Sibelius Ultimate 1 Year Subscription, Education Pricing, Boxed

Sophisticated enough to meet the demands of the world's top professional composers, arrangers and publishers, yet simple enough for students of all ages, Sibelius Ultimate is the superior choice for learning and teaching music notation, composition and music theory. With flexible licensing for institutions and built-in classroom management features, Sibelius Ultimate is the ideal solution for your classroom or lab. Experience the easiest way to write music Whether you're composing for a live performance, film score or the classroom, nothing empowers you to write music like Sibelius Ultimate (formerly Sibelius-learn more). The software offers unique features that drive your creativity, make you sound better and enable you to compose beautifully rendered scores quickly. Share scores with anyone, anywhere With Sibelius/Cloud Sharing, you can share scores to your own personal cloud space or embed scores in a webpage and invite anyone to flip through pages and play your compositions using any computer, laptop or mobile device. Streamline your workflow Sibelius enables composers to connect with others in more powerful, efficient and profitable ways. It seamlessly integrates into any media production workflow, including Pro Tools, to compose music for picture easily. And easily deliver scores to music publishers for worldwide sale. Get the tools you need-your way Sibelius is now available in more ways than ever, making it easy for anyone to write music. Compose, edit, print and share scores with Sibelius (formerly Sibelius/First). Work with more advanced notation, arranging, engraving and layout tools with Sibelius Ultimate(formerly Sibelius). Or get started with Sibelius/First, a free new version of Sibelius. Compose, arrange and engrave without limits Sibelius Ultimate (formerly Sibelius-learn more) offers an advanced toolset, enabling you to work with an unlimited number of instrument parts and tailor every facet of your score to your needs. Create sophisticated sheet music with an expanded set of notation tools and symbols, customizable notes and instruments and film scoring workflows. And speed through score refinement with advanced layout, editing and publishing tools. Write music quickly and easily With a complete upgrade of its underlying infrastructure, Sibelius Ultimate offers powerful multi-edit capabilities and a task-based interface that leads you through the entire score creation process. Enter notes from the onscreen notation, keyboard or fretboard windows or from your MIDI keyboard. Add notational elements, dynamics, custom symbols and text. And easily navigate large, complex scores using the timeline. Hear your music in stunning detail With the included 10 GB sound library of high-quality sampled instruments, you can play back compositions to hear how it would sound with full instrumentation. The Espressivo feature adds a more humanistic feel, so your score sounds the way you intended it to be heard. You can also use VST and AU virtual instruments and effects. Get unmatched Pro Tools integration Take your compositions even further when you integrate Pro Tools into your workflow. Using ReWire (included), you can easily record instrument parts from your Sibelius Ultimate scores to Pro Tools and other DAWs for further recording, editing and mixing. And you can directly send Pro Tools tracks from its Score Editor to Sibelius Ultimate for further notation refinement. What's New in Sibelius Ultimate Compose at lightning speed From a score-safe Review mode and idea-sparking loop playback, to better performance and timesaving workflows, Sibelius Ultimate (formerly Sibelius-learn more) gives you the power to write beautiful scores, quickly and easily, using advanced notation and music arrangement software. Add comments and annotations in Review mode Need to communicate or solicit ideas, suggestions and changes to a composition? You can now add comments directly to a score in Review mode to communicate rehearsal notes, feedback or directions to an editor, engraver or student. You can also highlight sections and even annotate parts directly with a stylus or Surface Pro pen. Spark ideas with loop playback When composing, sometimes the best way to come up with parts is to improvise different melody lines, riffs and chords over a section of music. Sibelius now enables you to select any part of your score for loop playback, so you can quickly experiment. You can even slow down the tempo during loop playback for easier rehearsal and lesson practice-ideal for students and teachers. Check your work with scrub playback With Sibelius Ultimate, you can now use simple keyboard shortcuts to scrub the playback line across your score and hear the notes and chords beneath it, making it easy to see how things are sounding. It's a great way to spot-check parts and fix mistakes, jump to and audition sections (when used with any "Go to " command) and teach chord progressions and harmonic analysis. Find plugins fast Sibelius makes composing, arranging and engraving scores even easier through a variety of available plugins (most are free!) that can add functionality to the software or perform complex tasks for you. And now it's easier to find the plugins you need with new search capabilities built into the Install Plug-ins dialog. Notate and play back parts in unison Got multiple instruments playing the same notes and melody lines in your score, such as an ensemble of violin or trumpet players? Instead of hearing only one voice play, Sibelius now supports playback for n players with Sibelius Sounds, NotePerformer and other compatible sound libraries, enabling you to hear all of the richness and distinct nuances of having multiples of the same instrument part play together in unison. Keep scores safe in Review mode With the new Review mode, copyists, engravers, orchestrators, publishers and teachers can have peace of mind knowing that you can't accidentally edit a score or move something out of place as you review it. Navigate scores more easily With new Go to Bar and Go to Page commands, you can have Sibelius jump to your specified section and immediately start playback without requiring an extra step. You can also move the playback line by simply clicking anywhere in the timeline to have playback immediately start from that point-ideal for quickly hearing and comparing parts to keep your music writing and arranging momentum flowing. Experience better performance With a complete upgrade of its underlying infrastructure, Sibelius is now even easier to use than ever. From interface improvements that align with native Mac and Windows OS experiences, to better user interaction, faster performance and support for high-res displays and screen readers, Sibelius sets the stage for today's modern workflows and the excitement tomorrow's technology brings. Get intelligent note respacing Need to reset note spacing? Sibelius now only respaces multi-voice bars when adding or removing notes when the "Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing" feature is on, so you can type-set your music precisely as you intend it to appear. Work more gracefully with grace notes Save crucial score preparation time and perfectly align grace notes across multiple voices on the same staff, without needing to manually fix spacing and collisions. With improvements made to the way Sibelius handles grace notes, you can now add grace notes of any value to any rhythm in any voice in perfect alignment, enabling you to create better looking scores faster. Make multiple text changes simultaneously Need to add or update expression text in more than one part of a score? Select multiple staves or notes and add or edit expression text to all instruments at once. You can do the same to add or edit technique text and other text types. Engrave scores faster For engravers, you can now spend less time on reworking note spacing and more time finessing a stellar score. With improvements made to the way overlapping notes in multiple voices are automatically spaced, Sibelius generates better note legibility and accuracy as the music is being composed, so you can turn around beautiful scores faster. Supercharge your workflow Sibelius Ultimate offers many new feature enhancements to boost your composing, arranging and music preparation efficiency. It's ideal for copyists to mark-up scores quickly, engravers to get the exact layout you need and educators to create worksheets fast. Share and promote your work to the community Share scores, get feedback, find collaborators and showcase your skills to an extensive network of creative artists and media pros in the Avid Artist Community. You can even sync your Sibelius/Cloud Sharing scores with your Community portfolio. Expand your Cloud Sharing storage Get more space to store and share your scores with a premium cloud storage plan for Sibelius Ultimate. With more access-anywhere storage to play with, you can maximize your creative opportunities. And if you're a Pro Tools user, you'll be able to host cloud collaboration projects in the same space too.