[sib-access] Re: Fw: [Sibelius Blog] Sibelius 7.5 announced: An evolutionary, not revolutionary upgrade
- From: "Dale Lieser" <dale.lieser@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:19:39 -0500
Glad Sibelius is moving forward. However, accessibility is not likely, in my
opinion.
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Subject: [Sibelius Blog] Sibelius 7.5 announced: An evolutionary, not
revolutionary upgrade
Sibelius Blog has posted a new item, 'Sibelius 7.5 announced: An
evolutionary,
not revolutionary upgrade'
Today Avid announced Sibelius 7.5, the first major upgrade to Sibelius since
July 2011. The announcement was made during the NAMM 2014 show in Anaheim,
California.
Sibelius 7.5’s new features are primarily in the areas of navigation,
performance, playback, sharing, and social media.
There is no precedent for a “point five” version of Sibelius, although the
concept is not new in the world of music software. Indeed, just recently,
Steinberg released the latest version of its DAW, Cubase 7.5, and back in
2010
Native Instruments released a 4.5 version of Kontakt, its software sampler.
Both
were paid upgrades, and today’s announcement of Sibelius 7.5 follows this
example.
For over a decade, the Sibelius upgrade release cycle was reliably
predictable.
Major new versions were released every two years, usually in the late spring
or
early summer. Bug fixes and modest feature enhancements would follow for
approximately a year afterwards, and the cycle would repeat. Each Sibelius
release had significant and sometimes groundbreaking new features.
The release of Sibelius 7.5 breaks that regular pattern, due, no doubt, to
the
well-documented restructuring that began at Avid in the summer of 2012. It
has
been 15 months since the last Sibelius update, 7.1.3, and more than two and
a
half years since Avid released 7.0. With the dust now having been settled,
especially with the move of longtime Sibelius team member Sam Butler into
the
role of senior product manager, progress on the product is happening in a
public
way once again. In a blog post published today, Sam said that "Our goal with
Sibelius 7.5 was to design innovative new features that build on the solid
foundation of Sibelius to help you write and arrange music easier and faster
than ever before."
Bobby Lombardi, Avid’s director of product management, told me that while
the
company felt it was doing everything possible to communicate to the public
that
its developers were working on a new release, Avid was very aware of the
growing
concern amongst its customers about whether Sibelius development was
continuing
at all. Ramping up with a new team, coupled with Avid’s priorities of
updating
its languishing Scorch web plug-in and iOS app, meant that realistically
developing a fully-featured Sibelius 8 would take even more time. So Avid
decided to release an intermediate version – 7.5 – that would assure users
that development was proceeding, and still have enough new features to be
considered a worthy upgrade.
Of course, the old Finsbury Park team worked on Sibelius for over a year
after
the release of 7.0. One can reasonably assume that that team wasn’t solely
working on bug fixes the whole time. How much of Sibelius 7.5 represents
their
vision and work is anyone’s guess, but it’s likely that the origin of some,
if not most of Sibelius 7.5’s new features can be traced back quite a while.
A review of what's new in Sibelius 7.5 follows.
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http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/sibelius-7-5-announced/
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