
What's New in Sibelius

Compose at lightning speed
With new timesaving workflows, Sibelius (formerly the “paid” version of Sibelius | First—learn more) gives you the power to write beautiful scores quickly and easily.
January 2019
November 2018

Experience better performance
With a complete upgrade of its underlying infrastructure, Sibelius is now even easier to use than ever. From interface improvements that align with native Mac and Windows OS experiences, to better user interaction, faster performance, and support for high-res displays and screen readers, Sibelius sets the stage for today’s modern workflows and the excitement tomorrow’s technology brings.
Work faster and more easily with tons of improvements and display support
- Enjoy a better user experience with the improved interface, which adopts more of the native look, feel, and behaviors of Mac and Windows operating systems
- Get improved Accessibility support for screen readers, enabling a better experience when using macOS VoiceOver, Windows Narrator, or NVDA with Sibelius
- View your work in greater detail with support for high-resolution graphics and native Windows support for high-DPI displays
- Experience snappier performance when editing and scrolling around a score
- Easily create and print black and white versions of your music with support for exporting scores as grayscale PDFs
- Gain easy access to Save, Undo, and Redo commands on Mac with the new Quick Access toolbar
Get intelligent note respacing
Need to reset note spacing? Sibelius now only respaces multi-voice bars when adding or removing notes when the “Respace multi-voice passages during note input and editing” feature is on, so you can type-set your music precisely as you intend it to appear.

June 2018

Work more gracefully with grace notes
Save crucial score preparation time and perfectly align grace notes across multiple voices on the same staff, without needing to manually fix spacing and collisions. With improvements made to the way Sibelius handles grace notes, you can now add grace notes of any value to any rhythm in any voice in perfect alignment, enabling you to create better looking scores faster.
April 2018
Make multiple text changes simultaneously
Need to add or update expression text in more than one part of a score? Select multiple staves or notes and add or edit expression text to all instruments at once. You can do the same to add or edit technique text and other text types.

Engrave scores faster
For engravers, you can now spend less time on reworking note spacing and more time finessing a stellar score. With improvements made to the way overlapping notes in multiple voices are automatically spaced, Sibelius generates better note legibility and accuracy as the music is being composed, so you can turn around beautiful scores faster.
Add comments directly on a score
With the Annotate feature, you can draw directly on a score and communicate edits, instruction, and feedback to others, streamlining collaboration and review. All annotations are grouped intelligently and always remain attached to the bar to which you’ve added them.

January 2018
Supercharge your workflow
Sibelius offers many new feature enhancements to boost your composing, arranging, and music preparation efficiency. It’s ideal for copyists to mark-up scores quickly and engravers to get the exact layout you need.
Supercharge your workflow
- Add multiple slurs, hairpins, or other staff lines across multiple instruments all at once with multi-edit capabilities
- Change straight rhythms to dotted rhythms by simply changing a note’s value, which updates the following note’s duration accordingly
- Select multiple barlines and change the type or add system breaks all at once
- Add slurs and ties more easily
- Create repeated sections faster than before
- Select multiple staves and add lines, enabling faster hairpin and phrase mark additions
- Find and execute tasks in the ribbon immediately to speed up your workflow
- And much more


Share and promote your work to the community
Share scores, get feedback, find collaborators, and showcase your skills to an extensive network of creative artists and media pros in the Avid Artist Community. You can even sync your Sibelius | Cloud Sharing scores with your Community portfolio.
Expand your Cloud Sharing storage
Get more space to share and store more music—beyond the 20-score limit—with a premium cloud storage plan for Sibelius. And if you’re a Pro Tools user, you’ll be able to host cloud collaboration projects in the same space too.
