The latest generation of the world’s best-selling music notation software, Avid Sibelius 7 is sophisticated enough to meet the demands of top composers, arrangers, and publishers, yet simple enough for beginners and students.
Work quickly with the brand-new, task-oriented user interface. Experience your scores in stunning clarity with our exclusive, professional-quality sound library. Collaborate more easily thanks to full MusicXML interchange support and other sharing options. With all these advancements and many more, Sibelius 7 is the fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music.
The brand-new Sibelius 7 user interface provides task-focused tabs that lead you through the process of creating a score from start to finish. Every feature has both an icon and a text description—which you can access via a button or a keyboard shortcut—with full contextual help available when you need it. Read more
The ribbon is a wide band of command buttons at the top of every Sibelius window, replacing the old menus and toolbar. All of the program’s features are logically arranged into 10 tabs, plus the special File tab. From left to right, the arrangement of features describes the typical workflow of creating a score, from adding instruments and bars, through inputting notes, adding notational elements and other markings, text, layout, part preparation, review, and final output.
Every feature has its own icon, text description, and, when you hover over a button, an extended screen tip that provides contextual help. The ribbon intelligently resizes to match the size of the document window or your computer’s display, so you can always access every feature with no more than three clicks.
Sibelius 7 employs a modern tabbed document interface, just like your web browser. Open individual parts in separate tabs within the same parent window, and quickly switch between them using the handy tab bar. Open any tab in a new window by right-clicking the tab bar and choosing New Window.
The new user interface in Sibelius 7 is packed with improvements to make working with the software faster and more efficient.
Important and commonly used options are front and center on the ribbon. For example, you can now change page size, orientation, margins, and staff size directly on the ribbon, and see your score update in real time.
These small but useful improvements are everywhere. For example, the notational elements that you used in your score are placed at the top of rich, graphical menus so you can quickly create them again. You can also create time signatures by hitting the single-key shortcut T, then typing the top and bottom numbers, and hitting Return.
Sibelius 7 is the most accessible version ever. Every feature on the ribbon can be accessed via a special sequence of key presses called key tips. What’s more, Sibelius now has built-in support for screen-reading software on Windows, making it more accessible than ever to blind and visually impaired musicians.
Don’t worry if you’re a power user who has memorized many keyboard shortcuts. With a few exceptions, earlier keyboard shortcuts work just the same in Sibelius 7—and all keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable.
The new status bar at the bottom of every Sibelius document window provides quick access to document view options such as zoom and Panorama. It also shows you useful, context-sensitive information about your score, including the number of bars in your score, duration of the current selection in bars and timecode, the implied harmony of the selected notes, and much more.
Sibelius 7 includes two useful new features for note input. You can now start and stop lines, such as slurs and hairpins, during note input. Input one note, hit S to start a slur, then input some more notes—Sibelius automatically snaps the right-hand end of the slur to each successive note. When you want the slur to stop, simply type Shift-S. This works for any kind of line, and is a tremendous time saver.
Along with sticky lines, Sibelius 7 introduces sticky tuplets. If you need to input a run of tuplets, input the first note of the first tuplet, then hit the single-key shortcut to make tuplets sticky, and input more notes. As you get to the end of each tuplet, Sibelius automatically creates a new one, until you hit the shortcut again to switch the stickiness off.
You finesse every detail of your score—you want to hear every nuance during playback. Sibelius 7 includes more than 38 GB of professional content, including a specially recorded symphony orchestra, rock and pop instruments, and much more. This exclusive sound library is only available in Sibelius 7. Read more
Sibelius 7 Sounds is no ordinary bundled sample library. This collection combines exclusive content with hand-selected sounds from industry experts to bring you more than 38 GB of professional-quality sounds covering every instrument family—from a complete symphony orchestra to specialist sounds like handbells and a 27-stop church organ.
An expert sound designer, who has worked with some of Hollywood’s most demanding composers, recorded one of Europe’s top orchestras to build the Avid Orchestra.
Every orchestral instrument is represented, including unusual ones such as the Wagner tuba, alto flute, heckelphone, and lithophone. We've also included several period instruments, including Baroque trumpet and oboe d’amore. There is a full complement of string instruments, including beautiful solo, chamber and full sectional patches.
Wherever possible, instruments have been recorded with a consistent set of playing techniques (including legato, détaché, staccato, tenuto, and trills), with specialist techniques for many instruments (e.g. double-tonguing for flute, mutes for brass and strings, unmeasured tremolo for strings, etc.).
Listen to a chamber ensemble score [1] [2]
The result is a stunning, high-quality orchestra comparable to those you can buy from dedicated sample developers for hundreds of dollars. And it’s all included in the box with Sibelius 7—there’s nothing extra to buy.
In addition to hundreds of high-quality orchestral sounds, Sibelius 7 Sounds includes exclusive rock, pop, and jazz sounds from the team who developed the Pro Tools Complete Creative Collection and the Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack. The collection includes vintage keyboards, guitars, basses, drum kits, and more.
Make great-sounding big band scores with a full set of jazz horns, including trumpets, trombones, and saxophones, with authentic growls, plops, doits, and falls, plus a high-quality brush drum kit.
Write for a wide variety of percussion instruments, including powerful taiko drums, bata, djembe, and ewe African percussion, with the hundreds of included pitched and unpitched percussion sounds.
To match the professional quality of the included content, Sibelius 7 Sounds also features hand-selected sounds from specialized sample providers.
It includes a full 27-stop pipe organ, taken from the E.M. Skinner Organ from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Chicago, IL as sampled by Milan Digital Audio— the developers of Hauptwerk, the world’s finest virtual organ software.
And for marching band and drum corps arrangers, Sibelius 7 includes a selection of sounds from the brand new Rumble and Fanfare libraries from Sample Logic. The first sound libraries to feature the multi-time world champion drum corps, The Blue Devils, these sounds were recorded at the world-famous Skywalker Sound scoring stage in Marin County, CA.
Listen to a Rumble score
Listen to a Fanfare score
To take full advantage of Sibelius 7 Sounds, you will require a 64-bit operating system and compatible processor, a fast hard disk (SSD preferable) and 4 GB+ RAM. Read complete computer requirements
Today’s 64-bit capable hardware and operating systems provide big speed and memory advantages. Sibelius 7 is the world’s first 64-bit notation software, enabling you to unlock the full power of your 64-bit system—and work more quickly, with more virtual instruments and effects, than ever before. Read more
Sibelius 7 is the ideal choice for musicians looking to unleash the full potential of their 64-bit computers. Sibelius is the world’s first fully native 64-bit notation software, so it’s ready for the most demanding applications that today and tomorrow can throw at it.
Only 64-bit applications can directly address more than 4 GB RAM, required for today’s professional sample libraries. With full VST and Audio Unit compatibility, you can load as many samples as your computer can handle, and Sibelius won’t miss a beat.
The improved audio engine in Sibelius 7 automatically balances multiple virtual instruments and effects across the available cores of your multi-core CPU, efficiently using your computer’s resources.
ReWire normally requires both the master and the slave to be 32-bit applications, because the underlying technology is not yet available for 64-bit systems. But Sibelius 7 can run as a 64-bit application and communicate with a 32-bit ReWire master, thanks to its unique inter-process communication approach.
Don’t worry if you’re still running a 32-bit operating system or your current hardware isn’t 64-bit capable. Sibelius 7 still fully supports your 32-bit computer, and you can choose to run Sibelius 7 in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit system if needed for compatibility purposes (e.g. if your favorite virtual instrument is only available in a 32-bit version).
We understand that many of our customers favor laptops or other single-display systems. That’s why we designed the Sibelius 7 interface to allow you to focus on the music at all times—and easily hide information that you only need to see occasionally. Read more
Sibelius has always tried to act as an intelligent assistant, taking the drudgery out of your work. Sibelius 7 now remembers exactly what you were doing the last time you worked on your score, restoring not only the zoom level and showing you where in your score you were working, but also the document tabs, window sizes and positions, view options, and more.
And of course, you have complete control over your working environment, with comprehensive options to determine exactly how Sibelius should set itself up for new and existing scores.
Sibelius for Windows has always included a full-screen mode that hides the Windows taskbar, the menu bar, and devotes as much of your screen display as possible to your music.
Now, for the first time, Mac users can experience the power of full-screen display in Sibelius 7.
Without distractions from other applications, you’ll find the Sibelius 7 full-screen mode to be a more immersive working environment—this really is virtual manuscript paper.
Whether it’s the brand new Mixer, the beautiful on-screen Keyboard and Fretboard panels, or the Ideas panel, you no longer have to compromise between obscuring your score and showing the windows you need. Sibelius panels are now dockable, so you can arrange them around the edges of your screen, without obscuring the music itself.
You can also summon or dismiss all of the panels with a single click, to allow you to focus fully on the printed page at any time.
Sibelius 7 features a redesigned Mixer that employs vertical faders, just like a real mixing desk. By default, the Mixer is docked at the bottom of your screen, and shows just the faders for volume. Make it a little taller, and pan and solo/mute controls appear. Make it even taller and you’ll see advanced options for changing playback device, channel, and sound. Expand it fully to get controls for integrated effects and FX signal buses. Then hide it again by pressing a single key.
For advanced control over the appearance and playback properties of objects, summon the Inspector using its keyboard shortcut. A floating window appears, showing only the controls that are relevant to the selected objects, allowing you to quickly make adjustments using the keyboard. Once you’re done, hit Return, and the Inspector disappears.
If you wish, you can pin the Inspector so that it is visible at all times. It intelligently updates as the selection changes, only showing you relevant controls. You get more of what you need, and nothing that you don’t.
There’s never been a better time to switch from Finale® to Sibelius. Sibelius now features a step-time note input method that is very similar to Finale software’s Speedy Entry method—right down to using many of the same keystrokes. So if you know how to input notes in Finale, you know Sibelius too. And because today’s workflows include a wide variety of software applications, Sibelius 7 now includes full MusicXML export capability, so you can exchange files with hundreds of other applications, including Finale. Read more
Watch the videoIf you’ve been using Finale® for many years, you may have become accustomed to its Speedy Entry note input method. Sibelius has introduced a new step-time note input method to help users of other notation software to work comfortably in Sibelius, allowing them to continue using many of the same familiar keystrokes for note entry.
Using our step-time note input method, you can freely experiment on your MIDI keyboard without inputting—a note or chord is only input into your score when you both play it on your keyboard and specify a rhythmic duration.
Sibelius 7 now includes high-quality MusicXML export using a built-in export engine that delivers superior results to existing third-party plug-ins, at no extra cost.
There’s no reason not to start your next project in Sibelius—you can easily share files with friends and colleagues using Finale, or any of hundreds of other music programs, via MusicXML.
You may have heard that Sibelius doesn’t offer the same fine control as Finale. In fact, the world’s most demanding music publishers rely on Sibelius to produce beautiful engraved scores.
You may have heard that Finale is the tool of choice in Hollywood and on Broadway. In fact, film/TV and musical theater professionals rely on Sibelius to produce legible output quickly and efficiently for their time-sensitive projects.
You may have heard that Finale is best for education. In fact, educators all over the world make use of Sibelius’s 1,700-plus built-in teaching resources, and its unique classroom management features. What’s more, students get four years of free Sibelius upgrades to help them stay up to date during their studies.
In short, you may have heard a lot of things about Sibelius. But isn’t it time you found out the truth for yourself?
Nearly 2,000 Finale users switched to Sibelius last year alone—they can’t all be wrong. Try the 30-day trial version of Sibelius 7, and discover the joy of working with notation software that’s designed for musicians, by musicians. For little more than the price of your annual Finale upgrade, you can switch to the most modern, easy-to-learn, and sophisticated notation software available, without compromising the control and quality output you depend upon. You really can have it all.
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Take advantage of the latest OpenType fonts, including advanced features like ligatures, and employ them in text frames with full DTP-level capabilities. There’s no need to export projects to a separate DTP application—now you can complete many of them within Sibelius 7. Read more
Sibelius 7 uses a brand new text editing and rendering engine that not only provides pixel-perfect accuracy between on-screen display—at any zoom level–and the printed page, but also delivers professional-quality typographic control.
Tracking (character spacing), leading (line spacing), character scaling (horizontal and vertical), and subscript/superscript text are accessible from the context-sensitive Inspector, allowing you to fine-tune the appearance of your text with a publisher’s precision.
Gone are the days of adding of manual line breaks—now you can re-flow text simply by changing the shape or size of your text frame.
Quickly make changes to groups of text styles by taking advantage of their new hierarchical design. Change, say, the font for one text style, and automatically cascade that change down to many other text styles. With Sibelius 7, it takes only a moment to change fonts or match a new house style.
Sibelius 7 also introduces character styles, designed to allow you to change parts of longer runs of text. Using a character style, you can quickly emphasize text throughout your score using italics, for example. If your editor suggests using bold instead, you can simply edit the character style to change every instance of italic to bold in a single operation.
No other music notation software offers this kind of power or control.
To demonstrate its new typography features, Sibelius 7 includes an elegant family of OpenType fonts called Plantin, from Monotype Imaging. Plantin has a distinguished history in printed music, and continues to be the main text font that Oxford University Press uses to publish music.
Plantin’s distinctive look and compact dimensions make it an ideal general-purpose font for titles, lyrics, and other text in your score.
Sibelius 7 makes it easy to import graphics in all major formats, then manipulate them to build complex layouts for publishing, creating teaching materials, instructional books, and more. You can export the full score as publication-quality graphics in PDF format, plus individual pages or smaller sections in EPS, PNG, and SVG formats. It’s never been faster or easier to finish the job to the highest standards. Read more
It’s so easy to import graphics into Sibelius, it’s as simple as drag and drop. You can import any image in any standard format (including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and SVG)—just drag it in.
Once you’ve imported your picture, adjust its color, brightness, contrast, and opacity. Rotate it to any angle, scale it to any size, crop it, or flip it along either axis.
Sibelius 7 natively supports Scalable Vector Graphics. SVGs are high-quality vector graphics that look perfect when scaled to any size. Use professional drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator or free alternatives like Inkscape to draw any shape you can imagine and bring it into Sibelius. Then print it out at any size, perfectly reproduced.
If there’s a particular graphic you need to use in many scores, such as a logo, you can now import a graphic and link it to an external file. If the external file is subsequently modified, the imported graphic in Sibelius is automatically updated. If you send your score to somebody who doesn't have the separate graphic file, don’t worry—Sibelius embeds the graphic in the score for good measure, so your score will look correct when opened on another system.
One of the most powerful additions to Sibelius 7 is the ability to use any graphic as a symbol. Import a graphic in any supported format and combine it with any existing symbol, or create a new one. The only limitation is your imagination.
Sibelius 7 can directly export publisher-quality PDFs—no separate PDF printer driver is required. Simply point and click to choose between exporting the full score only, the full score plus all the instrumental parts in a single consolidated file, the parts only in a consolidated file, or all of the parts as separate PDF files.
Sibelius 7 also includes improved EPS export, with enhanced TIFF previews and wider font embedding support, plus all-new SVG export, and PDF export of individual systems or pages of music.
Included support
Your Sibelius 7 purchase includes peace of mind. You get 90 days of complimentary assisted support, plus affordable annual support options (starting at $99 per year). Read more
Special academic pricing
Sibelius 7 features special pricing for academic institutions, teachers, and students. Teachers and students can purchase Sibelius for only $295 USMSRP. In addition, the student version includes four years of complimentary upgrades, so students can stay up to date throughout their studies. Read more
Even more features
Believe it or not, Sibelius 7 includes even more features. Explore Sibelius functionality
Sibelius is the fastest, smartest, easiest way to create and edit musical scores. Sibelius delivers revolutionary, time-saving features like Magnetic Layout and Dynamic Parts—plus a powerful creative toolset including Flexi-time MIDI input, Keyboard and Fretboard windows, and a variety of other input options. With all this functionality and more, Sibelius empowers you to create incredibly complex scores quickly. Read more
In addition to creating and editing, Sibelius makes it easy to play back your scores with stunning realism. The massive included sound library gives you immediate access to a wide range of professional-quality instruments. If you want even more great sounds, Sibelius supports VST and AU plug-ins, giving you access to third-party sample libraries. You can also sync Sibelius with other popular audio software—such as Pro Tools—via ReWire. Read more
Sibelius lets you produce scores so stunning, they’re virtually works of art. Slurs are the most beautiful and controllable of any program. Stemlets and beamed rests can be added and positioned instantly, as can arpeggio lines. Sibelius will even include cautionary accidentals automatically—helping you to produce performance-ready scores every time. Read more
Minimum requirements for Sibelius 7 software only
Recommendations for Sibelius 7 Sounds sample library*
* You can use Sibelius 7 Sounds if your computer doesn't meet the recommended requirements, but you may find that you cannot use as many sounds simultaneously, and that sounds take a long time to load.
Using external hardware MIDI playback devices with Sibelius 7
If you have an external hardware MIDI playback device that you wish to use with Sibelius 7, please check that a compatible sound set is available: click here for a list of sound sets supplied with Sibelius 7.
Technical information
Sibelius's network licenses operate on a client-server model. The Sibelius program itself is installed on the local hard drive of each of the client workstations, and a separate Licence Server program is installed on a single designated server or workstation. The Licence Server program is supplied with your copy of Sibelius and enables the designated number of licensed client copies to run on the network simultaneously. In conjunction with Sibelius's Classroom Control feature, the Licence Server also lets you send messages to users of the client copies, send and receive Sibelius files between client machines, and close copies down from the server machine.
Requirements
Sibelius requires a network using the TCP/IP and UDP protocols. (Your network may use other protocols in addition to TCP/IP and UDP, but TCP/IP and UDP must be present in order for the Licence Server to communicate fully with the client copies.)
The Sibelius Licence Server and the Licence Server Control Panel will run on Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.6.7, Mac OS X 10.7 or later. It will also run on a virtual server running VMWare using a qualified Windows operating system, as listed above.
Sophisticated enough to meet the demands of the world’s top professional composers, arrangers, and publishers, yet simple enough for elementary or primary students, Sibelius 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 is the ideal solution for your classroom or lab. Furthermore, students will receive four years of complimentary upgrades, so they can stay up to date throughout the course of their studies.
Learn more about Sibelius 7 Academic including special bundle pricing
If you teach music, you'll know how long it can take to produce good curriculum materials. That's why we invented the unique Worksheet Creator, in collaboration with experienced teachers and educators.
The Worksheet Creator saves you hours of time by giving you a comprehensive range of ready-made teaching materials—over 1,700 worksheets, projects, exercises, songs, instrumental pieces, lyrics, posters, reference material, and other resources.
Individuals or groups can use the worksheets in class or for homework—either on paper or on the computer. All of the materials are carefully designed to fulfill curriculum requirements, and to suit school students of all ages. Some of them (such as the repertoire and reference material) are also useful for universities and instrumental teachers.
Many of the worksheets have random questions that are different each time. You can produce both a worksheet for the student and a completed answer sheet to save time when grading. And it all takes just a few seconds.
Just choose from six main categories in the Worksheet Creator:
Each of these categories contains further sub-categories. For example, Elements of Music includes 14 areas, such as rhythm, scales, sight-reading, and ear training. So with a few clicks, you can narrow down your choice to just what you need.
Then just choose how many questions you want—and up pops the ready-to-use student worksheet, plus a filled-in answer sheet.
You don't have to use the Worksheet Creator materials as they are. You can either adapt them to your own requirements, or create your own worksheets based on the included blank templates.
Available only with Sibelius, the network version helps teachers manage a lab of Sibelius copies from a single computer, and ensure students are doing what they're meant to be.
A single, simple Classroom Control window shows you all the Sibelius copies that are running, as well as the students' user names. You can freeze students' programs when you want them to pay attention.
Get a copy of the score each student is working on—or send a score to any student, or to all of them at once. You can also prompt students to save a version of their score with the Versions feature, to help you track their progress over time.
And it's all password protected, for complete security.
No matter how many Sibelius network licences your school owns, the Sibelius Licence Server makes it easy for students to access them from any networked computer in the school.
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경우 포장을 개봉하였거나 포장이 훼손되어 상품가치가 상실된 경우에는 교환/반품이 불가능합니다.
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포장 등을 훼손한 경우는 제외
- 포장을 개봉하였거나 포장이 훼손되어 상품가치가 상실된 경우
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따른 반품/교환은 제조사 기준에 따릅니다.)
- 고객님의 사용 또는 일부 소비에 의하여 상품의 가치가 현저히 감소한 경우 단, 화장품등의 경우 시용제품을
제공한 경우에 한 합니다.
- 시간의 경과에 의하여 재판매가 곤란할 정도로 상품등의 가치가 현저히 감소한 경우
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