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The Mix

June 1995

You don't see much new music software these days, so Sibelius comes as a
double surprise. Not only is it written for the Arc, but it also happens to
be one of the most powerful pieces of music software on any computer
platform. It's a top-end, highly professional scorewriter.

Actually, the developers call it an expert system. Even if you can read
music well, if you've ever tried your hand at notation, you'll have realised
that there are lots of little rules which you weren't consciously aware of,
which have to be applied exactly, if the music is to read correctly.

Music typesetting is full of these arcane rules. They were developed over
the centuries, and go far beyond those of mere music notation. They cover
things like how long note stems should be, how much space there should be
between notes, exactly where music symbols should go, where accidentals and
music symbols should be placed, how large text should be (that depends on
what it's for) and so on. Sibelius is programmed with this arcane knowledge,
and applies the rules to your score automatically.

So why compromise such a worthy program by writing it for the Archimedes,
rather than Mac or PC? Well, it was written by twin brothers Jonathan and
Ben Finn, over a six year period while they were at university. An Arc was
there, and that's just what they happened to use. Any coincidence between
their surname and Finnish composers living or dead hotly contested by
Jonathan and Ben, incidentally.

The Archimdedes is actually a high-underrated machine, but the lack of a
significant user-base compared with the Mac and PC promises to limit the
commercial ambitions of the program. What is remarkable about Sibelius is
that is written in machine code, unlike most other software, which tends to
be written in C. Machine code makes for blindingly fast software, and you
have to see Sibelius in action to believe just how fast it is.

The main screen does not run under RISC OS, but instead shows the layout of
the score. There's a small radar window on the bottom right, containing a
white rectangle which shows that part of the score which is visible in the
main window.

You can move around the score by dragging the rectangle over the radar
window. You can also move the score by holding down the mouse button on the
main score, and dragging it as though you were sliding a piece of paper over
the desktop. The amazing thing about this is that the score moves instantly,
just as if you were sliding a piece of paper around. Graphics don't come
much faster than this.

The speed of the program is evident in all aspects of its operation. If you
decide to insert a note at the beginning of a score, it will reformat it in
a fraction of a second. It not only adjusts the notes, but intelligently
performs functions such as splitting or joining crescendos, and phrasing
marks across two staves, adjusting the bar numbers at the start of each
stave, reformatting text and so on.

Sibelius reformats the score on the fly. As soon as you enter a note, it
automatically spaces it and adjusts the stave and pages.

You can make large changes, too, such as adding a new instrument or even
selecting a different score size, and that will be reformatted instantly,
too. And it does this however large the score is - not even a symphony slows
it down!

Sibelius does have a RISC OS display, however. It shows an overview of the
score, and appears like a normal Arc desktop window with scroll bars. You
can zoom in and out, and the program uses shades of grey to make it legible
at almost any resolution. Working with this is a little slower, particularly
on older machines, as it's more under control of the Arc. Give the fonts
lots of RAM, to help speed things up.

Let's see how you create a score. First, you select some instruments. These
are simply staves, correctly formatted for the various instruments you want
to use. There are over 100 available from menus, and you can create your
own. They automatically appear in the correct order for an orchestral score,
although you can change this too.

Select a note duration using the function keys - an overlay is supplied -
and then drag the note to the correct pitch, with the mouse. Short notes are
automatically beamed, although you can split and adjust these manually if
you wish. Accidentals and note heads in chords are automatically put in the
right place. You can then add accidentals, articulation marks, text, lyrics
and other music symbols.

Notes or text are easily picked up and dragged to new positions. When you
enter lyrics, notes are spaced automatically to accommodate them. Sibelius
supports virtually any kind of music symbol you can think of, from
renaissance breves to modern avant-garde notation. Entering notes in
step-time from a MIDI keyboard is possible, too. This is an easy way of
working. The developers are currently working on real-time MIDI input, which
will be very useful to many people.

And all the time you're entering notes, the program is formatting the score
for you. When you reach the end of a line (technically, a System), Sibelius
creates another one, much as wordprocessor wraps words onto a new line. It
also 'wraps' pages, but you can also force a page end at any point, to help
with page-turning.

Virtually every aspect of Sibelius can be customised, a point which is well
illustrated by House Styles. These are used to customise scores for
different types of music. They can include all aspects of layout and
formatting, including fonts, note spacings, bar number style and frequency,
rehearsal mark formats, instrument order, barline splitting point and so on.

House Styles let you create music with the same stylistic appearance. This
is useful for music publishers, or for anyone wanting to assemble several
pieces of music, even produced by different people.

But even though you can customise Sibelius quite heavily, most options have
sensible defaults, and you can get started quickly without having to create
lots of settings first.

Although Sibelius is not a sequencer as such, it does have a remarkable
range of playback facilities. It uses tape transport-type controls for
playback, and the score scrolls while playing.

It defaults to General MIDI, although - as most of us have now come to
expect - you can alter this. It will read the instruments assigned to the
staves, and automatically assign them to suitable GM voices. If you aren't
hooked up to MIDI, it will play the score as best it can, using the Arc's
internal sounds system.

The program also reads instructions such as mf, cresc, metronome markings,
bowing marks (down-bowing makes the sound a little louder), ties and
hairpins, and interprets them on playback. It will also check for music
instructions in English, French and Italian.

It also contains an Espressivo algorithm, which makes subtle changes to the
music during playback. It does such things as slightly accentuating the
first note in a bar, or group of beamed notes. It can be very subtle, but it
does remove some of the mechanical-ness you often find in sequenced music.

And so to the printing. Sibelius has lots of option in the print department.
You can extract individual parts - as you would expect with any scoring
program. However, Sibelius will also automatically transpose parts, and
bring several bar rests together, as in the common practice in individual
part scoring. Nice one.

It can export a score as a Draw or Impression file for Arc users, and as an
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) file, should you want to use it on a Mac or
PC. This enables you to use scores in any type of document material just as
easily as you would import a graphic. With all these features, you may be
wondering if the program is easy to use. Well, you can generally just use
those parts that you need. You don't have to dig deep into the more
sophisticated and customisable features if you don't want to.

The whole process is admirably aided by an excellent manual. It's in plain
English, fairly jargon-free, has an index and is well illustrated. Adopting
a tutorial approach, it takes you from entering your first score through to
some of the more intricate aspects of scorewriting, such as layout and
design.

But easy though the program is to use, you will have to read the manual. In
case you do have a problem, you'll be amazed to know that the company offers
a 24-hour technical support hotline, which lasts for three months from the
date of purchase.

You may have come to the conclusion, as I have, that Sibelius is a pretty
desirable piece of kit. It also has a pretty hefty price tag, more in
keeping with high-end professional applications on the Mac and PC than a
scorewriter. But Sibelius is a very professional piece of software, and
until Quark and Photoshop come down to �100, Sibelius has every right to be
up there with the rest of them.

But the company is aware that the program will be out of reach of many
non-professional users, and so [...] check out Sibelius 6. Most high-end
programs have a cut-down sibling, and this is 7's. Sibelius 6 may lack a few
features, but it's still an amazingly powerful program. It only looks
limited if you're already familiar with Sibelius 7.

In all likelihood, the limitations will only be of importance to the professional. The vast majority of non-professional users, I'm sure, will find it more than equal to most scorewriting jobs.

For example, 6 lacks some of the more esoteric note heads and music symbols.
It also tends to have fixed options where in 7 they can be customised. It
can only handle scores up to 512 bars long, with 32 staves per page, and a
maximum of 16 instruments. And it can only print to A4 paper. Think you
could live with that?

Ian Waugh

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