The ribbon was implemented strictly: no way to turn it off or customise it. Sibelius has the ribbon now, known from MS Office. The new in version 7 isn't so much the features, it is the interface. Since nobody else has written about version 7 of Sibelius and the recent events about the developers and Avid, I feel I should comment about it. Notation software is in a really sad state if your main choice is between Sibelius and Finale. (press spacebar when sibelius file is selected in finder)Īvid outsourcing programming to Romania full force or what? All user can now do, is to hope that the new Steinberg notation software, on which part of the old Sibelius crew are now working on, is not too far away.

But new ones have surely been introduced: In Sibelius 8, OS X Quickview isn't even working anymore. Sibelius 8 appeared and none of the old long-time standing bugs has been fixed. They have an expensive phone support on a per case basis and an ideas page () but that Feedback page is just ignored. There isn't an option to report a bug in Sibelius to Avid. It seems the old players are out to squeeze as much money out of their products as possible but don't give a damn about user Feedback. It's much cheaper and has great customer support and is not software that the user has to rent. It's great to see Affinity Photo wash away Photoshop.

There's a trend in software to this odd model (MS, Adobe, Avid) but other companies stick to a better model. Version 8 has been released and they have switched to a monthly renting model which I detest or a yearly usage fee of 90$.

Since Avid has bought Sibelius the product keeps falling apart.

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