The Sibelius Forum

1) there is no such thing as Sibelius Professional, [this subject was recently discussed on the main Sibelius forum which, if you're a registered user, you have access to!] just the 'standard' version and the cut down 'Student' version. 2) Sibelius 4 is the current version, 4.1.5 is the latest revis...

Scanned images in TIFF format are usually very large. Maybe there's a limit to how large an image can be in Sibelius? If you can import the images supplied with Sibelius, try resizing yours to make them smaller.

Andy

Try Garritan Personal Orchestra , or Edirol Orchestral . Not free, but much less expensive than the sample library route. Both need a good soundcard and speakers to sound good though, and that's probably where your distortion comes from. MIDI files are just data . It's the device that's making the s...

Hi Emily, Sorry to hear that your Pro Tools stuff has gone as well. I know how you feel. I've been there, [as have most of my students, but usually only once ]. Check out any data recovery programmes FIRST, before you install anything else or save any more data. That way you'll stand a better chance...

You installed/updated an O/S without backing up your data? Not a good idea, sorry! :( RULE 1. Keep regular backups to another media - another drive, CD, DVD. RULE 2. When making any major changes or updates, Rule 1 always applies first! Did the O/S update require the formatting of the hard drive? If...

Not sure if there's a tool for that. However, if you only want the dynamics in the first bar, why not create the ostinato without dynamics, do the copying and then just add the dynamics to the first bar? Just as quick!

Andy

I think what you want to do has been answered in the post just below this one - see 'Right Justification'. Putting a gap between the bars can force a 'new' start on the next line. If you need to change clef, key or time signatures, you can suppress the cautionaries that will appear at the end of the...

Can't you just select the note in the voice that you want and adjust the X value in Properties/General to shift the note to one side so you can see both of them?
Andy

Having pressed Ctrl-E, you then have to Hold Ctrl while you type in f, mf or whatever. Then the dynamics should appear in the correct font.

Are you doing that?

Andy

Hi King I see what you mean about bar 15. Looking at all the other bars, this is in 4/4, so you're fitting the tuplet into 4 crotchet beats. Now, ignore the whole bar's tuplet number for a moment and count the number of effective crotchet beats you have. 1 crotchet + 2 quavers + 1x 7:2 group + 4 sem...

Hi Just joined the forum and am scanning thru posts. Your tuplet is indeed a septolet - 7 in the time of 6. It's easy to do. Start with a 16th note instead of your first quarter note, then Press Ctrl and 7 to start the septolet and insert the bracket. Add three more 16th notes the same pitch as your...