| Feature |
Artist |
Ultimate |
| Types of music |
Simple/moderate music of up to 16 staves |
Scores and parts of any size or complexity; worksheets and exercises |
| Available as |
Single copy only |
Single copy (educational discount available), 5-pack, site license, network license |
| No. of computers you can install a single copy on |
2 (for use by same person, e.g. desktop laptop) |
2 (for use by same person, e.g. desktop laptop) |
| Manual |
On-screen only, about 450 pages |
On-screen or printed book (separate purchase), about 730 pages |
| Technical help |
30 days complimentary phone, email, fax, and unlimited web site support |
90 days complimentary phone, email, fax, and unlimited web site support |
| Accidentals |
Normal and double only, bracketed |
Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed |
| Articulations |
Common ones only |
Full set |
| Bar numbers |
Limited |
Full range of formats |
| Barline types |
Single, double, repeat only |
Single, double, repeat, dotted, early music |
| Bars, irregular |
No, except pick-up bars |
✔️ |
| Beams, cross-staff (in keyboard music) |
|
✔️ |
| Beam/rest groupings |
Fixed |
Customizable |
| Brackets & braces |
Fixed |
Customizable |
| Change transposition of tranposing instruments |
|
✔️ |
| Chord symbols (appearance and MIDI/text input) |
Limited preset options |
Fully customizable |
| Cue (small) notes |
|
✔️ |
| Dotted notes |
Single / double / triple dotted |
Single / double / triple dotted |
| Guitar chord diagrams |
Limited |
✔️ |
| Guitar scale diagrams |
|
✔️ |
| Guitar tab |
Basic only |
Full |
| Instruments |
Common, jazz and world instruments only, with fixed number of staves |
Full customizable range |
| Jazz articulations |
Scoops, falls, doits and plops |
Scoops, falls, doits and plops |
| Lines, custom |
|
✔️ |
| Note values |
512th note (7 beams) to "long" (double breve) |
512th note (7 beams) to "long" (double breve) |
| Noteheads, custom |
|
✔️ |
| Ossia staves |
|
✔️ |
| Page numbers |
Automatic |
Customizable |
| Special symbols |
|
✔️ |
| Split multirests (in parts) |
|
✔️ |
| Staves |
Up to 16 per system |
Unlimited number |
| Stemlets (half-stems) and ‘feathered’ beams |
|
✔️ |
| Tuplets |
Duplets (2:3) to nontuplets (9:8) |
Any (e.g. 2, 7, 44:31, nested tuplets) |
| Espressivo 2.0 |
|
✔️ |
| Edit MIDI data |
|
✔️ |
| Built-in sounds |
High-quality Sibelius 7 First Sounds |
Full range of professional-quality orechestral, jazz, pop, marching band and percussion sounds in Sibelius 7 Sounds |
| Live Tempo (conduct playback by tapping) |
Limited - playback only |
Record, edit, clear and playback Live Tempo |
| Playback markings on specified repeats |
|
✔️ |
| Playback of hairpins, rits & accel |
Fixed |
Adjustable |
| Playback of fermatas |
Fixed |
Adjustable |
| Words which affect playback (e.g. legato) |
Fixed |
Editable |
| Arrange - automatic arranging and orchestration |
|
✔️ |
| Comments (‘sticky’ notes) |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Compare different scores or versions |
|
✔️ |
| Copy and paste to Word and other programs |
Low resolution (96dpi) only |
✔️ |
| Display timecode |
Single format |
Customizable format |
| Edit Dynamic Parts |
Limited |
Full |
| Edit word menus |
|
✔️ |
| Export a log of changes to a score |
|
✔️ |
| Export lyrics as text file |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Filters (for editing similar objects) |
Quick filters only |
✔️ |
| Find |
|
✔️ |
| Focus on staves |
|
✔️ |
| Graphics export (for e.g. creating worksheets) |
|
✔️ |
| Highlight music |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Ideas Hub |
300 library ideas, capture your own, can’t edit ideas |
Over 2000 library ideas, capture and edit your own, add to score/library |
| Import MusicXML files |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Instrument changes |
|
✔️ |
| Join scores together |
|
✔️ |
| Keyboard shortcuts |
Fixed |
Customizable |
| Lyric verses allowed |
5 |
Unlimited |
| Lyrics from text file |
|
✔️ |
| Note input options |
Limited |
Full |
| Panorama (scroll view) |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Paper & desk textures |
40 |
Over 60 |
| Part extraction |
|
✔️ |
| Paste As Cue |
|
✔️ |
| Plug-ins |
38 |
Over 140 |
| Properties window (to edit individual objects) |
|
Full |
| Rehearsal marks |
Default only |
Fully customizable |
| Repeat structures |
Customizable |
Fully customizable |
| Rulers |
|
✔️ |
| Score Starter (40 genre-specific templates) |
✔️ |
|
| Special page breaks |
|
✔️ |
| Swap voices |
|
✔️ |
| Versions |
Save, view and print only |
✔️ |
| Video (inc. timecode and hit points) |
Add video, add/edit hit points |
✔️ |
| Viewing options for Magnetic Layout, page margins, note colors, full screen, etc. |
|
✔️ |
| Worksheet Creator |
|
✔️ |
| Advanced layout features |
|
✔️ |
| Auto Layout options |
|
✔️ |
| Edit fonts |
Limited |
Full |
| Edit staff types |
|
✔️ |
| Edit text styles |
|
✔️ |
| Engraving rules, edit hundreds of |
|
✔️ |
| Headers/footers |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| House Style import/export |
Import only |
✔️ |
| Magnetic Layout |
Fixed |
Fully customizable |
| Manage Dynamic Parts |
|
✔️ |
| Manuscript papers (preset score layouts) |
Few; can't create your own |
Many; can create your own |
| Note spacing rules |
Fixed |
Customizable |
| Reset position/design of objects |
Limited |
✔️ |
| Set default object positions |
|
✔️ |
| Staff spacing |
Manual adjustment only |
✔️ |
| Audio recording, export your score as an |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Email score as .sib or .pdf |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Graphics file, export your score as a |
PDF export only |
Standard bitmap and vector formats (SVG, EPS, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and PDF) |
| MIDI file export |
Type 0 and Type 1 for any device |
Type 0 and Type 1 for any device |
| MusicXML file export |
Yes: compressed or uncompressed |
Yes: compressed or uncompressed |
| Previous version, export to |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Publish directly to ScoreExchange.com |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Scorch (browser plug-in) web page, export a |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Share to YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Video file, export your score as a |
✔️ |
✔️ |