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Why not print this out? Load a printer driver and drag this file onto the
printer icon on the icon bar.
SIBELIUS 7 DEMO VERSION (c) Copyright Sibelius Software 1995
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Installing
Using the demonstration
Some of its features
Sibelius 6 and Sibelius 7 Student
---------INTRODUCTION
This is a demonstration version of Sibelius 7 version 2.5, released in
December 1994. There are many enhancements compared with previous versions,
particularly to do with playback. This demo disk (unlike some older ones)
has playback fully enabled so you can hear just what it's like.
Sibelius 7 is an expert system for processing music - that is, inputting
music using a MIDI keyboard or mouse, editing it as music notation and then
playing it back through the computer's speaker or MIDI, or printing it out.
It's a complete tool for composing or arranging music straight onto computer
and is now used by some of the world's best-known composers. Perhaps its
most spectacular success to date has been in the music publishing industry,
where one would normally expect to find only Apple Macs and IBM PCs. But
because Sibelius 7 knocks spots off anything available on other computers
(read the Reviews file if you don't believe it), these professionals are
drawn to invest in Acorns instead. But of course, printing music is just one
aspect of what Sibelius 7 does.
This demo version is complete except that the following features have been
disabled:
Printing
Saving
Exporting Draw and EPS files
Also, the full version comes with some extra things like speaker voices,
sample files and 'style sheets' (ready-made standard combinations of
instruments).
If you want further details and some spectacular printouts, contact Sibelius
Software (details at the end of this file). You could also come and see it
in action - we exhibit at many of the top music and computer exhibitions
both in the UK and around the world.
Please feel free to make copies of this demo and give them to anyone; but
please make sure you include all the associated files too (fonts, music
files etc).
---------INSTALLING
FONTS
You will need to install the OpusII fonts in order to use the program. You
are assumed to have the outline font manager already.
If you have had a previous demo disk, you will need to delete the old
OpusII fonts if you still have them, as they have changed. (Do this by
holding down Shift while double-clicking on your computer's !Fonts, then
delete the directory called OpusII. You may need to unlock OpusII if it
doesn't appear to delete.)
Then install the fonts from this disc as follows:
If you don't have a RISC PC computer:
* Get the directory display which contains your own !Fonts. (It will be on
one of your Applications disks, or on your hard disk if you have one.)
* Drag the !Fonts which is on this demo disk into the directory display
containing your existing !Fonts. The new fonts will be added to your
existing ones.
* Double-click on your own !Fonts.
If you do have a RISC PC computer:
* Double-click on the !Boot application on your hard disk.
* Click on Fonts on the Configure window.
* Drag the !Fonts from this demo disk onto the big arrow on the Configure
Fonts window.
* Click on Set.
FUNCTION KEY STRIP
Sibelius 7 makes a lot of use of the function keys for speed, so you have to
print a key strip. Once you have installed the OpusII fonts (above):
* Load a printer driver for your printer
* Start !Draw
* Double-click on Key strip
* Press the Print key and click on 'Print'.
The keys with grey backgrounds are less important than the white ones.
---------USING THE DEMONSTRATION
Specific instructions on how to work this demonstration are in the
!!Manual!! file in the Read Me directory.
The rest of this file gives more general information.
---------SOME OF SIBELIUS 7'S FEATURES
Sibelius 7 is an 'expert system' in that it understands and continuously
applies hundreds of rules of music notation and positioning normally known
only to a handful of experts. Many of these rules are mysterious and are not
to be found in any book.
The rules are continuously applied by the program in the background - you
just input the notes, whether from MIDI keyboard or with the mouse, and
Sibelius 7 will apply its expertise as it goes along. Nevertheless, most of
the rules can be overridden by the user if required.
Applying all these rules to a complete score takes Sibelius 7 about
0.1 seconds - regardless of the length of the score!
Sibelius 7 can do many things not explained in this demo; for instance:
* You can export music as Draw files for incorporation into other
documents, and can also transfer music as EPS files to the Apple Mac and
IBM PC
* You can define your own 'house styles' so that all your scores have
a uniform appearance, or use different house styles for different
types of score
* Many other things, including full support for percussion staves, complex
tuplets, user-definable instruments, many formats for rehearsal marks, time
signatures, bar numbers and page numbers, automatic splitting and rejoining
of slurs and trills etc. between systems, automatic splitting of barlines
and section brackets between instruments, rulers, and lots of other features
too numerous to mention here.
The program was written entirely in assembly language to be extremely fast,
and uses its own top-speed versions of many operating system routines.
---------SIBELIUS 6 AND SIBELIUS 7 STUDENT
Sibelius 6 is a reduced version of Sibelius 7, for people doing more modest
things with music, or (in schools) at students up to GCSE level. Sibelius 6
is to Sibelius 7 what Junior Impression is to Impression Publisher - you can
do simple things well, but more advanced situations can be difficult or
impossible.
Sibelius 7 Student is a new, cheaper version of Sibelius 7. It's much the
same, but with a few publishing features cut (in order to justify a much
lower price tag!). The most significant limitations are: 24 instruments max,
512 bars max.
Sibelius 7 Student is aimed at about A-level standard, but is available to
absolutely anyone (not just those in education).
Read the 'Diffrences' file in the Read Me directory to find out more about
what the differences between these three programs are.
This disk can give barely a taste of what this program can do in its
entirety. For a full information pack, contact:
Sibelius Software
75 Burleigh St
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 1DJ
Great Britain
Tel: 01223 302765 (+44 1223 302765)
Fax: 01223 351947 (+44 1223 351947)
email: info@sibelius.demon.co.uk
Please inform us how you heard about Sibelius, whether you have an Acorn
computer already, and which program you're most interested in.