Sibelius Student Edition

Sibelius 6

Advantages: tons of new features, which makes using Sibelius quicker and easier than ever!
Disadvantages: price, takes a while to get used to the shortcuts if you've never used Sibelius before

, or anything you want really! Again, there is a new button added to the main toolbar, and a simple click will bring one up. You can customise these "notes", and there are also options to minimize them or totally hide them will you are working on the score itself. Comments from different people are shown in different colours for easy recognition, and I'm sure this will benefit many Sibelius users, whether it's students with a query on how to improve/change something, teachers leaving notes for their pupils, editors leaving notes for composers/arrangers, or simply leaving yourself a reminder to finish or come back to this. I cannot wait to make full use of this feature when I go to uni and need to remember to fiddle with or change bits of coursework! 4) PLAYBACK IMPROVEMENTS There is now integrated playback within Sibelius 6, no more Kontakt ...

Ostinato 28.07.2009 · Read full review
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Microsoft Office 2008 Home and Student Edition (Mac)

Advantages: runs on mac :D
Disadvantages: expansive

Microsoft Office 2008 Home and Student Edition (Mac) Microsoft's office 2008 home and student addition for mac has all the features of the windows version and more with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage and Messenger. Office for mac is designed to take full advantage of the mac operating system and hardware. In tests there ware no difference in speed or reliability compared to the original windows version of office 2008. At between £72 to £100 this little bit of kit comes at an excellent price! and as the name suggests its perfect for students and home users who just need to get some paperwork or assignments completed in time. unlike open office.org (which i use all the time now) on a mac this boots up straight away without any fuss. ...

jjlyon 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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SIBELIUS WOULD BE PROUD

Advantages: A fantastic program for writing music; Great looking scores; Far better than the competition
Disadvantages: Stupidly expensive

) and you would like it ?reduced? down to a piano part. Sibelius makes sure that the new parts it writes for instruments are playable by each, and can be set up to vary which instrument gets the tune, etc. This feature isn?t bad, although it can?t really compare to arrangements of music carried out by us good, old-fashioned humans! >> VALUE FOR MONEY << This is by far and away the worst part of the software. The cost for a full version varies from about £400 upwards, which is extremely expensive. Even for specialist software which may be considered to be some of the best available, the price is simply non-realistic for the actual software you get. Student versions are available for about half of the full price, which again is a very poor reduction when compared to student licenses on other software. The biggest shame of all as regards ...

Jaxle 28.12.2003 · Read full review
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