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This replaced the familiar menus and toolbars with a ribbon-based approach which can be found in Windows, Office, and a number of other third-party applications that works especially well in document-oriented applications like Sibelius. As well as consolidating the menus and toolbars, the cloud of floating windows was also tamed in Sibelius 7, with the program adopting a single-window approach.

Views like the Mixer, Fretboard, Keyboard and Ideas could now be neatly docked within the single window, though they could still be dragged to either reposition them within the window or return them to a floating form. To take the single-window approach to its logical conclusion, Sibelius 7 also switched from a multiple document interface to a single document implementation.

Rather than the full score and its parts appearing in their own windows, you could now flip between the full score and parts within the same window using a tabbed interface.

Another aspect of the Fluent user interface in Sibelius 7 was the so-called Backstage view, first seen — at least by Windows users — in Microsoft Office Where the ribbon was designed to help you find commands when editing a document, Microsoft designed the Backstage view to assist in managing a document.

When you click the Avid-purple File tab, the Backstage view takes over the whole window to provide familiar commands for loading, saving, printing scores and more. I still think Sibelius could perhaps take even more advantage of the Backstage view by moving other functionality to it.

For example, since the Edit Versions window is modal anyway, it too would probably benefit from the more spacious nature of the Backstage view, although this is possibly a minor point.

The product shipped for the first time as a bit application — though retaining the bit version, which is still the case in 7. Last but not least, Sibelius 7 included a litany of less headline-grabbing improvements, such as an enhanced way to work with type, an Inspector replacing the old Properties window and almost giving me the chance to squeeze in a JB Priestley-inspired pun , the ability to export MusicXML without needing a separate plug-in, easier note input, and quite a bit more.

But enough with the 7 part of Sibelius 7. Perhaps the biggest new feature is Timeline, a view that provides an additional way to navigate scores. Timeline is split into two parts. Because the score view reflects the fact that staves might be hidden via commands like Hide Empty Staves, for example , it can start to look like a Mondrian painting with very little effort. If you want to jump to a specific place in the score, simple click the appropriate bar for a given instrument and Sibelius will adjust the main window to show exactly that location.

And to make it even easier to spot that bar in the score, Sibelius conveniently identifies it with a brief blue flash so you know exactly where to look. A nice touch. One thing that would make navigation slightly easier in Timeline, though, is if the instrument name could be highlighted in some way as you hover the mouse over the various rows.

On a large display, it can sometimes take a moment to work out where you want to click, as you scan your eyes back to figure out which row represents what instrument. The upper part of the Timeline view, meanwhile, comprises a number of lanes that display different structural elements of the score.

There are lanes for rehearsal marks, comments, tempo markings, time signatures, key signatures, repeats, titles, hit points, and other text, and, by default, these lanes are automatically hidden and shown based on the content of the score. For example, if there are no comments in the score, the comments lane will be hidden. You can then click that landmark and Sibelius will navigate to bar At the moment, Timeline is intended solely for navigation; but it would be great if even some basic editing capability were possible in the future.

For example, being able to double-click a bar or landmark in the time signatures lane to add or change or even remove a time-signature landmark would be helpful. As you might expect, this creates a situation where you inevitably have overlapping landmarks, although Sibelius handles this quite elegantly. Landmarks that, well, land at the same bar position are stacked horizontally so you can see just a tab, and as you hover the mouse over the landmarks they are brought to the front for you to click.

There are a number of preferences in the new Timeline Preferences page that allow you to tweak the appearance of the view. However, with the score view, this size sets the maximum font size to be used, as its height changes dynamically when you reduce the height of the overall timeline view.

The preferences also allow you to show a timecode ruler useful for those working to picture , and a related option labelled Show Repeats that displays repeated bars in the timeline. So if you have repeat markings to indicate bar 18 should be played twice, for example, the timeline bar sequence will now be viewed as 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, This is useful when the timecode ruler is displayed, so you see the score as it will be played in linear time.

I think Timeline will be most useful to those working with vertically large scores — which is to say, those with a fair number of instruments. Navigating around a piece for solo piano or string quartet is relatively straightforward anyway, given you can see more of the music on the screen to begin with.

However, to get the most out of Timeline, I feel you really need a system with a large screen resolution. On a inch monitor with a x resolution, having Timeline docked along the bottom was a great experience; but, perhaps obviously, this was not the case on a inch MacBook Pro with a resolution of x Those using a MacBook Pro with a Retina display may want to use non-Retina resolutions and sacrifice clarity for canvas size.

In addition to Sibelius, Avid also offer a junior version called Sibelius First for those who might not need every feature the full version has to offer.

Perhaps the most interesting of these new sharing and exporting features is the ability to export a video of your score, where images of the notation are synchronised to a playback generated by the selected playback configuration. You can customise the look of the video by specifying whether you want the playback line to be visible, and if you want to use the score paper texture as a background.

On the other hand, choosing to show only certain staves including showing them all creates slides that resemble Panorama mode, completely filling the slide with notation. The downside here is that, depending on how many staves you show, the staff size can become rather small. Finally, before exporting a video, you need to decide on a suitable resolution. There are four options — p, p, p, p — which refer to the number of vertical pixels in the resolution.

Also worth noting is that the lower two resolutions have a aspect ratio, whereas the highest are both To be honest, though, I found the quality of anything but p to look a little blurry, especially when exporting a video of a full score, and would recommend using that resolution where possible. One small point is that it would be helpful if the video export feature retained the last used settings, rather than returning to the somewhat useless p default with the score paper texture enabled.

As well as being able to export a score as a video file, you can share the video on YouTube or Facebook. But by far the niftiest sharing option is the ability to email a copy of a score to someone without having to leave Sibelius.

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