Yopu could play one line in and then change the notes and then play back the Audio corrected and see the MIDI/ Notation line.Ĭonvolution reverb is available to help all the sounds, a full mixer, limitless channels, excellent parametric eq, note expression down to minute details, the ability to load different arcitulations into the same channel/track. It has all the symbols you need for anything up to a full orchestral score, various fonts, good layout facilities, working with parts in any clef (not just bass and treble) transposing spacing and layout is a doddle.ĭisplay quantize (explained above) is fantastic, Audio lines (say a trumpet solo) can be translated into notes (using a melodyne like feature which can pitch tweak too). I notice that Sibelius can 'rewire' to Logic, I dont know about Cubase.Īs an addendum you will find that Cuvase score is pretty powerful and can handle full scores very well. If you want to get an accurate emulation then display quantise and note expression are essential tools plus the power of a sequencer. I think Sibelius wins hands down on the interface front, if thats all you need Vishnu go for it. I dropped scoring in this way and took up the piano and BIAB - whic is always such a gas! (Thats why I went to BIAB).Ī few years agao I concluded, reluctatly that the software, whatever software, (I checked out the very best, very very carefully) was not up to the job. The whole techniocal process is so much clutter in between you and the art. But I find that working on a score and constantly hearing a wooden version of what you are inspired to create. So, you may be thinking this is all a tangent - Sibelius is designed as a NOTATION software not really a PLAYBACK device. I heard no mention of close tweak control in the videos although I am sure there must be a little functionality. Having listened to Sibelius demo the playback, though better than Sibelius 5, and even relatively good, is still wooden to my ears. The process was challenging and the Cubase tools (from version 5) were only just making it in this respect ("note expression" was buggy) but it WAS possible just in Cubase to get things authetic. I remember loading Debussys Nuages into Audio and then emulating every note for a score. Using such methods I created emulations of many scores and eventualy got pretty satisfactory results. I also needed to get at any individual note and sculpt it as I required. Simply loading "First Violins Marcato" into channel 1, or something was not hacking it, for my ears. Vibrato control is so problematic with many of the orchestral libraries as the samples already have it in them - as they should i suppose. I also found I needed to control vibrato closely (pich shift) - as you know such a personal thing. Secondly to get at every signel note in a line and control whether it was staccato (preferably with a range of tpes) legato, (again so many different legato types) or any other articulation the instrument could command - all in one channel. Firstly Display quantise, this is where the score shows something readable and the performance is allowed nuances that are not scored) Simply loading a particular articulation into one channel was not hacking it for me. Obviously real lines feature all sorts of embrouchure, articulations, dynamics and the like, the way woodwinds pop and click, the effect of embrouchure on a note (Chet Baker - compared to Purcell's trumpet voluntary) sound like different instruments. Getting an authentic line for strings, or for that matter any instrument, required so much tweaking, sometimes more than one channel. Both the last instruments give you pretty good control over vibrato. I bought GPO), East West Platinium strings, Vienna Strings and even Garritan Stradivarious. For my ears a particular problem was violin articulations, everywhere I went I found the same articulations (more or less). The thing that I found I needed a sequencer for was for sounds - demos. But I switched back to Cubase for reasons below. I have done a lot of scoring in my time, I used to use Sibelius 5, it was an easy to use interface, now it looks even better - very impressive. Well Mac I checked out the videos, it certainly looks very impressive.
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