Meg, this is brilliant! I loved Sibelius up through v.6, and 7 is driving me batty now that I've had to change over. Note for you & viewers: these hacks also work on a Mac with v.7 (Avid doesn't make 7.5 available anymore, is pushing people to do subscriptions to Ultimate.) You are saving me LOTS of time with these simple shortcuts.
Great video! I can verify all these shortcuts work great! Thank you! Also if you press CMD+E for entering Expressions, you can also press CMD+(letters of the dynamic), for example CMD+pp and it'll enter a bold text for pianissimo.
Hi Meg, Jan from the Netherlands here. Really useful, thanks! I'm a long-time Sibelius user (switched from Finale around 1923) and didn't know the alt-click technique, so there you go; there's always something new to discover. Maybe I can return the favour by telling you about another not very well-known technique. Suppose you've got a musical phrase with the correct rhythm, but wanna change the pitches. What I used to do was: select every note and move it up and down with the arrow keys. But there's a shortcut for this one, and a big timesaver (as I'm very lazy too): Select the first note from the fragment, and type ⇧ ⌥ N. After that, you can just type the new pitches you want on the keyboard. Sibelius will automatically jump to the next note.
HI! I found this shortcuts very useful and I also find by accident a short cut to change the notes to their enharmonic select the note or the hole staff and press enter
Question...why can't I get all key signatures in Sibelius especially when the song your writing is for example in G# Major rather than using The Altinate Key Signature which is Ab?
Super-useful shortcuts, thanks very much. One question: I'm using Sibelius 7.1.3 on a MacBook. Simply cannot get expression / technique entering to work. I select a note, press command-E, and get a little square rather than a vertical bar signifying an entry point, and control-click just brings up a short menu showing me shortcuts! Can you help, please?! Thanks.
@@MusicHackswithMeg Yes, command-p / piano, etc. I finally figured it out: Pressing command-E makes a little square appear; then clicking or dragging that square makes a text box appear; then right-clicking brings up the menu of the various expression marks. Extraordinarily inconvenient, compared to the Windows PC version!! But thanks for the reply.
Meg, while I'm kvelling with delight at having found you: do you have a hack for modulating /transposing within a score? All the darned app does is introduce a new key signature, but then it doesn't change the key of the notes that follow. And of course to choose All would change the original key too...
How do you create a multi rest measure with Sibelius Ultimate? I have a Mac too and its not working as described. Is there a keyboard shortcut for that too?
Creating multi rests in a measure can be done several ways - select the whole measure and then select a note value, the first few rests should split, but if you keep doing it then the whole measure should divide into your chosen rest values. Otherwise select the whole note rest in an empty bar, and select the individual rest values as you go along, making sure not to assign a pitch. Sorry, bit tricky to describe without showing but I hope that helps.
I’m sorry I messed up in describing my question. I’m trying to find out how to create a multi BAR rest where I have let’s say 6 bars rest and want to have the number 6 show over a measure. Does that make more sense?
@@markdjordjevic1378 Ah yes, that makes more sense. Shift+Command+M will toggle Hide/Show Multi-rests. This is something you'd do at the end of your note-inputting for the score, as it will affect the whole score. If you wanted multi-rests on individual parts, you'd have to separate out the parts first, and then use Shift+Command+M. :)
You can customize shortcuts on a laptop for Sibelius, but no default shortcut without a full alpha-numeric keyboard. Here’s a video on how to customise your shortcuts ruclips.net/video/uoweCmIiz_4/видео.html
Pretty much any Apple retailer will sell them. But to be honest, any numeric keyboard with USB should work. Here is a link to the official Apple Magic Numeric keyboard. www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ052LL/A/magic-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-us-english
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Thank you. This is very helpful.
Just started using Sebelius. An evergreen video. Thanks Meg.
Bravo. This should be required viewing for Sibelius users. Well done, Meg.
My favourite is of course ctrl+up/down for a cross-staff notation.
Meg, this is brilliant! I loved Sibelius up through v.6, and 7 is driving me batty now that I've had to change over. Note for you & viewers: these hacks also work on a Mac with v.7 (Avid doesn't make 7.5 available anymore, is pushing people to do subscriptions to Ultimate.) You are saving me LOTS of time with these simple shortcuts.
Fantastic tips and a great sense of humor, an amazing tutorial!
Thanks, Meg. I’m a long time Sibelius user and didn’t know quite a few of those.
I also liked your humour: who wouldn’t?
Great video thanks!
Thanks for the info
QUEEEN!!! Thank you for this, I've been going nuts trying to make Sibelius useful. Subscribed!
Great video! I can verify all these shortcuts work great! Thank you! Also if you press CMD+E for entering Expressions, you can also press CMD+(letters of the dynamic), for example CMD+pp and it'll enter a bold text for pianissimo.
Thanks Meg.... And I also work smart ..lol . Great Help ! You're AWESOME !
I SOOO needed this! Thank u much. Simple & clear. And love ur humor too 😂.
You’re welcome! Thank you for your comment :)
Thank you so much! All the best!! ✨✨✨
Great, thank you! Love the grumpy sense of humour
Haha thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
TY Meg!
This is great! Thanks so much
This is great, Thanks Meg
holy shit, this is profoundly resourceful. thank you.
You're very welcome, glad it helped!
hey - thanks for making this.
You’re welcome, thanks for watching :)
Hi Meg, Jan from the Netherlands here. Really useful, thanks! I'm a long-time Sibelius user (switched from Finale around 1923) and didn't know the alt-click technique, so there you go; there's always something new to discover. Maybe I can return the favour by telling you about another not very well-known technique.
Suppose you've got a musical phrase with the correct rhythm, but wanna change the pitches. What I used to do was: select every note and move it up and down with the arrow keys. But there's a shortcut for this one, and a big timesaver (as I'm very lazy too):
Select the first note from the fragment, and type ⇧ ⌥ N. After that, you can just type the new pitches you want on the keyboard. Sibelius will automatically jump to the next note.
Hi Jan, awesome, thanks for the shortcut, I didn’t know about that one - I’m going to give it a go!
really useful info. Thanks Meg! F-ing killer tips mate.
Really useful video. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Sweet!
HI! I found this shortcuts very useful and I also find by accident a short cut to change the notes to their enharmonic select the note or the hole staff and press enter
Ooh I didn’t know that - cool thanks I’m gonna try it :)
Thanks alot for share the uesful tips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Meg!
Much helpfull
Question...why can't I get all key signatures in Sibelius especially when the song your writing is for example in G# Major rather than using The Altinate Key Signature which is Ab?
THANK YOU!!
thank u Meg
Super-useful shortcuts, thanks very much. One question: I'm using Sibelius 7.1.3 on a MacBook. Simply cannot get expression / technique entering to work. I select a note, press command-E, and get a little square rather than a vertical bar signifying an entry point, and control-click just brings up a short menu showing me shortcuts! Can you help, please?! Thanks.
Wow, never heard of that one - that’s super weird! Do individual expression shortcuts work? Like command-p for piano, command-f for forte etc?
@@MusicHackswithMeg Yes, command-p / piano, etc. I finally figured it out: Pressing command-E makes a little square appear; then clicking or dragging that square makes a text box appear; then right-clicking brings up the menu of the various expression marks. Extraordinarily inconvenient, compared to the Windows PC version!! But thanks for the reply.
Meg, while I'm kvelling with delight at having found you: do you have a hack for modulating /transposing within a score? All the darned app does is introduce a new key signature, but then it doesn't change the key of the notes that follow. And of course to choose All would change the original key too...
Yes! There is a hack for that! Can’t remember off the top of my head but I’ll have a look and let you know!
I made a video for you! ruclips.net/video/y0krJFNjnxk/видео.html
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😂😂 Thank you so much for the coffees!
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How do you create a multi rest measure with Sibelius Ultimate? I have a Mac too and its not working as described. Is there a keyboard shortcut for that too?
Creating multi rests in a measure can be done several ways - select the whole measure and then select a note value, the first few rests should split, but if you keep doing it then the whole measure should divide into your chosen rest values. Otherwise select the whole note rest in an empty bar, and select the individual rest values as you go along, making sure not to assign a pitch. Sorry, bit tricky to describe without showing but I hope that helps.
I’m sorry I messed up in describing my question. I’m trying to find out how to create a multi BAR rest where I have let’s say 6 bars rest and want to have the number 6 show over a measure. Does that make more sense?
@@markdjordjevic1378 Ah yes, that makes more sense. Shift+Command+M will toggle Hide/Show Multi-rests. This is something you'd do at the end of your note-inputting for the score, as it will affect the whole score. If you wanted multi-rests on individual parts, you'd have to separate out the parts first, and then use Shift+Command+M. :)
Hi, is there any shortcut to add ties on a mac laptop? Thank you🙏
You can customize shortcuts on a laptop for Sibelius, but no default shortcut without a full alpha-numeric keyboard. Here’s a video on how to customise your shortcuts ruclips.net/video/uoweCmIiz_4/видео.html
@@MusicHackswithMeg Thank you!!! I've found a way pressing “option and V”...it works!!
Thank you very much Meg!
Good Music✋
where do get the nummeric keyboard for mac?
Pretty much any Apple retailer will sell them. But to be honest, any numeric keyboard with USB should work. Here is a link to the official Apple Magic Numeric keyboard. www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ052LL/A/magic-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-us-english
and the bonus info!
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Quit Sibelius, Sibelius crashed.