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Sibelius

4.31 • 50 Ratings

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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 and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes. # Work on scores anywhere Sibelius for mobile puts the #1 selling music notation program at your fingertips—literally. Work with the same tools and features used by countless composers and production houses every day on your iPad and iPhone. Whether writing down ideas, creating full-blown compositions, or reviewing scores, you have the freedom to create wherever you’re comfortable. #Take your portfolio to go Forget having to bring and break out your laptop when meeting with clients and collaborators. Instead, you can conveniently take the world’s most powerful notation toolset and your entire music portfolio with you wherever you go—ideal for those unexpected opportunities. And for tandemly working through last-minute revisions. # Hear your music in stunning detail Sibelius includes a high-quality sample library filled with a variety of musical instrumentation, so you can hear what your music will sound like when performed by real musicians. The Espressivo advanced notation interpretation even lets you adjust rhythm and swing to create a more humanistic feel. # Speed your workflow Sibelius for mobile is designed to take full advantage of Apple Pencil and iPad touch capabilities. Its elegant, streamlined interface provides the most intuitive and efficient workflows possible while supporting the same keyboard shortcuts you know and love from working on the desktop version, so you’ll feel right at home. # Get innovative note entry Experience the pen and paper workflow reimagined. Enter notes with the onscreen Keypad or a keyboard, and Sibelius takes care of all note layout. Touch a note and drag up or down to change its value, or drag left or right to add a flat or sharp. With an Apple Pencil, tap a note and tilt up or down to add a flat or sharp, or tilt left or right to choose the note value. # Have everything you need In addition to the Keypad, Sibelius for mobile features a Create menu that’s optimized for iOS, making it easy to add clefs, key signatures, time signatures, barlines, symbols, text styles, and more to your score from searchable galleries. You can also quickly search through all Sibelius commands using the Command Search, putting the entire app at your fingertips. # Move tiers to meet needs Sibelius is designed to grow with you to support your creative aspirations and project needs. From the introductory (and free) Sibelius First to the industry-standard Sibelius Ultimate, you can add more notation capabilities and instrument parts to take on more creative opportunities by simply upgrading your subscription tier. # Have everything on one creative platform Seamlessly move from desktop to tablet and back without ever having to import or export files. That’s because whether on mobile or desktop, you’re always in Sibelius. With files saved to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other iOS-supported cloud service, you have easy anywhere access to all your ideas and scores. # Enable a hybrid workflow While Sibelius for mobile is fully featured, providing many of the same tools as its desktop counterpart, there are some notation and layout features only available in the desktop version, making it an integral part of a complete workflow (compare versions). Plus, the mobile version comes free with the desktop version, enabling you to work where and how you want.
What’s New
New in Sibelius 2022.12 * Introducing Score Subsets, a new feature to create a new score view with a subset of instruments. Create a new Score Subset by selecting the staves you’d like to include, and search for “Make into Score Subset” from the Command Search * New special barline types are here! Add triple, thick and dotted barlines to your score.
Version 2022.12.0
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Ratings and Reviews

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4.31
out of 5
50 Ratings
  • arkofsax, 29.12.2022
    Not bad but needs work for serious applications
    Like many others, I see the potential in this app. There are some features particularly involving note entry that definitely help push this to the front of the line for mobile music composition. I would recommend implementing a “toolbar” of sorts- possibly something that can be swiped aside to hide/reveal as needed. This bar could include customized additions such as “triplets”, “add bar at end”, etc. The current searching system is simply far too slow and awkward. Most importantly though, the app has now crashed twice on me and cost me MANY hours of work. Please implement an autosave feature!!! This is a huge problem and in my opinion pretty much renders the app unusable as I can’t really get into a flow without fear of the inevitable crash. Show more
  • kenplaysviola, 14.12.2022
    Cannot write one note
    I have an Apple Pencil and I am unable to write one note. The user interface is not clear and is counter intuitive. I should be able to use the pencil to write a note instead of clicking around everywhere guessing. I hope this app supports hand writing notes one day. Show more
  • A___Human, 23.11.2022
    The Best Composition software with a Mobile app
    I have tried MuseScore and NoteFlight, but neither of them have an effective mobile version. The main thing I ask to improve is the MIDI, which is one of the lowest quality I have used. Show more
  • 33jpb22, 22.11.2022
    Lots of buggy behavior
    Perhaps the problems I experience are local to my device…I dunno…nonetheless… wonderful use and potential…
  • Mz.Lady Saxx, 01.11.2022
    Wasted too much time correcting the app
    App Kept Crashing! Extremely annoying to compose an entire score only to loose it in a freeze screen before crashing! Even after hitting save, it will not open back up the same. Don’t click transpose or key change button b/c it will crash again. Ugh took me 4 hours to write happy birthday due to crashes and redoing what I already did. :( Show more
  • dogdoogdooog, 23.10.2022
    Feels like 50% of what you get on desktop
    Firstly the app never saves what I work on, so unless you plan on composing/arranging an entire piece in one sitting then be wary. I have to use this for an arranging class at my university and since I don't have a laptop I was hoping that the app would be somewhat viable... Show more
  • kahn265, 23.10.2022
    Doesn’t work
    I try to open something, black screen and nothing happens.
  • Brieasaurus, 02.10.2022
    It’s definitely got potential
    I’d like to see the ability to save as musicxml in the ultimate version. Also would like to see better quality sounds. I like the way you can write using a mouse. It’s like what you do on a desktop. Makes it so much easier since I’m used to it. Still getting used to where everything is since it’s all hidden. I’m used to having everything on screen. If you can implement an option for everything to be visible that would be awesome. Also exporting as an audio recording would be great, but only if you add better quality sounds. 900mb sounds is not very good. But I could work around that if you bring the ability to export as music xml. But this is the closest thing I’ve found to writing music in a quality program outside the computer. For when I travel I can keep writing music. Sure I could go with staffpad but it doesn’t recognize my handwriting most of the time. So, if you brought the sound quality and ability to save as music xml you would have an awesome app on your hands. It’s definitely got potential and I’d like to see pro tools come to iPad next. Show more
  • Mikey Bilello, 01.10.2022
    Crashes consistently for iPad
    Basie features such as adding a treble clef, or using the search function to change the tempo, cause the app to crash consistently. I have a brand new iPad 9th gen with the latest iOS and the latest version of Sibelius. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    Free
  • Size
    1290.54 MB
  • Provider
    Avid®
Languages
English, France, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Copyright
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