That means that if you have a subscription to Sibelius Ultimate on your Mac or PC, that same subscription allows you full access to Sibelius Ultimate on iPad.Īvid is clearly replicating a model like those we see in subscription apps from Adobe, Microsoft Office, Dropbox, and many other developers. If you’re an existing Sibelius customer with an active support plan or subscription, you get the iPad version at the same tier at no extra charge. If you want to check it out for yourself, anyone can download the app and start working with its most basic features. This is version 1, and we expect more updates to the app over time. While there’s a lot you can do on Sibelius for iPad, it’s not nearly as fully tricked out as the desktop version. To a large extent, it replicates the desktop version of Sibelius, but with many iPad-specific features. Today’s new app isn’t Scorch at all - it’s a completely new app called “Sibelius” that you can download from Apple’s App Store. With today’s release of Sibelius on iPad, Avid Scorch has been removed (although if you already bought it, you can still re-install it if needed). You might remember that, quite a while ago, there was an iPad app called Avid Scorch that opened and played back Sibelius files. This is the very first time we’ve seen Sibelius on iPad and we’re excited to see what it can do.
To get grounded, start off with our video, where we take a comprehensive first look at Sibelius on iPad: everything from how to get started opening files and templates working with touch gestures and selections entering music with the Keypad, Apple Pencil, and external devices pitch correction and chord input tools the revamped Create menu word menus, Command Search playback, print, and PDF export, and more. You’d be forgiven for thinking you were at a NAMM Show where we expect these kinds of back-to-back major releases, but this is just a random week in July!
In what will surely go down in the history books as one of the most exciting and unanticipated weeks in the world of music notation software development, the Sibelius version of iPad was released approximately 24 hours after we saw Dorico arrive on the iPad. Perhaps of most interest to existing Sibelius users: Anyone with an active subscription or support plan on Mac or PC can access the iPad version at the same tier at which they are currently entitled, at no additional charge. Much of the desktop product - including a lot of powerful Sibelius features and the ability to add and edit unlimited instruments in the top tier of the product - has made its way into Sibelius on iPad, but the interface has been re-imagined for the iPad platform in many significant ways.
Subscribe: Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pandora | PocketCasts | Podchaser | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInĪfter a week of slowly teasing the announcement in its marketing channels, today Avid released Sibelius for Mobile on iPad on the App Store. There is an announcement on the Avid blog and a new Sibelius for Mobile section of the Avid site, along with a introductory video and a series of seven Getting Started videos. Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 55:33