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Other tabs are provided to set up Manual Sound Sets, Preferred Sounds, and Effects.Kontakt Player 2 and Sibelius Sounds Essentials are a huge improvement over the previous Kontakt Player Silver - and Gold, for that matter. The Playback Devices window allows you to specify what plug–ins are active in the current configuration and what Sound Sets they use. The original Kontakt Player is no longer built into the application, but instead Sibelius 5 now includes Native Instruments’ latest Kontakt Player 2 in plug–in form, along with a new sound library called Sibelius Sounds Essentials (which is a name that over–uses the letter ‘s’, if you ask me). Existing users of Sibelius will know that verions 3 and 4 used to come with Kontakt Player Silver, which allowed you to load and play eight instruments simultaneously from a selection of 20, with a more powerful Gold version available separately that allowed 32 simultaneous instruments from a list of 64. Playback ParadiseĪlthough there are many significant new features in Sibelius 5, perhaps the one that will raise the most eyebrows is the new support for plug–in virtual instruments that allows users to load VST and (on the Mac) Audio Units plug–ins to play back their score. But since I know users out there (particularly in schools) who might not always have access to newer hardware, it is something to be aware of if you’re an existing Sibelius user looking to upgrade.

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It’s a little pointless to be critical of an application’s minimum requirements in this case they’re not unreasonable anyway, and it would be far worse for the application not to support new features on the Windows and Mac platforms. But if you want to take advantage of the new playback features you’ll need at least 1GB memory and 3.5GB hard disk space Windows users will also need ASIO–compatible audio hardware, and Mac users are recommended to have a G5 or Intel processor.

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It’s also claimed that Sibelius 5 is compatible with the forthcoming Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), although we’ll have to wait until October to know for sure.įor basic Sibelius use the company recommend 512MB memory, 350MB hard disk space and a DVD–ROM drive.

Sibelius 5 now only runs on Windows XP (with Service Pack 2), Windows Vista and Mac OS 10.4, whereas Sibelius 4 supported Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP, along with Mac OS 10.2.8, 10.3.9 and 10.4.

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Sibelius 5 supports the latest computing platforms, including Windows Vista, and Mac users will be pleased to know that Sibelius is now a Universal Binary, meaning that it runs exceptionally well on Intel–based Macs - using Sibelius 5 on my Macbook Pro was a revelation! However, this support for the latest technology comes at a price, because Sibelius 5 has slightly steeper minimum requirements than before, and also drops support for older operating systems. Sibelius 5 is the first version of the application to be released under Avid’s ownership, although there’s little evidence of parental interference at this stage it seems that development of this version was already well under way by the time of the acquisition. However, it hasn’t just been the British monarchy who have recognised what Sibelius have achieved since the company was founded in 1993 last year they were acquired by Avid to help the video and audio giants expand their reach into the education market, and it will be interesting to see how both the Sibelius brand and application will benefit from closer relationships with Digidesign and M–Audio.

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Although there wasn’t a public holiday on the day of Sibelius 5’s release, Sibelius co–founders Ben and Jonathan Finn did receive national recognition at around the same time, with the twin brothers being awarded the OBE by Her Majesty the Queen for services to software technology. The updated Mixer window shows Strips for each staff in the score (in blue), along with Virtual Instrument Strips (in green), Group Strips (in purple), Effects Bus Strips (in red) and the Master Volume Strip (in black).When Jean Sibelius premiered the fifth symphony on the day of his 50th birthday in 1915, the Finnish government, who had commissioned the work, declared the day a national holiday. Here you can see the new Kontakt Player 2 plug-in with instruments from Sibelius Sounds Essentials loaded to play back the current score. The latest version of Sibelius Software’s notation package brings instrument plug–ins from the sequencing world into the realm of score–writing.

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