This improvement certainly makes this new feature a whole lot more useful. Rests will now intelligently group back together when you slide notes: Sliding notes in Sibelius 8.3 This has been significantly improved in Sibelius 8.3. Slide too far, though, and you left a trail of unconsolidated rests behind: Sliding notes in Sibelius 8.2 Sibelius 8.2 introduced a promising new feature with which a note a or passage could be moved left or right by the use of the new shortcuts Command-Option-Left Arrow (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow (PC) and Command-Option-Right Arrow (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow (PC), respectively. Improved rest consolidation when sliding notes If you’re interested in the details of the ManuScript language and using it to manipulate note colors, go to the Quick Start dialog within Sibelius, and click on Learn > Documentation > What’s New. The shipping plug-in Note Input > Plug-ins > Notes and Rests > Color Pitches has been updated so that coloring individual notes is possible with that tool.īob Zawalich has already updated the following downloadable plug-ins to work with Sibelius 8.3, adapting them to process individual colors:įind Colored Objects was not updated, but a comment was added to its download page description saying to use Filter Colored Objects and Go To > Selected Objects as a replacement. You can see the results instantly by running the shipping plug-in Note Input > Plug-ins > Notes and Rests > Boomwhacker Note Colors: Results of the Boomwhacker Note Colors plug-in in Sibelius 8.2 and earlier Results of the Boomwhacker Note Colors plug-in in Sibelius 8.3 Of course, users will also be able to individually color noteheads manually using the tools in the Ribbon.” We’ll be updating those plug-ins which aren’t. We’ve been able to extend the existing ManuScript color APIs so that most plug-ins will naturally already be compatible with the new functionality. Sibelius product designer Joe Pearson said, “In fact, this is the heart of the feature. In Sibelius 8.3, you’re able to color notes and articulations individually without needing the plug-in workaround. Individually coloring notes in a chord has long been on many a user’s wish list, including Bob Zawalich, who, along with Kai Struck, wrote an elaborate plug-in using graphics as noteheads to work around the limitation. Sibelius has long had the ability to color notes, but if you applied a color to one note in a chord, the color would appear in all notes and articulations in that chord. Individual note colorsĪs reported last month, the new feature in Sibelius 8.3 is the individual coloring of notes. Sibelius 8.3 introduces the ability to individually color notes, improves upon 8.2’s sliding feature by more intelligently grouping rests, and improves the independent enharmonic spelling feature introduced in 8.2. As with other 8.x releases, it is a free update for all 8.x users with an active license (virtually anyone with Sibelius 8.x other than those who may have had a month-to-month subscription).
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