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Some Sibelius plugins (for example, Respell Sharps as Flats) run without taking any input from a user. They do not display a dialog, but just run and do what they were designed to do. Other plugins take input from users by putting up a dialog box that has boxes to type into, or check boxes, …
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There are about 650 published Sibelius plug-ins, of which 150 ship with Sibelius. A lot of people never use plug-ins. They can’t find them, or can’t install downloadable plug-ins, or can’t figure out which plug-in does what. This is unfortunate, because plug-ins could save them a lot of work. A Working Set of Plug-ins In …
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If you have multiple copies of a plugin in different locations (typically a downloadable plugin you have forgotten about installing, and so you installed it again to a different location), you may not be running the copy of the plugin you expect. This is true even if you explicitly run it from one of the …
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Have you noticed that a typical internet search doesn’t always produce relevant results for music notation? For instance, if you do a Yahoo, Bing or Google search for “articulation”, you’ll get dozens of results, with none of them related to Finale or Sibelius, and only a handful related to music . . . I hope …
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Yup, that’s right: Just in time for Christmas, MakeMusic is offering the Dolet 6 Music XML plugin for both Finale and Sibelius on their website as a free download. Here’s the link: http://www.makemusic.com/Products/MusicXML.aspx Cool, right? But wait, what is a Sibelius plugin doing on the Finale website? In case you missed the official announcement, on …
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Sometimes you want to change the pitches in a score without doing a normal transposition. There are a number of Sibelius plugins that can change a pitch to any other pitch. Pitch Mapping This shipping plugin (Note Input > Transformations > More>Pitch Mapping) was one of the very early plugins in Sibelius. The default dialog …
Keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity in Sibelius. Shortcuts allow you to quickly invoke Plugins or other functions with a single keystroke. Keyboard Shortcuts are totally customizable in Sibelius. Keyboard Shortcuts are located in Sibelius Preferences. Choose Preferences… from the Sibelius menu or navigate to the File Tab and choose Preferences in the left …
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