2. The license agreement appears, which refers you to the agreement at the end of this manual. If you do not agree, you must quit the installer (by clicking Continue then Quit).
3. An Install Sibelius Demo dialog box appears. By default Sibelius is installed in the root folder of your hard disk, but if you like you can change it by clicking the pop-up list in Install Location and choosing Select folder. Finally click Install.
4. You will be told that you are recommended to restart your computer after installing. Click Continue.
5. You are asked which version to install. Click English or Deutsch.
6. Things flash and zoom past as Sibelius in installed. This takes a few seconds.
7. Click Restart.
8. To start Sibelius, find the Sibelius Demo folder, open it and double-click Sibelius Demo inside it.
9. An Equipment dialog box appears where you can choose which playback and MIDI input devices to use. If there are several playback devices listed at the top, click Yes in the Use column to change each of them to No except one, so that only one device is set to Yes. If QuickTime Music is one of the devices, this is a good one to use. Then click OK.
10. A åTip of the Dayπ appears ≠ click OK.
This demo version is identical to the full Sibelius program, except that saving, part extraction and scanning are disabled (part extraction is disabled because it involves saving the parts). The Help menu gives more detail on features, but is not intended to be comprehensive. To find out more about what Sibelius can do, see the detailed feature list in the Sibelius brochure or on our website www.sibelius.com .
Looking at a score
Ö Click Open on the toolbar, open the Scores folder inside Sibelius Demo, and double-click Sax Espressivo.
Ö Look around the score by dragging the ånavigatorπ at the bottom left of the window, or use the Page Up/Page Down/Home/End keys. Move the main view of the score directly by dragging any blank part of it. Scroll bars arenπt normally shown, though you can switch them on by choosing Scroll Bars in the View menu.
Ö Use the zoom tool on the toolbar (or type Command with + or -) to zoom in and out as far as you like. The default zoom is 75% but you may find the program runs more smoothly at 100%.
Ö You can change the color and texture of the åvirtual manuscript paperπ on the screen, from the Preferences dialog box in the File menu. Try Buff recycled, or Marble!
Selecting and moving
Ö Click on a note in the Baritone Sax part ≠ the note turns blue (to show itπs selected), and plays with a saxophone sound.
Ö Drag the note up and down; it turns red if the note is too high or low for a baritone saxophone to play. You can also move notes up and down with the arrows (or Command-arrow to move by an octave).
Ö Drag a note left and right. If you drag rightwards far enough, Sibelius will probably push a bar off the end of the staff and instantly reformat the whole score, right to the end of the music. (This takes just 1/10th of a second ≠ however long the score is!)
Ö Click on notes, rests, bar rests, staves, slurs, and most other objects in a score to select them. Move them by dragging, or use the arrow keys. Drag a staff up and down, and watch the score reformat!
Playback
Ö Click the play button on the toolbar, or just type P. You can click tools to fast forward, rewind, etc. Playback multitasks, so you can zoom in, zoom out or drag the score around while itπs playing. If you selected a note before playing, Sibelius plays from that point onwards. (If you canπt hear anything, click Equipment in the Play/Flexitime menu and try changing which playback device youπre using.)
Ö Sibelius interprets metronome marks, dynamics (e.g. mf) and other text as it plays ≠ you can even add new words to its built-in Dictionary (in the Playback/Flexi-time menu).
Ö The Espressivo menu within Playback/Flexi-time uses artificial intelligence to add further amazing expression and phrasing as Sibelius plays. Open the Boogie Espressivo score and play it ≠ Sibelius makes a very convincing performance, even though no dynamics are marked in the score.
Ö Then make Sibelius play the same score literally as written, by opengin the Boogie Meccanico score (which has changed the Espressivo menu setting to Meccanico or åmechanicalπ, Swing to Straight , and Reverb to Dead). Hear the difference?
Ö Also compare the playback of the Sax Meccanico and Sax Espressivo files.
OMS and MIDI
Ö If you have a MIDI keyboard, sound module or synthesizer, Sibelius will only recognize it if you have OMS installed. OMS is the Mac extension for configuring MIDI devices, and is available from www.opcode.com. Sibelius needs the latest version which is OMS 2.3.6. You can tell if OMS is present because åOMS: Presentπ appears at the bottom of the Equipment dialog box (in the Play/Flexi-time menu). You can tell OMS which MIDI devices you have by clicking OMS Studio Setup... in the Play/Flexi-time menu.
Creating notes
Ö Click a note-value on the åkeypadπ at the bottom right of the window, then click on a staff to input the note at the pitch where you click. The keypad button stays pressed down so you can click more notes onto the staff. Input several notes, one above the other, to make a chord. To change note-value, click a different note on the keypad.
Ö You can also type the letters A to G to touch-type pitches; use Command-up/down to change octave.
Ö To see more exotic sets of symbols, click the five buttons near the top of the keypad, below the buttons marked 1 2 3 4 (which are used to input into more than one voice on the same staff). To stop creating notes, press Esc to deselect all the keypad buttons.
Ö The keypad on the screen corresponds to the numeric keypad at the right of your computer keyboard. Type these keys in preference to using the mouse, as itπs much quicker. You can choose several keys together (but type the note-value first), e.g. type 4 . ≠ / + to get a dotted quarter-note (crotchet) with a tenuto, accent and tie.
Ö Step-time input: probably the quickest way to input accurately. If you have a MIDI keyboard, select a rest or note to start at, type a note-value on the keypad, then play notes and chords on the keyboard. (Make sure the arrow is blue before inputting notes; you may also need to specify your MIDI keyboard from the Equipment dialog box in the Play/Flexitime menu.) If the next note has a different note-value, articulation, etc., change this on the keypad before you play the note. Type space to input a rest. Type Enter (on the main keyboard, not the keypad) to årespellπ a noteπs accidental from, say, F# to Gb.
Ö Flexi-time input: this lets you record in real time. Click in an empty bar so the bar ends up with a blue box round it. Then click the red Flexi button on the toolbar, and play to the metronome. Click Flexi again to stop. There are various options to notate staccatos, tenutos, triplets and other åtupletsπ (in , and to make Sibelius follow your tempo if you speed up or slow down. Sibelius can also input onto two staves at once.
Keys
Ö Thereπs a logical system of keyboard shortcuts ≠ most are listed on the menus. Many operations use just a single key (without Shift or Command) ≠ e.g. P to play, K to create a key signature.
Ö To copy and paste you can use Command-C/V (then click where you want to paste), but itπs quicker to duplicate an object in a single action by selecting it, pointing somewhere else and clicking with the Option key held down. Try this with a note or some text.
Ö Type Delete to delete objects.
Ö Type Command-Z or click Undo on the toolbar to undo a mistake; undo is multi-level.
MIDI file importing: open the MIDI Bach file. Sibelius turns this into a clean score in seconds ≠ it intelligently works out the correct instrument names and order, recognises triplets and staccatos, and formats the whole score, ready for you to print.
Editing notes: you can select a note and edit its articulations, accidental, etc. just by choosing the relevant keypad button. To edit a noteπs length, choose a note-value on the keypad followed by Edit note (Enter), to show youπre not creating a new note. Click an empty part of a bar to select and edit all the notes in the bar; there are many other ways to select multiple objects. Type the left/right arrows to move between notes, plus Command to move bar by bar.
No åmodesπ: you can switch between inputting notes, editing, playback, etc. at any time ≠ there are no modes.
Creating other objects: you can create any object other than notes (e.g. text, staves, slurs) from the Create menu (which you can also get by clicking the right mouse button). Choose an object from the menu, then click on the score to create it. There are many useful shortcuts ≠ e.g. to create a slur or phrase-mark, just select a note and type S (or Shift-S for a slur below the note). Type space to extend the slur; drag the middle of the slur to adjust its shape. Similarly, H and Shift-H create åhairpinπcrescendo and diminuendos.
Text and lyrics: text is obtained from the Text menu within Create. There are various different styles of text, e.g. Title, Expression (for dynamics etc.), Lyrics, Chord symbols. Click on the text style you want, then click in the score and start typing. To input lyrics, input the notes first, choose Lyrics, then click under the first note and start typing. Type ≠ (hyphen) at the end of a syllable, space at the end of a word, or multiple hyphens/spaces if the syllable lasts for more than one note. In most text styles, click the right mouse button while typing to produce a menu of useful words and special characters.
Clefs: Sibelius adjusts the music intelligently whenever you change it. For example, create a clef change: click Create, then Clef, and click a clef. Then click in the middle of some music in the score. All the music will shift so that it still sounds the same. Then try dragging the clef left and right, and watch the music adjust!
Printing: type Command-P. As this is a demo version of Sibelius, a åwatermarkπ is printed under the music.
Starting a new score: click New on the toolbar, choose some åmanuscript paperπ, then click OK. You may get a dialog to choose some instruments: choose each in turn and click Add. Click Create when youπve finished. You can add more instruments later from the Instruments dialog in the Create menu.
Adding bars: type Command-B to add a bar at the end of the score. Zoom out a long way (e.g. to 25%), then hold down Command-B and watch Sibelius create lots of bars and format them onto new pages.
Reformatting: as you add bars and notes the whole score is instantly reformatted: the spacing of the existing music is adjusted using complex rules, and new pages are added for you when necessary. You donπt need to tell Sibelius to åadd a pageπ ≠ just add more bars! You can mostly leave the layout up to Sibelius, though you can adjust it yourself by dragging staves, notes and barlines, or using the Layout menu.
Transposing scores: if you use transposing instruments, Sibelius can instantly switch between a sounding-pitch and transposing score. Open the Orchestral Suite score and click Transp on the toolbar ≠ watch the clarinet part change.
Page size and shape: on the Layout menu, click Document..., then adjust the page size, shape or staff size. Sibelius will reformat the whole score to fit, in just 1/10th of a second!
Sibelius also lets you do many other amazing things, such as create web pages, scan in printed music, create and run plug-ins to do useful things to your music, convert to and from guitar tab, and much more. A detailed feature list is in the Sibelius brochure and on our website www.sibelius.com .
Buying Sibelius
You can order Sibelius from our website www.sibelius.com, or from a music or computer store.
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