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Keyboard & Fretboard windows
Video narrated by Daniel Spreadbury, Senior Product Manager for Sibelius.
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For anyone who prefers using a keyboard or guitar to notation, these beautiful new windows are ideal. Simply click on the keys or frets to input notes and chords – or ‘play’ your computer’s QWERTY keys just like a piano!
But they’re not just for inputting. Select any note/chord, and the keyboard or fretboard shows how it’s played. And when you play the score back, you can follow the music on the keyboard or fretboard, too – even if it’s written for other instruments.
- Click keys or ‘play’ your computer keyboard to input
- Colors show voices
- Scroll through octaves
- Drag to resize
- Choose which staves’ music to show when playing
- Click frets to input notes & chords
- Acoustic, maple or rosewood neck in 3 sizes
- 6-string guitar or 4/5-string bass
- Choose which staff’s music to show when playing
On the Keyboard &
Fretboard windows...
"Guitarists will love this version of Sibelius with the introduction of the Fretboard window."
Steve Horn, guitarist, composer
"The onscreen Keyboard lets you play music in when you can't get to a MIDI keyboard."
Marc Schonbrun, composer and music educator
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From the Sibelius Blog
Fri, 12 Mar 2010
John Metcalfe on arranging Peter Gabriel’s “Scratch My Back”
This past February, Peter Gabriel released his eighth studio album, Scratch My Back, which is a striking collection of 12 songs made famous by a diverse range of artists – including Lou Reed, Elbow, Radiohead, and David Bowie – arranged for full orchestra... read more »
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Strictly Composing winner Julian Pombo is a Sibelius Student
I was delighted to receive a letter here at Sibelius HQ from a young composer called Julian Pombo, who has won the Strictly Composing competition, which was organised as part of the UK government’s Tune In – Year of Music initiative... read more »
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Avatar composer James Horner: “Without Sibelius, we’d be lost”
Check out this fantastic video taking you behind the scenes on the scoring and sound design of James Cameron’s Oscar-winning blockbuster, Avatar, which became the highest-grossing movie in history in an astonishing 20 days... read more »
