Sibelius

Sibelius 8 is the latest generation of world's best-selling music notation software, with powerful, yet easy-to-use tools trusted and used by composers, arrangers, publishers, educators, and students worldwide. With its integrated Annotate feature, multi-touch gestures, Surface Pro 3 pen support, and more, Sibelius 8 lets you unleash your creativity in brand new ways, whether you're composing for film, television, multimedia, live performance, or in the classroom. With Sibelius 8, you'll deliver better scores, faster than ever. Sibelius 8 lets you play back your scores with impressive realism, with immediate access to an extensive instrumental library filled with a broad variety of pro-quality instruments. You can sync Sibelius to Pro Tools and other DAWs via ReWire, or collaborate through MusicXML. Share your music as a score, audio file, or video through email, ScoreExchange, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud, and more - or export it to Avid Scorch, which lets musicians perform your compositions on an iPad.

Key Features:

Write music with a pen on a Surface Pro
• Add and edit notes quickly with just a tap of the pen

Add notes and comments
• Create reminders for yourself as youre composing, or communicate edits and feedback to others.

Use multi-touch gestures
• Navigate and edit scores easier using multi-touch gestures on your laptop trackpad or Surface Pro 3.

Get up and running faster
• Start using Sibelius quickly - and easily move to different computers - thanks to a revamped activation process.

Work quicker and see more detail on Windows
• See every detail in stunning clarityplus access features faster with new and improved icons.

System requirements for Sibelius:

Windows
• 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1 or later) or Windows 8.1 (not Windows RT)
• 1+ GB of RAM
• 1 GB hard disk space for Sibelius software only
• DVD-ROM drive (only for Media Pack)
• Internet connection required for software download and activation

Mac
• Mac OS X 10.9 or 10.10
• 1+ GB of RAM
• 1 GB hard disk space for Sibelius software only; 36 GB additional hard disk space for the Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation)
• DVD-ROM drive (only for Media Pack)
• Internet connection required for software download and activation

Recommendations for the Sibelius Sounds library*

Windows
4+ GB of RAM
36 GB hard disk space (SSD preferred)
ASIO-compatible soundcard
Mac
4+ GB of RAM
36 GB hard disk space (SSD preferred)
Using external hardware MIDI playback devices with Sibelius

If you have an external hardware MIDI playback device that you wish to use, please check that a compatible sound set is available: see the list of sound sets supplied with Sibelius.

• You can use Sibelius Sounds if your computer doesn't meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously, and that sounds take a long time to load.

What's included with Sibelius:

• Sibelius software license with download access to Sibelius software
• 36 GB Sibelius Sounds library
• AudioScore Lite audio transcribing software
• PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite music scanning and handwriting recognition software