Fix Tied Notes Live Playback

Version 01.02.01
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 3.x, Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in processes notes and corrects problems with the Live Playback Original Duration in tied notes. If the Live Playback duration in a tied note has been set such that it ends either before or after the notational duration (i.e., if the note is a quarter note/crotchet, and Live Playback only plays for an eighth note/quaver), the note can playback incorrectly (the following note it is tied to will play with a separate attack). To prevent that, the Live Playback duration is set to the notational duration less the Live Start Position in those cases, so the tied note playback stops exactly at the end. A log file of changes will be written.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Dream Sequence

Added 25 Jan 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in will open a folder of scores and play them back in turn, either sequentially (with an option to loop) or randomly (with an option to control the number of intermediate scores to be played until a particular score may be played again.)

Updated 5 September 2009 by Bob Zawalich for compatibility with Sibelius 6. Note that this plugin will run in Sibelius 4 and 6, but not Sibelius 5.

Plug-in written by Andrew Moschou.

Set Play On Pass

Version 01.15.10
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 03 Mar 2024)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__(Edited on 12 February 2024 to work differently. See notes from that date.) Toggles (default), disables, or enables all 8 passes of Play on Pass for any selected objects. To change the option from Toggle, run the plugin with no selection. It will change *all* selected objects, so it will often be useful to filter just the items you want to change. __ Updated January 15, 2008 to add a "Show dialog" flag to the dialog so it can be run with the dialog always visible. The flag is on by default so it will always appear the first time the plugin is run. __Updated 31 January 2012 to give options for individual passes. __Updated 21 May 2016 so you can cancel the dialog when run with no selection and the setting changes will still be recorded. __Updated 10 March 2021. Version 01.13.00. Dialog layout changes. Removed progress bar. Do Not Show Dialog will reset at the start of each Sib session. __Updated 12 February 2024. Version 01.15.00. This version just has 8 checkboxes to set on and off, as in the Inspector. The old version had On/Off/Toggle buttons that really did not make a lot of sense. I think this is simpler, clearer, and more useful. As before, there is a Do Not Show Dialog checkbox, and the dialog will always appear if you run the plugin with not selection. Checkbox settings are remembered over Sibelius sessions. __Updated 3 March 2024. Version 01.15.10. Change to disable debug trace and to refresh inspector.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Loop Selection

Version 01.15.00
Added 24 Mar 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin will let you loop playback by adding marker and jump text to the start and end of the selection. If you play the score within the markers, playback will loop. The default target name is the first selected bar number.

By default, marker/jump text only jumps to the start or end of a bar; to loop partial bars, select the text and turn off \\\'Jump at bar end\\\' in the Property Window Playback pane.

In Sibelius 5, the plugin can delete any marker or jump text in the selection or in the score.

To make it more obvious which notes will loop, you may want to add a highlight or color to the selected notes.

Updated November 24, 2008 to fix problems deleting hidden markers and all markers in score.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Play It Again!

Version 01.09.00
Added 19 Jun 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Repeats playback of a selection either continuously or a specified number of times without requiring changes to the score.

There are some quirks, described in Help. Mainly, the final note will be cut off, there is a gap at the start of the selection, and if the final note is not on a beat, the following note may be played. But it is very convenient to use, and may be useful.

Instead, you may try the Loop Selection plugin, which avoids most of the playback quirks, but it adds text to the score, which may not be desirable.

Updated 20 June 2009 to fix bugs

Updated 1 October 2009 to use Sib 6.1 features to allow repeat of a single note, and to reduce previous quirks.

Updated 15 August 2011. Added ability to process selection or all staves, and no-selection option settings. Added helper plugins Play Again Selection and Play Again All Staves, which run with no dialog and are stopped by using the SpaceBar.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Mute Unmute

Version 01.06.00
Added 30 Jun 2009 (last updated 02 Feb 2015)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Mutes, unmutes, or toggles the mute state of selected staves. This has only been practical since Sibelius 6; the changed mute status will be reflected in the mixer.

Updated 23 August 2009 to allow setting mute state to half muted

Updated 13 March 2011 to add Emphasize selected (half-solo) mode.

Updated 12 March 2012 to fix tracing bug.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Export Audio Score and Parts

Version 01.66.20
Added 11 Sep 2009 (last updated 16 Mar 2024)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__Exports audio, creating .wav or .aiff files from a score, a score and each of its parts, or just the parts of a score. Will process the current score, all the currently open scores, or all the scores in a specified folder. __Updated 16 September 2009 so the options are visible even if you start with no scores open. __ 12 November 2009 there is a potential crashing problem with running this plugin on a folder of scores, and that use is not recommended until a fix becomes available. __Updated 30 March 2016. Plugin now starts and stops playback before exporting a score, which should force the sounds to be loaded before exporting. I believe this will fix the problem of crashing when running on a folder of scores. Thanks to Kenneth Gaw for the idea. __Updated 31 March 2016 to improve error reporting. __Updated 28 February 2023. Version 01.66.01. ___Added mp3 exporting and the ability to use new bit depth and sample rates in 2023.2 or later ___Added an option to export Current Score Or Part only. ___In the main dialog, the current audio settings are shown in read-only format. To change the settings, press Edit Audio Settings. Audio settings are saved across Sibelius sessions. ___Both Win/Mac can export mp3. Windows can also export wav format only, and Mac can export AIFF only. These are described as Default format. ___There are Default settings for bit rate-depth and sample rate so you do not need to specify the numbers. The default values are listed in the Edit Audio dialog. ___Parts with multiple staves or instruments will export all the staves in the part as a single file, as before. __Updated 26 August 2023. Version 01.66.10. Updated to work with score subsets. __Updated 17 March 2024. Version 01.66.20. Updated to correctly process score subsets in Sibelius Ultimate 2024.3 or later.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Grace Note Durations

Added 07 Apr 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

To make acciaccaturas and appoggiaturas sound different from the default (rather short) sound, you can change the live start position and the live duration. If you want to do that, this plug-in could be helpful.

This plug-in will change the live duration and live start positions of the acciaccaturas and appoggiaturas within the selection. Also, the previous note's live duration and the following note's live duration and live start position will be processed.

The plug-in gives the choice to have the (group of) grace notes to play on or before the beat (the following note).

From a pull-down list one can pick the factor with which the written duration of the acciaccaturas and appoggiaturas will be changed (to live duration).

Of course, Play > Live playback should be switched on in order to hear the result: the plug-in does this automatically for you.

The plug-in gives the user the opportunity to reset the acciaccaturas and appoggiaturas and their surrounding notes to the default values regarding live duration and live start position.

Settings will survive Sibelius sessions.

Plug-in written by Jan Kok.

Play Loop for Sibelius 6 and Sibelius 7

Added 18 Aug 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in allows you to choose a section of the score and have it played back as a loop. This is ideal for using Sibelius as an accompanist to practice tricky passages.

Plug-in written by Brian Bargent.

Reset Mixer

Version 01.63.00
Added 08 Sep 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin will set the mixer volume, panning, or mute/solo settings for all the staves in each processed score.

It is best if you adjust all your group and virtual instruments before using this plugin.

You can process the current score, all currently open scores, or a folder of scores. Currently open scores will neither be saved nor closed, so save if needed. Dialog settings are remembered across Sibelius sessions.

Updated 10 Novemeber 2011 to make tracing of score names optional.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Solo or Mute By Voice

Version 01.55.00
Added 11 Dec 2011 (last updated 20 Jul 2019)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin lets you set the Play on Pass properties for all 8 passes to on or off for each of the 4 possible voices in a staff. It will function as a way to either solo or mute individual voices.

Updated 20 July 2019. Version 01.55.00. Added option to color muted notes gray, and unmuted notes black.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Export Audio With Count-In

Version 01.91.00
Added 02 Mar 2012 (last updated 28 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Creates a copy of the current score, adding a specified number of "count-in" bars to the start of the score (allowing for pickup bars). This score can be used for producing audio files with a count-in.

You can have the plugin create the copy, export the result as audio, and delete the score copy, or you can create the score copy, and then export it as a separate step.

The plugin can add count-in notes to one staff only, or add them to all staves. The latter is useful if you want to take the resulting score and run Rehearsal Recordings or Export Each Staff As Audio and have count-ins for each part.

Updated 5 March 2012 to clarify some of the dialog text. Thanks, ME!

Updated 8 March 2012 for more tidying.

Updated 13 march 2012 changed to export all staves regardless of the original selection.

Updated 19 January 2014 to fix bug in handling file names with embedded periods.

Updated 21 January 2014 to add small bug fixes.

Updated 26 March 2014 to fix problems with shared dynamics in grand staff keyboard instruments.

Updated 21 April 2015 to fix problem with the wrong countin pitch in some situations

Updated 30 March 2016. Plugin now starts and stops playback before exporting a score, which should force the sounds to be loaded before exporting. Thanks to Kenneth Gaw for the idea.

Updated 27 February 2018. For exported scores, the countin bar numbers are adjusted so the first real bar retains its bar number. There is also an option to call the plugin Add Simple Click Track if it is installed.

Updated 28 May 2018 to deal with 2018.4 and moving system data.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove MIDI Pitch Bends

Version 0.1
Added 02 Aug 2012 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Remove MIDI Pitch Bends removes all MIDI pitch bend messages in your selection and optionally adds a pitch reset message at the start of each staff in your selection. MIDI pitch bend messages look like ~B47,66 and instruct the MIDI instrument to tune itself depending on the message; ~B0,64 in particular changes the pitch to default tuning. If you've used a plugin to add large quantities of pitch bend messages to your score (like Offtonic 19-TET or the quarter-tone playback plugin that ships with Sibelius), this is a quick and handy way to take them back out.

New in version 0.1.0:

  • Initial release
  • Removes pitch bend messages. You know, like it's supposed to!
  • Has the capability to add a pitch reset message (~B0,64) at the start of the selection in each staff in case previous music contains pitch bends

Plug-in written by Mauro Braunstein.

Offtonic 19-TET

Version 0.1
Added 02 Aug 2012 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Allows playback of music in 19-tone equal temperament (19-TET). Very cool, huh? The 19-tone scale is not very different from our usual 12-tone scale. The diatonic scale can be reproduced very faithfully in 19-TET by interpreting a whole step as three 19-TET steps, and a half step as two. As a result, we can label the pitches as follows:

C C# Db D D# Eb E E#/Fb F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B B#/Cb

It's rather amazing that tonal music in 19-TET sounds so similar to tonal music in our usual 12-TET -- the only element that really breaks is enharmonic spellings, meaning that an augmented 6th is no longer equivalent to a minor 7th, for instance. We can take advantage of this fact by using our common 12-TET notation for 19-TET. No new symbols are necessary. Offtonic 19-TET adds a pitch bend message to each note in your selection, retuning your music to fit the 19-tone scale. Arbitrarily, C in 19-TET is tuned to the common C in 12-TET.

Interestingly, the 19-TET system allows some interesting sonorities. Thirds, both major and minor, are closer to their pure forms. The fifth is a tiny bit flat compared to the already narrow 12-TET fifth, but this is hardly noticeable. The augmented sixth sounds very much like a septimal minor seventh, the seventh overtone, which is a nice sonority. Leading tones are actually hampered by this system, as the diatonic half step of two 19-TET steps is wider than its 12-TET counterpart.

A major limitation of Offtonic 19-TET is that, by the nature of MIDI commands, it cannot retune chords, only single notes in each staff. Only one pitch bend command may be active at a time in a single staff, so if you need to retune multiple notes all sounding at once, they each need their own staff. This applies to chords, multiple voices, and even, more subtly, slurs, if they are set to increase a note's duration past 100%.

New in version 0.1.0:

  • Initial release
  • Removes all existing pitch bend messages from the selection and retunes the written notes to 19-tone equal temperament
  • Allows the user to specify the maximum pitch bend of the instrument
  • Includes a help dialog

Plug-in written by Mauro Braunstein.

Rehearsal Recordings for Cloud Sharing

Version 02.60.03
Added 12 Feb 2018 (last updated 28 Feb 2018)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This is a variant of the shipping Rehearsal Recordings plug-in, intended to make it easier to use when Cloud Sharing. It can be run from Sibelius 6 on, but is likely only useful in Sibelius 8.7 or later. It addresses the issues of identifying shared scores and removing versions and parts. Here are the differences between it and Rehearsal Recordings:

1. By default, the export option is set to export scores, not audio files (you can change this in Export Options).

2. The generated scores will have any parts and versions stripped out to reduce storage size.

3. The generated scores will remain open at the end of the plug-in to make it easier to share the scores. (Plug-ins cannot currently access any of the Cloud Sharing mechanisms, so sharing will need to be done manually.)

4. To uniquely identify each generated score in the Cloud Sharing Dashboard, score.Title is modified to be the title (as described below) plus the Instrument or Part name that the plug-in adds to the generated file names.

5. The plug-in creates a non-hidden Text object with the Full Score part name followed by the Instrument or Part name that the plug-in adds to the generated file names, followed by the local date and time when the score was generated, to identify the score on-screen. The date and time are hard-coded, not using wildcards, to avoid time zone changes.

Updated 27 February 2018. Fixed crash when using the parts options. The plugin will no longer strip parts from the exported scores because they are required by the parts options. Versions are still deleted from the exported scores. If there is a staff named "Click track", it will by default be excluded from the list of exported audio or score files.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Set Instrument Sounds

Version 01.10.02
Added 06 Oct 2018 (last updated )

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin lets you set all selected staves to use the same sound, as if you had changed them in the mixer. Occasionally you might want to change all the instruments to use a piano sound, for example. This can do that, and it can also restore the instrument sounds to match the default sound for the instrument type.

Its purpose is to make a certain kind of aural proofreading easier.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Change Live Playback

Version 01.07.71
Added 03 Mar 2024 (last updated 04 Mar 2024)

For use with Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Added 03 March 2024. Version 01.07.70.

This plugin simulates the Live Playback settings in the Inspector. This plugin is dedicated to John Hinchey.

Updated 4 March 2024. Version 01.07.71. Happy Birthday, Eddie. Changed order of dialog controls to match Inspector order.

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

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