The Sibelius Forum

If you really are on that version of Sibelius and a very recent Mac O/S, you will have to upgrade. In fact Apple pushed an update to older O/S versions some time ago that permanently disabled sounds on playback. So again, you probably have no choice but to upgrade to a new version of Sibelius :( One...

You have input them using the wrong voices. In future, you should use Voice 1 for higher notes - up stem. And Voice 2 for lower notes - down stem. Voices 3 and 4 work the same way as Voices 1 and 2. It is possible to select the bars and swap the voices for the notes that you have already input. Read...

Add an accent > or a stress - to the first and third notes of each bar? A bit of a pain if there are lots of bars! That would do it and you can always hide the accents as you won't want them showing in the score.

Ingrid is a very helpful lady! But here are some instructions that may get you up and running: https://avidtech.my.salesforce-sites.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Knowledge/How-to-manually-activate-Sibelius-7-1-to-7-5? No ads, just step by step instructions. If they don't work the way they should (and the s...

It's been a while since this question's come up! I have a non-branded Chinese one bought off Ebay years ago. Works just fine, but that's on Windows! My usual recommendation is to go with a full keyboard with number pad, but you don't want that! I'll leave it to others to chip in, but you could do a ...

Try using Legacy Chord input.

You'll have to raise a case with Avid support to get them to reset your seat count, and then follow their instructions for activating Sibelius 7. You could email Ingrid at Avid, as she's always helpful. ingrid.guce@avid.com Explain what's happened and I'm sure she will be able to assist. I had to do...

Yes, you can install, activate and use Sibelius on the 2nd computer, but you'll have to deactivate the older installation first. In theory you can install as many times as you like, but only have two active installations. If you want to have three active installations you will have to buy a second l...

No conversion needed. You can just open the files in the new version. So just copy the files as they are to your new computer.

But your 'new' version of Sibelius 2020.9 may not work fully with that Mac O/S. If so, you'll need to update to the latest version.

Older versions of Sibelius like yours are not compatible with later Mac operating systems like 10.13 Ventura. You may get some functionality but expect problems. Reinstalling won't make a difference, you have to upgrade to the latest version of Sibelius. Windows 10 and 11 will happily run old versio...

There are only three of us left answering questions on this old unofficial forum. I've not notated it, and if I had done so for personal use, I shouldn't share it as it's copyright material. :( One person down, two people to go... If you could find an old piano/vocal score, the piano part might give...

And have a good read through 'Working with Voices' in the Reference Manual, which explains things more fully than we can here. I always input upper notes (Voice 1) first, maybe a line or a few bars at a time, then go back and input lower notes (Voice 2). For complex voicings you may need Voices 3 an...

And you can force a page break simply by selecting the barline at the end of the last system you want on a page, then holding Ctrl/Cmd and pressing the large Enter key. Do that as many times as required. However, the fact that Sibelius is not tidying things up when you've unlocked the format etc sug...

You can't create them. You can't 'import' them. But you can buy third party libraries that will give you better sounds than the Sibelius set. For orchestral sounds, there's Noteperformer, which has many fans in the Sibelius community. It is possible to get some other virtual instruments working with...

Add bar at End does what it says it will - adds a bar to the end of the entire piece you're scoring. You should be able to add that one bar using Add Single Bar, but if that's not working, then refer to the replies about non compatibility. And if you do succeed in adding a single bar, don't be surpr...