In long scores, if you drag the white rectangle off the right-hand side of the navigator, the view of the score will continue to move rightwards, and the navigator will display one page further on.
This allows you to move continuously across any number of pages. You can also move the paper without using the navigator, by clicking a blank part of the paper and dragging it around. By moving around the score with the navigator, you can see that pages are laid side-by-side on a black marble desk. With long scores, pages are joined in pairs as if in a score opened flat, so you can see where page-turns will occur.
By default, there are no scroll bars, because the navigator is a much quicker and easier way of moving around the music though you can switch on scroll bars if you want them, from the View menu. Notice that the paper on the screen is textured, which makes it easier on the eye. As well show you later on, you can choose between a wide range of different paper and desk colors, textures and materials - even parchment or wood!
In Sibelius, the whole experience of music on the screen is so realistic that we call it Virtual Manuscript Paper. Keyboard shortcuts Sibelius is full of keyboard shortcuts which let you perform an action by typing a key rather than using the mouse.
Its a good idea to learn keyboard shortcuts at least for the most common operations - these are listed on the mouse pad which comes with Sibelius. When you are able to use Sibelius using all available shortcuts and almost entirely without the mouse, you will have attained the privileged status of power user! The first shortcuts to learn are for the navigator: 0. The mouse is only absolutely required for a very limited number of operations.
There are many keyboard shortcuts, some of which are not obvious but work wonders e. The toolbar At the top of the screen, below the menus, you will see the Sibelius toolbar. This gives you quick access to important functions such as saving, printing and playback.
The buttons are as follows:. If its not obvious what some of these buttons actually do, dont worry - well come to them again later on.
Zooming To adjust the magnification of the score, click the Zoom magnifying glass on the toolbar, then click on the score to zoom in and x-click or right-click to zoom out. Hold Shift to zoom repeatedly. You can also select a particular zoom factor from the toolbar, or type in your own. Zoom in very close on a note, or onto the top right-hand corner of the first page - notice how you can see a whole stack of pages. Try zooming out so that you can see the whole page of music on your screen.
The keypad The keypad at the bottom right of the screen is where you choose note values, accidentals, articulations, ties and other markings for creating and editing notes. Articulations are symbols above or below a note such as staccato, tenuto and accent. Note value means the length of a note. These and other musical and technical terminology are in the Glossary.
The keypad is just one panel of the Properties window, which has seven panels in all. You can open and close each panel by clicking on its title, e. Youll be using the keypad most often, but the other panels allow you to perform a variety of editing operations on your score; dont worry about these other panels now. The numeric keys at the right of your computer keyboard correspond to the buttons on the keypad.
Typing these keys does exactly the same as clicking the buttons with the mouse, and is quicker. If you like you could put little stickers on your keyboard showing you what these keys do, although a glance at the keypad on the screen shows you. The five little tabs just below the bar that says Keypad choose between five different layouts of musical symbols on the keypad, which well call the first layout, second layout, etc. Have a quick look through to see whats in the other layouts - fairly obscure stuff.
The first layout is the one youll be using most of the time. Note that, because the numeric keypad is used for specific functions in Sibelius, you cant switch off Num Lock to use the number keys as alternative arrow keys etc. The menus At the top of the screen are Sibeliuss menus you will be startled to hear. Well explain everything on them in due course, but for the time being take a quick look through them now.
The menu youll be using the most is Create, which is used to obtain any musical marking not on the keypad, such as time signatures, clefs, text, etc. Customizing the screen You can easily change how your Sibelius program looks on screen, Try switching off View h Toolbar, Window h Properties and Window Navigator to free up more space on the screer. On Mac, you can also turn off the Navigator and Properties windows by clicking on their close boxes.
When youre proficient with Sibelius and have learned more keyboard shortcuts, you will be able to use the program entirely like this. Turn these three options back on again from the View and Window menus in the same way. This makes the menus disappear to save space, but you can reveal them again by moving your mouse to the very top of the screen.
Note that there is no View h Full Screen option on the Mac, because it is considered impolite to hide the menus! Windows has no such qualms. Textures and translucent windows You can further customize the appearance of your screen by changing the textures used for the virtual paper and desk you work on.
On some computers, using textures may slow Sibelius down a bit, so if you find navigating around the If not, set both Paper and Desk to Use color not texture, which will speed things up significantly. If you dont like the effect, switch it off by choosing Window b Translucent Windows. Display settings Its worth spending a few moments finding the best display settings for your monitor.
It helps to set a fairly high resolution e. Generally, Sibelius is faster the fewer colors your display is set to, particularly on older hardware, although many newer graphics cards are optimized to display higher color depths more quickly. Experiment with different color depths and see which works best for you. Its also a good idea to switch on font smoothing or anti-aliasing, as its officially known. This makes text and things like clefs and noteheads look better.
Font smoothing is switched on by default in Mac OS, but if for some reason it has been switched off, turn it on in the Fonts page of the Appearance control panel. On Windows, font smoothing is controlled from the Effects tab of the Display Control Panel applet; it is switched off by default, so we recommend you switch it on.
Windows XP includes an improved font smoothing system called ClearType, which you can switch on in the same way. Speed tips Lets just summarize a few of the ways you can improve the speed at which Sibelius runi on your computer: l.
If dragging the paper seems slow, switch off the paper and desk textures see Textures and translucent windows above. You could also try switching your screen display to use fewer colors see Display settings above and, if youre using Windows or XP, switch off Window b Translucent Windows. On Windows, using Adobe Type 1 PostScript versions of the Opus and Inkpen fonts can also slow down the time it takes to redraw the screen - so wherever possible use TrueType fonts.
These are installed by default, so unless youve specifically changed the fonts Sibelius should use, you dont need to worry about this. Multiple monitors You can run Sibelius with more than one monitor attached to your computer. This is very useful as you can open a different score on each monitor, or have your music on one screen and the navigator and keypad on the other. Playback Now you are familiar with the look and feel of Sibelius, lets play back some music. You can also find this function in the Play menu, but who needs menus?
If you get no sound at all, EL!! MIDI devices in the Reference section to configure your playback devices. Youll see a vertical line passing through the music to indicate the position as it plays. The score moves around to follow the music.
If there are several instruments, Sibelius tracks those that were on the screen when you started playback. Playback tools During playback, the following tools appear:. Click the appropriate buttons to pause, fast-forward or rewind. Rewinding plays the music backwards or kind of backwards. Alternatively, use the one-key shortcuts Esc stop , P play or pause , t rewind and 3 fast-forward. The fast-forward and rewind toolbar buttons accelerate in speed if you hold them down. You can drag the tempo slider to alter the speed, which is displayed at the right-hand side of the toolbar.
When the sliders in the middle, Sibelius precisely follows any metronome marks written in the score. You can even go and work on another score while the first one continues playing back! When youve had enough of playback, hit Esc to stop. If your computer or playback device isnt fast enough to cope with rewinding or fast-forwarding at high speed, it may occasionally leave a note hanging on when you stop, but should this happen you can choose Play b AlI Notes Off shortcut Shift-O.
We like to think that Sibeliuss playback is so life-like that it doesnt just play back your score - it performs it! Some of the more advanced playback effects Sibelius knows about are trills, glissando lines, ritjaccel. Whats more, you can alter the effect of musical text, and even add your own new words to Sibeliuss playback dictionary.
Advanced users can type MIDI messages such as control changes directly into the score using text commands. More details of all of this is in the Reference section, but for now lets look briefly at perhaps the three most exciting of all Sibeliuss playback features: Espressivo Italian for expressively , Rubato meaning varying the tempo , and rhythmic feel.
EspressivoTM Music notation programs normally play back only whats explicitly written in the score. They get the notes and some other markings right, but nothing else.
This way of playing may get you a pass mark in your music exam, but is not enough to produce an award-winning performance - it sounds just too mechanical and lifeless. However, Sibeliuss unique Espressivo feature uses artificial intelligence to produce a human-like performance of your music. When you switch Espressivo on, Sibelius analyzes the music as it plays it back, and adds phrasing and expression just as a human performer would. This has Espressivo switched to Meccanico mechanically which tells Sibelius to play back the score literally, without adding any extra expression.
Play the score back, and note how it sounds Next, open Boogie Espressivo, which has exactly the same mu c but with Espressivo set to Molto espressivo very expressively , plus the swing rhythmic feel switc Ked on, some reverb, and SoundStage which spreads instruments in 3D space Now play back the score, and hear the difference!
Even though no dynamics or expression are marked, Sibelius invents a realistic performance as it plays, just like a human musician. RubatoTM Rubato is the rhythmic counterpart to Espressivo.
Sibelius can subtly vary the tempo of your score to add greater expression, in much the same way as a human performer would. Open the Chopin Meccanico score from the Performance Style folder within the Scores folder, and play it back.
Then open the Chopin Rubato score in the same folder and play it back to hear the effect of Rubato. Rubato isnt suitable for all types of music, but it can produce a very striking effect - to add Rubato to your score, choose Play Performance shortcut Shift-P. Rhythmic feel You can further adjust the playback of your score using one of Sibeliuss built-in rhythmic feel settings.
Lets give this a try, Close any other scores you might have open, so that youre just looking at the Scott Joplin Quick tour score. Click OK, then hit P to play back the score and hear the effect.
Purists may argue that it is a cardinal sin to play ragtime with a swing. We do this purely for illustrative purposes! Mixer You may also have noticed during playback that the instruments sound like they are at different stereo positions - this is Sibeliuss unique SoundStage feature at work, which positions instruments in 3-D space as if set out on a concert stage. You can also adjust the position, volume, sound etc.
For a glimpse of this power at your fingertips, choose Play b Mixer or type the shortcut M. Type M again to close the Mixer. Specifying what to play back If nothing is selected in your score, Sibelius will play back the full score from the beginning.
To ensure nothing is selected, click on a blank part of the paper, or hit Est. To play from a particular place in the score rather than the start, select a note before hitting P.
You can also play any instrument on its own - click a blank part of a bar in the instrument so the bar is enclosed in a blue box, then hit P. They dont have to be adjacent, so in an orchestral score you could play back, say, just the flutes, horns and cellos. Further information E! Q2 Performance has more details about Espressivo, Rubato and rhythmic feel. Q2 Mixer tells you how to use the Mixer window. Basic editing Before creating any music of your own, lets try out some basic techniques by editing our Quick tour score.
One-key shortcuts An aside: Sibelius makes full use of one-key shortcuts - that is, shortcuts which dont require you to hold Shift or other funny keys. The clear benefit of one-key shortcuts is that you can type them quickly with one hand, without adopting awkward claw-Ii ke hand positions. Selecting objects Almost everything that Sibelius can do can be done using the mouse, so lets try that before using keys. Click a note in the score you have to point at the oval notehead itself.
It turns blue. If the color doesnt show up clearly, adjust the controls on your monitor. Anything you can click on like this is called an object, and choosing an object is called selecting it. Once an object is selected, you can do things to it such as delete it, edit change it, copy it or move it.
When you select a note, notice how Sibelius plays it with the correct instrumental sound - instant feedback in case you made a mistake. Try selecting all sorts of different objects in the score - selectable objects include notes, rests, text, barlines, time signatures, slurs and so on. To deselect an object, click an empty part of the paper or hit Est.
However, theres no need to deselect an object when youve finished doing something to it. As we mentioned, you can also select objects with the keyboard - hit Tab to select the first object on the page, then use the arrow keys to move around the score.
There are lots of other keyboard shortcuts for moving around the score - LQ Keyboard shortcuts in the Reference section for a complete list! Moving objects Go back to the start of the Quick tour score, and click the notehead of the first note, which looks like this:. Notice how, as you drag, leger lines appear and disappear, the slur leaps about and t. Now try dragging other notes up and down at random. If you drag a note up or down a long way onto lots of leger lines, the note turns red.
This warns you that the note is too high or low for the instrument here, a piano to play. Sibelius knows the ranges of all instruments, and you can alter them yourself for performers of different abilities if you like. Try this, too. Notes out of range i. But you can turn the option off by choosing View 1 Note Colors b None if you want to see them clearly when they are selected.
Moving staves Something you may have just discovered by accident is that Sibelius lets you drag any staff up and down. This powerful feature is invaluable in helping you to produce clear layout. This glimpse of Sibeliuss hidden power is enough for now - more about formatting later. Deleting and cutting Try selecting various objects, then deleting them with the Delete key: l.
You can delete a rest, which hides it, and leaves the rest of the rhythm still aligned as if the rest were still there. You shouldnt normally hide rests but it can sometimes be useful for special notations. Other objects can also be hidden. Hidden objects are shown in gray by default but not printed at all. You can also use Backspace to delete objects, or choose Edit b Delete.
This is not used much in Sibelius, so theres no need to try it now. This undoes the last operation you did, and should make the deleted object miraculously reappear. This is a whole lot easier than going back and correcting a mistake. Sibelius even includes an undo history which lists all the operations youve recently done, and lets you jump back to any earlier point in time. More details are in Q2 Undo and Redo in the Reference section. Copying There are three ways to copy objects, which you should try: l.
The note is copied to where you clicked, and ends up identical other than the pitch, which is taken from how high up on the staff you clicked.
You can even copy many bars of music at once - something well come onto later. On Windows, if you have a third i. If you only have a two-button mouse, turning on this option allows you to perform a chord-click, that is, clicking the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously, to duplicate the function of the middle mouse button.
Edit Repeat shortcut R : select a note, passage or other object and hit R. This repeats any note, chord, text or various other objects after itself. These Edit menu functions are also available on the context-sensitive menu you get by Control-click or rightclicking when one or more objects is selected.
Editing notes with the keypad All of the keypad keys instantly modify the selected note - e. Just select a note, then choose a keypad button to add an object to the note, or remove it again.
This adds an accent to the note. Drag the note up to E in the staff - notice that the accent moves with the note, and ends up back down again, Click the natural sign, or hit 7 on the numeric keypad to add a natural. Notice how Sibelius then removes the redundant accidental from the next note - but it will still play back as a B natural.
To test this, retype 7, which removes the natural from the first note. The second notes natural is now no longer redundant, so it reappears. Hit 7 once more to reinstate the natural on the first note. Click the tie button or hit Enter. This puts a tie after the first note.
Well show you how to edit the actual note value of a note later. If none of this seems to work properly then you probably werent in the first keypad layout, in which case just click the first layout tab or hit F8 and try again. Note that keys on the numeric keypad appear to be the same as keys on the main keyboard, but in fact do different things.
For instance, 8 on the numeric keypad produces a sharp, but 8 on the main keyboard doesnt. From now on, when were talking about the keypad, assume youll be typing any keys on the numeric keypad unless told otherwise. The best way to learn which you neednt try just ye0 is to put your mouse in an inconvenient place such as on the floor, then see how long you can survive without if!
Brief recap Youve learned about the navigator, toolbar and keypad l. Each time your hand instinctively reaches for the mouse, read the Sibelius mouse pad for the shortcut instead! Printing Before we start to write our first score, lets print out our Joplin Quick tour example which came from the Other folder inside your Scores folder.
If its still littered with changes from the editing youve just been doing, close it clicking No when asked if you want to save the changes and then open it again. A fairly standard dialog box appears. As an aside, when dialogs like Print are open you can also just hit Return on the main keyboard instead of clicking OK, Print, Create or whatever; hitting Esc does the same as clicking the Cancel button. Within a few moments, a high-quality printout of the Quick tour score should emerge from your printer, If you ran into any problems, refer to EQ Printing in the Reference section for help.
Advanced printing Sibelius can handle a lot of complex printing operations for you: it can automatically create booklets or spreads of your scores; it can automatically scale down music written on, say, Tabloid or A3 paper to fit onto Letter or A4 paper; and it can even print in color, assuming, of course, that you have a color printer! It doesnt matter too much if you dont have a color printer - it will produce shades of gray instead.
When you print, make sure that you switch on Print View menu options in the File b Print dialog. Importing graphics in the Reference section , and the pitch spectrum option to color notes!! I View menu in the Reference section. If you are asked if you want to save the changes, click No. If you want to open this score again quickly, the File menu contains a I ist of the five scores youve worked on most recently. A dialog headed New Score appears. Manuscript paper This dialog lists many types of manuscript paper in alphabetical order.
Just like selecting real manuscript paper in a store, you can choose between different shapes and sizes, or pick paper which is pre-printed with standard groups of instruments. If youre writing for a standard ensemble, its a good idea to use one of Sibeliuss built-in manuscript papers rather than defining your own, because the supplied templates have numerous helpful defaults, such as special instrument name formats, optimal staff sizes and so on, already set up for you.
Later you can create your own manuscript papers. To start a piano score its quickest to use Piano Letter or Piano A4 manuscript paper, but for the moment just click Letter a blank manuscript paper followed by OK. A page of white blank paper appears, with a dialog headed Instruments. Creating instruments You can create new instruments whenever you like - you dont need to decide them all at the start - but you do have to pick at least one instrument initially otherwise youll have nothing to write music for!
Quick tour Click the different types of instruments in the Section list at the left. By default, Sibelius shows you the common instruments, which number around ; however, if youre itching to write for more obscure instruments such as Quint Bassoon, Ondes Martenot or Hurdy-Gurdy, click AlI instruments to display the complete set of more than instruments.
Dont worry if you cant find a particularly unusual instrument - Sibelius also lets you design your own. The instruments are listed in the standard order in which they would appear in a score, but again you can customize the order if you want to.
Were going to input the Scott Joplin score we printed out earlier, so the only instrument we need for now is the piano. You should find that, by default, Keyboards is selected in the Section list, and Piano is selected in the instruments list, which means that you just need to click Add to put the piano in the rightmost Instruments to create list.
Then click OK. Two piano staves will appear instantly, with the correct names, clefs, and a few empty bars ready for you to start writing music in:. If your computer is fairly slow, it may continue adding bars for a few seconds after you release the keys.
Original serial number required. Sibelius 6 Serial Number. Each time you save, the score with a version number added to the name is Register button to be taken directly to ScoreExchange. Sibelius will not import compound time signatures e. Reply Contact. Whne I add the folder to the soundbank it is not detected.
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