Get your Chequebooks out (Sibelius)

Name: Pingu

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Product:	Sibelius
Date:	30/06/00 (77 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic

Disadvantages: EXPENSIVE

Sibelius is just so far in advance of other scorewriters. If Chandler were describing it he would say something like, "Sibelius is just a dot in the distance to Noteworthy Composer."

Sibelius can do everything (ok it won't make your tea while you use it). Quintuplets, septuplets, old music, cross-bar beaming, etc. etc. Basically we are talking publishable quality music. And writing on a change of dynamics will change the dynamics in MIDI playback, which doesn't happen in a sequencer.
You might think this type of functionality will make the interface complicated and unwieldy, but in fact Sibelius has one of the most intuitive interfaces of all scoring software. Information can be entered in a variety of ways, including from your MIDI keyboard.

Unfortunately Sibelius also costs £600 -ignore the £300 quoted in another review. This is a serious dent in anyone's wallet. You would be well advised to think what you are going to be using it for, because it has a huge range of features which the average user will never need, and some of the much cheaper scorewriters available are becoming very good. If you are in the market for scoring software, ask around and see if you can find anyone who has some of the other programmes, and ask to see some results. You may find these are good enough for your needs.

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