Sibelius

Avid Technology Inc

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About this app

Sibelius brings professional music notation to Android phones, tablets, and Chromebooks, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music.

# Work on scores anywhere

Work with the same tools and features used by countless composers and production houses every day on your phone and tablet. Whether writing down ideas, creating full-blown compositions, or reviewing scores, you have the freedom to create wherever you’re comfortable.

#Take your portfolio to go

Forget having to bring a laptop when meeting with clients and collaborators. Instead, you can conveniently take the world’s most powerful notation toolset and your entire music portfolio with you anywhere.

# 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. With Espressivo advanced notation interpretation you can adjust rhythm and swing to create a more humanistic feel.

# Stylus or touch workflows

Sibelius for mobile is designed to take full advantage of stylus touch capabilities. Its elegant, streamlined interface provides the most intuitive workflows possible and will auto-adjust layouts and support the same familiar keyboard shortcuts from the desktop version.

# It's all here

In addition to the Keypad, Sibelius for mobile features a Create menu that’s optimized for mobile, making it easy to add clefs, key signatures, time signatures, barlines, symbols, text styles, and more to your score from searchable galleries. You can also quickly search through all Sibelius commands using the Command Search.

# Connect your projects

With files saved to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other Android-supported cloud service, you have easy anywhere access to all your ideas and scores without any need to import or export.

# Move tiers and work hybrid

Sibelius is designed to grow with you to support your needs, from the introductory (and free) Sibelius First to the industry-standard Sibelius Ultimate. Get the mobile app free with the desktop version, enabling you to work where and how you want.

Ratings and reviews

I heard about this app, and I thought I'd try it. It's not the easiest transition from desktop to mobile, but I figured it had intuitive controls. Nope. The note input method is meticulous and stupid, you have to hold down a note value and drag up or down to select a pitch. You can't change the tempo of a score if you can't type a note, because God forbid they give you that. And it doesn't autosave, you have to press the BACK BUTTON to choose to save. It needs a LOT of work before it's good.

Downloaded the app and was prompted to the Bach piece. Went to back out of it and it took me to my phone's recent files. I made sure the permissions were not given to access these via setting and permissions but it still cycled to the recent files page regardless. I was excited when I discovered that there was an Android mobile version, but it seems to be unusable. Very disappointed.

It's decent enough, however the oboe will not play any lower notes whatsoever, and I've tried everything to fix this and I cannot find anyone with the same issue, if I can find a way to fix the oboe I'll make this rating 5 stars, but it's a 3 because the oboe part is extremely important for most the pieces I make