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- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SIBELIUS 6, SIBELIUS 7 STUDENT & SIBELIUS 7
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- Sibelius Software now sells three different music processors, called
- Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7 Student and Sibelius 7.
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- Sibelius 7 is the full professional version.
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- Sibelius 7 Student is a slightly cut-down version suitable for about A-level
- standard. (We used to have an amateur/educational discount for Sibelius 7;
- Sibelius 7 Student replaces this, and is available to anyone - not just
- students.)
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- Sibelius 6 is a further cut-down version for home use and up to about GCSE
- standard.
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- See the Prices file for prices. Here's an idea of what the other differences
- are. There is a detailed table at the bottom of this file comparing Sibelius
- 6 & Sibelius 7 Student.
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- Sibelius 7's additional features are mostly of interest to professional
- composers, arrangers and publishers. For simplicity we don't give a full
- table or list here. If you are specifically interested in getting Sibelius 7
- (rather than Sibelius 7 Student), contact us as we have a special
- information pack for Sibelius 7. (See the Address file for our details.)
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- ------INSTRUMENTS
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- On Sibelius 6 you can't define your own instruments or modify the name,
- transposition etc. of existing ones. This means that you can't (say) put the
- name of a person against their stave in a musical, or create unusual
- instruments.
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student instead let you define your own instruments and
- modify the name etc. of the predefined ones.
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student also provide automatic numbering of players for
- orchestral scores, so you can write (say) three trumpets on one or two
- staves.
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student let you extract several instruments into a
- single part - e.g. for making a piano-vocal score - whereas Sibelius 6 can
- only extract one at a time. Sibelius 7 and 7 Student also let you use small
- notes for cues in parts.
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- ------BIG SCORES
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- Sibelius 6 allows up to 16 instruments with 1 or 2 staves each. This is
- fine for a lot of music, but probably not for largish groups such as brass
- bands or orchestras.
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- Sibelius 7 Student allows 24 instruments, with up 3 staves per instrument
- (e.g. for piano or organ), and has extra facilities for doing larger scores,
- such as rehearsal marks beyond 'Z'.
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- Sibelius 7 can handle up to 128 instruments each with up to 128 staves,
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- Sibelius 6 and Sibelius 7 Student are limited to 512 bars of music, whereas
- Sibelius 7 has no limit.
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- ------PRINTING AND STYLE
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- Sibelius 7 can use any page size up to 999x999mm, with any stave size up to
- 20mm. Sibelius 7 Student can only use A4 and A3 paper. Sibelius 6 uses A4
- paper (portrait or landscape) only, with a choice of 5 stave sizes.
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student have a complete menu of 'house style' options for
- specifying variations in marking designs, slur shapes, spacings etc.
- Sibelius 6 lacks this menu.
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- Sibelius 7 (only) can use crop marks, can print scaled (e.g. for miniature
- scores), and will export EPS files for transferring pages to document
- processors on other computers. It also includes a music symbol editor so
- you can add new symbols or adjust existing ones.
-
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- ------MISCELLANEOUS
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student have fully editable text styles; those in Sibelius
- 6 are largely fixed.
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- Sibelius 7 and 7 Student have about 200 miscellaneous symbols ('transfers');
- Sibelius 6 has 42. There are many other extra bits of notation, particularly
- for modern and early music.
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-
-
- ------TABLE COMPARIING SIBELIUS 6 & SIBELIUS 7 STUDENT
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- FEATURE SIBELIUS 6 SIBELIUS 7 STUDENT
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- Suitability Amateur/up to GCSE Semi-professional/A-level
- Staves per page (max) 32 48
- No. of instruments (max) 16 24
- Staves per instrument (max) 2 3
- Instrument types Predefined only User-definable
- Page size A4 only A4 or A3
- Stave size 5 fixed sizes Any up to 20mm
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- PLAYBACK
- MIDI channels (max) 16 32
- Espressivo option No Yes
- MIDI reverb control No Yes
- MIDI bank numbers No Yes
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- TEXT STYLES
- Text size control No Yes
- Line spacing control No Yes
- Alignment control No Yes
- Styles for page/bar no etc. No Yes
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- RHYTHM
- Dots after note (max) 2 3
- Shortest note Hemidemisemiquaver Semihemidemisemiquaver
- Time signature range 1/2 to 12/16 1/2 to 15/16
- Tuplets 2 to 6 2 to 15
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- SYMBOLS
- Clefs (types of) 9 16
- Cue (small) notes No Yes
- Line types (trill &c) 14 30
- Microtones 1/4-tones 1/4-, 1/6- and 1/8-tones
- Ornaments (mordent etc.) 3 10
- Noteheads (special) 2 (cross, diamond) 11
- Miscellaneous ('transfers') 41 191
- Rehearsal mark styles 2 4
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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- Adjustable stem direction No Yes
- Adjustable stem length No Yes
- Beams between staves No Yes
- Choice of note spacing rules No Yes
- House style menu No Yes
- Music without barlines No Yes
- Multiple part extraction No Yes
- Numbered instrument players No Yes
- Voices per stave 2 Unlimited (2 automatic)
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- N.B. This table only lists differences between Sibelius 6 and Sibelius 7
- Student - it isn't a complete list of features, by any means.
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-
- (All three programs undergo continuous development and so any features or
- differences listed may change.)