note that the page size and staff size specified in the house style will not be used in the resulting score unless you switch off Use page and staff size from MusicXML file.

If you want Sibelius to use its own default instrument names instead, switch this option off. You can then check and edit the file as necessary. Warning messages Some MusicXML files may contain errors, which will be displayed in a dialog listing each error and the location at which it occurred in the file you are opening. These should not normally prevent the file from opening correctly. In extreme circumstances, some 46 1.

Files created in earlier MusicXML formats open correctly, provided they are valid. Files created with future versions of MusicXML should also open, though new features will not be imported. Sibelius can only open MusicXML files that use the partwise. If your file uses the timewise. Batch conversion Sibelius includes a plug-in to convert a complete folder full of MusicXML files at once. The technical and ornaments elements are not imported. Barlines If different staves have different barline types simultaneously, Sibelius will use the barline type of the uppermost part.

Heavy, heavy-light and heavy-heavy barlines are not imported. Beams Sub-beams do not import. Chord symbols Some chord symbols may not be imported when they are using a function element. MusicXML specifies that all chord symbols go above the top staff in a part only. The kind instances Neapolitan, Italian, French, German, pedal pedal-point bass and Tristan are all imported as major chords.

If the function element is not present in the harmony element, the chord symbol is not imported. Clefs Special percussion and tab clefs available in MusicXML will be replaced with the closest matching clef available in Sibelius.

MusicXML is not capable of differentiating between clefs at the start or end of a bar. Cross-stave notes MusicXML files that use a number of voices across staves may import some notes on the wrong staff. Files containing chords with notes in different staves are not imported correctly. End repeat lines The positioning of end repeat lines may need manual adjustment after they have been imported. Key signatures Only major and minor modes are recognized for the mode element.

If the fifths element is missing, the key signature will be imported as an atonal key signature. Other key child elements e. If a part has more than one staff, key signatures may be omitted from one or more of those staves. Key signatures that fall after the barline in some other music notation programs may fall behind the barline in Sibelius.

Layout Sibelius can only use one page size for the entire score being imported. Objects that are only graphically offset in the file may have an impact on playback in Sibelius. Lyrics The laughing, humming, end-line, end-paragraph and editorial elements are ignored. File tab Feature Limitation Metronome marks Metronome marks containing th, th, 64th and long breve notes are not imported by Sibelius.

Rests Extra rests resulting from multiple voices on the same staff are automatically removed, but some extra rests may still occur, e. Slur The continue attribute is not imported.

The entity attributes position and bezier are not imported. Symbols Symbols are not imported. Staves Changes of staff type are not imported. Stems The stem values none and double are not imported. Text Some text items are imported via the dynamics element, but none of the dynamics attributes are imported. Specific figured bass elements such as parentheses, elision and extend are not imported. The directive element is not imported.

Ties The tie element is ignored completely; only ties specified by the tied element are imported. The number attribute is ignored. All ties are imported as solid ties. The position, placement, orientation, bezier-offset, bezier-x and bezier-y attributes are not imported.

Time signatures Sibelius will not import compound time signatures e. Senza-misura elements are not imported. The single-number attribute value for symbol is not imported if present it is imported as normal If different time signatures occur in different staves simultaneously, Sibelius will use the time signature from the uppermost staff. The tuplet attributes placement, position, show-type, show-number, bracket and lineshape are not imported.

It is a sophisticated program with many advanced features. PhotoScore Ultimate reads many more musical markings including tuplets, slurs, grace notes, cross-staff beaming, guitar tab, chord diagrams, repeat barlines etc. As far as the computer is concerned, scanning a page merely presents it with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which could be music, text, a photograph or anything else.

The process of actually reading or interpreting music, text or pictures from this grid of dots is extremely complex and poorly understood. Additional staves or voices will be omitted. Are reasonably clear — for example, staff lines should be continuous and not broken or blotchy, half note minim and whole note semibreve noteheads and flats should have a continuous cir49 1.

File tab cumference and not be broken or filled in, beams on sixteenth notes semiquavers and shorter notes should have a significant white gap in between, and objects that are meant to be separate e. Music that does not match the above will probably work, but with considerably reduced accuracy.

Scanning from photocopies is not particularly recommended unless the photocopier is a particularly good one, as photocopying tends to degrade the quality of an original significantly. You may be obliged to scan from a reduced photocopy if your original is bigger than your scanner, but you should expect lower accuracy. To work with graphics files, you will need each page of music stored as a separate graphics file on your computer in.

Reading a PDF file may be useful if the music you want to scan is available in PDF format from a web site, or if you want to convert a file from another music program by producing a PDF file and then opening it in PhotoScore Lite. Copyright infringement by scanning is illegal.

Here you correct any mistakes that PhotoScore Lite has made. Editing within PhotoScore Lite works in much the same way as editing music in Sibelius. Almost any marking can be corrected or input in PhotoScore Lite, but it is only essential at this stage to correct rhythmic mistakes — other corrections can be made after sending the score to Sibelius if you prefer.

This is done simply by clicking on a button. You can then play the music back, re-arrange it, transpose it, create parts, or print it out. The graphics file is then added to the list of scanned pages. You will be prompted to choose the resolution; normally you can leave this at the default of dpi and click OK.

If the PDF is password protected, you will then be prompted to provide the password. As soon as you scan a page or open a PDF or graphics file, each page appears in the Pages pane, which is at the left hand of the main PhotoScore Lite window. Each page first appears under Pending Pages, and PhotoScore Lite immediately proceeds to read the pages you have added, Reading each page will take a little while depending on the speed of your computer and a green progress bar fills up behind the name of the page in the Pending Pages list.

File tab When PhotoScore Lite has finished reading the pages, the main editing window will appear: From this window you can edit any errors in the music. If Sibelius is not already running, it will start up, and the Open PhotoScore File dialog will appear, which allows you to choose various options concerning which instruments will be used in the Sibelius score.

Moments later, the Sibelius score will appear, ready for editing, just as if you had inputted it yourself. Put one edge of the original flush against the raised edge of the glass. You can put the page on its side if it fits better. PhotoScore Lite will automatically rotate the page by 90 degrees if necessary. However you should normally align the top of the page with the left edge of the scanner to ensure it does not turn out upside down.

If you are scanning in gray, then the page does not need to be completely straight, providing that it is not more than 8 degrees off — PhotoScore Lite will automatically make the page level to within 0. After a moment, the scanner will whir into life and transfer the page to your computer. If you are scanning from a fairly thick book, gently press down the lid or the book if easier during scanning to keep the page flat on the glass.

A window will appear for you to enter a name for the page, which will be something like Score 1, Page 1 by default. You can change this to any name you like although to avoid any unexpected results it should end with a number — something like Piano p1 would do — then click OK.

Subsequent pages you scan will be automatically numbered e. Piano p2, and a dialog will not appear. Wait a few seconds while PhotoScore Lite makes the image level, chooses the best brightness, and locates the staves. PhotoScore will now be ready to scan the next page, so put the page of music in the scanner, then click the button that tells your scanner to start scanning again, and proceed as for the first page.

If the scanning interface does not reappear, simply click the Scan Pages button again. Continue until you have scanned all the pages that you want to scan. A scan of the first page will then appear. Check that all the staves are highlighted in blue — this shows that PhotoScore Lite has detected where they are. If the page has systems of two or more staves, check also that the staves within each system are joined at the left-hand end by a thick vertical or near-vertical red line.

So, for example, do not scan at dpi unless the staves really are small. You do not need to save scanned pages or the catalog — it is stored on your hard disk automatically. This means that whenever you start using PhotoScore, it still remembers any pages you scanned previously. You can delete pages that you no longer need to keep. Then click Scan to scan the selected area at high resolution. Every time you click Scan after this, only the selected area will be scanned, until you change it.

Scan each page separately. You are allowed to scan a page, then read it, then scan another and so on see 54 1. Pages Pane On the left-hand side of the PhotoScore Lite window you should see the pages pane, as shown here. Pages that have not yet been read appear in the upper half of the pages pane, under the heading Pending Pages. Notice how PhotoScore Lite helpfully shows you a thumbnail of the scanned page as you hover your mouse pointer over its name.

When you want to read a page you have scanned, click the little checkbox at the right-hand side, which expands to say Read when you hover your mouse pointer over it.

PhotoScore Lite will start to think, and the blue bar behind the name of the page will turn green as PhotoScore reads the page.

If you accidentally scanned the pages in the wrong order, you can correct the order in the list of Pending Pages simply by clicking and dragging the pages into the correct order. If you just scanned in some pages or opened a PDF, however, your pages have probably already been read by PhotoScore Lite, and so will be found in the lower half of the pages pane, under the heading Read Pages.

To view a page in order to edit it, click on its name under Read Pages. PhotoScore Ultimate, available separately, also reads text including lyrics, dynamics, instrument names, fingering, etc.

File tab various other markings such as codas, segnos, ornaments, pedal markings and repeat endings. PhotoScore Ultimate can even read neat handwritten music! PhotoScore Lite will show the part of the page it has already read.

Here you can edit mistakes PhotoScore Lite has made. The top part of the window with a buff-colored background shows you the original page.

The Full detail view window at the top right-hand corner shows a zoomed-in portion of the original page, according to where you point your mouse.

This can be repositioned by clicking its title bar, and dragging. There is a Create menu at the top of the window, which is also similar in function to the Create menu you can show in Sibelius by right-clicking on the score with no selection, though features not appropriate for PhotoScore Lite have been omitted. What to correct The minimum level of correction recommended before sending the output score to Sibelius is to correct key signatures and time signatures.

Other mistakes such as pitch can be corrected in Sibelius, but correcting key signatures and time signatures is much easier in PhotoScore Lite, so we recommend you do that.

Once PhotoScore Lite knows the time signature, any rhythmic inaccuracies are indicated by small red notes over the barline, showing the number of missing or extra beats. As you correct the mistakes, these red notes disappear — and once your score is free of red notes, you can send it to Sibelius. Once you are more proficient with PhotoScore Lite, you can correct the music completely in PhotoScore Lite before sending it to Sibelius.

The advantage of this is that you can spot errors by looking at the scanned original on the screen instead of having to refer to it on paper. Checking for mistakes Check for mistakes by comparing the bottom part of the window with the original scan at the top.

The top and bottom parts move about to show the region of the page the mouse is pointing at. Avoid the temptation to compare the output page with the original music on paper — it is almost always quicker to compare with the scan on the screen.

At the top right of the output window is the full detail view window, which shows in close-up the part of the original that the pointer is over. This window can be repositioned by clicking its title bar and dragging. MIDI playback Another way to check for mistakes is to have the output played back to you. Your computer will need a MIDI device attached to make use of this feature if you have more than one attached, the default one will be used.

Page 1 of 2, and by clicking on the arrows you can move through all of the pages that have been read the output score. It makes sense to edit the first page completely, then advance to the second page and so on until the whole output score has been edited. File tab To play the whole page from the start, ensure that nothing is selected by clicking on an area of the page with no notation.

Do the same to stop the music. To play from a particular point on the page, select an object in each of the staves you want playback from. It will commence from the start of the bar with the earliest selection. By default, all the staves will play back with a piano sound, but you can change this: right-click Windows or Control-click Mac the names at the start of the first system e.

Staff 1 , choose Instruments from the context menu, then click Rename. While the music is playing, the currently played bars will be highlighted in gray. By default, the page size of the selected manuscript paper used for importing will be used instead, but you can switch this on if you like. The Page size, House style and orientation Portrait or Landscape options determine the document setup of the resulting score. Once your music has been opened in Sibelius you can do anything you like to it, just as if you had inputted it yourself — but see Multi-staff instruments below for some clarification.

If a bar is too short, Sibelius simply inserts rests at the end. Although Sibelius adjusts the lengths of bars like this, you are strongly advised to correct faulty rhythms in PhotoScore Lite in the first place rather than trying to fix them in Sibelius afterwards, as it will save you extra work.

This is because PhotoScore Lite treats all staves as separate instruments, which means that, by default, multi-staff instruments such as keyboards will be sent to Sibelius as two separately-named staves without a brace. When you send a PhotoScore file to Sibelius, you can use the Open PhotoScore File dialog to tell Sibelius that, say, staves 1 and 2 are actually the right- and left-hand staves of a piano — either choose the instruments yourself, or click Let Sibelius choose instruments.

If your original contains instruments that have a different number of staves on different systems — e. Closing the output score Once you have finished scanning a score and have sent it to Sibelius, and are satisfied with the result, you should close the score in PhotoScore Lite before you start scanning a new one. Deleting unwanted scans PhotoScore Lite automatically saves each page you scan as a scanned image.

This occupies a not insignificant amount of hard disk space, so you should regularly delete scans that have been read. You do not, however, have to delete the scans before scanning the next piece of music.

When a page is selected, the word Remove appears to the right of its name: click Remove to delete the pages. Check that the scanner is switched on and that the cable between it and the computer is firmly connected at both ends. Beware that some scanners need to be switched on before the computer is turned on, otherwise they are not detected.

The original was not flat on the scanner glass: always close the lid when scanning, unless scanning a thick book. It may also help if you gently press down on the scanner lid during scanning.

I have been doing as suggested here for a couple of years now since I got my first iPad. I have numerous manuals on it, including Sibelius.

You can also open the reference in Sibelius and save it directly to p. Yes, a very helpful article, Philip, thanks. Hello, i have a copy of sibelius first 7. I inadvertently turned off the barlines Sibelius 7. I inadvertantly turned off the bar lines Sibelius7. Your email address will not be published.

Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Skip to content. You can, alternatively, locate the semi-secret location of the Help documentation on your computer, which will be fully up-to-date, provided you have the latest version of Sibelius: On Mac: Find the Sibelius application in the Applications folder. Newsletter Get a newsletter on the first of every month with a digest of the month’s news. Email Address. Search for:. Keep Reading.

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There are plenty of PDF readers out there. After doing this, you may find yourself less nostalgic for the old bound manuals after all, as the benefits of the PDF easily translate to the tablet, including bookmarked sections and hyperlinks throughout the documentation.

The latest version of the Dorico guide is now available to download as a PDF, encompassing improvements to the software Set a custom playback order for your music, including complex repeats and gaps, using the Manual Repeats feature in Sibelius.

Often I receive questions from friends, colleagues and strangers alike, asking for help with one Sibelius question or another. Very helpful article, Philip! Cool idea to download the PDF to your tablet as an always available reference. I have been doing as suggested here for a couple of years now since I got my first iPad.

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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. On-screen reference To start the on-screen Reference Guide, click the button at the right-hand end of the ribbon tab bar, shown on the right, find it within Help in the File tab, or type the shortcut F1 or X?. Whichever application your computer uses to view PDF files will open — on Windows this is normally Adobe Reader, and on Mac it is normally Preview — and the on-screen Reference Guide will appear.

Typography and cross-references Names of computer keys, menus and dialogs are written like this. The main way in which you find commands in Sibelius is via the ribbon, a wide band of command buttons that appear at the top of the screen when you click a tab like File or Home.

Each ribbon tab contains a number of groups of related commands. Sibelius is almost identical on Windows and Mac, but where there are differences, mainly in keyboard shortcuts, the Windows convention is listed first. For more information on the differences between Mac and Windows keyboard shortcuts, b Keyboard shortcuts at the end of this Reference Guide, which lists all keyboard shortcuts available.

To click something means to move the mouse arrow over it and click the left mouse button. To right-click something means to point at it with the mouse and click the right mouse button. If you are using a MacBook or other portable Mac, to achieve the equivalent of a right-click, hold the Ctrl key and click the trackpad. To drag something means to point at it with the mouse, and then click and hold the left mouse button while moving the mouse.

To finish dragging, just let go of the mouse button. A dialog is a window with buttons on. Some dialogs are divided into several pages and have labeled tabs at the top, or a list box at the left-hand side, which you can click to switch between pages of the dialog.

The numeric keypad is the rectangle of numbers and other characters at the very right-hand side of your computer keyboard. On some keyboards it is unlabeled, but it still means Enter.

Less well-known terminology is in the Glossary at the end of this book. In addition to the ribbon, every Sibelius document window also contains other useful controls. The Undo and Redo buttons also have menus attached to them, allowing you to quickly undo or redo to any point since you opened the score. On Mac, these options are found in the File and Edit menus respectively. On Mac, you will instead see a black dot inside the red close button at the top left-hand corner of the window. On Windows, these buttons appear at the top right-hand corner, while on Mac, they appear at the top left-hand corner.

Click this to make your score window disappear from the screen without closing the file. This button resizes the document window. Clicking this button toggles your window between maximum size or its previous size. As the name suggests, clicking this button closes the current window. Sibelius helpfully highlights the control for you. Minimize Ribbon: the ribbon described below takes up a reasonable amount of vertical space.

If you want to see more of your score as you work on it, click the Minimize Ribbon button. When you do, the ribbon disappears, leaving only the ribbon tabs across the top of the screen. To make the ribbon reappear, click the button again to make the ribbon reappear permanently, or simply click whichever tab you want to use to make the ribbon reappear until you have finished making a choice from it, at which point it disappears again.

Help: click the? You can find further help in the File tab of the ribbon. The ribbon: discussed in more detail below. Document tabs: you can open multiple different views of the same document — e.

When you start a new score, only one tab will be shown, labeled Full Score. Release the mouse button, and the a new window is created where you dropped the Sibelius score icon. You can also choose New Window, which opens the current tab in a new window. Switch tabs: if you have many tabs open at once, you may not be able to see all of the names of the tabs clearly across the width of the tab bar. Click this button to show a menu listing all of the open tabs in the current window, allowing you to quickly switch to any of them.

To the left of the slider is a read-out of the current zoom level, expressed as a percentage. These buttons are also found on the View tab of the ribbon. The ribbon tabs The ribbon itself is split into 11 tabs. The first tab, File, is unlike the other tabs: clicking it hides the score altogether and instead shows you a special view called Backstage, which contains everything you might want to do with a file as opposed to what you might do to a file, which is what the other 10 tabs are for.

From the File tab you can create, open, save and close files, import and export them in different formats, print music out, access special learning and teaching features, get detailed help, and more.

The first chapter of this book is devoted to the operations you can perform from the File tab. The other 10 tabs are ordered roughly according to the order in which you typically perform tasks while working on a score, so as you make your way from the start of a project towards its end, you will typically work your way through most of the tabs of the ribbon from left to right. This book is likewise ordered according to the order of the tabs. Notations: all of the basic markings other than notes, rests and text, including clefs, key and time signatures, special barlines, lines, symbols, notehead types, etc.

Text: font style and size controls, choice of text styles, plus lyrics, chord symbols, rehearsal marks, and bar and page numbering options. Play: choice of playback configuration, mixer, transport playback controls, Live Tempo, Live Playback, options for how Sibelius should interpret your score during playback, and features for writing music to video.

Layout: document setup options such as page and staff size, staff spacing, hiding staves, Magnetic Layout options, plus formatting controls. Appearance: options that affect the visual appearance of your score, including choice of house style, note spacing and instrument name format, plus commands to reset or change the design or position of the objects in your score.

Parts: options relating to instrumental parts. Groups and controls Each ribbon tab contains a number of groups, which organize related commands together. The name of each group is shown below the names of the individual commands in gray text, and groups are separated from each other by a vertical line: The picture above shows the Common, Lines and Symbols groups from the Notations tab.

Each group contains one or more controls of various types, including buttons, buttons that open menus, split buttons where half the button is a regular button and the other half opens a menu , checkboxes, combo boxes and galleries, which are menus with special features. Unlike regular menus, galleries typically list options organized by category, which can then be filtered see below. In-ribbon galleries allow you to scroll up and down the list using the scroll arrow buttons at the right-hand end, or to open the gallery, making it appear like a drop-down gallery.

Many galleries in Sibelius contain category filters, which allow you to show only one kind of thing at a time in a gallery. Category filters are found at the very top of an open gallery; by default, there is no filter so the filter reads All , but you can click the filter name to show a menu in which all the categories are listed. Choose one category and all of the other categories are filtered out. Depending on the width of the window, the ribbon will do its best to display as many as possible of the controls in all of the groups on the current tab.

As you open new parts or versions, they open by default in new tabs within the same window which you can re-order by dragging, or tear off to open the view in a new window.

To close a score, close the whole window by clicking the close icon at the top right-hand corner Windows or top left-hand corner Mac. By default, when you close the last document window, the Quick Start window opens again, to allow you to open a recent score or create a new one.

This also prevents Sibelius from quitting on Windows, because once there are no windows open, the application will quit. Closes the window Closes the tab 14 Working with the ribbon Once you close the last tab in the last window, all of the controls on the ribbon are disabled, but you can now click the File tab, which now opens by default at the Recent page so that you can open a recent score, or you can click Open to open another existing score, or New to start a new one.

On Mac, applications can still run when they have no windows, so Sibelius remains running until you explicitly quit. If you click the Sibelius icon on the Dock when Sibelius is running but with no windows open, the Quick Start window opens automatically to help you get started again.

Saving your working environment Sibelius automatically keeps track of the arrangement of windows and tabs while you are working on your score, so that it can restore them the next time you open it.

Notes for upgraders If you have upgraded from Sibelius 6 or earlier, you may be a little disorientated when you first run your new version of Sibelius and see that the old menus and toolbar have been replaced by the ribbon. The Find in ribbon box at the top right-hand corner of the ribbon is an invaluable tool in searching for features that you have temporarily mislaid.

You can still access a cut-down version of the Edit menu by right-clicking on a selection in your score, just as in previous versions of Sibelius. Play menu items are found in the Play tab Layout menu items are found in the Layout tab, except for Reset Design and Reset Position, which are on the Appearance tab House Style menu items appear in many tabs: the various Edit Plug-ins: the most useful ones appear individually on the ribbon next to related features of the program.

Several tabs also have dedicated Plug-ins galleries, e. Window menu items are found on the View tab Help menu items are found in the File tab, in the Help pane. As far as possible, keyboard shortcuts are the same as in previous versions of Sibelius, so power users who have memorized a lot of shortcuts should feel right at home. How you access undo and redo is, unusually, different in the Windows and Mac versions of Sibelius. Windows users On Windows, undo and redo are found on the Quick Access Toolbar, which appears in the top left-hand corner of each Sibelius document window, as shown on the right.

You can click the menu part of the button to show the undo history menu: click on any item in the menu to undo directly to that point. As with undo, you can click the menu part of the button to show the redo history button. The most recent operation you undid is at the top of the list, so click the top item to redo one step, the second item to redo two steps and the bottom item to redo everything you undid and get back to where you were.

If you see what I mean. Mac users On Mac, undo and redo are found in the Edit menu. The Edit menu tells you what the last thing you did was, in case you have a very short memory.

The most recent operation is at the top of the list, so click the top item to undo one step, the second item to undo two steps and the bottom item to undo as far back as you can go. Again, the Edit menu tells you what it was you just redid.

You can undo up to 20, operations, so if you set the undo level large enough you can undo right back to when you started writing the current score. If you set it larger still, you can even undo back to before you bought Sibelius. This topic takes you through the first two steps, and the last step is described in b 3.

It is a standard, not a thing — the universal standard for connecting electronic musical instruments together. MIDI keyboards, synthesizers, sound modules, samplers and other electronic music gadgets can all be plugged into one another with MIDI cables, and can also be plugged into your computer.

To install one of these devices, simply connect a USB cable which may be provided with your device to your computer, and follow the on-screen instructions to install the necessary driver software, if any. Once any required drivers are correctly installed, you can set up input and playback in Sibelius — b 3.

This means that music played on the keyboard will go out of the keyboard, along the cable and in to the computer. To make the computer play back music into the keyboard e. File tab 1. File tab 22 1. The other topics in this chapter will tell you how to share files with other people, whether or not they have Sibelius, and how to import and export files in various formats. Creating a score There are several ways to start a new score in Sibelius — b 1. File size Sibelius files typically occupy around 20K plus 1K per page excluding any imported graphics , even for band or orchestral music.

To save lyrics, see Export Lyrics on page A convenient place to save is the Scores folder that Sibelius has helpfully created for you. On Windows, the Scores folder is created inside your My Documents folder; on Mac, it is inside your user Documents folder. When you next open the score after saving, it will open at the point at which you were working on it when you saved, with the window in the same position, the same panels and windows visible, and even at the same zoom factor.

You have complete control over to what extent Sibelius restores your previous working environment when reopening a score you have previously saved — b 1. Rather than saving your actual file, Sibelius makes a copy of your score and saves it into a special hidden folder. You can also specify in this dialog how often Sibelius automatically saves your score; the default is 10 minutes. Backups Each time you save, the score with a version number added to the name is also saved, by default, in Backup Scores in your Scores folder.

For details on wildcards and how to use them in Sibelius, b 5. The standard files included with Sibelius are non-deletable; you should not change anything inside the installation 24 1. The application data folder is hidden by default and will not be otherwise visible in Windows Explorer. If you wish to access this folder via Explorer, go to Control Panel and click Folder Options from any open Explorer window.

Click the View tab and from the Files and Folders list choose Show hidden files and folders. Inside the Sibelius application data folder you will find various folders whose names indicate the content they contain. On Mac, it is possible for there to be no folders at all, as they are only created when you create or edit a file that is saved in that location.

Quick Look Mac only Quick Look is a feature built in to Mac OS X that allows you to preview instantly the contents of your documents directly from the Finder, without having to wait while you open the applications that created them: simply select the document in the Finder, and hit Space.

You can scroll through pages by grabbing the scroll bar at the right-hand side of the preview. You can search for Sibelius scores using Spotlight, simply by typing the filename, or indeed any bit of text you know is contained within e. To learn more about how you can easily publish and share your music online including as audio tracks or videos , see b 1. Sharing files with other users of Sibelius If the person you are working with also has Sibelius, then simply send the file by email, or on removable media such as a USB flash drive or CD-R.

If they have the same or a later version of Sibelius as you, you can simply save your file as normal and send it to them. If, however, they have an earlier version of Sibelius or are using an earlier version of Sibelius Student or Sibelius First , you will need to export your score in an earlier file format before emailing.

Fortunately, Sibelius makes this very easy — Sending files via email below. Save and attach your score to an email for them to open on their device — b 1. Publish the music on your own web site — b 1. Export a PDF of your score and send it to them — b 1. If the recipient has another music program and wants to listen to and perhaps edit your music, send them a MIDI file b 1.

If you want to send your music to somebody else so they can hear it, and you do need them to see the score, you can export a video file from Sibelius — b 1. If you want to publish your music online for people to view and print — or use a video- or audiosharing service — Sibelius can export a suitable file and upload it directly to your Score Exchange, YouTube, Facebook or SoundCloud account — b 1.

To learn more about exporting PDF files of your score — b 1. If you wish to send an email in this way to more than one recipient, type their email addresses separated by semicolons, like this: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] and so on. You may not use this service to violate copyright or any other property right and you should not make false or misleading statements of fact or misrepresentations of the origin of the material you are sending. Then send it as normal.

Music and text fonts are also substituted intelligently. Sibelius files have a. Opening Mac scores on Windows If you are trying to open a score created on the Mac given to you on a CD-R or another disk, make sure the disk is formatted for Windows — although the Mac can read Windows disks, Windows cannot read Mac disks. To open the file in Sibelius for Windows, you may have to add the file extension. Although Sibelius adds this file extension by default on both Windows and Mac, some Mac users prefer not to use file extensions; this causes a problem on Windows, because the file extension tells Windows this is a Sibelius file.

You can add the file extension in Windows by right-clicking on the file icon in My Computer or Windows Explorer and selecting Rename. Change the extension, and then hit Return on the main keyboard. If asked whether you are sure you wish to proceed, click Yes. Once you have renamed the file, you can open it in the usual way by double-clicking. You can move a Sibelius score between Mac and Windows without any conversion at all — see below.

From here you can choose to send an email directly from within Sibelius, with your score attached in a choice of formats.

Integration with Score Exchange allows you to publish scores online. Of course, Sibelius also offers the ability to print b 1. You can also send your scores to the Avid Scorch mobile app and take them anywhere b 1. For full details on this, see Sending files via email on page Publishing for others to view, purchase and print Sibelius allows you to upload and publish your scores as digital sheet music to ScoreExchange.

Score Exchange is a web site for finding and purchasing new sheet music from composers and arrangers all over the world. With Score Exchange you can upload, publicize, sell or give away your musical compositions and arrangements. For more details, visit www. If you switch on the Keep me signed in checkbox before clicking Sign In, Sibelius will remember your login details between sessions, so that when you next run the program, you will automatically be signed into your account.

You will also see a list of the instrumental parts created automatically by Sibelius for every instrument in your score. You can choose whether these should be removed from the file you upload to ScoreExchange. These parts can then be made available separately to purchase or download. When you click the Publish button, Sibelius will open your web browser and take you to ScoreExchange. Sharing your score as a video Sibelius offers seamless sharing on YouTube and Facebook, where you can upload and share a digital video of your score — all without leaving the program.

Choose Start to tell Sibelius to begin creating your video before uploading it to YouTube or Facebook. To learn more about how this part of the process works, see Exporting and uploading your audio or video to the web below. Sharing your score as an audio track Sibelius also offers seamless sharing on SoundCloud, where you can upload and share an audio track of your score — again without ever leaving the program.

Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. For more information visit www. You can choose whether to make your video publicly available, or restricted only to those people who you specifically share it with. Choose Start to tell Sibelius to begin creating your audio track before uploading it to SoundCloud.

The Upload to dialog keeps you informed as to the progress. The Upload to dialog now gives you access to more information about the speed of your connection and the remaining time needed to finish the upload. Helpfully you can carry on using Sibelius as normal while the upload continues in the background — see Exporting and uploading in the background below. Once the upload is complete and your audio track or video file is ready for sharing, the Upload to dialog now displays a link to the media online, as well as details about the audio track or video you just uploaded.

Clicking Copy Link copies the URL to the clipboard ready for you to paste it into a web browser or other program, or embed it in a web page. To show the Upload to dialog again, or to cancel, choose Click for details.

Helpfully, Sibelius will also display the upload progress in a tooltip if you hover with the mouse over the progress indicator in the status bar. Once the upload is complete and your audio track or video file is ready for sharing, Sibelius shows an Upload complete notification in the status bar.

Note that Sibelius cannot upload more than one audio track or video to the Internet at a time. If you wish, you can cancel the upload in order to begin a new one. If you try to quit Sibelius while an upload is continuing in the background, Sibelius will warn you and ask you if you want to cancel or continue with the upload.

Manuscript paper In either case, you will end up looking at a list of templates, called manuscript papers, organized into folders, and showing a thumbnail view of each one. The preset manuscript paper choices have various combinations of instruments, along with other less obvious settings to improve the look and playback of your score. You do not have to use the instruments exactly as provided — feel free to delete instruments or add new ones.

File tab To browse through the categories more quickly, you can collapse a category by clicking its title bar, or hold Shift and click any heading to collapse or expand all of the categories at once. You can also create your own manuscript papers if you like — b 1. Setting up your score To get started with your score right away without modifying the instruments it contains, or setting an initial key or time signature, simply double-click your chosen manuscript paper.

To modify the manuscript paper, click it just once, and you will see a zoomed-in version of the template, together with some options to its right. For now, you can make as many or as few of these decisions as you like, and to get started on the score itself, click Create at any time. Sibelius 7. Update Score dialog As each new version of Sibelius comes with a new set of features, when opening a score created in Sibelius 5 or earlier you will be presented with the Update Score dialog so you can choose which aspects, if any, of your score you wish to update.

Play repeats determines whether Sibelius should pay attention to any repeat barlines in the score. Normally this checkbox will be disabled, since the option has been switched on by default in all but the earliest versions of Sibelius, but if it is enabled, you should switch it on to ensure correct playback and display of bar numbers in the score.

Keep custom beam groupings determines whether Sibelius should retain any individual edits made to beam groups in the score.

Extend tuplet brackets to last note in tuplet resets the duration of tuplets to use improved positioning for the left- and right-hand ends of tuplet brackets b 3.

A dialog appears with importing options you can set detailed below. Some MIDI files contain no program changes even though they contain instrument names , which means that the instruments have to be guessed. If so, Sibelius warns you that the instrument names, sounds, clefs, and other details may be wrong. This helps Sibelius guess what the instruments are. Switch on this option and each hand will be written as one staff, not two; you can then clean it up by creating a new piano and copying the two hands into it.

If you have access to a sequencer, you could try re-quantizing the file and opening it in Sibelius again. Sometimes you may find that you end up with unwanted rests between notes, or with unwanted unisons two noteheads sharing the same pitch.

When importing, Sibelius intelligently works out which instruments to use using track names if they are present, otherwise using the sounds , and is able to distinguish between, say, Violin and Viola, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, or Soprano and Alto by the range of the music in each track.

So look carefully to see what the actual format of the file is, before you try and download it. Sibelius can, however, open files in various formats — check the other topics in this chapter for details. Do not click on the link directly, as that will simply make the MIDI file play inside your web browser: we want to download it, not play it.

What is MusicXML? MusicXML is an interchange file format for music notation applications. It provides a better way to transfer notation between different programs than other formats such as MIDI files. Sibelius can open MusicXML files with either extension. If you switch this off, you can set the paper size and orientation for the imported MusicXML file, and Sibelius will use the default staff size as determined by the house style chosen below in the dialog.

If you switch this off, Sibelius will effectively unlock the format of the resulting score, using its default layout and formatting. If you choose another house style, 45 1. File tab note that the page size and staff size specified in the house style will not be used in the resulting score unless you switch off Use page and staff size from MusicXML file.

These should not normally prevent the file from opening correctly. In extreme circumstances, some 46 1. Files created in earlier MusicXML formats open correctly, provided they are valid. Files created with future versions of MusicXML should also open, though new features will not be imported.

Sibelius can only open MusicXML files that use the partwise. If your file uses the timewise. Batch conversion Sibelius includes a plug-in to convert a complete folder full of MusicXML files at once. The technical and ornaments elements are not imported. Barlines If different staves have different barline types simultaneously, Sibelius will use the barline type of the uppermost part.

The kind instances Neapolitan, Italian, French, German, pedal pedal-point bass and Tristan are all imported as major chords. If the function element is not present in the harmony element, the chord symbol is not imported.

Clefs Special percussion and tab clefs available in MusicXML will be replaced with the closest matching clef available in Sibelius. MusicXML is not capable of differentiating between clefs at the start or end of a bar. Cross-stave notes MusicXML files that use a number of voices across staves may import some notes on the wrong staff. Files containing chords with notes in different staves are not imported correctly.

End repeat lines The positioning of end repeat lines may need manual adjustment after they have been imported. Key signatures Only major and minor modes are recognized for the mode element. If the fifths element is missing, the key signature will be imported as an atonal key signature. Other key child elements e. If a part has more than one staff, key signatures may be omitted from one or more of those staves. Key signatures that fall after the barline in some other music notation programs may fall behind the barline in Sibelius.

File tab Feature Limitation Metronome marks Metronome marks containing th, th, 64th and long breve notes are not imported by Sibelius.

Only metronome marks in the top staff of the uppermost part are read by the XML importer. Metronome marks may be duplicated if the uppermost part in the file has more than one staff. Ornaments Some ornaments will not be imported. Mordents, trills and turns are imported. Rests Extra rests resulting from multiple voices on the same staff are automatically removed, but some extra rests may still occur, e.

Slur The continue attribute is not imported. The entity attributes position and bezier are not imported. Symbols Symbols are not imported. Staves Changes of staff type are not imported. Stems The stem values none and double are not imported. Text Some text items are imported via the dynamics element, but none of the dynamics attributes are imported. Specific figured bass elements such as parentheses, elision and extend are not imported. The directive element is not imported.

The tuplet attributes placement, position, show-type, show-number, bracket and lineshape are not imported. It is a sophisticated program with many advanced features.

PhotoScore Ultimate reads many more musical markings including tuplets, slurs, grace notes, cross-staff beaming, guitar tab, chord diagrams, repeat barlines etc.

As far as the computer is concerned, scanning a page merely presents it with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which could be music, text, a photograph or anything else. The process of actually reading or interpreting music, text or pictures from this grid of dots is extremely complex and poorly understood. Additional staves or voices will be omitted. Are reasonably clear — for example, staff lines should be continuous and not broken or blotchy, half note minim and whole note semibreve noteheads and flats should have a continuous cir49 1.

File tab cumference and not be broken or filled in, beams on sixteenth notes semiquavers and shorter notes should have a significant white gap in between, and objects that are meant to be separate e.

Music that does not match the above will probably work, but with considerably reduced accuracy. Scanning from photocopies is not particularly recommended unless the photocopier is a particularly good one, as photocopying tends to degrade the quality of an original significantly.

You may be obliged to scan from a reduced photocopy if your original is bigger than your scanner, but you should expect lower accuracy.

To work with graphics files, you will need each page of music stored as a separate graphics file on your computer in. Reading a PDF file may be useful if the music you want to scan is available in PDF format from a web site, or if you want to convert a file from another music program by producing a PDF file and then opening it in PhotoScore Lite. Copyright infringement by scanning is illegal. Here you correct any mistakes that PhotoScore Lite has made.

Editing within PhotoScore Lite works in much the same way as editing music in Sibelius. Almost any marking can be corrected or input in PhotoScore Lite, but it is only essential at this stage to correct rhythmic mistakes — other corrections can be made after sending the score to Sibelius if you prefer. This is done simply by clicking on a button. You can then play the music back, re-arrange it, transpose it, create parts, or print it out.

The graphics file is then added to the list of scanned pages. You will be prompted to choose the resolution; normally you can leave this at the default of dpi and click OK. If the PDF is password protected, you will then be prompted to provide the password.

As soon as you scan a page or open a PDF or graphics file, each page appears in the Pages pane, which is at the left hand of the main PhotoScore Lite window. Each page first appears under Pending Pages, and PhotoScore Lite immediately proceeds to read the pages you have added, Reading each page will take a little while depending on the speed of your computer and a green progress bar fills up behind the name of the page in the Pending Pages list.

PhotoScore Lite will automatically rotate the page by 90 degrees if necessary. However you should normally align the top of the page with the left edge of the scanner to ensure it does not turn out upside down. If you are scanning in gray, then the page does not need to be completely straight, providing that it is not more than 8 degrees off — PhotoScore Lite will automatically make the page level to within 0.

After a moment, the scanner will whir into life and transfer the page to your computer. If you are scanning from a fairly thick book, gently press down the lid or the book if easier during scanning to keep the page flat on the glass. A window will appear for you to enter a name for the page, which will be something like Score 1, Page 1 by default. You can change this to any name you like although to avoid any unexpected results it should end with a number — something like Piano p1 would do — then click OK.

If the page has systems of two or more staves, check also that the staves within each system are joined at the left-hand end by a thick vertical or near-vertical red line.

Pages that have not yet been read appear in the upper half of the pages pane, under the heading Pending Pages. Notice how PhotoScore Lite helpfully shows you a thumbnail of the scanned page as you hover your mouse pointer over its name. When you want to read a page you have scanned, click the little checkbox at the right-hand side, which expands to say Read when you hover your mouse pointer over it.

PhotoScore Lite will start to think, and the blue bar behind the name of the page will turn green as PhotoScore reads the page. If you accidentally scanned the pages in the wrong order, you can correct the order in the list of Pending Pages simply by clicking and dragging the pages into the correct order. If you just scanned in some pages or opened a PDF, however, your pages have probably already been read by PhotoScore Lite, and so will be found in the lower half of the pages pane, under the heading Read Pages.

To view a page in order to edit it, click on its name under Read Pages. PhotoScore Ultimate, available separately, also reads text including lyrics, dynamics, instrument names, fingering, etc.

The top part of the window with a buff-colored background shows you the original page. The Full detail view window at the top right-hand corner shows a zoomed-in portion of the original page, according to where you point your mouse. This can be repositioned by clicking its title bar, and dragging. There is a Create menu at the top of the window, which is also similar in function to the Create menu you can show in Sibelius by right-clicking on the score with no selection, though features not appropriate for PhotoScore Lite have been omitted.

What to correct The minimum level of correction recommended before sending the output score to Sibelius is to correct key signatures and time signatures.

Other mistakes such as pitch can be corrected in Sibelius, but correcting key signatures and time signatures is much easier in PhotoScore Lite, so we recommend you do that. Once PhotoScore Lite knows the time signature, any rhythmic inaccuracies are indicated by small red notes over the barline, showing the number of missing or extra beats. As you correct the mistakes, these red notes disappear — and once your score is free of red notes, you can send it to Sibelius.

Once you are more proficient with PhotoScore Lite, you can correct the music completely in PhotoScore Lite before sending it to Sibelius.

The advantage of this is that you can spot errors by looking at the scanned original on the screen instead of having to refer to it on paper.

Checking for mistakes Check for mistakes by comparing the bottom part of the window with the original scan at the top. The top and bottom parts move about to show the region of the page the mouse is pointing at. Avoid the temptation to compare the output page with the original music on paper — it is almost always quicker to compare with the scan on the screen. At the top right of the output window is the full detail view window, which shows in close-up the part of the original that the pointer is over.

This window can be repositioned by clicking its title bar and dragging.

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