Sibelius Ultimate

• Compose - Create rich, detailed scores with easy-to-use music notation tools
• Orchestrate - Perfect the arrangement and instrumentation in your score
• Engrave + Copy - Prepare and fine-tune scores for performance
• Share scores online and on social media with anyone, anywhere
• Educate - Get powerful classroom tools and worksheets to teach notation
• Publish - Prep scores and make then interactive to boost sales

From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators use Sibelius than any other music notation software. Discover the easiest way to write and share music with the world's bestselling notation tool.

AudioScore Ultimate

Transcribe music recordings and performances into a score

AudioScore Ultimate 8 is the full featured version of the AudioScore Lite audio transcription software included with Sibelius Ultimate. With AudioScore Ultimate 8, you can quickly and easily turn CD tracks, MP3s, MIDI files, and even your own vocal and instrument performances into detailed music notation. It's the ultimate music composing secret weapon for your Sibelius workflow.

Get better accuracy

With version 8, AudioScore's audio recognition engine has been completely re-engineered to provide better music precision and detail. Get improved recognition of multiple overlapping notes. Minimize interference caused by drum and percussion sounds. And experience superior pitch recognition and note separation.

Work faster and easier

Easily create scores from transcribed notes. AudioScore will automatically detect all instrumentation and create a score with staves labeled for each part. Play back note selections in high-quality audio. Save scores as PDFs for easy printing. Open MIDI files to automatically create high-quality, printable scores. And work with Sibelius 8.

Transcribe CDs and MP3s

With AudioScore Ultimate, you can open a CD track or MP3 file and transcribe it to a score. The software employs the most intelligent technology available today to convert up to 16 instruments or notes at a time into multiple staves, with up to four voices per staff. After transcribing your music, you can send it directly to Sibelius or save it as a MusicXML, NIFF, or MIDI file for use in most other music programs.

View, edit, and play back nuanced performances

AudioScore Ultimate enables you to view, play, and edit the most intricate nuances of a performance—such as the subtle changes in pitch, volume, and timing. You can also produce new versions of music using MIDI instruments of your choice. AudioScore analyzes the original music in great detail, and plays it back with tremendous realism.

Create scores by hand

AudioScore Ultimate can “serve” you a set of notes, which you can quickly split, join, resize, and adjust pitch, purely on a performance level—no worrying about rests and technicalities such as the key signature, accidentals, augmentation dots, beaming, ties, etc.

What's new

Sibelius is now available for Android and Chromebook devices, bringing it to millions more creators across the globe. Following the release of iPhone and iPad, this multi-year project to make Sibelius available to anyone, anywhere is now a reality.

Features

• Audio Score Ultimate Features:
• Opens polyphonic MP3s and CD tracks and locates up to 16 notes/instruments playing at a time
• Creates notation for up to 4 voices per staff and 2 staves per instrument. Transcribes notes and rests as short as 32nd note. Also triplets, duplets, key signatures and clefs
• Sing or play into your computer using a microphone attached to the microphone or USB socket on your computer (monophonic performances only). AudioScore Ultimate recognizes the notes, nuances and rhythm in real time
• Opens MIDI files to automatically create professional scores
• Send the output direct to Sibelius or save NIFF (.nif), MusicXML (.xml) and PhotoScore (.opt) files for opening in other notation programs. Also saves scores as PDFs for publishing.
• Converts polyphonic MP3s, CD tracks and wave audio (.wav) files to MIDI (.mid), NIFF (.nif), MusicXML (.xml) and PhotoScore (.opt) files
• View and edit your performance on a staff or piano roll format with instant pitch feedback (note and frequency)
• Pitch recognition range F0 to C8 (22Hz to 4186Hz)
• Timing accuracy down to 1/86th of a second
• Pitch accuracy 0.3Hz (about 1/100th of a semitone at A4)
• MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson.
• LAME encoder licensed under the LGPL - www.mp3dev.org.