
The Story
From concert halls to classrooms more composers arrangers and educators use Sibelius than any other music notation software. Discover the easiest way to write and share music with the world's bestselling notation tool. Write music with up to 16 instrumentsâgreat for smaller ensembles (includes desktop + mobile)
Introducing Sibelius for mobile
From couch to coffeeshop work on scores anywhere with your favorite Sibelius tools at your fingertipsâliterally. With the new mobile version of Sibelius you can seamlessly move between desktop iPad and iPhone.
Also new...
Sibelius Ultimate is now available in new team plans making it easy to manage deploy and add multiple licenses as needed. Plus you can now set individual staff names on staves within groups of instruments experience better workflows when using MIDI keyboards and compose more easily with new features and enhancements in Sibelius 2022.9. Get the details
Compose
List:
- Write music with ease - Sibelius makes music composition easy giving you the flexibility to work anywhere using your computer iPad or iPhone. Whether you prefer to enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad a MIDI keyboard your computer keyboard or using an Apple Pencil Sibelius takes care of all note layout orientation and rest details for you.
- Build up compositions - Create music for everything from piano to orchestra with multiple instrument parts. And not just with notes and restsâyou can add chord symbols guitar tab guitar chord diagrams expression text articulations lyrics titles graphics and more to give your music the detail depth and dynamism it deserves. You can even loop playback to improvise ideas.
- Hear your music in stunning detail - Sibelius includes a high-quality sample library filled with a variety of musical instrumentation so you can hear what your music will sound like when performed by real musicians. You can also plug in third-party sound libraries such as NotePerformer giving you more flexibility with the instrumentation you hear.
Orchestrate
- Arrange parts fast - The Arrange feature makes it easy to orchestrate additional instrument parts from existing ones. Simply select an orchestration style and Sibelius automatically creates new parts based on your sources. You can also âexplodeâ chords across different parts speeding up multipart instrumentation. Or consolidate multiple parts into one with a click.
- Get Intelligent Import - With a single click you can import a MIDI MusicXML or Sibelius file into a new or existing score. All notation instrumentation techniques and articulations are automatically assigned preserving the composerâs intent and saving you hoursâif not daysâof clean-up time. You can even combine several scores together with control over whatâs imported.
- Perfect and review scores - Sibelius takes the manual effort out of adapting instrumentation transposing parts and adding slurs so you can work faster. And when your score is ready Review mode lets you lock things down enabling collaborators to freely view your score and add comments and annotations without fear of accidentally changing anything.
Engrave + copy
- Create parts dynamically - Sibelius can create individual instrument parts when you create your score and will automatically update them accordingly whenever you make changes to the score. For copyists this eliminates the need to extract parts or make destructive changes when prepping sheet music for different parts. Plus parts can be changed without affecting the full score.
- Engrave intelligently - Create beautiful professional scores quickly with advanced notation tools and multi-edit capabilities. Add slurs hairpins ties or other staff lines across multiple instruments and make edits to barlines expression and technique text and lyrics all in one action. Sibelius intelligently spaces notes and elements keeping everything in perfect alignment.
- Fly through complex tasks - Thanks to the Sibelius user community you can supercharge your software with more capabilities through free plugins. With over 140 included (and hundreds more available) these plugins can help you with complex engraving notating layout processing text and other tasks. Check out the Install Plugins dialog in Sibelius to find what you need.
Share
- Share scores in the cloud - With Sibelius Cloud Sharing you can present your scores online enabling anyone anywhere to view download and play your compositions using any device. Invite others to review your work privately on your personal cloud space (1 GB included) or post scores to your website and social media for the world to hear. All you need is Sibelius and an Internet connection.
- Collaborate easily - Because any score you share in the cloud can be viewed and played in any web browserâwithout requiring Sibeliusâitâs the ultimate tool to send scores out for review performance prep and proofreading. Viewers can flip pages jump to parts and hear compositions with full high-quality instrumentation.
- Get more ways to share - Save scores to iCloud Dropbox or other iOS-supported cloud service and you and other collaborators can access the files from anywhere using a laptop iPad or iPhone. And because youâre all always in Sibelius whether on desktop or mobile you can seamlessly move between both worlds without ever having to import or export files.
Educate
- Teach music composition - Sibelius Ultimate is ideal for teaching music notation composition and theory to students of all ages. It offers ready-made teaching materials Classroom Control to track student progress plus optional network licensing making it easy to assign licenses to students on any computer.
- Save time on lesson prep - If you teach music you know how long it can take to produce quality curriculum materials. Thatâs why we developed the unique Worksheet Creator in collaboration with music educators providing over 1 700 worksheets projects exercises songs and other teaching resources.
- Get student/teacher pricing - If you're a qualified student or educator you can get a special deep discount on a Sibelius Ultimate for Education subscription starting at just $9.99 USD/monthâsee if youâre eligible. Itâs the smartest easiest way for educators and students to teach and learn the art of music notation.
Publish
- Prep scores for publishing - With a full suite of desktop publishing tools and the Inspector you can control and finesse every element in your score to perfection. Fine-tune dynamics and other text with tracking leading scaling and alignment tools. Use hierarchical styles to change fonts. Add graphics. Even create your own house styles and manuscript papers to make your scores unique.
- Publish your music - You can share your compositions with the world in a variety of ways. Publish scores directly to Score Exchange to sell your sheet music to the masses. Export scores as PDFs for distribution through a variety of music publishers. You can even export an audio version of your work for distribution to Spotify Apple Music and other streaming services.
- Increase sheet music sales - For music publishers Sibelius Cloud Publishing enhances the online sheet music shopping experience with interactive scores leading to higher sales and satisfaction. Shoppers can preview play change instruments and transpose scores before buying to ensure it meets their needs. Once purchased theyâll get a high-quality version thatâs fit for print.
What's new
- Sibelius 2024.3 releases breakthroughs in MIDI workflows between Sibelius and Pro Tools allowing you to copy and paste MIDI between the applications. This groundbreaking feature streamlines music production making it an industry first. The Keypad continues to evolve to be resizable and display custom articulations. Also introducing Sibelius Connect a brand new way to automate workflows and enable apps to remotely control Sibelius.
Features:
- Sibelius softwareâDownload required (includes software installers and user guides)
- Sibelius mobile app (for iPad and iPhone)âSeparate download required from the Apple App Store
- Sound libraryâ10 GB of professional-quality samples
- Additional softwareâAudioScore Lite audio transcribing software PhotoScore and NotateMe Lite music scanning and handwriting recognition software
Requirements:
| Platform | CPU | RAM | Disk | Notes | Additional Requirement | Audio Card | Ports | Internet Required | 32 Bit Support | 64 Bit Support | Plugins |
| mac | 1 | 1 | 10 GB additional hard disk space for the Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| windows | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.

Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.

Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.
Description
From concert halls to classrooms more composers arrangers and educators use Sibelius than any other music notation software. Discover the easiest way to write and share music with the world's bestselling notation tool. Write music with up to 16 instrumentsâgreat for smaller ensembles (includes desktop + mobile)
Introducing Sibelius for mobile
From couch to coffeeshop work on scores anywhere with your favorite Sibelius tools at your fingertipsâliterally. With the new mobile version of Sibelius you can seamlessly move between desktop iPad and iPhone.
Also new...
Sibelius Ultimate is now available in new team plans making it easy to manage deploy and add multiple licenses as needed. Plus you can now set individual staff names on staves within groups of instruments experience better workflows when using MIDI keyboards and compose more easily with new features and enhancements in Sibelius 2022.9. Get the details
Compose
List:
- Write music with ease - Sibelius makes music composition easy giving you the flexibility to work anywhere using your computer iPad or iPhone. Whether you prefer to enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad a MIDI keyboard your computer keyboard or using an Apple Pencil Sibelius takes care of all note layout orientation and rest details for you.
- Build up compositions - Create music for everything from piano to orchestra with multiple instrument parts. And not just with notes and restsâyou can add chord symbols guitar tab guitar chord diagrams expression text articulations lyrics titles graphics and more to give your music the detail depth and dynamism it deserves. You can even loop playback to improvise ideas.
- Hear your music in stunning detail - Sibelius includes a high-quality sample library filled with a variety of musical instrumentation so you can hear what your music will sound like when performed by real musicians. You can also plug in third-party sound libraries such as NotePerformer giving you more flexibility with the instrumentation you hear.
Orchestrate
- Arrange parts fast - The Arrange feature makes it easy to orchestrate additional instrument parts from existing ones. Simply select an orchestration style and Sibelius automatically creates new parts based on your sources. You can also âexplodeâ chords across different parts speeding up multipart instrumentation. Or consolidate multiple parts into one with a click.
- Get Intelligent Import - With a single click you can import a MIDI MusicXML or Sibelius file into a new or existing score. All notation instrumentation techniques and articulations are automatically assigned preserving the composerâs intent and saving you hoursâif not daysâof clean-up time. You can even combine several scores together with control over whatâs imported.
- Perfect and review scores - Sibelius takes the manual effort out of adapting instrumentation transposing parts and adding slurs so you can work faster. And when your score is ready Review mode lets you lock things down enabling collaborators to freely view your score and add comments and annotations without fear of accidentally changing anything.
Engrave + copy
- Create parts dynamically - Sibelius can create individual instrument parts when you create your score and will automatically update them accordingly whenever you make changes to the score. For copyists this eliminates the need to extract parts or make destructive changes when prepping sheet music for different parts. Plus parts can be changed without affecting the full score.
- Engrave intelligently - Create beautiful professional scores quickly with advanced notation tools and multi-edit capabilities. Add slurs hairpins ties or other staff lines across multiple instruments and make edits to barlines expression and technique text and lyrics all in one action. Sibelius intelligently spaces notes and elements keeping everything in perfect alignment.
- Fly through complex tasks - Thanks to the Sibelius user community you can supercharge your software with more capabilities through free plugins. With over 140 included (and hundreds more available) these plugins can help you with complex engraving notating layout processing text and other tasks. Check out the Install Plugins dialog in Sibelius to find what you need.
Share
- Share scores in the cloud - With Sibelius Cloud Sharing you can present your scores online enabling anyone anywhere to view download and play your compositions using any device. Invite others to review your work privately on your personal cloud space (1 GB included) or post scores to your website and social media for the world to hear. All you need is Sibelius and an Internet connection.
- Collaborate easily - Because any score you share in the cloud can be viewed and played in any web browserâwithout requiring Sibeliusâitâs the ultimate tool to send scores out for review performance prep and proofreading. Viewers can flip pages jump to parts and hear compositions with full high-quality instrumentation.
- Get more ways to share - Save scores to iCloud Dropbox or other iOS-supported cloud service and you and other collaborators can access the files from anywhere using a laptop iPad or iPhone. And because youâre all always in Sibelius whether on desktop or mobile you can seamlessly move between both worlds without ever having to import or export files.
Educate
- Teach music composition - Sibelius Ultimate is ideal for teaching music notation composition and theory to students of all ages. It offers ready-made teaching materials Classroom Control to track student progress plus optional network licensing making it easy to assign licenses to students on any computer.
- Save time on lesson prep - If you teach music you know how long it can take to produce quality curriculum materials. Thatâs why we developed the unique Worksheet Creator in collaboration with music educators providing over 1 700 worksheets projects exercises songs and other teaching resources.
- Get student/teacher pricing - If you're a qualified student or educator you can get a special deep discount on a Sibelius Ultimate for Education subscription starting at just $9.99 USD/monthâsee if youâre eligible. Itâs the smartest easiest way for educators and students to teach and learn the art of music notation.
Publish
- Prep scores for publishing - With a full suite of desktop publishing tools and the Inspector you can control and finesse every element in your score to perfection. Fine-tune dynamics and other text with tracking leading scaling and alignment tools. Use hierarchical styles to change fonts. Add graphics. Even create your own house styles and manuscript papers to make your scores unique.
- Publish your music - You can share your compositions with the world in a variety of ways. Publish scores directly to Score Exchange to sell your sheet music to the masses. Export scores as PDFs for distribution through a variety of music publishers. You can even export an audio version of your work for distribution to Spotify Apple Music and other streaming services.
- Increase sheet music sales - For music publishers Sibelius Cloud Publishing enhances the online sheet music shopping experience with interactive scores leading to higher sales and satisfaction. Shoppers can preview play change instruments and transpose scores before buying to ensure it meets their needs. Once purchased theyâll get a high-quality version thatâs fit for print.
What's new
- Sibelius 2024.3 releases breakthroughs in MIDI workflows between Sibelius and Pro Tools allowing you to copy and paste MIDI between the applications. This groundbreaking feature streamlines music production making it an industry first. The Keypad continues to evolve to be resizable and display custom articulations. Also introducing Sibelius Connect a brand new way to automate workflows and enable apps to remotely control Sibelius.
Features:
- Sibelius softwareâDownload required (includes software installers and user guides)
- Sibelius mobile app (for iPad and iPhone)âSeparate download required from the Apple App Store
- Sound libraryâ10 GB of professional-quality samples
- Additional softwareâAudioScore Lite audio transcribing software PhotoScore and NotateMe Lite music scanning and handwriting recognition software
Requirements:
| Platform | CPU | RAM | Disk | Notes | Additional Requirement | Audio Card | Ports | Internet Required | 32 Bit Support | 64 Bit Support | Plugins |
| mac | 1 | 1 | 10 GB additional hard disk space for the Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| windows | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |














