Robin@Sibelius

Hiya, The percussion guide may help (download from here): Sibelius Hints and Tips You can define a new notehead just for the cymbal (perhaps a diamond or cross shaped note), and you can make it playback. Finally, insert some text in the score at the appropriate point: shortcut is Control T or Command T: just write "suspended cymbal". The symbols menu in Sibelius (shortcut Z) may have a picture of what you want/need to, for extra clarity. Place that in the score also. Cheers, Robin

There's a quicker way to convert to slash notation in Sibelius. 1 for the measures where you want slash notation, enter a bunch of quarter notes all in a row on the middle line (sounding b above middle c). 2 select all the notes once you're done and hit shift-alt 3 or shift-alt 4 (that's the 3 or 4 on the MAIN computer keyboard, not the number pad). 3 your notes will turn to slash notation, with or without stems/rhythms. Cheers, Robin

Hiya, Download the pdf file called "Drum notation in Sibelius 4" from this site: Sibelius Hints and Tips It'll walk you through the steps. Cheers, Robin

Hiya, You can actually redesign the lines menu (House Style>Edit Lines) in Sibelius, so that you have a 4th or 5th ending etc. Go to House Style.Edit Lines Choose the 3rd time ending and click NEW (do you want to create a new line based on a 3rd ending?). Click YES In the box that appears, rename the line as "4th ending" or whatever). Click the box that says "centered text" and replace the 3. with a 4. You should be good to go. Cheers, Robin

Take a look at the Sibelius 4 quick start guide, downloadable from here: Sibelius Hints and Tips there's a section on layout and formatting, which has 20 or so useful hints. To respace a measure, select it and use the shortcut alt-shift-rightarrow or left arrow (opt-shift-left / right arrow on Mac). Don't drag the barline - it won't respace the measure effectively. You can also tell Sibelius how many measures you want per line via a plug-in called "Make Layout Uniform". You can also make every barline line up evenly throughout the page: but that's an extra sneaky step: email me for how to do this. Cheers, Robin@Sibelius

Hi there, Yes you can quantize on live note entry in Sibelius - (and clean up the quantizing later, too, if you have v5). This is in my quick start for using Sibelius v4, on page 5, note entry D: download it from here: Sibelius Hints and Tips Cheers, Robin

Hi folks, Sibelius 5 has about 3 major new features and 10 smaller ones: 1 sounds: comes with Gb library called Sibelius Essentials 2 ideas: a kind of notation loops concept: store and retrieve your compositional ideas easily 3 panorama: a kind of scroll view smaller features: 1 renotate performance 2 undoable plug-ins, including a host of new ones 3 new jazz font called REPRISE 4 easier lyrics import from a word or text file: it hyphenates for you also 5 full VST/AU support 6 Universal binary support for newer Intel Macs 7 special page breaks 8 instruments have had a makeover: new instrument changes and new instrument definitions, as well as sound IDs so they play through whichever sound library you are using 9 Bar nunbers have had a makeover 10 new fonts for avant garde and early music lots of other stuff too: details at Sibelius home page Photoscore (scanning) has also had a major makeover. Hope that helps, Robin

Hi folk, I've authored a free pdf file for using and learning Sibelius. I also have one for Pro Tools. I wanted to stick them in the articles section but they don't allow pdf files up there, so if anyone wants a copy, shoot me an email: rhodson@sibelius.com. I will do a v5 version of the guide when the software comes out in a week or so. Cheers, Robin@Sibelius