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by andyg
Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:09 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Please, please help me...
Replies: 1
Views: 1708

You have Sib 6? Then don't save your piece, just Export it. That's File / Export / Sibelius 2,3,4,5 / Sibelius 5.

Sorted!

If you want to send that $5 somewhere, donate it to a Cancer charity. I lost one of my closest friends to the Big C last week.

Andy
by andyg
Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:58 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: Sibelius 6 and Kontakt Player
Replies: 7
Views: 17071

Can't help you with the Mac side of things. I just installed Sib 6 on the PC and it worked out of the box. It can now see all the VSTi's I want to let it see!

If you can't get a detailed answer here, have you have asked on the official forum? I'm sure Daniel will be able to put you right.
by andyg
Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:19 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: STRINGS
Replies: 2
Views: 3334

Without being rude... You do know how to write for strings? I ask because I teach some people Music Tech and their string writing is not that good. Simple block chords, as if it were played on piano, etc But hey, for all I know you may be a great arranger! :D Less is more for most of my string parts...
by andyg
Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:14 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Unstable Sibelius 6
Replies: 3
Views: 3339

Perfectly stable here. You are presumably running the latest version? And have the usual caveats of the latest hardware drivers etc installed.
by andyg
Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Upgrade from 5? Any advice?
Replies: 1
Views: 2101

Loads up pretty fast for me, though I haven't yet set it up to use and VSTi's. In this respect it's the same as Sib5.

The BIIIIIG thing about Sib6 is the time you'll save thanks to Magnetic Layout. Much more time than you'll spend waiting for it to load.

Andy
by andyg
Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:41 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Playing without note input
Replies: 1
Views: 1592

1) Hit ESC
2) Read first part of manual - note input
by andyg
Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:41 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Dal Segno Segno
Replies: 2
Views: 2400

Use a non-playing Symbol? Or click on the Segno and uncheck 'Play on Pass'? Just a couple of things to look up in the book!
by andyg
Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:30 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: PDF
Replies: 2
Views: 2274

No, but just download Cute PDF for free and 'print' to it.
by andyg
Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:15 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Help with suspensions!
Replies: 1
Views: 1630

This is probably the most asked 'newbie' question I see on here. Perhaps the answer should be a sticky. :? You need to use different VOICES to form your chords. Read about using them in the Reference / Manual / on screen help. It's all there, really! So is the answer to your other problem. Go to Ins...
by andyg
Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:46 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Different sounds of Voices in same Stave?
Replies: 8
Views: 8249

OK, point taken - I'm not talking about hymns etc, but about the heaps of books where they seem to have arbitrarily decided to notate things on 2 staves when it would have been so much clearer on 3. Were they just lazy, or trying to save paper, perhaps? I won't argue with you - life's too short for ...
by andyg
Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:02 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Different sounds of Voices in same Stave?
Replies: 8
Views: 8249

Well, if wer'e quoting careers, I'll beat you by over 10 years on experience! :D :D I'd say the customer is often not right, just misinformed, thick, stubborn, obstinate and sometimes utterly devoid of knowledge about things, but alas they're still the customer. :cry: And I think 2 stave organ music...
by andyg
Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:22 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Different sounds of Voices in same Stave?
Replies: 8
Views: 8249

Please, please don't follow the herd. Write organ music properly, on three staves. I'm not just talking classical music either. Plenty of my arrangements involve pedals that would be above top C on a home spinet organ, at the same time with left hand that goes right to the bottom of the bass stave, ...
by andyg
Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:36 am
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: 8va Both Hands
Replies: 3
Views: 3972

Wouldn't it look better to change clef for the left hand part. 8va's for LH are a pet hate!
by andyg
Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Slur collision, can this be right?
Replies: 10
Views: 7153

In all seriousness, Sib will save you a lot of time with ML . Sure, there will always be a few things to sort out (can't remember ties being an ML issue, though and the slurs are, for the most part, just fine). It's lots of other things that will add up and make the 'out of the box' results better t...
by andyg
Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:46 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Slur collision, can this be right?
Replies: 10
Views: 7153

Then use Finale! :D :wink: