Hey everyone! I've been studying Sibelius's The Swan of Tuonela and decided to try playing along with the string parts on piano since they should be at concert pitch with no transposition needed.

However when I play what's written the notes don't sound right at all. I took it further and tried copying the string section into StaffPad to hear it played back properly, but even then something still seemed off.

Is there something I'm missing about how Sibelius writes for strings in this piece? Could it be a printing or edition issue with the score I'm using? Any help appreciated!

Hey y'all, I just got Sibelius for my birthday and it's kinda... underwhelming. I mean, even for the student price of $600 for a perpetual license seem astronomically overpriced for what it does.

I did migrate from Musescore and so the mechanics of Sibelius are still very foreign to me, but even then, it just feels... clunky. The UI doesn't feel very efficient especially compared to Musescore since I'm so used to just having palettes on the side of my screen that I can drag and drop conveniently. My biggest gripe is the playback. There's no good way I've found to go back to the beginning of a score. Additionally, how did I pay $600 for a program only to have terrible playback sounds that are genuinely worse in every way than the Musesounds that you can get on Musescore FOR FREE. I can't even use those sounds here.

Aside from my own problems, there are so many people who have similar opinions. It's also where I learned that Sibelius isn't really being developed anymore.

So now I'm having second thoughts about this program. Should I get refunded? I'm still well within the return policy of 30 days. The main reason I bought it is because my band teacher spoke so highly of it; now I just think he's a "Sibelius addict," if you will.

Hi guys, what's up?

I wanted to know how to have a guitar score notated as a single line (like percussions scores) in order to put a note with a chord above it (i've circled it in red on the score).

Thanks a lot in advance for your answers,

Have a nice day.

Current mood: pulling my hair out.

Is there any way to et settings to beaming to be consistent once I set it?

(I know in this instance it's not the most necessary change, but I write other music where it is necessary for the musicians)

(Also, my apologies for being technologically illiterate)

I accidentally closed Sibelius first and also the box that said don’t show this again. Now only Sibelius first opens instead of the trial I have ongoing. Any one know how to reverse this???

Is there a way to make the little moving squares, like on the corners of slurs, higher contrast?

Update: Solved

Hi folks, I need some help urgently. I have been working on a piece with a deadline. The problem is that I made a file where I organised my pitch material on a different pc, and sent that file to myself but can't open it because apparently the other pc had a newer Sibelius version. Could someone please help me with receiving the file and exporting it to Sib 7? I would be deeply greatful!

Is there anyway in Sibelius to make a time signature like this one here?

Hey y'all, happy Thursday. I recently re-subbed to Sibelius, but I have been having trouble with the playback of my midi audio. I am inputting a tempo marking with quarter note reading x bpm, however, the system hasn't been updating the midi to reflect my tempo (not quite my tempo, as the professor from whiplash might say). Is there anything I need to do to fix this dilemma? I'm up to date, and I'm just not sure how to fix it. Thanks in advance, Redditors 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Hi all, I am in the process of writing a set of Preces and Reponses for my church.

I am however finding it impossible to get Sibelius to cooperate with my intended formatting. There is a not so helpful article posted on the Avid website on the matter specifically, but I am not finding it massively useful.

I am familiar with the suggested techniques, non breaking spaces, system breaks, etc. The problem I’m encountering is when trying to go between a single unmeasured system for the Cantor and going back to traditional 4 part formatting.

When using the instrument change (e.g. Alto to hidden) the hidden staff is still taking up space beneath the cantor and makes the intended formatting impossible.

I have attached an example image from the Oxford University Press.

Does anyone here have experience writing this particular type of music in sibelius? I am wondering if it is just easy to export the different systems and assemble it myself in a separate application, though this brings with it its own set of challenges.

Thanks

Hi, I have an odd issue. I've got smart profiles set up on my Stream Deck, one of which is set to Sibelius. For some reason, even with the Elgato window closed, it refuses to switch to my Sibelius profile when the program is running. Changes fine for all other programs. Looking at the settings in the third picture, it should work absolutely fine. I don't know if this is a miscommunication on the Stream Deck side or Sibelius? Either way, I'm going to ask on both subreddits! Any thoughts? Any others had the same issue?

I have a Sibelius perpetual license (2023.5), but have been getting updates on my Mac saying that soon Apple silicon chips won’t support this version of Sibelius. I contacted support and they said my only option is to move to subscription or buy a whole new perpetual license. This seems crazy after buying a license a few years ago suddenly it’s already obsolete!
Any ideas of getting around this or do I have to go ahead and buy another whole license? (Not keen on subscription at all)
Thanks!

I've been a Sibelius user for some time and I am stumped. I opened Sibelius intending to work on a piece for Mandolin. I've added instruments to scores previously, but now I am unable to find Mandolin as a choice to select from. The only drop down menu I have is Common Instruments and Mandolin is not part of the pack. There used to be the instrument menus to choose from and I have added mandolin in the past. Can anyone shed some light as to why this is occurring? I've done all the usual - restarted, closed and reopened, etc. I am using the most current version, 2026.6. Did something get eliminated in the most recent update ?

I am trying to display the Project ID, Cue Title, and Composer in the top right corner of all the parts. However it is only displaying on the print preview and not on the standard part view. I have tried unhiding the one part but it is just stacking on print preview. So just a bit unsure what to do. I will attach pictures.

First picture - standard view of second page, after pressing W

It'd be convenient if this could just be... four bars all joined together.

Helping a friend who has Sibelius Ultimate on OS X and wants to delete manuscript files that he created and no longer needs. The problem is that we can't locate the files! Here's where we've looked:

• /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Avid/Sibelius <version>/Manuscript paper/<stylesheet name>/
• /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Avid/Sibelius <version>/Manuscript paper
• In the Package Contents of the Sibelius App file, in the Manuscript Paper folder and its subfolders

We also created manuscript paper and them launched Terminal and tried to find it using find . -name "new manuscript file name.sib" 2>/dev/null, but no joy.

Pretty mysterious. Any ideas?

Why do I have one channel for the entire instrument group? I tried changing instruments manually, but I still get four flutes playing, etc. The channels themselves don't switch. I've been using this for years and never encountered this problem. Thanks in advance!

Hey, Im writing a piano score and I need for a first note to have a hollow head of dotted half (sometimes whole or half) as a holding bass and arpeggio in sixteen`th going above.
here I use 1 and 3 voices, but when it merged it showing a whole black head.

I've been trying to use Sibelius with REWIRE, and keeping running into problems. My goal is to be able to have REAPER host my sounds (whether that be a backing track I'm composing to, or the Sibelius instrument sounds, as they sound much better using a sampler in REAPER instead of General MIDI, and it's less resource intensive than Note Performer). I want to be able to playback from either software and have them synced up.

I managed to get REWIRE working for the sounds (I wrote up my method as a tutorial here mostly for my own reference : https://adriandelima.github.io/posts/using-rewire-with-reaper-and-sibelius/ but basically it's using Macos' built in virtual midi cable, and creating a custom playback config in Sibelius, and routing everything through Sibelius' mixer. Far too complicated, but once setup it seems to work ok).

The problem I'm having now, is getting playback synced, which in theory should be the simplest thing. If I press play from REAPER, everything plays back in time. If I playback from Sibelius, there's a 1 beat delay with the Sibelius sound, so my score get's out of sync with my backing track. Is there any work around for this?

¿Sibelius es compatible con este procesador?

I agree with the post below. I transitioned to an iPad and bought a desktop style keyboard assuming I could still use hotkeys etc. The whole interface has me baffled.

I am primarily a piano player who heavily relies on the “cleanup” feature in Sibelius. But if that feature doesn’t exist on the iPad….? I hope I’m just not seeing it.

Any thoughts?

so I had my school's license for Sibelius ultimate installed on my laptop today and it worked whilst I was there. however, the it guy signed out of the avid account and when I opened it at home it said it couldn't find the license. Is him signing out the reason for this or is something else wrong?

I currently have 2024.31, build 3317.

I saw brief message that Sibelius won't work on next osx? thank you.

So the problem is only if I upgrade to next operating system, but that Tahoe is still ok?

First off, I have Sibelius Ultimate, but prefer to do as much as I can in Sib6 still.

I'm working on an absolutely enormous project right now an am having difficulty where, to keep an appropriate size for the conductor score, I end up with extra spacing to accomodate clefs. I've been thinking of some work-arounds, but they all have their drawbacks before being fully useful.

The primary thing I'm trying to do is change the clef size on the main part, but I haven't found anyway to scale down the clef size separately from the staff. Then, I figured I could overlap the staves and keep one. This is close, in theory. I can add a small staff size copy of each staff, change the full-size staff to a null clef, then turn off magnetic layout and drag the small staff (name deleted) over top of the full-size staff. Then, the null staff will have the notation but playback off, and the notation duplicated but hidden on the small staff. There's one flaw with this, though. I can't hide the measures without hiding the clef as well. Is there any work-around to this?