The features of Sibelius fall into the following categories:
- Look and feel
Intuitive design with clear, instant graphics - no labyrinthine menus and dialogs to navigate, no waiting for the screen to redraw
- Creating your score
How to write notes and markings with no cumbersome set-up-including super-intelligent Flexi-time™ MlDI input
- Playback
Revolutionary features like Espressivo™ and SoundStage™ play back your score with unprecedented realism
- Page layout and part extraction
Intelligent, super-fast score reformatting and part extraction - Internet publishing
How to put your scores straight onto your website so people can view them, transpose and play them back
- Scanning, plug-ins and filters
PhotoScore Lite™ music scanning plug-in (included as standard), other plug-in features which you can write yourself using Sibelius's built-in ManuScript™ language, plus how to search and edit your score using filters
- Publishing and printing
House Styles™ and other sophisticated engraving and publishing features
- Special notations
Dynamic guitar tab, automatic nested tuplets, drum set (kit) notation, figured bass and other specific notations
