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Avid Announces Availability of Sibelius Music Notation Software with Flexible Licensing and Powerful Workflow Enhancements

 

The new music composition software delivers on Avid Everywhere for audio, giving composers more choice over how they acquire and use their tools, create music scores, and collaborate with others

 

 

Burlington, MA, June 18th, 2015 – Avid® today announced the availability of the next generation of Sibelius®, the world's best-selling music composition and notation software. Delivering on the commitment to innovation and customer choice, key elements of Avid Everywhere™, Sibelius introduces new workflows to enable creativity and collaboration, as well as affordable subscription licensing options that give customers greater flexibility in how they acquire and use the software.

 

The new Sibelius delivers innovative music notation workflows that enable composers to express their creativity in brand new ways, whether composing for a live performance, movie, television, media entertainment, or in the classroom.

 

With the latest version of Sibelius composers can:

 

• Write music with a pen on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet, and quickly add and edit notes with a tap of the pen
• Streamline collaboration by using the new Annotate feature to add notes, edits, and instructions directly on the score for others to review
• Interact with scores intuitively using multi-touch gestures like pinch-zoom
• Get up and running faster than ever with a simplified activation process
• Work faster and see more detail with the updated Windows interface

 

Delivering on the promise of providing flexible licensing, customers can now choose to access Sibelius through affordable monthly and annual subscriptions, purchase the software outright, or manage multiple copies with Sibelius network licensing. In addition, all licensing options now include:

 

• Avid upgrade plan – making the latest product innovation immediately available to Sibelius customers
• Avid Standard Support­ for Sibelius – ensuring customers have access to expert help whenever, wherever, and however needed

 

These flexible options make it easy for anyone to gain access to the same proven tools professional composers use.

 

Because Sibelius is part of the Avid MediaCentral Platform, it enables users to seamlessly integrate into any music, movie, or television production workflow. After scores are composed in Sibelius, they can be easily moved to industry-standard Pro Tools® to build cues to picture. Scores can be printed or shared with musicians digitally using the Avid Scorch® app for iPad. And composers can sell their work by delivering scores to music publishers for worldwide sale using the new Sibelius | Cloud Publishing technology. Fulfilling the vision of Avid Everywhere, these workflow help composers connect with consumers more powerfully, efficiently, collaboratively, and profitably.

 

Pricing

 

The new Sibelius is available in the following options:

 

• Sibelius monthly subscription (one-month license subscription with updates)—$24.99/month, €19/month excluding VAT, £22.80/month  including VAT
• Sibelius annual subscription (12-month license subscription with updates)—$239, €219 excluding VAT, £190.80 including VAT
• Perpetual license for Sibelius (includes 12 months of updates)—$689, €639 excluding VAT, £550.80 including VAT
• Sibelius upgrade (from a single-user license of a previous version of Sibelius)—$89, €79 excluding VAT, £70.80  including VAT
• Sibelius crossgrade (from Finale, Encore, Mosaic, or Notion)—$199, €189 excluding VAT, £154.80 including VAT
• Sibelius for Education* (available for students and teachers)—perpetual license with updates: $299, €279 excluding VAT, £238.80 including VAT; annual subscription: $99, €89 excluding VAT, £82.80 including VAT
• Sibelius for Education Institution licenses* (multi-seat licenses may be purchased from an Avid Authorized Reseller)

 

* Academic versions of the software require verification of academic eligibility.

 

About Avid
Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the industry's most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption for the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, and television shows, to live concerts and news broadcasts. Industry leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Interplay®, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+; or subscribe to Avid Blogs.

 

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