While that’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement with this feature (isn’t there always?), I think the ability to import Sibelius files directly into the program is a milestone for many users looking for faster and more accurate ways to produce quality scores.Īlready, I’ve used the MusicXML importing feature in a large pops orchestra project and several other smaller jobs, and it’s worked beautifully - probably saving me hours in the process, since I had a good template with dynamic parts formatted all ready to go. Suffice it to say, it took a while (there was a global pandemic in the midst of all of this, after all), but our wishes have been answered.Įarlier this year, the 2020.6 release gave us MusicXML import, and with this new 2020.12 release, we’re finally all the way there.

Similarly, bringing in MusicXML files in this manner, such as from scanned material or from other notation software, is a no-brainer. One could well imagine receiving a piano reduction in Sibelius and using this importing feature to quickly bring it into a template to orchestrate (this was the original inspiration for the Impose Sketch Onto Template plug-in). The next logical step is to extend the MIDI import workflow to MusicXML and Sibelius files. In our review at the time of the 2019.9 release, I said: (A number of MIDI-specific items like cleaning up keyswitches were also part of this feature). This new workflow brought an easy drag-and-drop user experience to the process, but more “import”antly (haha), it debuted some useful new things like many-to-one and one-to-many mapping, the ability to use your own template when importing a file instead of having to use a default Sibelius file, and - most significantly to those of us doing this a lot - bringing over the time signature, key signature, tempo, and other global items from your source file. In that release, Sibelius rolled out a brand new way of getting MIDI files into a Sibelius score directly within the Sibelius interface. The new importing workflow was introduced more than a year ago with the 2019.9 update.

Aside from some good improvements in the way plug-ins and fonts are handled (more on those in a bit), the new feature in this release is the long-awaited ability to import Sibelius files directly into an existing Sibelius file or template, so let’s dive right in and explore it. Just in time for the end of 2020 (is it over yet?) Avid has released Sibelius 2020.12, the latest update to Sibelius. Subscribe: Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pandora | PocketCasts | Podchaser | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn

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