Sibelius
Sibelius is a professional music notation and scoring application from Avid, widely used by composers, arrangers, music educators, and publishing professionals to create, edit, and publish musical scores. It supports standard file formats including MusicXML, MIDI, and Sibelius's native format, and features an extensive library of sounds, playback capabilities, and integration with notation plug-ins through its ManuScript language. The application is available as both Sibelius and Sibelius Ultimate, with the latter offering additional libraries and advanced features. Sibelius runs natively on Apple Silicon as of version 2024.6.
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1 suggestionSibelius has shipped a native Apple Silicon (Universal Binary) build since version 2024.6, released in June 2024. Users running older Intel-only versions will see significant performance improvements — Avid reports up to 30% faster startup times and up to 50% faster performance when processing large scores. To upgrade to the native build, visit Avid's download page at avid.com and download the latest version, or use Avid's Application Manager (Avid's app update tool) to pull the current release. If you have a Sibelius subscription or a perpetual licence, you may also be able to update through Avid's online account portal. After updating, your scores, playback settings, and library preferences carry over without migration. Note: if you rely on third-party notation plug-ins that have not yet been updated for Apple Silicon, Sibelius 2024.6 and later can still open in Rosetta 2 mode by checking the "Open using Rosetta" box in the app's Get Info panel — this allows compatibility with older plug-ins while you wait for vendors to ship native versions.
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