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"For years, Avid Technology and its businesses have focused onfostering an environment where educators and students can learn how tocreate digital media content with the same industry-standard toolsthat are used by Grammy and Academy award-winning professionals," saidDavid Krall, president and chief executive officer at Avid Technology."In the short term, this acquisition will allow Sibelius andDigidesign to combine the strengths of their respective sales andeducation channels and reach a wider audience with offerings thatcover the entire spectrum of computer-based music creation - includingcomposing, notating, arranging, recording, editing, mixing andfinishing, publishing, and distribution. Over time, our PinnacleConsumer and Avid Video divisions will also benefit from Sibelius'channel expertise, as we explore new ways to expand distribution ofany educational product developed by Avid Technology or one of itscompanies."
Digidesign general manager and Avid vice president Dave Leboltsaid, "Over the past decade, Sibelius has garnered an enviablereputation as one of the world's leading providers of professionalnotation software. With 180,000 users in 100 countries - and a diverseproduct line that provides professional composers, educators,students, consumers, and young children with easy-to-use scoringapplications - Sibelius is well positioned for future growth acrossall of its key markets. The company's connections with educationalinstitutions worldwide will allow us to reach educators and studentsmore directly with all of the pieces of technology we make - includingDigidesign Pro Tools software and audio hardware, as well as M-Audiokeyboards, microphones, speakers, and audio interfaces. Over time,we'll also explore ways to integrate and optimize our respectivetoolsets so that customers can take advantage of powerful Sibeliusfeatures directly within Pro Tools. Working together, Sibelius andDigidesign can deliver an even wider variety of integrated productsthat will give our customers a cutting edge advantage when creating orlearning about music."
Sibelius' core product line comprises software tools for editingand arranging music notation in both electronic and printed form. Awide range of customers use the company's products, includingprofessional musicians for composing and creating scores for film andTV, orchestral performances and recordings; educational institutionsfor teaching music at all levels; and individuals who need to providemusical notation as a means to publish their work. Entrenched in musiceducation programs around the world, the Sibelius product line alsoincludes applications for teaching and testing music in elementaryinstitutions up through the university level.
"This alliance is an excellent cultural and technological fit forSibelius. Both Avid and Digidesign are forward-thinking organizationsthat take great pride in producing innovative, high quality products,and we're excited to be working closely with them," said JeremySilver, CEO of Sibelius. "By combining our software with Digidesignand M-Audio products, we can provide valuable solutions that enhancemusic learning by putting the industry's best music production toolsin the hands of educators, students, and children. We also lookforward to expanding our worldwide reach by distributing and sellingSibelius products through the Digidesign and M-Audio channels. Ourcustomers will reap the benefits of this acquisition as we work tobring new and innovative products to market in the future."
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinearmedia creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film,video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to workmore efficiently, productively, and creatively. For more informationabout the company's Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy award-winningproducts and services, please visit: www.avid.com.
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Sibelius is a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software Limited (now part of Avid Technology). Beyond creating, editing and printing music scores, it can also play the music back using sampled or synthesised sounds. It produces printed scores, and can also publish them via the Internet for others to access. Less advanced versions of Sibelius at lower prices have been released, as have various add-ons for the software.
Named after the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, the company was founded in April 1993 by twin brothers Ben and Jonathan Finn to market the eponymous music notation program they had created.[1] It went on to develop and distribute various other music software products, particularly for education. In addition to its head office in Cambridge and subsequently London, Sibelius Software opened offices in the US, Australia and Japan, with distributors and dealers in many other countries worldwide. The company won numerous awards, including the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2005.
In August 2006 the company was acquired by Avid, to become part of its Digidesign division, which also manufactures the digital audio workstation Pro Tools. In July 2012, Avid announced plans to divest its consumer businesses, closed the Sibelius London office, and removed the original development team,[2][3][4] despite a 11,590-strong 'Save Sibelius' petition spearheading a campaign led by Derek Williams that included extensive protests on Facebook and elsewhere.[5][6][7][8] Avid subsequently recruited new programmers to continue the development of Sibelius, and Steinberg hired most of the former Sibelius team to create a competing software, Dorico.
The program was released to the public in April 1993 on 3.5-inch floppy disk. It required considerably less than 1 MB of memory (as its files only occupied a few KB per page of music), and the combination of assembly language and the Archimedes' ARM processor meant that it ran very quickly. No matter how long the score, changes were displayed almost instantly. A unique feature of the Sibelius GUI at that time was the ability it gave the user to drag the entire score around with the mouse, offering a bird's eye of the score, as distinct from having to use the QWERTY input keyboard arrow keys, or equivalent, to scroll the page.
The first ever user of Sibelius was the composer and engraver Richard Emsley, who provided advice on music engraving prior to the start of development, and beta tested the software before its release. The first concert performance from a Sibelius score was of an orchestral work by David Robert Coleman, copied by Emsley. The first score published using Sibelius was Antara by George Benjamin, also copied by Emsley, and published by Faber Music. Other early adopters included composer John Rutter, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and publisher Music Sales.
As a killer application for the niche Acorn platform, Sibelius rapidly dominated the UK market.[10] It also sold in smaller numbers in a few other countries, restricted by the availability of Acorn computers. 'Lite' versions were subsequently released, and these were successful in UK schools, where Acorns were widely used.[11]
In September 1998, the first version for Windows was released as 'Sibelius', with the version number reset to 1.0.[12] A Mac version 1.2 was released a few months later, and the company thereafter used conventional version numbers for both platforms across subsequent upgrades. Scores created on one platform could be opened on the other, and were backward compatible. To produce these versions, the software was completely rewritten in C++, while retaining most of the original's functionality and user interface with numerous enhancements. The original Acorn names 'Sibelius 6' and 'Sibelius 7' were later re-used to denote versions 6 and 7 of Sibelius for Windows/Mac.
Releasing Sibelius for more widely available computers brought it to a worldwide market, particularly the US, where Sibelius Software had opened an office in late 1996. Following the break-up of Acorn Computers[13][14] shortly after Sibelius' Windows release, no further Acorn versions were developed. Sibelius Software later opened an office in Australia, also serving New Zealand, where Sibelius was widely used.
In August 2006, Sibelius Software Ltd was acquired by Avid Technology, an American manufacturer of software and hardware for audio and video production. Avid continued publishing Sibelius as a stand-alone notation product, as well as integrating it with some of its existing software products.
In July 2012, Avid announced plans to divest itself of its other consumer businesses, closed the Sibelius London office, and laid off the original development team,[3][15] amid an outpouring of user protest, then recruited a new team of programmers to continue Sibelius development in Montreal, Canada and Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sibelius' main function is to help create, edit and print musical scores. It supports virtually all music notations, enabling even the most complex of modern orchestral, choral, jazz, pop, folk, rock and chamber music scores to be engraved to publication quality. Further, it allows scores to be played back or turned into MIDI or audio files, e.g. to create a CD. A built-in sample player and a large range of sampled sounds are included.[24] It supports any MIDI device, and allows Virtual Studio Technology (VST) and Audio Units plug-ins to be used as playback instruments, giving users access to third-party sample libraries.[25] Score playback can also be synchronised to video, or to DAW software via the ReWire standard.
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