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Sibelius Student Edition | 
| From: Sibelius Software Ltd
Category: Software
Buy New: £115.25
New (3) from £115.25
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 831
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
EAN: 5050053340764
ASIN: B0007IQER8
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: As Amazon, Sealed and Shipped from the UK......14 day money back policy
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Product Description
* Up to 12 staves * Compose for video * Ideas Hub (read-only version) * 250 built-in musical ideas * Panorama view * New, clearer mixer * Exchange files with Sibelius 5 * Email your score to your teacher * Change clefs mid-stave * Create tuplets: from duplets to nontuplets * Vista and Mac Leopard compatible * Universal Binary on Mac
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great for Schoolwork May 12, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
We bought this for my daughters to use, and it does everything they need it to, and they find it easy to use. They have the same version at school and it is absolutely great for composing, arranging etc - they haven't yet had anything they needed to do and couldn't.
Try! January 27, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although I use the full version, not the cut-down being reviewed here, I have to agree with Fabia that it sounds as if our disgruntled reviewer simply hasn't leaned how to use the application. You do have to read the manual (& sometimes you have to guess what something is called before you can look it up) but it is one of the best non-commercial score writers around (and then, some companies use it too). You can download a trial version from the Sibelius website (you definitely need broadband!) so try it for yourself, but please learn what the various keys do before blaming it for not being Microsoft Word or any other bit of software more familiar to you.
Easy to use, once you know how! November 22, 2007
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have used sibelius for a good few years, at school and colleges, and found no real problems with it apart from one! The person who rated it at one star only found it fiddly because they never pressed escape when they needed to use the cursor freely because if you don't not do that then the whole of your work will change for example if I wanted to delete something from another bar and the cursor on the key-pad was selected on crotchets - It would instantly change something in that bar to a crotchet, so always remember to press escape. Anyway this product I have found to be useful for composing my a-level pieces and I hope to make some good music. Please do not be put off by the angry customer who rated this one star, because the problem they had with this one is just the same for all the other versions of sibelius, you just need to know how to use the program properly, because if you don't things will go wrong.
 Without a doubt the most poorly designed piece of software i have ever had the misfortune to use. June 20, 2007
13 out of 33 found this review helpful
Whats most frightening is that this is the TONED DOWN version of Sibelius, designed for use by students ( mainly at GCSE ) . The interface seems simple enough, the idea being that the user uses a keypad to input notes and rests into a stave and then can play them back. Sibelius does offer the choice to use lots of diferrent instruments in your score, giving you the feeling that you have a whole orchestra at your command.
Unfortunatly, this is where the fun stops with Sibelius Student Edition. The method of inputing notes into the stave is long and tedious, and whilst you can copy and paste whole bars, actually writing down your own melodys is nearly impossible. Whole hours can be spent inputting single notes very carefully, only for the user to press one button wrong at the end and lose all their work. Sibelius Student will IMPORT MIDI files, but there is no function for recording straight into it.
One of the most irritating features of SSE is the way you never actually feel in control of your work. Notes and bars are frequently unresponsive to " delete " or " backspace " commands, and you may spend lots of time searching for a method to delete a section of your composition.
Navigation is also complex, the stave jumps all over the place when you play something back.
Very poorly designed, Not worth it for the money, your better off downloading a copy of audacity and recording straight into that.
take my advice and never buy this.
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