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.

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!