Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3852 in Software
• Brand: Sibelius Software Ltd
• Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
• Number of items: 1

Alf Clausen composer - The Simpsons
Composing for a weekly series does not allow me the downtime necessary to work around software issues ... Sibelius saves me time, and its intuitive operation and overall smoothness enhance the notation experience. (Alf Clausen composer - The Simpsons)

Manufacturer's Description
SIBELIUS is the complete software for writing, playing, printing and publishing music notation. It will make your life easier, save you time, produce fantastic results

Box Contents
Sibelius 4 CD-Rom product; Full Reference Guide;Latest Information and Technical Help Sheet

Customer Reviews

Market Leader
Last year I favourably reviewed Finale 2005 which I was using heavily at the time. Since then I tried Sibelius 4 and, whilst I don't take back anything positive I said about Finale, I found that Sibelius really suits my working methods.

The two main differences from Finale are that in Sibelius pretty well all of the tools are available all of the time (as opposed to having to be selected one by one in Finale) so - as long as you don't get confused about what you're using - you can work much more quickly. This approach may not suit some users who may prefer Finale's slightly more plodding approach.

The other big (for me) improvement is that I no longer have to extract parts, so can switch between editing the music in score form or directly in the part - they're all part of the same file.

It took me a while to get used to the different approach to formatting pages (Finale's approach is more logical - Sibelius' more intuitive) but having now made the transition I wouldn't go back.