Sibelius

Can you not just write your scores out on a napkin?

Succinctly, "SH*TE" sums it up.

Which Sibelius version are you using? For my GCSEs I used Sibelius 1, which was awful (and why they still haven't fixed the bug that transforms a simple dotted crotchets into umpteen hemi semi demi quavers is beyond me). A slip of the mouse gives you something incredibly crazy ledger line notes (RED OUT OF RANGE! NO SH*T?!), because the click button is too sensitive. Oh, and it f*cked up my sound card so half the time it was flipping redundant and on the odd occasion I got it to work, I'd have to keep the computer on for days at a time and try to find inspiration.

Then Sibelius 2, which meant everything was incompatible. So instead of saving each time, I had to print out and start the score from scratch.

Sibelius 3 was better. You could make this compatible, play the thing back and it was moderately aesthetically pleasing. Still buggy, though. I think I had to do my A level bassline on this (can't remember if it was 3 or 4) but anyhow the time signature kept defaulting back to not what I'd changed it to and this caused me much stress.

Ahh, how I am glad it's over. What version are they on now?

Quote: Derek Smalls, Jan 2010

Quote: Lisbeth Salander, Jan 2010

Which Sibelius version are you using? For my GCSEs I used Sibelius 1, which was awful (and why they still haven't fixed the bug that transforms a simple dotted crotchets into umpteen hemi semi demi quavers is beyond me). A slip of the mouse gives you something incredibly crazy ledger line notes (RED OUT OF RANGE! NO SH*T?!)

Sibelius 5, which still does this and drives me apesh*t. I do not want 4 quaver rests when a minim rest will do nicely and won't get me in trouble with my tutor for ignoring all the score prep lessons last year. I'm having to double check everything to make sure I don't make mistakes like this. And the fact that there are people on my course who've been using it for years and know all the ins and outs of it and can make it look easy doesn't help.

There is a Sibleius 6 out, but it needs an update of some kind in order to run files from older versions. I'm not too computer literate so I can't say exactly what the problem is, but everyone here is advised to use 5

It's sh*t