Avid Sibelius Ultimate Version TEAM, Annual Subscription

The fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music.

Create beautiful, captivating scores more quickly than ever before with Avid Sibelius, the world’s best selling notation software. Write music with up to 16 instruments—great for smaller ensembles.

Sibelius is professional music notation software built to help composers create polished, performance-ready scores. It automates complex layout tasks and dynamic part generation, so you can produce publication-quality music for the stand, stage, or screen.

From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music. Sibelius powers today’s professional music industry with sophisticated features like AI-powered accelerators, advanced options for markup and layout, Cloud Publishing, and the ability to work across any device. With Sibelius, you can create and collaborate with musicians around the world and be confident that your work translates into something you can be proud of.

Sibelius Ultimate

Enjoy a full toolset to compose, arrange, and engrave without limits

➤ Sibelius for mobile & desktop
➤ Unlimited staves per score
➤ Unlimited Cloud Sharing
➤ Complete engraving features
➤ Video sync & timecode support
➤ Educational worksheet creator

Connect and collaborate

Use Sibelius On Any Device

Sibelius brings professional music notation to iPad and iPhone, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. Seamlessly move between iPad, iPhone, Android and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.

Collaborate, share, and transform

View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Publishing, allowing you to work without missing a beat

Your complete platform for notation

Composition tools built for flow

Capture ideas quickly with fast note entry and magnetic layouts that handle formatting as you write.

Flexible, high-speed note entry

Compose with fast, fluid note entry using MIDI Controllers, a Stylus, Touch Gestures, or your computer keyboard and mouse. Sibelius adapts to the way you write so ideas stay in motion.

Smart, AI-assisted chord suggestions

Experiment with new harmonic ideas using AI-assisted chord suggestions while keeping you at the center of the creative process.

Magnetic Layout and Auto Optimize

Keep notation clean and readable while you compose. Sibelius automatically adjusts spacing and formatting to prevent collisions and overlaps behind the scenes.

Premium sounds and VST3 support

Export professional master formats, including IMF, AS-11, and high-res MXF, to support broadcast, streaming, and studio delivery requirements.

Tools for every stage of writing

Panorama View
Compose in a continuous score view designed for following musical ideas without interruption from page formatting.

Ideas Hub
Store melodies, rhythms, and musical fragments so unfinished ideas are always within reach while composing.

MIDI import
Import MIDI performances from your DAW into readable notation without rebuilding parts by hand.

Flexi-time recording
Perform ideas in real time with MIDI recording that translates live playing into editable notation.

Arrange for any ensemble

Work from a single master score while Sibelius automatically updates every instrument part.

Keep parts in sync

While composing, Sibelius synchornizes the master score and every instrument part automatically, eliminating repetitive edits across the arrangement.

Rework arrangements effortlessly

Swap instruments, transpose passages, and reshape orchestrations for new ensembles while keeping the arrangement intact.

Expand sketches to scores

Use Explode and Reduce to turn piano sketches into full orchestrations or condense ensembles into playable piano scores.

Format as you write

Magnetic Layout automatically adjusts spacing and prevents notation collisions as arrangements become more complex.

From sketch to orchestration

Prep

• MIDI Import – Convert MIDI performances into editable notation to prepare arrangements for orchestration and scoring.
• Advanced filtering – Isolate specific instrument groups like strings or brass to work on section writing without any clutter.
• Ideas Library – Catalog and tag musical motifs or harmonic sketches to quickly drop them into new sections of your score.

Orchestration

• Espressivo playback – Hear orchestrations with expressive playback that adds dynamic phrasing, rubato, and natural rhythmic feel.
• Multi-edit workflows – Apply dynamics, articulations, and edits to dozens of staves simultaneously to refine large arrangements faster.
• Score Versions – Save snapshots of your arrangement to compare different orchestrations or roll back to previous ideas.
• Manuscript Plugins – Automate repetitive tasks like batch-naming parts or adding hairpins with a library of pro-built scripts.
• Annotations – Capture rehearsal notes, revisions, and performance feedback directly on the score as arrangements evolve.

Delivery

• Cueing Engine – Effortlessly add cross-references and cues to individual parts to help musicians navigate the performance.
• Instrument Ranges – Automatically flag notes that are too high or low for a specific player to ensure your score is playable.
• Review Mode – Lock your score in Review Mode to prevent accidental edits while you navigate through your final arrangement.
• Parts Extraction – Generate clean, readable performance parts from the master score for rehearsals and live performance.

Engrave in Sibelius

Sibelius is professional music engraving software for creating clean, readable scores that meet the highest publishing standards. From automatic collision avoidance to detailed layout control, Sibelius helps prepare notation for rehearsal, print, rehearsal and performance.

Prevent notation collisions

Magnetic Layout automatically resolves spacing conflicts between notes, dynamics, lyrics, and symbols, keeping notation clean and readable without manual adjustments.

Standardize house styles

Establishing a consistent look across your entire project is effortless with House Styles. Define your fonts, symbols, and engraving rules to apply them instantly to every score and part in your project.

Dynamic parts editing

Keep parts connected
Dynamic Parts automatically updates instrument parts whenever the master score changes while preserving independent layouts, spacing, and page turns for each performer.

Automate repetitive engraving tasks

Automate time-consuming engraving work like aligning hairpins, adding cautionary accidentals, and batch-editing large scores with ManuScript Plugins.

Fine-tune every engraving detail

• Engraving rules – Control spacing, positioning, beams, tuplets, and notation behavior with detailed engraving settings.
• System spacing – Fine-tune the vertical balance between staves and systems to optimize page real estate while maintaining perfect readability.
• Music fonts – Choose from professional music fonts and notation styles to shape the visual identity of the score.
• Custom noteheads – Support specialized notation for percussion, educational materials, or contemporary scores with a deep library of symbols.