SIBELIUS COMPARISON
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Sibelius |
Sibelius | Ultimate |
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| Ideal for… | Composing simple/moderate music with up to 16 staves | Composing, arranging, and publishing scores and parts of any size and complexity; creating notation worksheets and exercises for education |
| Availability | Subscribe monthly or annually, or purchase and own a perpetual license | Subscribe monthly or annually, purchase and own a perpetual license (educational discount available), trade-up from other notation software, or get network licensing |
| Number of computers you can install a single copy on | 2, for use by same person (e.g., desktop + laptop) | |
| Accidentals | Normal and double only, bracketed | Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed |
| Metadata | Full set | |
| Bar numbers | Full range of formats | |
| Barline types | Single, double, repeat, dotted, early music | |
| Bars, irregular | No, except pick-up bars |
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| Beams cross-staff in (keyboard music) |
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| Beam/rest groupings | Customizable | |
| Brackets and braces | Customizable | |
| Change transposition of tranposing instruments |
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| Chord symbols appearance and MIDI/text input | Fully customizable | |
| Cue (small) notes |
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| Dotted notes: single, double, triple |
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| Guitar chord diagrams |
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| Guitar scale diagrams |
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| Guitar tab | Full | |
| Instruments | Common, jazz, and world instruments only, with fixed number of staves | Full customizable range |
| Jazz articulations: scoops, falls, doits, and plops |
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| Lines, custom |
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| Lines gallery | All | |
| Note values: 512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve) |
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| Noteheads, custom |
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| Ossia staves |
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| Page numbers | Customizable | |
| Special symbols |
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| Split multirests in parts |
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| Staves | Up to 16 per system | Unlimited number |
| Stemlets (half-stems) and “feathered” beams |
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| Symbols | All | |
| Tuplets | Duplets (2:3) to nontuplets (9:8) | Any (such as 2, 7, 44:31, and nested tuplets) |
| Voices per stave | 4 voices | |
| Accidentals | Normal and double only, bracketed | Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed |
| Annotate |
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| Arrange: automatic arranging and orchestration |
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| Comments (sticky notes) |
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| Compare different scores or versions |
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| Copy and paste to Word and other programs | Low resolution (96 dpi) only |
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| Display timecode | Single format | Customizable format |
| Edit Dynamic Parts | Limited | Full |
| Edit word menus |
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| Export a log of changes to a score |
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| Export lyrics as text file |
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| Filters for editing similar objects | Quick filters only |
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| Find |
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| Focus on staves |
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| Graphics export (for creating worksheets and other content) |
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| Hide and show objects in score and parts | Yes | |
| Highlight music |
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| Ideas Hub | 300 library ideas, with the ability to capture your own ideas (editing not supported) | Over 2,000 library ideas, with the ability to capture and edit your own ideas and add to the score/library |
| Import MIDI files |
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| Intelligent MIDI Import | Limited |
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| Import MusicXML files |
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| Instrument changes |
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| Join scores together |
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| Keyboard shortcuts | Customizable | |
| Lyric verses allowed | 5 | Unlimited |
| Lyrics from text file |
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| Navigator window |
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| Note input options | Limited | Full |
| Panorama scroll view |
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| Paper and desk textures | Over 60 | |
| Part extraction |
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| Paste As Cue |
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| Plugins | 38 included | Over 140 included |
| Inspector window to edit individual objects | Full | |
| Rehearsal marks | Default only | Fully customizable |
| Repeat structures | Customizable | Fully customizable |
| Rulers |
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| Score Starter: (40 genre-specific templates) |
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| Slide notes and rests |
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| Special page breaks |
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| Timeline window |
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| Swap voices |
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| Versions | Save, view, and print only |
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| Video, including timecode and hit points | Add video, add/edit hit points |
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| Viewing options for Magnetic Layout, page margins, note colors, full screen, and more |
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| Worksheet Creator |
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| Audio recording export | WAV, AIFF, and MP3 | |
| Avid Scorch optimized export (app available on the iTunes App Store) |
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| Email score as .sib or .pdf |
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| Graphics file export | PDF export only | Standard bitmap and vector formats (SVG, EPS, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, and PDF) |
| MIDI file export—Type 0 and Type 1 for any device |
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| MusicXML file export (compressed or uncompressed) |
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| Previous version export |
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| Publish directly to ScoreExchange.com |
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| Review mode |
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| Sibelius | Cloud Sharing | 20 scores | Unlimited (up to 1 GB storage) |
| Video file (export your score as) |
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| Audio recording export | WAV, AIFF, and MP3 | |
| Avid Scorch optimized export (app available on the iTunes App Store) |
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| Minimum requirements | Avid-qualified Mac or Windows-based computer (get the details); the 10 GB Sibelius Sounds library is an optional installation | Avid-qualified Mac or Windows-based computer (get the details); the 36 GB Sibelius | Ultimate Sounds library is an optional installation |
| Other | Internet connection required for software download and activation; ASIO-compatible soundcard required for Sibelius Sounds (Windows requirement only) | Internet connection required for software download and activation; ASIO-compatible soundcard required for Sibelius | Ultimate Sounds (Windows requirement only) |
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