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.

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate

Scan music for transposition, arrangements, and editing

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 8 is the full-featured version of the PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite scanning software for Sibelius. Handwrite music on a tablet or laptop and convert your writing into professional scores. Scan printed sheet music into other MIDI software, such as sequencers. You can also use it on its own to scan in, play back, transpose, and print scores—and even save audio files.

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate reads printed and handwritten music or PDFs in seconds—not just the notes, but also printed slurs, dynamics, lyrics, guitar tab, chord diagrams, and more. You can then edit or transpose the music, play it back, extract the parts, and print.

Compose by hand

If you like to handwrite music, the NotateMe app enables you to do exactly that using a tablet, smartphone, trackpad, or mouse. And it's now integrated right in PhotoScore 8. Work on a Mac or PC. Scrawl out symphonies using a Microsoft Surface and pen. Or compose on the go with your iOS or Android device.

Get better accuracy

Never miss a note, beat, or slur. With the OmniScore2 dual-engine recognition system, you'll get over 99.5% accuracy when scanning most PDFs and original sheet music. Get improved recognition of tuplets and curved and distorted staves. Save time with more sophisticated automatic voice allocation. Even bring in JPEGs of compositions you've shot with your phone or camera.

Work smarter and faster than ever

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate now recognizes printed music 30% faster, so you can get a jumpstart on your editing. It can also read low-res PDFs and scans down to 72 dpi. Save scores as PDFs for easy printing. Work with Sibelius 8. And experience better MusicXML score export, part extraction, rescoring, and other improvements.

Intuitive and easy to use

Ease-of-use has been a central design aim right from the start, and with automatic scanning and recognition, plus licensed Sibelius-style editing interfaces, PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate becomes fun and exciting to use.

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

• PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 2020 Features:
• OmniScore²™ dual-engine recognition system
• NotateMe handwritten music entry
• Handwritten score recognition
• Opens PDF files
• Plays back
• Sends scores directly to Sibelius
• Saves MusicXML, MIDI and PhotoScore files for opening in Finale, Dorico and other editors
• Saves WAV/AIFF audio files (also for burning to CD)
• Reads slurs and ties
• Reads hairpins and dynamics
• Reads text (lyrics, title etc) in 120 different languages (including bold, italic, etc.)
• Reads articulation marks
• Reads triplets and other tuplets
• Reads grace notes and cue notes
• Reads cross-staff notes and beams
• Reads guitar chord diagrams
• Reads 4- and 6-string guitar tab
• Reads 1-, 2- and 3- line percussion staves
• Reads double and repeat barlines
• Reads repeat endings, Coda and Segno
• Reads ornaments and pedal markings
• 7 Accidental types
• 8 Clef types
• Shortest note value - 128th
• 4 Maximum voices per staff
• 64 Maximum staves per page
• 400 Maximum pages per score
• 3 Maximum dots per note/rest
• Reads the length of irregular bars
• Transposes
• Prints scores
• Automatic scanning and reading after scanning (removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings)
• Playback with astonishing realism using Espressivo™ feature licensed from Avid Sibelius