Print Music 2008
Recommended for K-8

Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results. From the makers of Finale®, the world’s leading music notation software, PrintMusic is perfect for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders. This is the perfect solution for those who are on a budget but still something that is really easy to use...but still has room to grow as you expand.

What's New in PrintMusic 2008: 

• Windows Vista support

• Compatible with files made with Finale 2008

• Powerful new mixer

• Ability to import/export TIFF graphics

• Document Styles, offering the easy personalization of new scores

• New selection tool

• Improved cut/copy/paste/insert for the most efficient workflow ever

• Improved music scanning

• Updated Setup Wizard

Other Features:

• Mac Momentum - Both Mac Intel and PowerPC users will experience new speed and redraw enhancements

• Roll-Over Tool Tips – Just mouse-over an icon to view a tool tip.

• Smoother Onscreen Graphics (anti-aliasing) – Now slurs, beams, and other graphics have the same smooth appearance onscreen as they do when printed

• Create Coda Systems
  Automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback

• Improved Pickup Measures
  Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility

• Roman Chord Style
  PrintMusic now offers three styles of chord symbols: standard, German, and Roman Numerals. Select from a library of chord suffixes to indicate harmonic analysis.

• Score System Divider
  Automatically inserts or removes score system dividers to mark separations between staff systems on the same page.

• More Reverb Options in Playback
  Select from five reverb types and control the amount of reverb.

• Portable Authorization
  Need to move PrintMusic to a new computer or plan to reformat your hard drive? Now you can do this with a few simple mouse—clicks instead of contacting Customer Support. Allows unlimited re-installs for your machines in the event of a crash, hard drive reformat, or machine upgrade

System Requirements:

Finale PrintMusic for Windows®

• Windows XP/Vista 32-bit

• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

• Minimum 256MB RAM recommended

• 200 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual

Finale PrintMusic for Macintosh®

• G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC)

• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution

• CD-ROM drive

• Minimum 256MB RAM recommended

• 246 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual

Optional

• MIDI interface

• MIDI input and/or playback device

• Printer

• Scanner

• Microphone required for use of MicNotator®

Print Music $79
Print Music Lab 5 $195

Sibelius 5  
Recommended for all levels

Whatever your musical style, Sibelius 5 makes writing scores a breeze - giving you more time to focus on the music. Stunning new features like Panorama mean you don’t need to think about pages while you’re composing or arranging. You can just let you creativity flow. Ideas Hub is a real first for music software. It lets you instantly capture your musical ideas, and then find them again in a second - so you’ll never lose another idea. Plus new, high-quality, built-in sounds play back your scores with astounding realism, because there’s no better way to perfect your music than by hearing it.

What's new in Sibelius 5 »

You can create audio files which can be converted to MP3s or burned to CD, produce instrumental parts effortlessly, compose for video, sell your music online and do hundreds of other things you might never have dreamed of.

Write and refine music easily

Sibelius is so easy to learn and use that you can start writing your first piece within minutes – not days! Discover the joys of writing music with a program that's simple and intuitive. And, of course, being able to change your music in the blink of an eye - no more rubbing out! Read more »

Hear your music

The easiest way to perfect your music is by hearing it. Just click the play button in Sibelius to hear your music performed with surprising realism, thanks to the built-in Sibelius Sounds Essentials library. Sibelius reads, understands and plays back all standard markings, and you can buy extra sound libraries for choral music, world music and more

SIBELIUS-A Comprehensive Guide to Sibelius Music Notation Software Book
Master Sibelius music notation software step by step with the most complete how-to guide available. Designed for both novice and experienced musicians, composers, producers and arrangers, it contains a variety of examples, from single-line melodies to complex scores. Written by two proven experts, trainers and authors in the field of music notation software (Tom Rudolph and Vincent Leonard) , this book will be a constant reference for all of your Sibelius questions and needs. 446 pages $29.95

SIBELIUS DVD 1 tutorial
In this first tutorial of two you will learn everything you need to know to start using this fantastic program.Sibelius Tutorial DVD Level 1 is ideal for users that are new to Sibelius and is a great refresher for more advanced users. Available on DVD-Rom, DVD (NTSC) and DVD (PAL) all in one package!

• 25 Videos 

• 2+ Hours of instructional video DVD-Rom, DVD (NTSC) and DVD (PAL) all in one package! 

• Easy to use interface 

• Tutorial uses Sibelius 4 

• Hostess introduces every video adding a personal touch not seen in other 'tech' tutorials. 

• Mac OS X & Windows compatible 

• Requires computer with DVD-Rom Drive

SIBELIUS DVD 2 tutorial

Sibelius Tutorial DVD Level 2 is ideal for advanced Sibelius users or for beginners that are ready to increase their knowledge. The DVD will take you through items such as multiple voicing, worksheet creation and internet publishing.

Sibelius Tutorial DVD Level 2 Contents:

1. MIDI Files & Making a CD

2. Working with Multiple Voices 1

3. Working with Multiple Voices 2

4. Manuscript Paper: Styles

5. Manuscript Paper: Layout

6. Advanced Filters: Selection

7. Advanced Filters: Multi Copy

8. Working with Parts & Scores

9. Drum Notation: Settings

10. Drum Notation: MIDI Entry

11. Live Playback: Options

12. Live Playback: Transform

13. Live Playback: Dictionary

14. WorkSheet Creator: Basics

15. WorkSheet Creator: Fun & Games

16. WorkSheet Creator: Customization

17. Score Layout: Format

18. Score Layout: Auto Layout

19. Parts & Scores: Basics

20. Parts & Scores: Appearance

21. Parts & Scores: Tips & Tricks

22. Symbols & Graphics

23. Working with Video

24. Internet Publishing

Sibelius 5 Student Version $82: 

The all-new Sibelius 5 student version adds hundreds of extra features over previous versions. There’s composing for video, up to 12 staves per system, and over 250 ready-made snippets of notation to get you started. Sibelius student version is designed for secondary/high school students to use at home, rather than for classroom use or for teachers. It has everything most students need for homework.

What’s new?

Attention Finale, Encore, Mosaic, Sibelius Student Version Users. Purchase Sibelius 5 notation program for only $159

This Sibelius 5 Competitive Upgrade is only available to users residing within North, Central and South America. Limit one copy of Finale, Encore, Mosaic, or Sibelius Student Version. Here is how it works:

• Order the Sibelius Competitive Upgrade below online for $159 

• When you receive it, open it up and install it. You will have 15 days before saving and printing is disabled allowing you plenty of time to get your registration into Sibelius.

• Fill out the enclosed registration form, tear out the first and second pages of your table of contents in your Finale, Encore, Mosaic, or Sibelius Student version user manual and send both the registration form and the 2 pages directly to Sibelius at the address on the bottom of the registration form. If you do not have the manual then include your your original Finale, Encore, Mosaic, or Sibelius Student version program CD/floppy disk. Photocopies of the manual pages will not be accepted. If unable to comply with requirements, registration will be denied. 

Sibelius 5 is also available in a Network Site License version for 11 or more computers. This comes with the following: (1) CD ROM that is loaded onto the server, (1) backup CD, (2) user manuals and (1) backup manual, (1) copy Photoscore Ultimate 5.

Additional Sound Libraries for Sibelius 5? Click here.

Site License Special Offer!

Order a Sibelius 5 or Groovy Music Site License for your school or district and receive one of the following Site Licenses (of equal or lesser value) at no additional charge!*

• Groovy Music Shapes

• Groovy Music Jungle

• Groovy Music City

• Instruments

• Compass

• Rock & Pop Sound Library

• World Sound Library

• Choral Sound Library

ORDER SOON! This offer ends June 30, 2008

Remember, Site License copies can be shared around all the schools in your district. For example, if you order a Sibelius 5 Site License for the high school(s) you can get a free Site License of Groovy Shapes for the elementary school(s).

NOTE:

*Offer applies to Site License purchases between May 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. Applies only to new Site License purchases or add-ons of 11 seats or greater. The free Site License must be for the same number of seats and of equal or lesser value. Please add the free Site License (priced at$0) to your Sibelius or Groovy PO and mention promo code May08SL. Some restrictions may apply.

Groovy Music
Recommended for ages 5-11

Groovy Music is a series of 3 exciting software programs (Shapes, Jungle and City) for elementary school students ages 5 to 11. Fun to use, Groovy Music teaches the basics of sound, rhythm, pitch and composition using pictures and animation - progressing to the study of simple notation as well as major and minor scales.

In Groovy Shapes (ages 5-7), children learn about basic music concepts. The Explore section guides them aurally through a series of progressive exercises which teach them how music works. They can then put into practice what they’ve learned by creating their own music in the Create section. Shapes are used to represent elements of music such as rhythms, melodies and chords. As your chosen character walks across the screen, the shapes play their sounds. A library of preset sounds is included, which children can simply drag onto the screen to build up their musical creation. They can then play back their piece, edit it, or even see the elements displayed as music notation.The progressive exercises mean Groovy Shapes can be used immediately by any teacher, and because instructions are given aurally, no reading is required by students.

Groovy Jungle (ages 7-9) introduces children to notes and notation, ostinato, major and minor, and simple musical terms. More complex musical textures are explored, and additional instruments allow them to experiment further with their own compositions.

• Add music to a composition by recording from a keyboard or other MIDI instrument
• View compositions in a full score display
• Create and edit text
• Jungle-themed Create mode with sounds represented by animals & plants

Groovy City (ages 9-11). Children learn more about notation, and complete more complex listening tasks. They are also introduced to question and answer phrases and the blues scale, so that they can begin to build up more sophisticated compositions.

• Futuristic city themed Create mode
• Library of sounds includes patterns, as well as individual sounds

	Easily integrate technology into your teaching – allowing control of children's screens in a networked environment
	Can be used on a single computer, whiteboard or network
	Makes time with students fun and efficient
	Uses the latest educational standards and teaching methodologies
	Students learn at their own pace and own level
	Uses an imaginative virtual environment where students arrange shapes, characters and images to create music!

System Requirements:
Windows:98/200/XP, 800mhz, 28MB, 100MB HD space, 16 bit sound card
Mac: OSX 10.3 or latter, 800mhz, 28MB, 100MB HD space, Quicktime.

To watch a video of Groovy Music Shapes go to
http://sibelius.com/products/groovy

Notion 2.0
Recommended for High School/College

NOTION 2.0 is an advanced music program dedicated to bringing a revolutionary degree of realism to the creation and communication of your musical vision. The NOTION playback engine is natively equipped with a library of realistic sampled sounds taken from the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra, which means that your music goes from inception to realization right away.

NOTION's score-entry interface offers a set of highly-intuitive keyboard shortcuts that make manual entry faster than ever. The NTempo™ feature enables you to take musical ideas even further, offering the opportunity to control the performance tempo in real time.

Features

Sounds of the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios Click and drag notes Note Audition No longer requires iLok security Write for up to 128 instruments in a single score Over 1,000 voice polyphony No external hardware or software needed Expandable and customizable sound library NTempo: real-time "conducting" of the score MIDI import MusicXML import and export MIDI device entry, including step time, stretch time, and real time Enter and edit up to 99 verses of lyrics Automatic score layout and alignment Instrument audio mixer: mute, solo, decay, pan, and balance Export to WAV file Shortcuts for every element - easily associated through mnemonics or visual appearance 33 level dynamic resolution from ppppp to ffffff with intermediate degrees Timbre sampling at all dynamics and in all ranges Playback of custom key signatures, time signatures, quarter tones, and more Authentic playback of performance techniques, expandable with the add-on sound kits

System Requirements:

	Windows
	Minimum: XP Home Pentium 4 512 MB RAM 2 GB hard drive space	Recommended: XP Professional Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 2 GB hard drive space
	Mac
	Minimum: OSX: 10.4.2 Power PC 512MB RAM 2 GB hard drive space	Recommended: OSX 10.4.6 or later 2Ghz Dual or Intel Core Duo 2 GB of RAM 2 GB hard drive space

Photoscore Ultimate  5
Recommended for all levels

Neuratron PhotoScore Ultimate 5 is the advanced version of the PhotoScore Lite scanning program which is included with Sibelius. Once the music is read, you can edit or transpose the score in Sibelius, play it back, extract parts and print - just as if you'd inputted it yourself. PhotoScore Ultimate 5 is the most advanced software package of its kind. And it works equally well with either Sibelius or Finale.

Photoscore Ultimate 5 - for everybody!

• Scans and reads printed music using the OmniScore˛™ dual-engine recognition system (a powerful hybrid of an updated PhotoScore OmniScore™ engine and the highly acclaimed Liszt music scanning engine as used in SharpEye 2)

• Recognizes handwritten music for note entry away from a computer

• Opens and reads PDF files containing scores

• Highly accurate, quick and easy to use

• Even percussion staves, guitar tablature and chord diagrams are picked up!

• Automatic scanning and recognition - removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings

• Transposes notation

• Plays back scanned music with astonishing realism using the Espressivo™ feature licensed from Sibelius

• Prints scores in high quality

• Results can be used in almost any music editing program. Send directly to Sibelius or G7, or save MusicXML and NIFF files for Finale and other notation products. Save MIDI files for MIDI sequencing programs such as Cubase and Sonar. Save WAV or AIFF files for burning to CD.

• Reads text from score in up to 120 different languages. Windows version can even read Greek and Russian.

• Available for both Windows and Mac OS X (Universal Binary)

System Requirements:

To use PhotoScore 5 for Windows your system requires the following hardware:

• An IBM compatible Pentium or higher PC with Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista. At least 192MB RAM - 256MB is recommended or 512MB if using Windows 2000/XP/Vista. If your computer has less than 192MB RAM, contact your supplier for a memory upgrade.

• Your computer should also have a reasonable amount of free hard disk space - at least 40MB and preferably rather more.

• Adobe Reader 6.0 or later should be installed to view PhotoScore’s PDF help.

• Sibelius/G7 users note: Although PhotoScore will work with Sibelius/G7 version 3 and higher, It is recommended that you use Sibelius/G7 5.0 or higher as it has greatly improved PhotoScore importing capabilities.

• A scanner (probably connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed TWAIN or WIA driver software.

To use PhotoScore 5 for Mac OS X your system requires the following hardware:

• An Apple Macintosh Intel/G4/G5 with Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. It should have at least 256MB RAM and 512MB is recommended. If your computer has less than 256MB RAM, contact your supplier for a memory upgrade.

• Your computer should also have a reasonable amount of free hard disk space - at least 40MB and preferably rather more.

• Apple Preview or Adobe Reader 6.0 or later should be installed to view PhotoScore’s PDF help.

• Sibelius/G7 users note: Although PhotoScore will work with Sibelius/G7 version 3 and higher, It is recommended that you use Sibelius/G7 5.0 or higher as it has greatly improved PhotoScore importing capabilities.

• A scanner (probably connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed Mac OS X TWAIN driver software (it is highly recommended you visit your scanner manufacturer’s website and download the latest version – also note that classic Mac OS TWAIN drivers will not work). You may need to contact your scanner manufacturer for information on installing a suitable TWAIN driver. If a Mac OS X TWAIN driver is not available for your scanner, you will need to scan using separate software, save suitable TIFF files, and open these in PhotoScore.

SmartScore 5
Recommended all ages

After 15 years of development, SmartScore 5 now exceeds 99% on well-printed scores. Not satisfied, we wanted to raise the bar even higher. We rethought SmartScore's editing and scoring interface and rebuilt it from the ground up. Besides having the world's most advanced music scanning technology, SmartScore 5 is also one of the friendliest scorewriters available anywhere. Whether for editing scanned music or creating new scores from scratch, SmartScore is fast, easy and, well, smart! Playback is also more accurate with greater nuance and sophistication. Dynamics, articulations, jumps and repeats have more intelligence with easy-to-use, easy-to-understand controls. Now, your final score can match the original exactly or you can rearrange, reformat, resize and manipulate it with drag-and-drop ease. All with the finest output quality.

What's new in SmartScore 5?

Greater Accuracy

• 99+% recognition accuracy on well-printed pages

• Improved OCR of text and lyrics

• More symbols are recognized and applied to playback:
  Grace notes, segnos, jumps, dynamics markings, tempo markings, cross-staff beams, cross-staff voices, trills, broken systems (codas), ossias, even chord names written as text are automatically converted to transposable guitar fret symbols

Better Playback

• Click-to-change Playback Properties of:
  Notes, trills, staccatos, tenutos, arpeggios, tremelos (also beamed tremelos), tempos, dynamics, barlines and repeats

• Greatly improved jumps control (codas, segnos, repeats, etc.)

• Two-way MIDI-ENF and ENF-MIDI transparancy
  Changes to MIDI events instantly update in ENF window

• Greatly expanded guitar chord library (660 chords)
  Increased accuracy of chord symbol recognition

• Improved Karaoke view
  Smoother action, moving lyrics or moving ball, colored backgrounds and lyrics

• Drag to select region for playback

Score Editing and Layout

• Flexible formatting
  - Horizontal View or Page View displays
  - Dynamic system scrolling
  - Change measures per system locally or globally
  - Line, staff and system spacing control tabs and rulers
  - Resize measures while keeping relative symbols spacing
  - Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences

• Improved editing interface
  - Simplified interface. Attractive easy-to-see controls
  - Single click to insert or change symbols (no "change" mode.)
  - Color-assisted symbol editing. Auto-error display.
  - Simplified cross-staff editing and beaming
  - Easily create ossias and split systems (codas)
  - Staff and System Properties
  - Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences
  - New Expressions tool: over 100 musical expressions in various languages: Italian, French, German and English

Document Layout Control

• Instantly center pages to standard or customized paper formats

• Select and modify left/right aligned page layouts

• View layout changes dynamically in Print Preview

Output Options

• Import and export MusicXML (Sibelius, Cubase, etc.)

• Export to Finale 200x in its native file format

• Burn ENF playback to Audio CD or save to .WAV files

System Requirements (Win):

WIN
Windows Vista / XP / 200x
Pentium I or better
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

MAC
OS 10.4 (Tiger)
G3 or better / Dual Core for Universal
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space