

Click the staff size dropdown, and you’ll see the four staff sizes listed. Select piano on the right, and you’ll see a staff sizes drop down box becomes available to you.ĥ. Piano will be added to the list on the right, just like before.Ĥ. Find Piano from the left hand list, select it and click Add to Score.ģ. Press the I key on your keyboard to display the Add or Remove Instruments dialog.Ģ. Let’s say, for example, that we’d like to add a rehearsal piano “instrument” to an unaccompanied choral piece:ġ. The quickest way to change the staff size of an instrument is from the Add or Remove Instruments dialog. Sibelius 8.4 added two new staff sizes-Sibelius | First gets them too! There are now four staff sizes for you to choose from, which can be selected from the Add/Remove instruments dialog.Ĭhanging the staff size of your instruments In all these examples, select the note or passage and type Command + Alt + Right (Mac) or Control + Alt + Right (Win) to move the notes. We are hoping to improve this in a future release. If you attempt to slide a passage in a way that would cause a tuplet to be modified (i.e, it’s either part of your selection or adjacent to it), then Sibelius will not slide your selection, and will display a message to indicate this limitation. Sliding of tuplets is not currently supported. If you slide your selection into existing notation, Sibelius will swap your selection with the notes at the destination. The result is that Sibelius will in most cases move your selection by a musically appropriate amount, given the current time signature and the length of your selection. The duration of the bottom figure (denominator) of the time signature.The duration of the selected note, rest or passage.The duration of the adjacent note or rest.How Sibelius decides how far to move your selectionĪ selection will move by the minimum of the following: Use Command + Alt + Left/Right (Mac) or Control + Alt + Left/Right (Win) to move your selection left or right.Ever wanted to move a note or a rest within time in Sibelius? Now you can with the Slide notes and rests feature-all without having to use your mouse or use cut-and-paste.
