Avid Sibelius 8.5.0 Build 552 (Mac OS X)

Avid Sibelius 8.5.0 Build 552 (Mac OS X) | | 955 MB

P2P | Dec 07 2016

The Fastest, Smartest, Easiest Way to Write Music. Express yourself with Sibelius. Create beautiful, captivating scores more quickly than ever before with the worlds best selling notation software.

Create with unrivaled compositional tools
Whether youre well versed in writing music notation or prefer to use a keyboard, guitar, or your voice to enter notes, creating scores has never been easier. Save tons of time with unique tools such as Magnetic Layout, which takes care of almost every layout detail, and Dynamic Parts, which automatically creates and updates separate instrumental parts.

Compose quickly with an advanced user interface
We built Sibelius from the ground up for accelerated navigation and performance, so you can create scores more quickly than ever before. A task-based front-end leads you through the entire score creation workflow, and the Timeline window displays the entire structure of even the largest, most complex scoresat a glance.

Get more expressive playback
Add more expressive and realistic feel to any individual part in your score and customize your own rhythmic feels for swing with the completely revamped Espressivo feature. With its exquisite interpretation of notation distinctions, you can hear every nuance of your score play back the way you intended it to be heard.

Write music with a pen on a Surface Pro
Sibelius has been optimized for the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet, enabling you to add and edit notes quickly with just a tap of the pen, as well as play music in real time using the tablets onscreen keyboard and fretboard. Use the Surface Pens buttons to select, erase and edit your music. You can even drag the score around and resize objects while inputting notes.

Integrate with Pro Tools
Integrate Pro Tools into your workflow and take your compositions even further. Using ReWire, included in Sibelius and Pro Tools, you can record instrument parts from Sibelius scores to the DAW for further recording, editing, and mixing. And you can directly send Pro Tools tracks from its Score Editor to Sibelius for further notation refinement.

Compose with every instrument
Play back and hear every nuance of your composition in stunningly realistic detail with Sibelius Sounds. You get 36 GB of professional content, including a specially recorded symphony orchestra, rock, pop, and jazz instrumentation, world-class licensed sounds, and much more.

Create with full desktop publishing tools
Create beautiful, professional-looking scores using a full set of typography and layout tools. Polish text with tracking, leading, scaling, text frame, and alignment tools. Change fonts and add emphasis using hierarchical styles. Drag and drop graphics in any major format. And export publisher-quality scores as PDFs with just one click.

Enhance online score purchasing
Publish your work for sale online thanks to groundbreaking Sibelius | Cloud Publishing technology. Customers can view, play, change instruments, and transpose your music on any device before buyingand then print a high-quality version of your score once they do.

Transcribe and scan music
Transcribe and scan music directly into Sibelius with Neuratron AudioScore Lite and PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite. With AudioScore Lite, you can input notes into Sibelius by singing or playing an instrument, or importing music from a CD. With PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite, you can scan printed music and send to Sibelius for playback, transposing, and editing. You can even write music on a tablet or laptop and convert your handwriting into professional scores.

Whats new in Sibelius 8.5.0 Build 552
Inspector:
Part of the overall vision we have for the way you work in Sibelius, looks at minimizing features being hidden away in menus and dialogs, and presenting them in a clean and feature-packed Inspector panel. This will allow you to select an object in the score and see all the properties and possibilities for editing that object. Sibelius 8.5 is our first foray into this, by adding the new Staff size options, and weve smartened up the Inspector to give it a clean and modern look.
The main area weve improved on is the Text section. To help explain and guide the user, there are now useful graphics to indicate the sorts of things youre capable of doing to any given piece of text. The other sections have been smartened up to align tick boxes, feature labels and controls to give the Inspector the professional look you have come to expect.
The Inspector now also behaves like other panels. You can invoke it from the Home tab, as before, but also from the View > Panels section of the Ribbon.
The Inspector will appear docked on the left of your main Sibelius window. You can pull this off and dock to on the right, or if you prefer, you can leave it floating; useful if you have a second monitor. When undocked, you can resize the Inspector by dragging out the bottom edge. Sibelius will populate the Inspector with features and controls that are only relevant for the item or items you have selected. For example, the Scale only appears when you have a Chord diagram selected. The contents of the Inspector will sometimes be too tall for it to contain all the controls, so a scrollbar will appear on the right hand side to allow you to find what you need easily. Each section can be collapsed up too, so you can hide controls you arent using at that time.

Multiple staff sizes on breaks:
One such example of driving features and workflows to the Inspector is our new Multiple Staff Sizes feature.
The new control of the staff sizes allows you to change individual bars, whole systems of one or more instruments, large passages of music, or entire pages at a time.

Improvements since Sibelius 8.4:
Its now possible to change Normal staff size to a smaller value then Medium staff size value in Engraving Rules. Smaller staff sizes all decrease so you can no longer get these out of order.
Weve made dialog appearance improvements to Engraving Rules > Staves with 200 DPI scaling on Windows with high pixel density displays.
Making a change to a staff size in Engraving rules, and then clicking OK (without having unfocused the staff size spin box) now makes the change in your score.
Tuplet brackets and numbers now scale neatly when working with smaller staff sizes.
Instrument changes from unpitched to pitched instruments now create key signatures automatically.
MIDI input works once more after changing from an unpitched to pitched instrument.
Cancelling out of Document Setup now cancels the unit selection you may have made.
On Retina displays, some text fields in several dialogs are no longer too short, for example in the File tab > Score info dialog.
In Sibelius Manuscript plug-in language, note.Deselect() deselects entire parent NoteRest when it should just deselect that note.

Further general improvements:
The version number now briefly appears on the splash screen once more as it did previously in 7.5, so you can quickly verify the version of Sibelius youre launching on startup.
The Save As dialog on macOS now correctly remembers the current file name and last path saved, so that you dont have to navigate to the correct location every time.
Sibelius no longer hangs or crashes in rare cases when clicking Music Fonts in Edit Symbols.
The Inspector and Timeline panel sizes and positions are now saved along with the other panels. See File > Preferences > Files in the Windows Sizes and Positions section. This means that it is now possible to hide the timeline by default just like you can with other panels, which has been a longstanding request since it appeared in Sibelius 7.5.0.
A problem has been fixed where some keyboard shortcuts didnt work correctly on macOS Sierra.
Sibelius Sounds and Sibelius | First Sounds now correctly install on macOS Sierra.
Application Manager 2.5.11 is now included in the Sibelius and First 8.5 installers.