High-quality sound samples, free with Sibelius 6

 

150+ high-quality built-in sounds

Sibelius 6 comes with Sibelius Sounds Essentials as standard – a collection of over 150 pitched and hundreds of unpitched percussion sounds, covering a wide range of orchestral, rock & pop, jazz and marching band instruments. We’ve selected the sounds from top-name libraries such as Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Jazz & Big Band, Garritan Concert & Marching Band, Tapspace Virtual Drumline and from Digidesign's AIR team – everything you need to start producing high-quality playback, audio files and CDs.

Sibelius Player

Sibelius Sounds Essentials plays back through the new built-in Sibelius Player, which uses technology from Digidesign's AIR team. It can play any number of sounds simultaneously (limited only by your computer), loads them automatically in the background, and has great-sounding built-in effects, including convolution reverb.

Enhanced realism

You can specify exactly how articulations, lines, tremolos and symbols play back – for example, to change the length of and gap after fermatas (pauses), the length and loudness of accents and staccatos, the speed of tremolos, or how fast chords with wiggly arpeggio lines are spread. Hairpins automatically read dynamics to work out how loud or soft they should end up, and sustained notes get continuously louder or softer along the hairpin.

Always chooses the best sounds

Sibelius's unique method for categorising sounds, called SoundWorld™, ensures that Sibelius always chooses the most suitable sound available on any device – with no need to reset them if you switch equipment. And if you want to tell Sibelius which device you prefer for particular sounds, e.g. GPO for strings and Synthogy Ivory for piano, you only need do so once – just “set and forget.”

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