With a high-quality 32 GB sample library filled with a wide variety of musical instrumentation, you can hear what your compositions will sound like when performed. The Espressivo advanced notation interpretation even lets you adjust rhythm and swing to create a more humanistic feel.

ORCHESTRATE

Create and perfect the arrangement and instrumentation in the score.

Transform music into perfect scores

Quickly adapt your music and arrangement for any ensemble and performance with a full suite of powerful orchestration tools. From intelligent MIDI import workflows, to the ability to refine every instrument, Sibelius enables you to create arrangements intuitively whether you’re working with a solo piano or a full orchestra.

Import MIDI intelligently New

With Intelligent MIDI Import, you can transform MIDI compositions from Pro Tools and other DAWs into fully orchestrated scores with just a click. Import MIDI into a Sibelius score or template, and all proper notation, instrumentation, techniques, and articulations are automatically assigned, preserving the composer’s intent and saving hours—or even days—of clean-up time.

Create and arrange parts fast

The Arrange feature makes it easy to orchestrate additional instrument parts from existing ones. Simply select an orchestration style and Sibelius automatically creates new parts based on your source parts. You can also automatically “explode” notation across multiple instrument parts to speed your workflow. Or consolidate multiple parts into one at the click of a button.

Keep scores safe during review

Review mode locks down your score, enabling collaborators to freely navigate and review your composition. Contributors are free to add comments and annotations without the fear of inadvertently changing a score.

Engrave & Copy

Prepare and fine-tune scores and performance and publishing.

Perfect and polish your score

With a full suite of notation editing tools and the score Inspector, you can control and finesse every element with ease. Fine-tune lyrics, dynamics, and charts with desktop publishing tools. Plus, add graphics and create your own house styles or manuscript papers to give your scores a unique look and feel.

Create parts dynamically

Dynamic Parts automatically creates individual instrument parts as a score is being created. For copyists, this eliminates the need to extract parts or make destructive changes to a score when prepping sheet music for different instrumental parts. Changes to the full score are automatically reflected in the parts, while individual parts can be changed without affecting the full score.

Engrave intelligently

Create beautiful, legible scores quickly with advanced notation tools and multi-edit capabilities. Add slurs, hairpins, ties, or other staff lines across multiple instruments, and make edits to barlines, expression and technique text, and lyrics all in one action. Sibelius intelligently spaces notes and elements, keeping everything in perfect alignment.

Perform complex tasks with ease

Supercharge Sibelius with extra features and capabilities courtesy of the generous user community. These free plugins accelerate and simplify complex engraving, notating, layout, processing, text, and other tasks. See and search for all available plugins in the Install Plug-ins dialog to find what you need.

Share your scores

With Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, you can share your scores online and on social media, enabling anyone to view and play your compositions anywhere, using any device.

SHARE SCORES WITH ANYONE, ANYWHERE

Imagine being able to present scores online so anyone, anywhere, can view, play, and provide feedback on your compositions. That’s the beauty of Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, available in all versions of Sibelius.

PREVIEW AND PLAY SCORES USING ANY DEVICE

Invite collaborators, clients, or the public to review your work. You can share scores privately with others on your own personal cloud space (1 GB included) or post your compositions to your website and social media for the world to hear. All you need is Sibelius and an Internet connection.

SEND SCORES TO THE CLOUD WITH A CLICK

Easily share scores with a unique URL that can be embedded in a webpage or instantly sent to a collaborator. Push any changes you make online as you go, or stop sharing whenever you want by disabling the link.

THE ULTIMATE MUSICAL COLLABORATION TOOL

• View and play scores in any web browser—without requiring Sibelius
• Flip through pages and hear compositions with full high-quality instrumentation
• Share compositions with musicians, ensembles, and choirs for performance preparation
• Improve collaboration between composers, arrangers, and engravers
• Send scores out for review, proofreading, and approval