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by Rob M.
Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:27 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

I'm afraid you will have to download the full 32GB - unless you still have installation discs from Sib 7.x You could cheat a little with those. (FYI apart from a patch for the Bass Clarinet, the 2021 sounds are exactly the same as the 7.5.1 sounds) As indicated elsewhere, I do still have the Sib 7....
by Rob M.
Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

Hi Rob, if you don't want to use ASIO4ALL with Sibelius, but need to use it with Jamulus, make sure you untick the "Use virtual instruments" box. Thanks, Mike. That looks like just what I need. To date, I've paid no attention to that dialogue box, because my usual approach to settings options I don...
by Rob M.
Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:50 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

Make sure that Sibelius is not using ASIO4ALL. Normally you would look in the Audio Engines window but if it won't load...... IIRC, GM and ASIO4ALL are not compatible. Thanks for the suggestion. I've seen it suggested elsewhere as well that ASIO4All and GM don't play nicely together. So maybe what ...
by Rob M.
Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:53 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

I'd suggest a very careful read about how ASIO4ALL works. https://www.asio4all.org/index.php/help/instruction-manual/ Thank you for that, Andy. I discovered that guide a couple of days ago when I went to the ASIO4All website for the current version of ASIO4ALL in the hope that an update might resol...
by Rob M.
Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:04 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

Yup. One reason. Sheer laziness. That and the fact that General MIDI is adequate for my needs, i.e., checking my scores for notation errors. I've almost never played back a score for any other reason. I have thought about installing the Sibelius Sounds files, but that's just out of curiosity to see ...
by Rob M.
Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:14 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

I'm not fond of threads like this one that quit midstream because they offer no clue as to what the solution was. So here's what has happened to date. I e-mailed the PlogueEngine log file to Mike. The PlogueEngine log file's last section was: I:0x 4:19052:81340629:Initialising Devices... I:0x 4:1905...
by Rob M.
Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:23 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

Here's something to try. Go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Avid\Sibelius\PlogueEngine and open the log file. It may be a very long file. See if there is any entry that shows "failed". Is the sound card chip a Realtek or a Creative device by any chance? These are known to have issues in...
by Rob M.
Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:38 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Re: Sibelius fails to load

andyg said: Go to your audio card manufacturer's website, download and install the latest drivers. Don't take Windows' word for it if it tells you that the drivers are up to date. I did check for audio system updates -- Windows said I had the current drivers. Thanks for the warning that Windows does...
by Rob M.
Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:03 am
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Sibelius fails to load
Replies: 18
Views: 6958

Sibelius fails to load

I'm running Sibelius Ultimate 2021.2 on Windows 10 Home version 21H1. Recently, Sibelius refuses to start. The splash screen appears, followed by an appropriate entry in Task Manager. Then both disappear after "initializing playback system" is displayed on the splash screen. Sibelius theme sound doe...
by Rob M.
Sat Oct 05, 2019 9:25 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Title page margins
Replies: 6
Views: 4473

Re: Title page margins

bobp said: I suppose you could use a word processor, instead of Sibelius. Do the steps I posted not work? I did use Sibelius for the title page. After my last post. So yes, your suggestion did work. bobp said: I wonder if you had done the title page first, then changed the margins for the score, if ...
by Rob M.
Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:23 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Title page margins
Replies: 6
Views: 4473

Re: Title page margins

Sorry, Mike -- didn't work. A special page break with new margins apparently re-sets the margins AFTER the break. Which doesn't work well when one has to set the special page break at the beginning of the score. So I tried re-sizing the existing score to provide 20mm side margins, in the hope that t...
by Rob M.
Sat Sep 28, 2019 1:44 am
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Title page margins
Replies: 6
Views: 4473

Title page margins

I have a score all nicely done, with 15mm margins left and right. I want to add a title page, but with 20mm side margins. The Add Title Page feature works fine, but the added title page takes its margin settings from the existing score. And I can't find a way to set different margins for the added t...
by Rob M.
Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:38 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Nudge Note left or right?
Replies: 17
Views: 16656

Re: Nudge Note left or right?

In Sib 2018 you can nudge a note/group of notes to the right or left using [ctrl][alt] [left/right arrow] That ability exists in some earlier Windows versions of Sibelius too. I don't know how far back it goes. I can't speak for the Mac versions. Using the [CTRL-ALT-arrow keys] function will nudge ...
by Rob M.
Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:08 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Installing updates
Replies: 2
Views: 2383

Re: Installing updates

You'll get no argument about AppMan from me on that score. And yes, it got updated by the Sibelius 18.7 installer. Avid support didn't say anything about removing the older version first, so that hadn't happened. There were problems with the update, but I saw no indication that they involved AppMan....
by Rob M.
Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:03 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Installing updates
Replies: 2
Views: 2383

Installing updates

I'm about to update Sibelius Ultimate 2018.1 to version 2018.7. Avid's support staff have advised me I should deregister v18.1, uninstall it, then install v18.7 and re-register it. In the past, installing the update over top of the previous version didn't cause any problems for me, but I hadn't skip...