Behind the Scenes (Doug's Desk) - Notating in Sibelius software

Jeez, Doug, you should go down the Zappa rabbit hole. One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers. ‘Blessed Relief’ or ‘Peaches En Regalia’. Stunning compositions. Really. Truly. Definitely. Love what you’re doing.

Philip B

Not wanting to shell out a fortune for Sibelius I use MuseScore and it does mostly what I want it to do and I look forward to it getting better. :D

John Sawyer

Recently switched from Finale to Sibelius and I'm really satisfied!

ctschwei

I spent hundreds of hours in Finale's software from the late 1990's to 2007. One of my side gigs was serving as copyist and orchestrator to a popular choral music composer, Z. Randall Stroope. He gave me his hand-written scores and asked me to engrave them. It was my most invaluable work as a music student...as I both could learn from his scores as I input them and learn the ins and outs of engraving techniques and the software platform itself. I switched to Sibelius in 2007 because it was the first to adopt 'dynamic parts'...where I could toggle between a full score and a part, writing/building the piece in either view. Instead of "extracting" a part from the full score...having to re-extract every single time I make a correction, I could simply print the most current version of the part or the score anytime I wanted. It was a game changer during my time as a doctoral student. It took me about 6 weeks slogging through the program on one of Stroope's pieces to really learn the ins and outs. I've been pleased with the program. It works for me...but I totally get this guy's perspective in the video.

R. Douglas Helvering

Have a look at MuseScore. It's similarly capable and is open source and for free. And the UI design was recently taken over by Tantacrul, the guy who made the famous harsh reviews of both Sibelius (as mentioned by James above) and a previous version of MuseScore.

Interesting! And quite a bit of a service, in churches over here, you simply get the sheet with all the verses and it woulld simply be announced: "but we'll be only singing verses 1 and 4". Of course, there's always somebody who gets it wrong then 😉

Murdock Moriarty

Pretty amazing that it was that fast to type it in from scratch. Personally I expect I could still do it faster (at least in this case) via a image-processing program, but not by much!

Garance A Drosehn

OK. Before I even watch this thing I have to HIGHLY recommend you drop everything and watch this hilarious, sadly too accurate review of Sibelius. https://youtu.be/dKx1wnXClcI Secondly I was also “enjoying” Siblast weekend, transcribing and arranging something a local priest seems to have made up on the spot. All’s I can say is I feel for you brother.

Pretty cool!

Illume Eltanin