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- Sibelius Ultimate Notation Software -

Sibelius
Driving notation forward

Time-tested music notation software
From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music. Sibelius powers today's professional music industry with sophisticated features like AI-powered accelerators, advanced options for markup and layout, Cloud Publishing, and the ability to work across any device. With Sibelius, you can create and collaborate with musicians around the world and be confident that your work translates into something you can be proud of.

Connect and collaborate

Use Sibelius On Any Device
Sibelius brings professional music notation to iPad and iPhone, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. Seamlessly move between iPad, iPhone, Android and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.

Collaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Publishing, allowing you to work without missing a beat

Composition

Quick note entry
Enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad, a MIDI keyboard, your computer keyboard, or using an Apple Pencil or tablet stylus

Magnetic Layout and Auto Optimize
Avoid collisions and overlaps in your score with a layout that auto adjusts to the needs of your score so you don't have to spend time formatting

Sound library support
Use your preferred third-party libraries alongside 24GB of factory content with VST and AU plugin support for ultra-realistic playback

Chord Symbol entry, assisted by AI
Allows you to quickly embellish your music, saving you time in the composition process

Panorama view
Allows you to write without the constraints of the score layout

Collaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Sharing

Arranging & Engraving

Intelligent MIDI Import
As MIDI tracks are added to your score template, Sibelius will automatically assign instruments in your score

Dynamic Parts
Gives you individual parts for players and updates automatically with changes you make in the score, so you don't have to extract parts individually or search through scores

Score Subsets
Helps you make custom arrangements from sketch staves and create rehearsal scores quickly

Mark up your score
Add chord symbols, guitar tab, guitar chord diagrams, expression text, articulations, lyrics, titles, graphics, and more to give your music the detail, depth, and dynamism it deserves

Built for scale
Unlimited staves and deep customization options allow for arrangements and ensembles of any size with Sibelius Ultimate

With Cloud Publishing
You can share drafts for feedback and collaboration, then publish your final arrangements

Education

Flexible licensing
Choose a Network licensing for on-prem computers, and a Team licensing to allow licenses to be distributed to your teachers and students to use Sibelius on their own devices

Curriculum: Conquered
The Worksheet Creator provides over 1,700 worksheets, projects, exercises, songs, and other teaching resources

Create online interactive content
With Cloud Sharing, where you can embed worksheets and assignments in your lesson plans and students can submit their work

Sibelius across devices
Use Sibelius across all your devices: mobile, tablet, Chromebook, and Desktop (Mac and Windows)

Kickstart ideas
The ideas panel with 2,000 snippets of music to help students search for something to kickstart their creative process

Command the classroom
Manage the classroom from your own workstation with Classroom Control. Access files on networked devices, send or retrieve materials from your students, and even "freeze" Sibelius on your students' devices.

- AudioScore Ultimate 8 -

Transcribe music recordings and performances into a score
AudioScore Ultimate 8 is the full featured version of the AudioScore Lite audio transcription software included with Sibelius Ultimate. With AudioScore Ultimate 8, you can quickly and easily turn CD tracks, MP3s, MIDI files, and even your own vocal and instrument performances into detailed music notation. It's the ultimate music composing secret weapon for your Sibelius workflow.

Get better accuracy
With version 8, AudioScore's audio recognition engine has been completely re-engineered to provide better music precision and detail. Get improved recognition of multiple overlapping notes. Minimize interference caused by drum and percussion sounds. And experience superior pitch recognition and note separation.

Work faster and easier
Easily create scores from transcribed notes. AudioScore will automatically detect all instrumentation and create a score with staves labeled for each part. Play back note selections in high-quality audio. Save scores as PDFs for easy printing. Open MIDI files to automatically create high-quality, printable scores. And work with Sibelius 8.

Transcribe CDs and MP3s
With AudioScore Ultimate, you can open a CD track or MP3 file and transcribe it to a score. The software employs the most intelligent technology available today to convert up to 16 instruments or notes at a time into multiple staves, with up to four voices per staff. After transcribing your music, you can send it directly to Sibelius or save it as a MusicXML, NIFF, or MIDI file for use in most other music programs.

View, edit, and play back nuanced performances
AudioScore Ultimate enables you to view, play, and edit the most intricate nuances of a performance - such as the subtle changes in pitch, volume, and timing. You can also produce new versions of music using MIDI instruments of your choice. AudioScore analyzes the original music in great detail, and plays it back with tremendous realism.

Create scores by hand
AudioScore Ultimate can "serve" you a set of notes, which you can quickly split, join, resize, and adjust pitch, purely on a performance level - no worrying about rests and technicalities such as the key signature, accidentals, augmentation dots, beaming, ties, etc.

- PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 8 -

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 8 is the full-featured version of the PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite scanning software for Sibelius. Handwrite music on a tablet or laptop and convert your writing into professional scores. Scan printed sheet music into other MIDI software, such as sequencers. You can also use it on its own to scan in, play back, transpose, and print scores - and even save audio files.

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate reads printed and handwritten music or PDFs in seconds - not just the notes, but also printed slurs, dynamics, lyrics, guitar tab, chord diagrams, and more. You can then edit or transpose the music, play it back, extract the parts, and print.

Compose by hand
If you like to handwrite music, the NotateMe app enables you to do exactly that using a tablet, smartphone, trackpad, or mouse. And it's now integrated right in PhotoScore 8. Work on a Mac or PC. Scrawl out symphonies using a Microsoft Surface and pen. Or compose on the go with your iOS or Android device.

Work smarter and faster than ever
PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate now recognizes printed music 30% faster, so you can get a jumpstart on your editing. It can also read low-res PDFs and scans down to 72 dpi. Save scores as PDFs for easy printing. Work with Sibelius 8. And experience better MusicXML score export, part extraction, rescoring, and other improvements.

Get better accuracy
Never miss a note, beat, or slur. With the OmniScore2 dual-engine recognition system, you'll get over 99.5% accuracy when scanning most PDFs and original sheet music. Get improved recognition of tuplets and curved and distorted staves. Save time with more sophisticated automatic voice allocation. Even bring in JPEGs of compositions you've shot with your phone or camera.

Intuitive and easy to use
Ease-of-use has been a central design aim right from the start, and with automatic scanning and recognition, plus licensed Sibelius-style editing interfaces, PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate becomes fun and exciting to use.