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 Ultimate 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.

AudioScore Ultimate

Transcribe music recordings and performances into a score

AudioScore Ultimate 8 is the full featured version of the AudioScore Ultimate 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

• 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
• 7Accidental types
• 8Clef types
• Shortest note value- 128th
• 4Maximum voices per staff
• 64Maximum staves per page
• 400Maximum pages per score
• 3Maximum 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
• 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.