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Description: Sibelius 5 is the essential software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It will keep you inspired and help you take your ideas even further. Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 music notation software makes writing scores a breeze-giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning features like Panorama mean you don't need to think about pages while you're composing or arranging. You can just let your creativity flow. Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second-so you'll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there's no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it. You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.

Lowest New Price: $419.99

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Don't Waste Your Money

I upgraded to Sibelius 5 last year. As with another reviewer, since upgrading I have experienced frequent crashes and freezes. This can be particularly frustrating and time-wasting (as you typically lose your work).

Considering the price of this program, you would expect that, at the very least, it would run longer than 30 minutes before crashing.

Save your money. Steer clear of this product.

Sibelius 5.0 - Largely Non-Functional

I bought this product as Sibelius 5.0 approximately one year ago. Despite many attempts to fix it, it continues to crash approximately one time each 30 minutes. Each time it crashes,I loose much of the previous 30-minutes of work. The technical advice in the websites does not seem to work. The instructions are gibberish to non-technical people such as most musicians. It has been impossible to download the version 5.25 upgrade. On the plus side, between each crash Sibelius seems to function well, but this is little consolation, because the frequent crashes make it impractical to use this product for composition. I have not tried Finale yet so I cannot compare the programs.

Learning Curve

It's a great product, to be sure. It just takes a little getting used to. There will probably be plenty of roadblocks and a handful of bugs, as well as a lot of time spent on the help forums. It may prove to be especially frustrating for people coming over from Myriad Software's Melody Assistant program. But don't panic! All the abilities and bells and whistles are there; they just take a little tracking down to get to.

The sounds are also far superior to Melody's sounds. But the one drawback I found particularly annoying was that you couldn't preview the sounds before you assign them to a staff. You have to build the staff and write the music first, *before* you get to hear what it sounds like.

Sibelius 5 is Great

I have wanted Sibleius since I used version 2 for my music theory classes in college. I took advantage of there $[...] and purchased Sibelius 5. I love it. The basic functionality of the software is easy to learn. It is loaded with features that may take a little bit to master, but it is amazing what you can make this program do. Also, you do not NEED an ASIO compatible soundcard. I am able to use my motherboard integrated card and still use the playbak feature. I am sure the sound may be better with the proper card though. Also, you will need a newer DVD-ROM. The older DVD-ROMs will not read the DVD's formatting.

A powerful, versatile program

It is easy enough to use if you just jump right in, yet at the same time the wealth of keyboard shortcuts for just about everything allows power users to perform tasks quickly and efficiently.

The handbook is well written and organized and provides most of the basics for a new user. I highly recommend reading the Quick Tour, as it provides some very useful keyboard and mouse commands for navigating and editing that I never discovered while using the demo version.

The best way to evaluate Sibelius is to try out the free demo from the official website. The demo is fully functional with just two main restrictions: it cannot save files and it can only print the first page of a score. No review can substitute for trying it out yourself.

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