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The Fastest, Smartest, Easiest Way to Write Music

Sibelius is proven and trusted by composers, arrangers, publishers, educators, and students alike to accelerate music composition and scoring. That's because Sibelius makes it incredibly easy to create professional-quality scores and express your creativity in whole new ways.

Effortlessly glide through music with Magnetic Glissando
Automatically attaches and optimally positions lines between the start and end notes. Should you need to move a note, the glissandi or portamento line will automatically follow the notehead it's attached to as you move it. This saves you tons of time from manually positioning lines when you create a slide or edit notes.

Work faster with the updated Inspector
You can now dock the Inspector window to the left of your score, or have it float freely, for always-available access. Plus, you can now style and align text right from the Inspector's Text pane.

Change staff sizes by system
Need more flexible and precise control when engraving your score? You can now set the staff size of individual instruments, a set of staves, or an entire page to be any of the four sizes available in Sibelius.

Make music easier to learn
You can now colour individual notes and/or chords, giving students a more enhanced and visual way of learning to read and write music notation.

Share your music more easily
Want to let your client, colleague, or friends hear your latest composition? You now have the option of exporting your score as an MP3 audio file, making it faster and easier to send your music through email or over Skype, or even posting it across all of your social network channels.

Give it a rest
Inserting rests into your music just got a whole lot easier. Now any time you add one to a measure, the newly enhanced Magnetic Layout tool automatically repositions the rest to align optimally with the phrasing of your preceding notes. Rests in multi-voice staves also automatically reposition to avoid collisions.

Get perfect repeated endings
If you've ever written music with first, second, and third time bars, you may have spent some time fixing lines that Sibelius created a bit too long. That's not the case anymore. With the layout improvements, you can now create multiple time ending bars that appear and play back just the way you expect them to.

Create with unrivaled compositional tools
Whether you're well versed in writing music notation or prefer to use a keyboard, guitar, or your voice to enter notes, creating scores has never been easier. Save tons of time with unique tools such as Magnetic Layout, which takes care of almost every layout detail, and Dynamic Parts, which automatically creates and updates separate instrumental parts.

Get more expressive playback
Add more expressive and realistic "feel" to any individual part in your score and customize your own rhythmic feels for swing with the completely revamped Espressivo feature.

Compose quickly with an advanced user interface
A task-based front-end leads you through the entire score creation workflow, and the Timeline window displays the entire structure of even the largest, most complex scoresat a glance.

Integrate with Pro Tools
Integrate Pro Tools into your workflow and take your compositions even further. Using ReWire, included in Sibelius and Pro Tools, you can record instrument parts from Sibelius scores to the DAW for further recording, editing, and mixing.

Compose with every instrument
Play back and hear every nuance of your composition in stunningly realistic detail with Sibelius Sounds. You get 36 GB of professional content, including a specially recorded symphony orchestra, rock, pop, and jazz instrumentation, world-class licensed sounds, and much more.

Create with full desktop publishing tools
Create beautiful, professional-looking scores using a full set of typography and layout tools. Polish text with tracking, leading, scaling, text frame, and alignment tools. Change fonts and add emphasis using hierarchical styles. Drag and drop graphics in any major format.

Transcribe and scan music
Transcribe and scan music directly into Sibelius with Neuratron AudioScore Lite and PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite.

Import and export graphics
Import graphics in all major formats, then manipulate them to build complex layouts for publishing, creating teaching materials, instructional books, and more. Its never been faster or easier to export your full scores with publication-quality graphics.

Add notes directly on the score
With the Annotate feature, you can create reminders for yourself about music changes as youre composing, or communicate edits and feedback to collaborators. Draw directly on the score using a mouse, trackpad, USB tablet, or Surface Pro 3 Pen.

System Requirements:
• 64-bit operating system:
• Windows 7 (SP1 or later) or Windows 8.1 (not Windows RT)
• Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10 or 10.11
• 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 installing software from the optional Media Pack DVDs)
• Internet connection required for software download and activation