Sibelius Student 6

Sibelius Student is the entry-level notation software. Designed for students in grades 4 through college, Sibelius Student is easy to use and fun to learn. It offers students a tightly packaged set of features geared directly to their needs, and you won't find a more intuitive user experience anywhere. Best of all, Sibelius Student is priced to suit the student budget.

Writing, playback and printing music are a snap

Based on the best-selling Sibelius 4 software, it has everything you need for composing, arranging and completing exercises. Setting up and entering notes could not be simpler and the playback feature allows you to listen to and refine your composition on the spot.

Improve your overall musicianship

Writing, playback and printing music are a snap and improved musicianship almost a guarantee. Sibelius Student is so fast and easy to use that the even most routine theory studies and exercises will seem fun and effortless. You'll turn creative ideas into finished pieces in minutes - and with the playback feature, you'll be able to make short work of performance pieces you're learning and practicing.

Publish your music online at SibeliusMusic.com

In addition to helping you write, arrange and generally advance your music studies, Sibelius Student gives you the tools you need to publish your music to SibeliusMusic.com for free. Sharing your work and interacting with a community of other students and musicians couldn't be easier.

Your entrance to the world of Sibelius

Sibelius Student is compatible with the full Sibelius program - so if you work on the full Sibelius notation program at school or with friends, you can take pieces home to continue working on, then bring them back to school again. Even if your school doesn't have Sibelius, Sibelius Student saves MIDI files for use with all other music software.

Features include:

• Input notes via mouse, MIDI or computer keyboard
• Up to 8 staves (per system)
• Notes, rests, accidentals, articulations, triplets
• Dynamics, slurs, trills
• Lyrics & other text
• Transposes automatically
• Plays repeats, expression and swing
• Opens and saves Sibelius 2 & 3 files
• Opens and saves MIDI files
• Normal & handwritten music fonts
• Automatic backups and auto-save
• Top print quality
• Publish your music on the Internet for free (at www.sibeliusmusic.com)

Sibelius Student
If you are a school student, Sibelius Student is designed specifically for you to use at home. Sibelius Student is designed for secondary/high school students to use at home, rather than for classroom use or for teachers. It has everything most students need for homework. If you outgrow Sibelius Student, you can upgrade to Sibelius 4 later at a discount price.

Sibelius 4
If you are a teacher at a school, university or college you should get Sibelius 4 , which also lets you produce instrumental parts, create worksheets & exercises, write for orchestra & band, scan in music, compose to video, and much more. Sibelius 4 does more than Sibelius Student, and is designed for schools, teachers, universities, colleges, university/college students, and professionals.

In addition to the features of Sibelius Student, Sibelius 4 includes:
• Scanning printed music
• High-quality Kontakt Player sounds
• Create audio files and CDs of your music
• Compose to video
• Unlimited staves
• Instant instrumental parts which update whenever you revise the score, plus many other features for orchestral/band music
• 1700 ready-made worksheets & resources, plus features to put music into Microsoft Word, create scales & arpeggios, add graphics & color
• On-screen video tutorials
• 'Arrange' feature to help with arranging & orchestration
• Over 70 plug-ins - extra features which do useful things
• Many more notations, e.g. very long & short notes, clef changes mid-score, quintuplets and other 'tuplets', guitar chord diagrams, special symbols, unusual instruments
• Publishing features to make your scores look completely professional.