Sibelius 7 Mac Os Compatibility

[Kristin Klodzinski]

Avidhas released Sibelius 2023.11 for desktop and mobile. This update adds many more system object positions for greater flexibility for items like tempo marks and large time signatures, refreshes the look and behavior of the Keypad, and brings the automatic chord symbol completion feature to Sibelius for Mobile, among other fixes and improvements.

Sibelius 2023.11 makes it possible to have up to 11 system object positions, including the compulsory top staff and the optional bottom staff. No doubt, if this update were released tomorrow and called Sibelius 2023.12, there would be 12 system object positions (just kidding).

System object positions, then, are the positions in the score on which system objects appear. As just mentioned, typically in a standard orchestral score you would want things like tempo text and rehearsal marks to appear at the top of the score (above the Flute part) and the top of the strings (above the Violin 1 part).

Historically, Sibelius has effectively been limited to four positions (not counting the bottom staff, which is a special case). This sufficed most of the time, where you might have two (in a standard orchestral score) or three (in a standard symphonic band score). The positions themselves are set by clicking the aforementioned button:

Telling what text styles appear on which system object positions is controlled in Text > Styles > Edit Text Styles, where you can head over to the Vertical Posn tab and set these on an individual basis, in Multiple system object positions. For simpler scores, setting your System Object Positions and then checking all of the boxes for all system text is usually fine:

However, as scores got larger and more complex, many Sibelius users chafed under the restriction of only four positions. This was especially evident in film scores and other scores which made use of large time signatures, which also use system object positions. The issue is that you might have several places in your score where you want time signatures to appear, but others where only system text appears, and still others where you want both to appear.

The default Keypad size in Sibelius 2023.11 is more than 25% larger than before, and now includes the Delete, Undo, and Redo buttons, just like on the mobile version. Sibelius is also drawing these as vector graphics rather than bitmapped images, which will scale infinitely regardless of display size or resolution.

The AI-powered automatic chord symbol completion feature, first introduced on the desktop only in Sibelius 2023.6 and refined in 2023.8, makes its first appearance on the mobile platforms iPad and iPhone in Sibelius 2023.11.

With Sibelius 2023.11 comes official support for macOS Sonoma on desktop and iOS 17 on mobile. Sibelius on Mac still runs under the Rosetta 2 translation layer as an Intel application, however, so native support for Apple silicon remains on the wish list.

No major issues had been reported with Sibelius 2023.8 and Sonoma, but with Finale just yesterday providing Sonoma support in v27.4, and Dorico already having done so, Mac users that rely on these three major desktop notation software applications can use Sonoma confidently (assuming the other software you use is supported, as well).

As mentioned, macOS Sonoma is fully supported with Sibelius 2023.11, running under Rosetta 2. The minimum version of macOS Sibelius supports is macOS 10.14 Mojave. As of Sibelius 2023.8, Sibelius will no longer install on earlier versions of macOS prior to 10.14.

The chord auto-completion feature only applies to the Ultimate and Artist tiers on desktop and mobile, and is not available on Sibelius First. The same is true for certain other features as well; typically our Scoring Notes coverage only extends to the Sibelius Ultimate version of the application.

For the latest information about compatibility for Finale, Sibelius, Dorico, and MuseScore, as well as links to the latest news and reviews about product releases, please see the Scoring Notes Product Guide.

Hear, hear! Sibelius 2023.11 integrated a completely irrelevant pdf from my desktop INTO the score as I was copy-pasting a notation element. Also, it seems to be more crashing-prone than the previous version.

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Note Performer Compatibility with Sibelius 8

Posted by Greg Jones - 16 Jun 12:43PM Hide picture With regard to the latest Sibelius update (which will probably be released at the end of June), I wanted to ask a question: will Note Performer be updated to be compatible with the latest release of Sibelius?

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Sibelius 7.5.1, MacBook Pro, OS X Version 10.10 Yosemite, Logic Pro, Note Performer 1.5.0, 8 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Back to top Allthreads Re: Note Performer Compatibility with Sibelius 8

Posted by Laurence Payne - 16 Jun 01:20PM (edited 16 Jun 01:21PM) Hide picture Don't ask us, ask Arne Wallander! But I think we can assume he will promptly make any necessary tweaks, unless Avid throw spanners into the works by radically changing the playback engine.

I suspect, however, that we will be complaining about the paucity of significant changes/improvements in Sibelius 8 rather than the opposite :-) Back to top Allthreads Re: Note Performer Compatibility with Sibelius 8

Posted by Philip Woodroffe - 16 Jun 02:28PM Hide picture I can't say this for sure but if anything else is to go by I think the wait will be very short indeed he is really hardworking on updates.

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Posted by Sam at Sibelius - 18 Jun 10:56AM Hide picture Hi Greg,

NotePerformer works well in the new version of Sibelius.

When installing the new version (trial or otherwise), you will be able to copy the supporting files from Sibelius 7 or 7.5, which will include the NotePerformer Playback Configuration and Sound Sets you had set up previously.

Sam

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I have resisted the temptation to update the Firefox version I use (16), because previously it was not compatible with Scorch. Is it now compatible, so I can download music, and if required, listen to it.Thank you very much for your help,Kate

According to Sibelius' website , _US/compatibility/Sibelius-Scorch-plug-in-compatiblity it works with all latest versions of all major web browsers. Please update to Firefox 38.0.5 and then update scorch. Update Firefox to the latest release

I have a very old Casio CTK 611 with midi outputs. I have a midi cable to USB. When I plug it in the midi cable lights up, and my Win 10 computer does indicate that a USB2.0 midi device is connected, and my music program (Sibelius 7.5) sees that device, but I can not get Sibelius to receive midi input from my keyboard (the test fails). I am assuming that my keyboard is way too old to work with Win 10 and there probably are not any compatible drivers. I just want to be sure before I sink money in a replacement keyboard. The midi cable that I have is a Sanoxy USB MIDI Cable Converter and has a dual in/out 5-pin DIN and a USB on the other end. I have searched the internet for possible answers, and have not had success. Any ideas?

You only need drivers for a device that connects DIRECTLY to the computer - in this case, the USB-MIDI Adapter. The Adapter will, in turn, interface the keyboard to the computer. So, no drivers are needed for the keyboard, and if the USB-MIDI Adapter is "Class Compliant", it will not need special drivers either, as it will work with the drivers that have been built-in to Windows since XP Service Pack 2. Apparently this is the case, since both Windows and Sibelius are "seeing" the adapter. As long as the keyboard is fully functional, its age should make no difference. Basic MIDI has changed very little, since its inception, and there are many of us successfully using USB-MIDI Adapters to connect our 15 to 20 year old keyboards to everything from XP to WIN-10.

As a start in diagnosing your problem, the labels on the 5-pin connectors of the USB-MIDI Adapter (should) indicate what they ARE and NOT what they connect to on the keyboard. That is, the MIDI-OUT connector on the Adapter is an OUTPUT. It needs to connect to the MIDI-IN on the keyboard, and the MIDI-IN connector on the Adapter is an INPUT, so it needs to connect to the MIDI-OUT on the keyboard. Now, that said, some (many?) of the lower priced adapters get the labels reversed, so if you have them connected as I have stated above and they are still not working, try reversing them. It will not harm anything. Windows 8 and 10 are sometimes a bit picky about working with the lower priced adapters, so I usually recommend the name brands - Yamaha, EMU, M-Audio, Roland, but if this is the problem, Windows usually does not "see" the adapter, at all - which is not your case. You also need to check the keyboard's and Sibelius' MIDI settings to ensure that the keyboard is transmitting its data on the channel that Sibelius is looking for it on. A channel mismatch means no communications. As a last resort, you need to consider that the keyboard's MIDI circuits are defective. To check for this, I recommend downloading and installing MIDI-OX, a MIDI diagnostic tool:

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