Avid Sibelius 8 for Education with Upgrade Plan

Avid Sibelius 8 is the latest generation of world's best-selling music notation software, with powerful, yet easy-to-use tools trusted and used by composers, arrangers, publishers, educators, and students worldwide. With its integrated Annotate feature, multi-touch gestures, Surface Pro 3 pen support, and more, Sibelius 8 lets you unleash your creativity in brand new ways, whether you're composing for film, television, multimedia, live performance, or in the classroom. 

Score on your Surface Pro

Avid has optimized Sibelius 8 for use with Microsoft'a Surface Pro 3 tablet, letting you quickly add and edit notes with just a tap of the pen, as well as play music in real time using your tablet's onscreen keyboard and fretboard. You can use the Surface Pro Pen's buttons to select, erase, and edit your music, and you can even drag the score around while you're inputting notes.

Many ways to create and share your music

Avid Sibelius 8 lets you play back your scores with impressive realism, with immediate access to an extensive instrumental library filled with a broad variety of pro-quality instruments. You can sync Sibelius to Pro Tools and other DAWs via ReWire, or collaborate through MusicXML. Share your music as a score, audio file, or video through email, ScoreExchange, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud, and more - or export it to Avid Scorch, which lets musicians perform your compositions on an iPad.

Full palette of desktop publishing tools

Creating gorgeous professional scores is easy with Avid Sibelius 8's full palette of desktop publishing tools. Perfect your text with tracking, leading, and other industry-standard typography tools. Drag-and-drop graphics. With a single click, easily export publisher-quality scores in PDF format.

Transcribe and scan into Sibelius

Avid Sibelius 8 includes Neuratron AudioScore Lite and PhotoScore Lite, which let you transcribe and scan music into Sibelius. Using AudioScore Lite, you can sing or play an instrument to input notes into Sibelius, or import music from a CD. And you can scan printed music with PhotoScore Lite and send it to Sibelius for playback, transposition, and editing. PhotoScore even comes with NotateMe for real-time conversion of your handwriting into notation.

Features:

• Write music with a pen on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet
• Quickly add and edit notes with a tap of the pen
• Streamline collaboration by using the new Annotate feature:
• Add notes, edits, and instructions directly on the score for others to review
• Interact with scores intuitively using multi-touch gestures like pinch-zoom
• Get up and running faster than ever with a simplified activation process
• Work faster and see more detail with the updated Windows interface