name and password. * On Windows Vista: % Click the Start button % Select Computer from the menu to see your computers disk drives % Navigate to C:\Program Files\Sibelius Software\Sibelius 5 % Right-click the Sibelius application icon and select Run as Administrator from the context menu. (After you have successfully upgraded Sibelius, you can quit the program and then run it from the shortcut in the Start menu as normal; there is no need to Run as Administrator once you have completed the upgrade procedure.) % If you are logged in as an administrator user on Windows Vista, you may be prompted to give your permission for the procedure to continue. * You are asked if you have an earlier registered version of Sibelius installed on your computer. If you have installed your upgrade on the same computer as your previous version of Sibelius, click Yes, then: % Sibelius will show you a list of all the copies of Sibelius installed on your computer. Typically you will only see one copy listed (i.e. the copy of Sibelius from which you are upgrading), so choose it and click OK. % The Enter Upgrade Code dialog appears. Fill out your name, and then enter your Upgrade Code. The Upgrade Code is printed on a sheet of paper included inside your upgrade pack type it in and click OK. If you have more than one Sibelius serial number and hence more than one Upgrade Code, ensure you type the Upgrade Code for the appropriate serial number. (It will tell you if you typed the wrong one in any case.) % Click OK, and the Sibelius 5 splash screen will appear. If, on the other hand, you have installed your upgrade on a different computer than your previous version of Sibelius, click No, then: % You will be prompted to enter your Sibelius serial number. You will find this on the back of the CD case that your original version of Sibelius came in; its the number beginning with S. % Click OK, and the Sibelius 5 splash screen will appear. % You will then be prompted to register Sibelius. You should do this now, so choose the On the Internet radio button and click Next, then follow the instructions on the screen. If you need help with registering Sibelius, refer to Registering Sibelius in the Handbook. % You will be told that Sibelius has been registered successfully.
* When Sibelius has loaded, the Quick Start dialog appears. Switch off Show this each time
Sibelius starts if this kind of thing annoys you. Now youve finished installing Sibelius, take your Sibelius 5 DVD-ROM and put it in your existing Sibelius CD-ROM case, and throw away any old Sibelius CD-ROMs you have lying around (as they will no longer be of use). Its important that you put your new DVD into the old case, because the case has your serial number printed on the back.

Restoring old files

You may have written or customized plug-ins, manuscript papers, feature sets, Arrange styles, etc. in earlier versions of Sibelius. Each version of Sibelius stores these files in different locations, and if you want to use them in Sibelius 5, youll need to copy them manually from their old location to the appropriate new one. To find the location where Sibelius 5 keeps user-created files:
* Double-click My Computer or open a Windows Explorer window * Choose Tools > Folder Options, and click the View tab * Under Advanced Settings, make sure Show hidden files and folders is selected * Click OK to close the Folder Options dialog * Navigate to the appropriate folder for your version of Windows: % Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\ % Windows Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ * You may now see a folder called Sibelius Software, in which case double-click the folder to go inside it. If you dont see that folder, choose File > New Folder, type Sibelius Software as the
name of the folder, then double-click the newly-created folder to go inside it. * Choose File > New Folder again, and type Sibelius 5 as the name of the folder. Double-click the newly-created folder to go inside it. This is the location in which Sibelius 5 expects to find customized data like plug-ins, manuscript papers, and so on, each type within its own folder. If you are upgrading from Sibelius 4 and have modified any of these files, you will already have a folder called Sibelius 4 in the same location. You can simply drag the folders from the Sibelius 4 folder into your new Sibelius 5 folder. If you are upgrading from Sibelius 1, Sibelius 2 or Sibelius 3, you will need to move only those files that you have customized (and want to keep) from their old location to the new one as follows:
Component type Old location:
C:\Program Files\Sibelius Software\Sibelius 3\
Arrange styles House Styles Manuscript paper Feature sets Plug-ins Scorch web templates Textures
Sibelius 5 location:.\Sibelius Software\Sibelius 5\
Arrange Styles\ House Styles\ Manuscript paper\ Menus and Shortcuts\ Plugins\ Manuscript paper\ Textures\
Arrange Styles\ House Styles\ Manuscript paper\ Menus and Shortcuts\ Plugins\ Scorch Templates\ Textures\
Installation Most of these old folders wont exist if you are upgrading from Sibelius 1, so you wont have to copy anything from them. Whichever version youre upgrading from, note that:
* Due to changes in ManuScript, plug-ins you have created or edited yourself may no longer work

How to determine if you are running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later
Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu. You will see a simple window, like this:
Just below the large text that reads Mac OS X you will see text that reads something like Version 10.4.9. Provided the first part of this number is 10.4 or greater, you are running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or a newer version of Mac OS X, and you can install and run Sibelius 5.
If you have more than one copy of Sibelius using the same serial number, such as a 5-pack, second registration or laptop copy, simply follow the same upgrading instructions on each computer, using the same Upgrade Code. If you have more than one Sibelius serial number (e.g. two 5-packs), follow the upgrading instructions on each computer, using the Upgrade Code that applies to the Sibelius serial number used on that computer. The Upgrade Code included in each upgrade pack says which serial number it applies to. If youre not sure which serial number is used on which computer, dont worry Sibelius tells you when it asks for the Upgrade Code. If you have a Sibelius network license, please read the separate Installing and registering network site licenses booklet enclosed in the upgrade box.
In order to correctly install and register Sibelius 5, you will need to be logged into your computer using a user account that has administrator privileges. Therefore we recommend that you install Sibelius 5, then after installing it, launch it and register it (if it is unregistered) as an administrator user. After having registered the software, we recommend that you run Sibelius (like all other applications) as a non-privileged user, to increase the security of your system. If youre the only person who uses your computer, or you dont know anything about user accounts or administrator privileges on your computer, you can safely ignore the above and install the software as usual.
* Take the Sibelius DVD-ROM out of its case, put it (labeled side up) in the DVD-ROM drive of the
computer, and close the drive slot. * Wait for a few seconds. An icon for the DVD, labeled Sibelius 5, should appear on your desktop, and a window should open automatically; if it doesnt, double-click the Sibelius 5 icon. * To install your upgrade, simply drag the Sibelius 5 icon off the DVD into the Applications folder on your Macs hard disk. Dont double-click the Sibelius 5 icon in the DVDs window, as Sibelius will not work properly when run directly from the DVD-ROM. * A progress bar will appear as the application is copied to your hard disk; when it disappears, Sibelius has been successfully installed. Before you run Sibelius 5 for the first time, you should now consider whether to install any other applications from the Sibelius 5 DVD-ROM.

your score. If your score already has parts (because you created it in Sibelius 4), then this option will be disabled. * Play repeats determines whether Sibelius should pay attention to any repeat barlines in the score. Normally this checkbox will be disabled, since the option has been switched on by default in all but the earliest versions of Sibelius, but if it is enabled, you should switch it on to ensure correct playback and display of bar numbers in the score. * Use same sounds as previous version (where possible) allows you to choose whether Sibelius should attempt to retain the same sound for each staff in your score as was used to play it back in whatever previous version of Sibelius it was last saved in. This option will only take effect if you have Sibelius 5-compatible sound sets installed for the devices you were using when you last saved the score. See Playback of existing scores below for more information about playback of existing scores. If you want your score to take advantage of other features newer than your score, which might include magnetic slurs and tuplets, Optical beams, Optical ties and Optical spacing, you can click House Style, which shows the dialog shown on the right. All of the options in the House Style dialog will change, and generally improve, the appearance of your score. However, if you switch them on, you will then have to check that none of the changes have had undesirable effects. Options are enabled or disabled depending on the version of Sibelius in which the score was last saved. Sibelius remembers which options you choose each time you use the dialog, so if you know that in general you always want to bring your scores right up-to-date to keep working on them in Sibelius 5, click Use All, which will enable all the options (even any that are not available for the particular score youre opening), and you wont need to visit the House Style dialog again in future. Conversely, if you know you never want Sibe-
Installation lius to change the appearance of your scores when you open them, click Use None, which disables all the options. For further details, b 8.10 Opening files from previous versions in Sibelius Reference.

Automatic changes

When you first open a score from an older version of Sibelius in Sibelius 5, it makes a few automatic changes, in particular:
* Sibelius creates a number of useful text styles in your score, if they were not already there
(including Plain text, Lyrics above staff, Lyrics (chorus), Time signatures (one staff only), Repeat (D.C./D.S./To Coda), Block Lyrics, Timecode, Hit points, Duration at end of score, Chord diagram fingering, etc.) * Sibelius creates a number of line styles in your score, if they were not already there (including all the rit./accel. lines) * If your score was created in Sibelius 2 or earlier, any coda and segno symbols are converted to system symbols when opened in Sibelius 5, so that the repeats can be played back properly. This will only affect the appearance of a score if more than one row of system objects is visible in each system (as configured in House Style > System Object Positions). * Sibelius converts staff type changes, transposition changes and text that triggers a change of playback sound (e.g. To Flute) to instrument changes see Instrument changes in existing scores below.

Playback

Sibelius 5 features a whole raft of improvements to playback. Your scores will sound better than ever played back with the new built-in sound library, Sibelius Sounds Essentials, featuring more than 150 high-quality sounds. You can also use any other VST or Audio Unit-compatible virtual instrument or effect directly within Sibelius, and control playback through the redesigned Mixer. In addition, the Play > Dictionary dialog has been redesigned and extended, allowing you greater control than ever over how your score plays back. Add to this a revolutionary new way of describing and choosing sounds called SoundWorld, and altogether Sibelius 5 represents a dramatic advance in playback.

Tutorial videos

For a general introduction to playback in Sibelius, choose Help > Tutorial Videos, then click 13 Playback. For an introduction to using Sibelius Sounds Essentials and Kontakt Player 2, try the 14 Sibelius Sounds and Kontakt Player 2 tutorial video.
Sibelius Sounds Essentials
Sibelius comes with Sibelius Sounds Essentials, a high-quality sound library consisting of a complete set of General MIDI sounds, together with carefully chosen instruments from Sibelius Sounds Rock and Pop Collection, the award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Marching Band and Garritan Jazz and Big Band, and Tapspaces Virtual Drumline. The result is a versatile collection of sounds well-suited for every genre of music. For more information, b 4.4 Sibelius Sounds Essentials in Sibelius Reference. If you like the sounds from Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Marching Band, Garritan Jazz and Big Band, Tapspace Virtual Drumline 2, and Sibelius Rock and Pop Collection that are included in Sibelius Sounds Essentials, you can purchase the full versions of these products direct from Sibelius or from your dealer. Choose Help > Sibelius Sounds for more information.

Kontakt Player 2

Sibelius now includes Kontakt Player 2, an enhanced version of the sample player from Native Instruments, replacing the previous version of Kontakt Player supplied with Sibelius 4 and Sibelius 3. It plays the sounds from Sibelius Sounds Essentials and many other sample libraries, including those in the Sibelius Sounds range, and those produced by Garritan, Tapspace and other vendors. Kontakt Player 2 allows up to 16 sounds to be loaded simultaneously, and more than one instance of Kontakt Player 2 can be used at once, allowing as many sounds as your computer can cope with. Kontakt Player 2 also includes a number of built-in effects, including reverb, compression, equalization (EQ), filters, and delays, which can be applied globally to all slots in the player to use less computer power. For more information on how to use Kontakt Player 2, b 4.4 Sibelius Sounds Essentials in Sibelius Reference.

Hairpins and trills

Hairpins now determine their end dynamics automatically, either by looking at the Expression text dynamic immediately following the right-hand end of the hairpin, or by increasing or decreasing the dynamic by one dynamic level (e.g. mf to f ) if no end dynamic is specified. 31
Whats new? Trills now play back with a diatonic interval either a half-step (semitone) or whole step (tone) as appropriate based on the current key signature by default. You can control the playback of individual hairpins and trills using new options on the Playback panel of Properties. For more information, b 4.2 Interpretation of your score and 5.14 Properties in Sibelius Reference.

SoundWorld

SoundWorld is a new standard developed by Sibelius Software for naming and classifying sound timbres. This replaces the messy patchwork of patch numbers and (often cryptic) names used by MIDI keyboards, sound modules and sound libraries to specify their sounds. Instead you can choose the sounds you want using standardized, user-friendly names. Because the names are independent of a particular playback device, Sibelius can play a score which was originally created for different devices than the ones in your system. Also, if a sound is not available in the current playback configuration Sibelius can intelligently find the best alternative and use that instead. It can also play instrumental techniques (such as slurs and accents) using specialized sounds if they are available, rather than just approximating them by changing duration or volume. SoundWorld refers to each sound using a structured name called a sound ID, such as woodwind.flutes.flute, woodwind.flutes.piccolo.flutter-tongue or strings.violin.ensemble.pizzicato. Notice how each sound ID usually starts with an instrument family then the instrument name, sometimes followed by playing techniques specific to that instrument. Sound IDs appear in Sibelius wherever you specify sounds. For example:
* Each instrument has a preferred sound ID, which you can change in House Style >

Edit Instruments

* The Mixer shows the sound ID of each staff in the score * Each notehead on a percussion staff has a preferred sound ID, which you can change by editing

Using Panorama with Focus on Staves
When you use View > Focus on Staves to look at just a couple of staves from your score, the layout in normal view can be a little odd due to the other staves missing; try switching on View > Panorama at the same time, which makes Focus on Staves considerably more convenient.
Opening scores in Panorama
When you save a score, Sibelius remembers whether or not Panorama was switched on, and when you re-open it later on, it will automatically switch on Panorama if required. You can tell Sibelius to always use Panorama or normal view instead if you prefer on the Files page of File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac). 40
b 2.10 Cues in Sibelius Reference.
Creating cues in parts is now the work of a moment. Simply copy the music you want to appear in the cue, and choose Edit > Paste As Cue. Sibelius 5 does the rest for you read on.

Paste as Cue

It only takes a moment to create a cue passage using Sibelius 5s new Edit > Paste as Cue feature:
* Make sure you are looking at the full score rather than one of the dynamic parts. Although you can use Edit > Paste as Cue in a dynamic part, its much more convenient to use it in the full
score, so that you can see the staff you are taking material from, and paste the cue into multiple instruments at the same time * Copy the music you want to use as a cue to the clipboard by selecting it, then choosing Edit > Copy (shortcut Ctrl+C or XC) * Select the bar rest or other rest(s) in the staff or staves on which you want the cue to appear, then choose Edit > Paste as Cue (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V or xzXV). If you select more than one staff, Sibelius will paste the cue onto all the selected staves using multicopy. Thats all there is to it! A number of useful things are done for you when pasting a cue passage:
* The copied music is pasted into the first unused voice, with all the notes and other markings * *
made cue-size The cue is hidden in the full score but is shown in the parts (though if you want to, you can tell Sibelius to show the cue in the full score as well) Any awkward transpositions (e.g. cueing a clarinet in A on a horn in F staff) are taken care of, and if necessary either a suitable clef or an octave line is added to ensure the cue is easily readable, according to your preferences The name of the cued instrument is written above the cue If the staff type (e.g. number of lines) of the cued instrument and the destination staff dont match, appropriate instrument changes are created at the start and end of the cue Particular markings (such as lyrics, dynamics, slurs and hairpins) are automatically included or excluded, according to your preferences The cue notes are set not to play back Suitable bar rests are added in an unused voice in both the full score and the parts, so that they look correct (though if you want to, you can tell Sibelius not to add bar rests in the parts).

About the only thing Sibelius doesnt do is decide which instrument you should use for the cue, although it can even suggest where cues should be added read on.
Suggest Cue Locations plug-in
When preparing parts for performance, one of the more time-consuming aspects is determining where cues would be most useful to the performers. You may want to add cues after a certain num41
Whats new? ber of bars rest, or after a certain length of time. Plug-ins > Other > Suggest Cue Locations can do this for you.

Check Cues plug-in

Any edits you make to the music in your score after cueing the parts may potentially lead to errors in the cues, because Sibelius doesnt automatically update the cue passages if the source staves from which they take their material are subsequently edited. However, a new plug-in is included that can check cues against the music from which they are taken and warn you if it finds any disparities; simply select the passage in question and choose Plug-ins > Proof-reading > Check Cues.

Paste as Cue preferences

Various options for determining exactly what happens when you do Edit > Paste as Cue are found on the Paste as Cue page of File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac). The Pitch of Cue options provide three alternatives for how Sibelius should resolve differences in range between the source and destination staves:
* Change clef if necessary adds a clef at the start of the pasted cue, if the clefs used by the source
and destination staves dont match. So if you paste a cue from, say, a cello staff onto a flute staff, Sibelius will create a bass clef at the start of the cue and restore the treble clef at the end. Note that these clef changes are only visible in the part. * Add octave line if necessary adds an octave line (up to two octaves up or down, i.e. 8va, 15ma, 8vb or 15mb) over the pasted cue if Sibelius has to transpose the cue by one or more octaves to ensure that it fits comfortably on the staff. * Neither will simply paste the cue into the clef of the destination staff without transposing the music by octaves. The Copy into Cue options allow you to choose whether or not Sibelius should include Slurs, Articulations, Dynamics, Lyrics and Technique text in the pasted cue. Its conventional for cue passages in parts to show bar rests in addition to the cue notes, as an extra visual indicator to the player that the notes are for informational purposes only, and not to be played. However, in some kinds of music, including jazz, its common for cues simply to be written in smaller notes without adding bar rests. Show bar rests with cue (in parts) allows you to choose which of these conventions to follow: when switched on (the default), the parts original bar rests are shown in addition to the cue notes; when switched off, only the cue notes themselves are shown. Again, in some kinds of music, commonly jazz, you sometimes see the word Play written after the cue, to remind the performer that she should now start playing again. Write Play after cue, switched off by default, does this. It is most useful if you switch off Show bar rests with cue (in parts). In most kinds of music its conventional for cues to be shown only in the parts, so Hide cues in full score is switched on by default. However, scores in some fields of music, such as musical theater, usually show cues in the full score, so switching this option off is useful in those situations.

New Engraving Rules for bar numbers
All options concerning the appearance and positioning of bar numbers are set on the Bar Numbers page of House Style > Engraving Rules, including the following new options:
* The new Count repeats option allows bar numbering to take repeat structures in a score into
account and display this in a variety of ways * To make bar numbers go below the bottom staff, you now only need to set the Below bottom staff option in the Selected staves list box * You can make bar numbers appear at user-defined intervals (e.g. every 8 bars, every 16 bars) * The new Hide at rehearsal marks option automatically hides bar numbers on barlines where rehearsal marks are present 46
* When bar numbers are set to be centered in the bar, bar number changes are now also centered

in the bar.

Go to Bar
Edit > Go To Bar is now more useful in scores containing multiple songs, movements or pieces with bar numbers reset to 1 at the start of each: if you repeatedly go to the same bar number, it will now select the next bar in the score that has the chosen bar number, allowing you to navigate usefully in scores containing bar number changes.

Page numbers

Sibelius 5 lets you renumber, change the format of or hide page numbers anywhere in a score. For example, you could number the introductory pages of your score i, ii, iii or a, b, c, with the music pages numbered 1, 2, 3., using the new Create > Other > Page Number Change feature. You can choose whether or not page numbers should be hidden or shown, and restart page numbers from any number in any format from any page in the score. Creating a page number change automatically creates a page break in the score. Page numbers can now be hidden or shown like other objects, using the options in Edit > Hide or Show. Hiding or showing the first page number in a page number change hides or shows just the first page number; hiding or showing any subsequent page number hides or shows all page numbers in that page number change. Also:
* Edit > Go To Page now allows you to go to a page number in any format. * New options on the Layout page of Multiple Part Appearance allow you to choose whether or

* Plug-ins > Other > Scales and Arpeggios has been improved such that scores produced by this
plug-in now create hidden key signature changes instead of visible ones, and also add double barlines between scales. Plug-ins > Proof-reading > Proof-read can now run the new Check Cues plug-in. Plug-ins > Text > Change Dynamics can change dynamics for both Helsinki Text and Reprise Text. Plug-ins > Text > Save Lyrics has been renamed as Export Lyrics, for consistency with other features in the program. Plug-ins > Text > Smarten Quotes no longer loses line breaks in multi-line text objects it processes to smarten the quotes within them.

Look and feel

If you are upgrading from Sibelius 4, the look and feel of Sibelius 5 will be immediately familiar, with only a couple of changes, allowing you to get back to work right away. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sibelius, there will be a few more changes to get used to. There are many improvements that will make working with the software quicker and more comfortable.

Toolbar

The toolbar now has the following controls:
New Scan Export Audio Undo Print Zoom Transposing Panorama score Focus on Staves Switch score/part Hide/show tool windows Reference

Current zoom

Current part
The only new button added since Sibelius 4 is for Panorama, just to the right of the zoom menu. The new group of buttons at the far right-hand side of the toolbar are for hiding and showing Sibeliuss eight floating tool windows, as follows:
Navigator Playback Ideas Video Hide Tool Windows

Keypad

Properties
These buttons correspond to the options in the Window menu, and all have keyboard shortcuts. The only change here is that there is no longer a button for Kontakt Player; in its place is a button for showing the new Ideas window.
Various menu items have been renamed slightly or moved to other menus. The most important changes since Sibelius 4 are:
* Layout > Instruments and Staves has been moved to Create > Instruments, but retains the
same shortcut I * Layout > Focus on Staves has been moved to View > Focus on Staves, but retains the same shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F or zXF * Input device options have moved from the Input Device page of Play > Playback and Input Devices to a new Input Devices page in File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac) * Window > Kontakt Player has been removed because Sibelius can now use any virtual instrument; you can show the new Kontakt Player 2 window (and other virtual instruments) via the redesigned Mixer window. Full details are in Appendix B: Menu changes on page 75, including changes to menus from earlier versions of Sibelius.

Other improvements and fixes
The other new features and improvements in Sibelius 5 are summarized below in alphabetical order. For more details, refer to the appropriate section of Sibelius Reference either in the new printed book (if you have purchased one) or on-screen by choosing Help > Sibelius Reference (shortcut F1 or X?).

Accidentals

When notes in two voices coincide in the bar, and one voice is cue-sized, accidentals on notes in the cue-sized voice will now always appear at the correct size.

Articulations

* You can now define the playback behavior of each articulation type on the new Articulations page of Play > Dictionary see Playback on page 29. * Articulations can now be flipped correctly to the other side of notes when cross-staff beaming is
used. * Moving notes between voices using Alt+2 or z2 etc. no longer causes articulations to be lost.

Bars and bar rests

New Edit > Delete Bar feature (shortcut Ctrl+Backspace or X-Delete) that deletes the selected bars.
New Adjust for cross-staff and between-note beams option on the Beams and Stems page of House Style > Engraving Rules, which fixes two problems: stems no longer appear on the wrong side of noteheads in cross-staff beaming; and stems are now drawn on the correct side of the notehead if you drag a beam between a very low and a very high note on the same staff. This option is on by default in new scores.

Breaks

* You can now insert blank pages anywhere with a couple of clicks, using the new Layout > Break > Special Page Break feature (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Return or xXReturn), then add text, graph* * * *
ics, etc. to produce title pages and performance instructions. Blank pages even work in parts too in fact, you can make any blank page or title page appear in the score, the parts, or both. Special page breaks also allow you to modify the page and staff margins on subsequent pages see Document Setup below. Layout marks (e.g. system break, page break, special page break icons) can now be selected by clicking them, so that they can be deleted. New Create > Title Page dialog, allowing you to create one or more blank pages at the start of the score and automatically add Title, Composer, etc. text to it.

Staves

* Create > Other > Staff Type Change has been removed from Sibelius. To change the staff type of an existing instrument, users should now use Create > Instrument Change to change to an
instrument with the appropriate staff type see Instrument changes on page 44.

Symbols

* The list of symbols in Create > Symbol now opens at the correct row when the dialog is
reopened, so that you can see the previously selected symbol. 67
* More than 180 new symbols, including early music ornaments, arrows, note clusters, extra con-
ductor symbols, and more see Reprise and other fonts on page 48.
* Word menus (which appear when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) during text
input) are now larger by default. You can also now adjust the font size of word menus on the Word Menus page of File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac). Text can now be set to be cue-sized by selecting it and hitting the cue-sized button on the Keypad, or switching on the Cue-sized checkbox in the General panel of Properties. Sibelius now includes a new kind of text alongside staff text and system text: blank page text. Blank page text can only be created on blank pages created using special page breaks. The Create > Text submenu has been reorganized, with all lyrics text styles now found in the new Create > Text > Lyrics submenu, and new blank page text styles found in the new Create > Text > Blank Page Text submenu. Text that repeats on multiple pages but which is set not to display on the first page (i.e. the page to which it is attached), such as Header (after first page), now appears on the page to which it is attached, but is always hidden on that first page. This makes it much easier to create this text (since you dont have to have both the page to which the text is attached and the page upon which the text is supposed to appear in view at once). The \$Time\ and \$FileDate\ wildcards now produce time in the correct local format (Mac only).

Time signatures

* Create > Time Signature now has a checkbox option Rewrite bars up to next time signa-
ture, on by default, instead of asking you after you click OK whether you want the following bars to be rewritten. * When creating a time signature with a passage selection, Sibelius automatically creates a second time signature at the end of the selection to revert to the original time signature for you.

Ties Timecode

Tremolos Triplets & other tuplets Tutorial videos Video View menu Window menu Worksheet Creator

Appendix B: Menu changes

The table below lists all the Sibelius 4 menu items that have been changed in Sibelius 5. Completely new menu items are not listed.
Sibelius 4 Sibelius 5 Removed; use Create > Other > Instrument Change instead. Removed; use Create > Other > Instrument Change instead. Removed. Playback device options now in Play > Playback Devices; input device options now on Input Devices page of File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac) Removed. Removed.
Create > Other > Staff Type Change Create > Other > Transposition Change Play > Substitute Devices Play > Playback and Input Devices
Play > Edit Sound Sets Play > Garritan Personal Orchestra Options Layout > Focus on Staves Layout > Instrument and Staves House Style > Edit Staff Types Window > Kontakt Player
View > Focus on Staves Create > Instruments
Removed; use House Style > Edit Instruments instead. Removed; show and hide virtual instrument windows via the Mixer instead.
Main menu changes from Sibelius 3 to Sibelius 4:
* Sibelius 4 now has a single multi-page File > Preferences dialog (in the Sibelius menu on Mac), combining a number of other dialogs from Sibelius 3, including View > Smoothing and View >
Textures, as well as various new options
* All operations for exporting files e.g. for saving in earlier versions of Sibelius, or as a MIDI file, or a graphics file, and so on are done via the File > Export submenu, instead of via File > Save As * House Style > Use Multirests has been moved into the Layout > Auto Layout dialog, but the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+M or xXM still works.
Main menu changes from Sibelius 2 to Sibelius 3:
* The list of files youve worked on recently has now been moved to the Files > Open Recent Files
submenu, and has been increased to 10 files * The Create menu has been simplified, with the less-often used items now moved to the Create > Other submenu. Main menu changes from Sibelius 1.x to Sibelius 2:
* Flexi-time is now in the Notes menu * Espressivo, Swing and Reverb are in the Play > Performance dialog * Several items from the View menu are now in the Window menu * New House Style menu from which you can edit all aspects of a scores house style. The former
House Style dialog is now called Engraving Rules.
Appendix C: Keyboard shortcuts
Sibelius 5 has a number of new shortcuts, and a few changes to existing shortcuts, which are described below.

New keyboard shortcuts

The table below lists all the new keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius 5:
Function Windows shortcut Mac shortcut
Edit > Capture Idea Edit > Paste as Cue Edit > Select > Select Bars Edit > Delete Bars View > Panorama Layout > Break > Special Page Break Window > Ideas

Sibelius 5 Quick-Start Guide
Setting up Sibelius 2 On-screen Icons & Floating Windows in Sibelius. 3 Starting a Score in Sibelius... 4 Entering Notes.... 5 Adding Text & Markings.... 6 Using Dynamic Parts.8 Altering the Layout of Your Score... 9 Introduction to the Arrange Feature11 Formatting for Worksheets, Hand-Outs and Tests.12 Making the most of plug-ins.14 Music Scanning Tips and Hints15 Downloading MIDI Files from the Web.17 Basic Shortcuts.19 Creating Scores for the Internet Using Scorch.21 Playback of scores, using the sounds library, and burning CDs.23 Adding Video/MP3 files into your scores.25 New features in version 5.26
Robin Hodson, Eastern Region Manager, Sibelius USA rhodson@sibelius.com, or 0936 This edition: July 2007

Setting up Sibelius

In this section, youll ensure that the program is set up the way you like to use it. 1. Sound/playback settings when you first run Sibelius, these will most likely appear. If you want to check what device is playing your sounds, go to Play>Playback Devices, and you can choose a playback configuration. This includes whether you will use Sibelius onboard sounds (not available in the demo version). There is a Default configuration chosen when you start using Sibelius, and this may be the easiest choice at first. You can also switch on the Sibelius Essentials library from here, and you can make more advanced choices about playback. Please read additional documentation on using sounds with Sibelius, or turn to the final page of this quick start guide for more information. these settings are controlled from the 2. MIDI settings (if you have a MIDI keyboard) Preferences window (Windows users go to: File>Preferences>Input Devices, or Mac users, go to: Sibelius>Preferences>Input Devices). Check that Sibelius can see your MIDI keyboard before you create a song. If you dont have a MIDI keyboard, dont worry: you can still enter notes and playback your songs. 3. Screen layout once you start creating a song (see page 4) there will be choices of how you want the screen to look. You can turn on or off any of the floating windows on the screen, and you can zoom in and out of your score or turn on PANORAMIC view. See the next page of this guide. 4. Saving scores Please be careful to remember WHERE you save scores in your computers hard drive (NB the free demo of Sibelius does not save files). On windows they are typically saved in My Documents>Scores on your computer, but you can choose instead to create your own folder, perhaps on the DESKTOP, where you typically save your scores. You can also SEARCH for a score you might have lost in your hard drive by going to START>Search (windows users), and typing *.sib in the search box that finds ALL the Sibelius files on your hard drive. Mac users, type Command + F once you have hidden Sibelius: this launches the Find feature to allow you to search for files on your Mac. 5. Windows, Menus and shortcuts Sibelius is just like any other software program: you can open several files at once, just like you can in MS Word or Excel: go to the window menu to see which score youre looking at or working on. Sibelius menus are along the top of the screen. The most important menu is the CREATE menu. Sibelius also uses shortcuts if you prefer not to use your mouse to do things: please refer to later on in this guide, where all the main shortcuts are listed. Common shortcuts (used by every other program) are usually supported by Sibelius, like Control P to print (on Mac this is Apple P or Command P), as well as Control S to save, and so on. Throughout this guide, important shortcuts worth using will be detailed. 6. Tutorial Videos Purchased versions of Sibelius v5 have excellent quick start videos that you can watch before trying anything: youll find these in the Quick Start Dialog box that should open whenever you launch Sibelius. 7. Chat Page/Tech support Go to www.sibelius.com/community to join our chat page and post questions (free, and open 24/7). Technical support is available by calling 2101. 8. Extra help resources This quick start guide and other helpful guides can be downloaded for free by visiting www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/hintsandtips. 9. Training Sibelius USA offers a lot of different training courses to users and prospective users: contact us for more details: 0600.

Basic Note entry A (Click notes into your score with a mouse)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Press escape key (ESC) Choose note value on keypad (box in bottom right of screen) with mouse Click anywhere on any measure with mouse keep clicking to add lots of notes Use arrow keys to change pitches of any blue notes just added Type Control + z (Command + z) if you make a mistake Press ESC when done Press escape key (ESC) Select empty measure with mouse Type n, then choose note value on keypad (box in bottom right of screen) Type a, b, c, d, e, f or g on computer keyboard (or 0 on the number pad for rests) Use Control (Command) + arrow up or down to change octave of note Press ESC when done
Basic Note entry B (Type notes into your score using computer keys)
Basic Note entry C (Step time entry with a MIDI keyboard)
1. Press escape key (ESC) 2. Select empty measure with mouse 3. Type n, then choose note value (on keypad on screen) with mouse or use numeric keypad on right of computer keyboard to select note value on screen 4. Play pitches on MIDI keyboard type zero on number pad for rests also 5. Press ESC when done Check/change your recording options first: go to Notes>Flexitime options Press escape key (ESC) Select empty measure with mouse Touch the round red Record button or Control-Shift F (Command-Shift F) Play live, but listen carefully to the metronome Press ESC to stop recording Type Control-Z (Command-Z) to undo recording
Basic Note entry D (Live recording with a MIDI keyboard)

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Extra hints
1. Use the r key to repeat selected notes/measures/passages 2. Use the numbers along the top of the computers keyboard to add pitches to selected notes/measures/passages. Shift + a number adds pitches BELOW existing notes 3. To paste anything, select an object, note, measure or passage, move your mouse to a destination place, then Press Alt (option) + click with mouse to paste (windows users can click both sides of mouse button SIMULTANEOUSLY to paste anything) 4. To change length of selected note(s), choose a different note value on the keypad 5. Dont forget that the keypad on the screen can also be accessed from the NUMERIC KEYPAD on your computers keyboard: laptop users, type Function J K L U I or O 6. For Voice 2 notes, type n and choose a note value on keypad, then press the 2 at the bottom of the keypad on screen (or use shortcut Alt-2 on main computer keyboard), then enter notes: they will be GREEN. You can also select an existing note or notes and change its voice the same way. All voices are color coded. Rarely use voices 3 and 4, since theyre hard to read clearly in a score!!

Adding Text & Markings using Sibelius
Mac shortcuts are given in italics on this sheet. For ALL steps, press the ESCAPE key (ESC) on the computers keyboard before and after every action. 1. Slurs: Select a note where you want to add a slur, then type s. Use the spacebar to extend the slur. Use shift-spacebar to reduce the length of the slur. Type x to flip a selected slur (also works for notes). You can also drag the slur manually with your mouse to reposition the arc. 2. Crescendos & Decrescendos (Hairpins): Select a note where you want the crescendo (hairpin) to start, and type h. Use the spacebar to extend the hairpin, and shift-spacebar if you go too far. For decrescendos, use Shift-h as the shortcut instead. Use your mouse or arrow keys to reposition the hairpin. They have handles on either end which can also be adjusted. You can also adjust the aperture of hairpins by typing Control-Shift E (Command-Shift E), choosing the Lines tab and changing the options on the screen. 3. Accents, Staccatos and Tenutos: If you need to mark these into your score, select the note (or notes) where you want them, and add them using the first keypad layout screen (the keypad usually lives in the bottom right of your computer screen). They play back. Marcatos and other markings are on page 4 of the keypads five screens. 4. Ties: Dont confuse them with slurs! To add them, select a note or notes, and use the tie on the first keypad layout screen. Triplets: add these by first adding an eighth note in the score, then typing Control-3 (near the w key) or Command-3. Then click or type/play in the remaining notes. For other tuplets like quintuplets, type Control-5 etc (Command5). For complex tuplets, (like 15 in the time of 16), go to Create>Tuplet, and specify what you want there. 5. Re-beaming notes: Use the third keypad layout screen to change the beaming of notes. Dont forget to select the notes you wish to rebeam first. 6. String markings/Pauses/Fermatas: These can be found on the fourth keypad layout screen. Follow the same steps as in 3, 4 or 5 above. 7. Trills: Select a note where you want a trill to appear, then type L (Lines menu in Sibelius). Choose a trill from the list on the left hand side that appears, then type OK. Use the spacebar to extend the length of the trill if you need. Use the properties box in Sibelius to alter the playback of trills. 8. Ottavas, Glissandi and Pedal Markings, etc: These can all be found and added using exactly the same method as in step 7 above. 9. Rits, Ralls, Accelerandos, etc: type ESC, then type L (lines menu) and choose what you need from the right hand column. Draw them into your score by pressing and holding your mouse from left to right. Note that these markings appear at the top of systems, not on individual staffs in your score (but they will appear in the parts).

10. Repeat Bars, First & Second Time Bars and Rehearsal Marks: For repeat bars, select barline, then go to Create>Barline and choose what you want. For first and second time bars (as with step 9 above), use the Lines menu and draw the first/second time bars into your score. For rehearsal marks, select a barline, then use Control-R (Command-R). These can be copied in the normal way by Alt-Clicking them (Option-click). You can adjust the style of rehearsal marks (letters or numbers etc), by going to Control-Shift E (Command-Shift E) and choosing the Rehearsal Marks tab. 11. Coloring part of your score: Sibelius allows you to do this. Type ESC, then select an object, note or anything in the score; type Control-J (Command-J), and choose what color youd like for your objects. To delete the coloring, select the colored object, and choose Layout>Reset Design (Control-Shift D or Command-Shift D). 12. Symbols & Pictures: you can also insert pictures of anything in your score. Type z for the symbols menu, and choose/add them, or go to Create>Graphic, and insert a TIFF file of any other image in your score. TIFFs are resizable once on the screen, and we provide users with a folder called Graphic Files with many images already created. Import your own TIFF files into Sibelius if you wish. 13. Dynamic markings and copying them: Select a note where you want the dynamic, and type Control-E (Command-E). Type Control (Command) + m, f, pp etc. Right click (Control-Click) to get a sub-menu if you prefer. Once on the screen, dynamics can be moved and copied into their perfect position by using ShiftAlt-click (shift-option-click). You can also copy a dynamic marking to multiple locations by selecting the dynamic to copy (it turns purple), typing Control-C (Command-C), then selecting all the notes where you want the dynamic copied. Finally type Control-V (Command-V) to multi-copy. 14. Regular Text: Select note and type Control-T (Command-T). Start typing when you see the flashing cursor (using Enter or Return for a second line of text like a hymn verse). There is a sub menu also available (see step 13 above). 15. Lyrics: Select note and type Control-L (Command-L). Start typing when you see the flashing cursor. Use the hyphen key (minus key) to hyphenate words, and type the spacebar at the end of every word. If you want lots of notes on one syllable in the middle of a word, type the hyphen key multiple times. If you want lots of notes at the end of a word, type the spacebar multiple times. To edit lyrics, double click on them. 16. Second verses of Lyrics, copying and editing lyrics: for second verses, select note, type Control-Alt L (Command-Opt L) and follow steps as in 15 above. To copy lyrics from one staff to another, triple-click on the staff with lyrics in it, then click on Edit>Filter>Lyrics. Lyrics will all be highlighted. Copy lyrics by Alt-Clicking (Optionclick), as you would with notes. To edit the position of lyrics on a staff, select the passage with lyrics in it (Hint: triple click selects the whole staff), then use Edit>Filter>Lyrics to find the lyrics (they should turn blue), and use the up or down arrows to adjust their position. To alter the font or size of lyrics (either individually or globally) follow step 20 below. 17. Chord symbols: Select a note and type Control-K (Command-K). Right-click (Controlclick) for a sub-menu if you need it. Type the chord you need, then use the spacebar to advance to the next note, and repeat the steps. There is also a plug-in in Sibelius (Plug7

Altering the Layout of your Score
Mac shortcuts are given in italics on this sheet. For ALL steps, press the ESCAPE key (ESC) on the computers keyboard before and after every action. 1. Automatic Layout: Sibelius will always try to lay your score out nicely without you having to intervene too much. Occasionally, though, youll want to know how to make manual changes to scores, and also parts. 2. Document set-up screen: type Control-D (Command-D) to open this important screen where you can make global changes to the paper size, orientation, margins and size of your music. This is always a good place to start, and you can jump from page to page on this screen to see the affect of any changes you make. 3. If you need to force a system or page break in your score (particularly for parts, but also occasionally for visual reasons), select the barline where you want the system to change, and type Enter (Return) for a system break and Control-Enter (Command-Return) for a page break. You can control the look of parts in your score by going to Layout>Auto Layout. 4. Locking the format entirely. Occasionally you might want to lock all the measures in place. Do this by typing Control-A (Command-A) to select the whole score, then go to Plug-ins>Other, and choose Make Layout Uniform. Choose exactly how many measures and systems will be on each page, but be careful to choose wisely! To unlock the format, type Control-A (Command-A), then Control-Shift U (Command-Shift U). This is commonly needed when you first open a MIDI file, a scanned image or a Finale file in Sibelius. 5. Fitting all the music on a certain number of pages. Occasionally, youll be left with a small amount of music left over. Follow step 2 to fix this. If you need to force more measures into one system than Sibelius would like to do, select the measures in question (so you get a blue box around all of them), then go to Layout>Format>Make into System, or Shift-Alt M (Shift-Option M). 6. Adding or deleting measures. To add measures to the end of your score, type ControlB (Command-B). To add individual measures elsewhere, go to Create>Bar, choose single or other, and follow the steps. To delete unwanted measures, perhaps at the end of your score, select the ones you wish to remove first, then type Control-Delete (Command-Delete). 7. To hide measures on instruments when they are not playing, double click on a staff where an instrument isnt playing and type delete. This HIDES the staff for that particular line (and will reformat your score). To do this far more globally, select the passage around which youd like to hide staffs, or type Control-A (Command-A) to select the whole score, go to Layout>Hide Empty Staves. Do the same to show empty staves, and Sibelius will ask you which ones youd like to show. 8. To change the bar numbers of your score (i.e. start at a strange or offset number), go to Create>Other>Bar number change, choose the new number, and click on the score

Shift-Alt (Option) + down/up arrow will move that staff independently of every other staff. Control-Alt (Command-Option) + down/up arrow will move that staff and all the others below it. Try not to drag staffs with your mouse. 19. If you need to make minor adjustments to objects and staffs in your score, you might want to turn on Rulers in your score (dont worry, they dont print), by going to the View menu, and youll see you can choose selection, object or staff rulers to turn on/off. You can also use the View menu to turn on various other things like Attachment, Breaks & Locks, and Hidden Objects. 20. To Hide something in your score (like notes or text), select the note or text and type Control-Shift H (Command-Shift H). Then type ESC. The notes are hidden but still play back. To show them again later, select the measure where they are hidden and use the same shortcut. You can also hide whole staves full of music (excellent for creating backing tracks that you dont want to see in your score, or for musical tests youre creating for kids, with hidden intervals etc). Do this by selecting the staves you DO want to see: use Control-click (Command-click) on the first measure of these instruments. Then press the Focus on staves icon at the top of the screen (to the right of the zoom window). The other staves are now effectively hidden, but they still play back! Use the same shortcut to undo this action.
Introduction to the Arrange Feature
1. You should be able to take any music and re-arrange it for more or fewer staves using this feature. It works like an intelligent copy and paste function, and is a big timesaver. First of all, choose some music to arrange (perhaps a simple hymn tune or chorale). Or download a MIDI file from the Internet and open it in Sibelius. 2. Now select the music youd like to arrange: Control (Command) A chooses everything, if thats what you want to do. 3. COPY the notes to the computers memory (Control or Command C). 4. START a new score with the staves you want already chosen, or add new staves into the score you currently have open: these instruments will be the ones who will play the music. Make sure the key and time signature in your new score is the same as your source material in your old score. 5. Now select the FIRST measure of all of your DESTINATION staves (the empty staves that youd like to play the music). Hint: Control (Command)-clicking on the first measure will select all the staves in your empty new score. 6. Launch the arrange feature: go to Notes>Arrange or type Control-Shift V (CommandShift V). A long list of styles will appear: experiment with different styles. The most basic choices are near the top (like Explode or Standard Arrangement. Each will give you different results. Note there is also an option to create a Piano reduction. 7. Dont be afraid to experiment with this, and consult the user guide for more detailed uses of this important feature.
Formatting for Worksheets, Handouts and Tests

11. To break a system half way along a line of music, select a barline (it turns purple), and go to Layout>Break>Split System. You can drag the space between the two bits of music by pressing and hold your mouse just to the left of the new clef (where theres an invisible barline). Drag to the right to widen the gap. 12. You can indent any system of music at the beginning of the line (on the left hand side) by clicking just where the stave begins. An invisible barline appears just before the clef, which you can drag to the right to indent your music. 13. To indent music from the right hand side of the paper, click to the right of the last barline on a system (in the margin), and a small purple handle should appear. You can drag this handle to the left or use the arrow keys to adjust the indentation. 14. Enter some quarter notes all on the note b (3rd line up), in a measure somewhere in your score. (Hint: enter just one note, then use the r key to repeat that note lots of times). Then press ESC. To change the noteheads of these notes, select the measure(s) with the notes in them. Then hold down Shift-Alt (Shift-Option) and use the numbers running along the top of your computers keyboard. 1 is cross noteheads, 2 is diamond noteheads, and so on. There are actually 25 noteheads available: please refer to the on-screen properties box, or our complete user guide. 15. Some of Sibelius plug-ins will also help you in creating worksheets. You can, for example add the note names above notes in your score. Select some notes or measures, and go to Plug-ins>Text and choose add note names. Click OK when you see the dialog box that appears. It will name the notes. Go back to Plug-ins and have a look at all the many other plug-ins, such as add chord symbols, add tonic sol fa, add string fingering and so on. See next page for more details about working with Sibelius many plug-ins. 16. Some worksheets require you to change the size of the music. This is done at any stage by typing Control-D (Command-D). A dialog box appears where you can alter lots of things, including staff size. Ideal for music for younger children. 17. You can also put note names inside noteheads in scores for younger children or beginners. Select your notes, and go to Plug-ins>Other>Add Note Names to Noteheads, and run this plug-in. 18. You can add text into your score at any point (for exam questions etc) by selecting a note near where youd like text, typing Control-T (Command-T), and then typing words. Press ESC when youre done, and you can drag the text anywhere you like (or copy it some place else in the score). Hint: to copy anything in Sibelius, select the text or notes, move your mouse to where you want it copied, and typing Alt-click (Option-click) to paste, or (windows) click both sides of the mouse button simultaneously. 19. If you just need to create some blank manuscript paper for kids to write their answers in, remember that these are provided as sample scores in the worksheet creator. You can always remove the bar rests in your score manually, though, by going to House Style>Engraving Rules, choosing the Bar Rests tab, and unchecking the box that says show bar rests.

20. You can add color or pictures into your scores, using various methods. Select some music in your score, then type Control-J (Command-J), and color it in anyway you like! Theres also the facility to view the tonality of any score by going to View>Note Colors>Pitch Spectrum. Theres also a plug-in for converting your score to BOOMWHACKERS colors. You can insert a picture of anything into your score, as long as it has the TIFF file format. Sibelius supplies you with lots of pictures already. These are inside the folder called Graphic Files (not supplied with the demo version of Sibelius). Once pictures are on the score, they can be resized (click the handle in the bottom right), moved, or copied in the same way as any other object. 21. You can also export music into a word document really easily by selecting the music first, then typing Alt-G (Option-G). A dotted box will appear around the notes. Copy this to your clipboard (Control-C or Command-C). Then launch your word processing program, and simply type Control-V (Command-V) to paste! Resize the graphic in word by clicking on it and dragging the bottom right hand corner.
Making the most of Sibelius plug-ins
1. Please explore the many plug-ins inside the program: these are FREE but are sometimes updated on our website. One great thing about them is that you can always UNDO them (using Control-Z or Command-Z). Think of a plug-in as something in Sibelius that can perform an extra task on your scores and songs. 2. Check out the families into which the plug-ins are placed: Composing Tools has several useful ones like Add drum pattern and Add simple harmony, with many choices. Text has indispensable ones like Add Chord Symbols and Add Note Names. Notes and Rests has Halve and Double Note Values, Other has Add Note Names to Noteheads (great for younger children), Make Layout Uniform and Scales and Arpeggios, and there are many others. 3. Usually, you just select the passage or note where you want the plug-in to apply, and run the plug-in. Remember that Control-A (Command-A) selects the whole score. 4. You can edit plug-ins and even write your own plug-ins, but please check with our complete documentation if you want to do that! 5. If you feel were missing a plug-in, or theres something youd really like to automate, please ask us: maybe we can create a new plug-in that does just that: most of our new plug-ins over the years have come from user requests!

Music Scanning Hints & Tips
Here are some hints on the scanning process, using Photoscore version 5. Important note: Photoscore regularly updates its software. You can usually download the latest mini update for FREE, but there is a charge to move to the latest version. Just visit the user area of the Sibelius or Neuratron websites: www.sibelius.com or www.neuratron.com. Note that there are actually two versions of Photoscore: Photoscore LITE comes free with Sibelius, and reads notes, clefs keys, time signatures and all the basics. Photoscore ULTIMATE reads text too, as well as articulations and more complex music Heres some advice about the SCANNING process: 1. Use any scanner: I recommend something like the Canon LIDE slimline scanner series 2. Scan the actual music using the software that came with your scanner (no need to use Sibelius or Photoscore). You can even scan on a different computer. 3. Scan at 300dpi (or maybe 200 or 400dpi if need be) 4. Scan in GRAYSCALE (sometimes called shades of gray) 5. Create a folder on your computer called My scanned music, where you put all the scans you make, as well as archive them or delete them) 6. Save the scans as BITMAPS (Windows users) or TIFF files (Mac users) If your source material is a PDF file, please bear in mind that Photoscore Ultimate can read pdf files directly: no need to print them out and scan them first. Heres some advice about the RECOGNITION process, once youve done the scanning (sometimes called OCR, or Optical character recognition): 1. Start Photoscore, and open the image you previously scanned, using Control-O (Command-O). Photoscore will spend a few seconds adjusting the image, making sure the music is correctly aligned, and that it can see the clefs, systems and notes etc. You should then see the music displayed in Photoscore. Dont worry if it looks a bit grainy! 2. Adjust the horizontal position of any staff if necessary, by clicking on the staffs. The staff will go RED and handles will appear, which you can manipulate with the mouse. There is NO need to do this if the staffs are already purple. Also note that the systems will be marked in RED down the left hand side. 3. Press the Read page button at the top of the screen, and youll get a menu asking what things on the score youd like to be recognized. With Photoscore Lite, most options are grayed out, except for VOICES, which is an important setting to choose correctly. With Photoscore Ultimate, you have more choices at this stage: try choosing different settings, to see what works best: for example, you may want to turn off text recognition and add the text later, when in Sibelius. When youre ready, click OK. 4. The optical character recognition process will start. This may take a few seconds, depending on the complexity of the score. 5. The Edit screen then appears, and this is when you check the accuracy of the recognition. The original picture you scanned will be at the top of the screen, and further down the page will be Photoscores rendition of it. Its important at this stage to move

printed out and scanned into Sibelius via Photoscore, but youll need a copy of Encore Software to do this (or to save the Encore file as a MIDI file). 3. To download a MIDI file, follow these steps: Minimize/ Hide Sibelius and go to www.prs.net using your web browser. Join the site (FREE). Find a link to the file you wish to download. It should usually be underlined. Make sure it is a MIDI file. Do NOT click on the link directly, as that will simply make the MIDI file play: why not download it instead? 4. Mac users: Control-Click on the link, and choose "save this link as" or "download link to disc". Then choose a location inside your computer of where to save the file. Windows users: right click on the link, and choose "Save target as" or whatever the similar wording to this message is in your operating system. Then choose a location inside your computer where to save the file. 5. Thats how to download ANYTHING from the web (follow those steps if you ever need to download pictures or anything else you find online, such as applications, updates and files). 6. Remember the name of the file and where you saved it! It should have a file extension ending in.MID. 7. Minimize/Hide your web browser, go back to Sibelius, and open the file using Control-O (Command-O). Find the file and click OPEN. A dialog box appears with various options inside it. Please explore these BEFORE you open the MIDI file, as you can actually quantize the MIDI file (i.e. clean up the timing) before it comes into Sibelius. You can also choose whether to show metronome marks in the downloaded file etc. 8. The MIDI file should now open in Sibelius (and you can choose to save it as a Sibelius file). You can now PLAY it back, or TRANSPOSE it, or RE-ARRANGE the file (or perhaps run one of the superb plug-ins on the file to mark it up for kids to use). Please see all other guidance notes on these issues! 9. If you get a message like an instrument could not be identified in the score, that is because Sibelius isnt sure what sound to use for that staff. Generally speaking, the best thing to do at that point is to ADD another instrument into the score, then copy the notes from the ???staff into the new staff, then DELETE the ??? staff. 10. Formatting the MIDI file is also crucial. Always do the following when youve first opened a MIDI file: UNLOCK the format of the MIDI file, by typing Control-A, then Control-Shift U (Command-A, then Command-Shift U). Sibelius also has a habit of HIDING empty or unused staffs in the MIDI file. To SHOW all the staffs, do the following: Type Control-A (Command-A), then go to Layout>Show Empty Staffs, and show them all in the score. You can always hide them again later.

SOME BASIC SHORTCUTS IN SIBELIUS 5 (Mac shortcuts in italics)
Escape key (ESC): stops Sibelius doing anything, and puts it to sleep! Single click: select something (note, measure, text etc) Double click on a staff: selects a line of music for one instrument Triple click on a staff: selects a staff/instrument for the whole score Enter (return) key (in middle of computer keyboard): respells enharmonically (if a note is selected), edits text (if text is selected), or forces a system break (if a barline is selected) A the note a (shift + a to add an a to an existing selected note) B the note b (shift + b to add a b to an existing selected note) C the note c (shift + c to add a c to an existing selected note) D the note d (shift + d to add a d to an existing selected note) E the note e (shift + e to add an e to an existing selected note) F the note f (shift + f to add an f to an existing selected note) the note g (shift + g to add a g to an existing selected note) G H crescendo (shift + h for a decrescendo) - use spacebar to extend them I instruments menu add instruments to your score K key signatures add a key signature to your score L lines menu (includes trills, first/second time bars, rits, accels) mixer (type m again to close Mixer) adjust volume levels and sounds M N Begin note entry (if a measure is selected) P Play your score also use the SPACEBAR (ESC or the spacebar to stop playing a score) Q clefs change clefs of existing staffs, or insert clef changes repeat something selected (single notes or passages/pages of notes) R S slurs use space bar to extend them (shift + spacebar if the slur extends too far) T time signature add a time signature to your score W flip between full score and part (if a measure is selected) X flip a selected note or slur Z symbols menu (includes pictures of lots of things but symbols do NOT play back) 0 on keypad enters a rest of whatever note value is selected 1 on keypad thirty-second note 2 on keypad sixteenth note 3 on keypad eighth note 4 on keypad quarter note 5 on keypad half note 6 on keypad whole note 7 on keypad adds a natural to a selected note 8 on keypad adds a sharp to a selected note 9 on keypad adds a flat to a selected note 3 on main computer keyboard add third above selected note 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 on main computer keyboard add fourth, fifth, sixth etc above selected note Shift +3 on main computer keyboard add third below selected note Shift +4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 on main computer keyboard add fourth, fifth, sixth etc below selected note Alt (option) + click pastes whatever is selected (or click both sides of mouse) Alt (option)+ 2,3,4 (above W key, not on keypad) changes voice of note to voice 2, 3 or 4 Control + Shift + Alt (Command + Shift + Option) 1, 2, 3 or 4 select voice 1,2, 3 or 4 Control (command) A select everything in your score Control (command) B add blank measure to the end of score Control (command) C copy to clipboard (for arrange feature primarily) Control (command) D document setup screen for resizing music/changing margins etc Control (command) E add a dynamic to a selected note (right click or Ctrl Click for sub-menu) Control (command) K add chord symbol above a selected note (theres a plug-in to do this also) Control (command) L add lyrics to a selected note (right click or Ctrl Click for sub-menu) Control (command) N start a new score Control (command) O open an existing score Control (command) P print Control (command) Q close down Sibelius entirely Control (command) R add rehearsal mark above selected note/measure Control (command) S save

add text to a selected note (right click or Ctrl Click for sub-menu) close your score redo last action (if youve undone it) undo last action (type multiple times to undo lots!) focus on a stave thats selected (i.e. turn off everything else) go to a specific bar in your score open or close Keypad open or close Mixer (also just use m) open or close Navigator open or close Kontakt Player open or close the Properties box open or close the Parts dialog box add a tempo mark (right click or Ctrl Click for sub-menu) open or close the Video window open or close ALL tool windows in use select whole line of lyrics (if one word is already selected) add a measure after what is currently selected record (escape to stop) go to a specific page of your score Hide whatever is selected (the same shortcut will also show whats hidden) Reset note spacing for selected notes or score recording options turn score into transposing score (or vice versa) make score get bigger make score get smaller add selected measure(s) to IDEAS library switch to PANORAMA view chord diagram (guitar frame) moves a selected note up in pitch (or moves text) moves a selected note down in pitch (or moves text) moves selected note(s) up an octave moves selected note(s) down an octave moves to previous note if note is selected (or moves text) moves to next note if note is selected (or moves text) select the first note or rest in a score go back/forward a page or display screen go up/down the page of music Control (command)-A (select score), then Shift-T (transpose) Control (command)-A (select score), then Control (command)-C (copy score), then Control (command)-N (start new score), then Control (command)-click on first measure of new score, then Control (command)-Shift V (activate the arrange feature) Shift-Alt (option) + right arrow make a selected note or measure get wider Shift-Alt (option) + left arrow make a selected note or measure get narrower Shift-Alt (option) + up arrow move an individual staff up Shift-Alt (option) + down arrow move an individual staff down Control-Alt (command-option) + down arrow moves selected staff and rest of score down
Control (command) T Control (command) W Control (command) Y Control (command) Z Control-Alt (command-option) F Control-Alt (command-option) G Control-Alt (command-option) K Control-Alt (command-option) M Control-Alt (command-option) N Control-Alt (command-option) O Control-Alt (command-option) P Control-Alt (command-option) R Control-Alt (command-option) T Control-Alt (command-option) V Control-Alt (command-option) X Control (command)-Shift A Control (command)-Shift B Control (command)-Shift F Control (command)-Shift G Control (command)-Shift H Control (command)-Shift N Control (command)-Shift O Control (command)-Shift T Control (command) and + key Control (command) and key Shift-I Shift-P Shift-K Up arrow key Down arrow key Control (command) + up arrow Control (command) + down arrow Left arrow key Right arrow key TAB key HOME/END keys PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN keys To transpose music To arrange music

make the music much bigger), so that when people view your score on the web, it will be whatever size and layout you like. This is an important consideration. 7. Minimize Sibelius, and go to the folder you created. There should in fact be TWO versions of the file you just saved: one that looks like a Sibelius file (dont open that), and one that looks like a web page (if you use Explorer, it will have a big E icon): open that one. It will launch your web browser (Explorer, Safari etc), and you should be able to see the music now in its web form. 8. If you dont see any music, and you get the following message: If you can'see the t score, get the Sibelius Scorch plug-in here, follow the steps and click the link to go online and download Scorch from our web site. Youll then be able to see the music, press play, transpose, change the speed, turn the page and so on. This is the same message that any visitor would get too. Once you have downloaded Scorch, the world of viewing scores on the web is totally opened to you. There are literally thousands of Scorch web pages out there, since Sibelius users all over the world have been generating them since 1998! The controls that appear at the top of every Scorch file look like this:
1. Page navigation 2. Changes which device you use for playback. 3. Playback controls and tempo slider. Click play button to play from the start, or click on the score to play from that point or stop. 4. Change key 5. Scorch information and updates If you allowed saving and printing of your web pages, thered also be save and print buttons! Think of the possibilities if youre in education, with distance learning using Scorch technology. This technology is much more powerful than using graphics or even audio files (mp3) or MIDI files, since theres so much flexibility! Finally, where can you put your Scorch files, once youve created them? Theres at least three places: 1. You can email the Scorch files to people (make sure you also email the Sibelius file at the same time). People receiving your email can click on the web page version, download Scorch and then get started. Use this method if you want to send out updates to a score youre composing, but you know that your performers arent using Sibelius. 2. You can place Scorch web pages on any web site: just talk to the webmaster in your school or college, or whoever you use to maintain your web pages 3. Create your own free webpage at www.sibeliusmusic.com. Its easy: sign up and start submitting your music right away. If you want to sell your music (using an e-commerce system), www.sibeliusmusic.com can also help. There are already 70,000 scores on that site, many of them free, so please start today! If you want to have a look at a sample of what your web page would look like, visit http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/robinhodson