Acorn User 1/AU_CD1.iso/demos/s_to_z/sibelius7/Read/!!Manual!!

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--------CONTENTS

Starting Sibelius 7
Loading a sample score
The 'radar'
The overview window

Playing music
Espressivo
Speaker voices
MIDI program numbers

Editing objects
Creating notes with the mouse
Changing pitch with the mouse
Copying notes
Accidentals
Articulation marks
Creating rests
Creating chords with the mouse
MIDI input

Two parts on one stave
Getting markings from the menu
Text
Lines

Adjusting staves
Adjusting spacing
Setting bar length
Reformatting
Part extraction

STARTING YOUR OWN SCORE
Creating an instrument
Typing in music
Adding bars

FURTHER INFORMATION




--------STARTING SIBELIUS 7
You need to have installed the fonts and printed out a key strip, as
described in ReadMe 1st. Then double-click Select (the left-hand mouse
button) on !Sibelius7.


--------LOADING A SAMPLE SCORE
Double-click Select on one of the files in the MusicFiles directory.

Sibelius 7 edits a single score at a time, so once you've loaded a score you
must close it before loading another (or your computer will helpfully start
another copy of Sibelius 7 to load the score into).


--------THE 'RADAR'
Instead of having scroll bars, Sibelius 7 uses the 'radar' at the bottom
right-hand corner of the editing window.

Press Select on it and drag to move around the score. Load the sample score
called 'Jerusalem' and see what happens when you move across several pages.


--------THE OVERVIEW WINDOW
Click on the toggle size icon at the top right of the screen. This makes the
editing window small and reveals an 'overview' window for zooming in and
out. Click Select on it to zoom in and Adjust (right-hand mouse button) to
zoom out.

You may need to make your font cache quite big (100 or 200K) to make
redrawing fast. Also, RISC OS 3 is a lot quicker at redrawing the window
than RISC OS 2.


--------PLAYING MUSIC
Click on the >'-shaped play button on the 'CD controls' at the bottom left
of the screen. If no object is selected, this plays from the start of the
score.

You can play from a particular point by first selecting a note or barline.
If you select a stave, only that stave will play.

When playing the music, MIDI is automatically used if you have a MIDI
interface.

If you press and hold Select on the fast-forward ('>>') or rewind
('<<') button, Sibelius 7 will speed through the music. (These buttons take
a short time to react.) When rewinding, it even plays the music backwards!

To stop playing, click Select on the stop (square) or pause (double-line)
button.

When playing, all sorts of markings in the score are interpreted, including:
* Notes, chords and rests (of course!)
* Instrument names (using the General MIDI Standard by default)
* Clefs
* Key signatures
* Time signatures
* Accidentals
* Most articulation marks (e.g. accent, tenuto, bowing)
* Metronome marks
* Text dynamics (e.g. mp, very loud) - in 3 languages (English, Italian and
  French)
* Other text in these 3 languages (e.g. leggiero, mute)

When a stave is selected (by clicking on a blank part of it), you can change
the volume, stereo position, MIDI channel, voice number and MIDI program
number of music on that stave - details below.


--------ESPRESSIVO

Sibelius 7 and Sibelius 7 Student have a new and totally unique feature
called Espressivo. This makes the programs automatically play with
natural-sounding variations in volume, producing realistic phrasing and
expression. (This is in addition to its reading dynamic markings, accents
etc. written explicitly in the score.)

All you do is choose the degree of expression from the Play->Espressivo
menu. ('Meccanicco' reads all markings absolutely literally without adding
any further expression at all; 'Molto espressivo' adds lots of
expression. Sibelius 7 Student only has two degrees of expression - on or
off.)

Try playing the sample music files with different degrees of Espressivo.


--------SPEAKER VOICES
If you don't have MIDI, you can set any stave to play using any speaker
voice your computer has. This demo version automatically includes a rather
good sampled piano sound called Sibelius-Piano (other ones come with the
full version).

To change the voice used by a stave, select the stave, and from the Play
menu go into Speaker voice. Click on the voice you want.

(Technical note: Sibelius 7 implements 'dynamic voice allocation', which
means that you don't have to predefine a particular number of channels to be
used by each stave; Sibelius 7 will switch the voices around on the channels
as necessary to make the most of the 8 simultaneous notes available.)


--------MIDI PROGRAM NUMBERS
'MIDI program numbers' specify what sounds MIDI keyboards use when playing
back.

By default, Sibelius 7 assumes your keyboard complies with the 'General MIDI
Standard' (a standard list of 128 sounds). Many sound modules and some
keyboards comply with this (and usually say so on the front).

Sibelius 7 has a few other 'patches' (numberings of sounds) for other MIDI
equipment, under Equipment in the Play menu. For example, if your keyboard
is not General MIDI compatible you might want to try simply 'MIDI Piano',
which switches all staves to Piano (program number 0).

Alternatively, you can set up your own 'patch' to suit whatever keyboard you
have. Simply select each stave and type in the program number you want to
use for that stave under Play->MIDI bank/program. Your keyboard's manual
will have a list of the sound it produces for each program number. (If your
keyboard's manual lists its program numbers starting at 1, switch off Play->
Choices->Program no.s start at 0.)


--------EDITING OBJECTS
You can select notes (by clicking on the notehead itself), rests, staves,
barlines, text and so on using Select as normal.

The basic editing operations are shown at the top of the Edit menu, but you
are STRONGLY recommended not to use these at all because there are extremely
fast 'shortcuts' instead.

The most important operation is clicking the right-hand mouse button
(Adjust) to copy an object, such as a note or a stave. Most objects can also
be dragged by holding down Select. Try dragging a note up and down - then
re-click and try dragging it left and right!


--------CREATING NOTES WITH THE MOUSE
Select an existing rest, e.g. a bar rest. To select a bar rest you'll need
to click exactly on the little black rectangle (which will go red),
otherwise you may select the whole stave instead.

Press one of the note-value function keys (e.g. F5-F9). Notice that Sibelius
7 takes care of rests after the note for you.

F10 adds a rhythmic dot - add more than one by pressing it repeatedly, and
remove by re-pressing the note key.


--------CHANGING PITCH WITH THE MOUSE
Press Select on the notehead, and drag up or down.


--------COPYING NOTES
Select a note, point to where you want it to be copied to, and click Adjust.
Keep clicking Adjust in different places to get more notes.

Copying a note copies its length and articulation marks (staccato, tenuto
etc), but takes the pitch from where you're pointing.


--------ACCIDENTALS (sharps, flats etc.)
Select a note (by clicking on the notehead) and press the relevant function
key. Remove by pressing the key again.

Shift-Ctrl-F3 'respells' accidentals (e.g. rewrites C# as Db).


--------ARTICULATION MARKS (staccato, tenuto etc.)
Just as for accidentals.


--------CREATING RESTS
Select a note and press F11. You can't delete a note as the bar would then
not 'add up' - instead, turn the note into a rest.

To produce a crotchet rest (for instance), select a note or rest, type F7
(crotchet) and then F11 (to turn it into a crotchet rest).


--------CREATING CHORDS WITH THE MOUSE
Create a note for one of the pitches, point to another pitch above or
below that note, and click Adjust.

Try dragging individual notes of a chord up and down through the chord. Try
doing this again after adding a sharp or flat to each note.


--------MIDI INPUT
Sibelius 7 currently implements MIDI step-time input, which means you can
use a MIDI keyboard (instead of the mouse) to indicate the pitches and the
function keys to specify the rhythm.

You will need to have a MIDI interface and any MIDI keyboard.

Simply select a note or rest, and play notes on the keyboard. They will go
in as crotchets on that stave. If you press (say) the quaver function key
(F8), the selected note and all those you play thereafter will be quavers.
So you only have to press a function key when the note-length changes.

As with mouse input, articulation marks such as staccato are copied from one
note to the next. You can adjust beaming and accidentals using the function
keys as you go along. Shift-Ctrl-F3 'respells' accidentals (e.g. rewrites C#
as Db).

Sibelius 7 adds extra bars at the end when you fill up all the existing bars.
(This only happens with MIDI input, not when inputting with the mouse.)


--------TWO PARTS ON ONE STAVE
To get two independent parts on one stave - with note-stems up and down -
put in the upper part first, then copy a note into the lower part using
Alt-Adjust (i.e. hold down Alt while clicking the right-hand mouse button).

This will put the new note in with its stem down, and flip the existing
notes so their stems all point up. The lower part will be padded out to the
end of the bar with rests. You can drag these rests down to avoid notes in
the upper part.

Put more notes into the lower part either by turning rests into notes using
the function keys, or by copying more notes into the lower part using
Alt-Adjust.


--------GETTING MARKINGS FROM THE MENU
Time signatures, clefs, key signatures, guitar chords etc. can be obtained
by first choosing from the menu in the obvious way, then pointing to where
you want them to end up and clicking Adjust. These markings are found within
the Symbols and Rhythm menus.

You don't have to reuse the menu to get an object if you can see one like it
on the screen. Just select this object and click Adjust to copy it. This is
the ultimate instant 'toolbox' for getting any marking you want, fast.


--------TEXT
Within the Text menu are a series of text 'styles' for different types
of text. For instance, Expression covers text dynamics (e.g. 'ff') and
markings such as 'legato'. To write a piece of text in a particular
style, choose it from the menu and click Adjust on the paper to position the
caret. Then type - or click Menu again to get a list of useful words.

Lyrics operate in a special way which we won't explain here (except to say
that Sibelius 7 automatically positions the words under notes for you).

Each text style is preset to a suitable font, size etc. You can alter these
by choosing Text->Alter text style... and changing the parameters. This
changes all text ever used in that style.


--------LINES
This means slurs, ties, phrase-marks, hairpins, trills etc.

Choose off the Lines menu, press (and hold down) Adjust at where the
left-hand end should go, drag right, and release.

You can modify lines by pulling the ends or the middle.

If the line goes off the end of one stave and onto the next, drag directly
to where the line ends (you needn't do two halves). Alternatively, drag to
just off the right of the stave, and the line will poke onto the start of
the next one.


--------ADJUSTING STAVES
Click on a blank section of a stave to select it; drag it up and down to
adjust the gap between staves. This is a very dramatic effect!


--------ADJUSTING SPACING
Although you seldom need to do this, you can drag notes, rests and
barlines left and right. Make sure you start off by dragging horizontally
- you are prevented from dragging vertically at the same time.


--------SETTING BAR LENGTH
Bar length is determined by the current time signature, so put a time
signature in before putting music into subsequent bars. (You can delete the
time signature again afterwards if you want to produce an upbeat bar or an
irregular bar.)


--------REFORMATTING
Load any score and choose Score format... off the Score menu. Try changing
the page size and shape, or the size of the staves, then click on OK.
Sibelius 7 will instantly rewrite the music to fit the new format. It is
still instant even for scores hundreds of pages long!

This allows you to try out different formats, or produce different versions
of the same music (conductor's score, miniature score etc). It also means
that, by making small adjustments to the stave size, you can make a score
fit exactly into a given number of pages, or remove a half-filled page at
the end.


--------PART EXTRACTION
This is a very sophisticated feature. Try loading Jerusalem and select a
stave. Then, from the menu, choose Edit->Extract part.

The instrument in question will be extracted from the score, together with
all relevant markings (e.g. dynamics and tempo marks). Bar rests will be
grouped together (but split at rehearsal marks etc). And the part will be
completely reformatted from scratch so that it ends up tidy. Parts are even
automatically transposed if necessary for transposing instruments such as
Clarinet in Bb.

Part extraction takes a few seconds at most - compared with rival Mac and
PC programs on which it can take literally hours (or even days!), and
usually produces a part which needs a great deal of checking and correcting.




     ----------------- STARTING YOUR OWN SCORE ------------------

To start an empty score, close any you've got loaded already, then click
Select on the Sibelius 7 icon on the icon bar.


--------CREATING AN INSTRUMENT
Choose an instrument from within Woodwind, Brass etc. in the Instruments
menu. Then click Adjust near the top of the first sheet paper.

Only create instruments the first time this way; you don't have to tell
Sibelius 7 to create more staves thereafter - it will do so whenever
necessary. All you have to do is tell it when you want more bars of music
(see Adding bars, below).


--------TYPING IN MUSIC
Select a bar rest and press F5-F9 (say) to get a note, as before.

Drag it to the pitch you want.

Then you can just click Adjust to copy it to create further notes. Use the
function keys to change the rhythm, accidental etc. of each note as you go
along. When you run out of bars, see Adding bars (below).

With MIDI input (detailed above) you can instead play the music in, directly
from a MIDI keyboard.


--------ADDING BARS
Choose Rhythm->Bar rest from the menu (or type Ctrl-B). Then click Adjust
repeatedly to the left of your score's final double barline to insert bars
at that point.

As the score gets longer and longer, Sibelius 7 will spread the music out
onto more staves or pages as necessary - you don't have to ask it to.

Of course, you can type in music in any order - left to right, top to
bottom, even backwards! The expert engraving rules will be applied
continuously to give you a pristine score at every stage.



               -------- FURTHER INFORMATION ----------

This disk can give barely a taste of what this program can do in its
entirety. For a full information pack, including a 16-page brochure and some spectacular printouts, contact Sibelius Software at:

Sibelius Software
75 Burleigh St
CAMBRIDGE CB1 1DJ
Great Britain

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