[sib-access] Re: Fw: [Sibelius Blog] Sibelius 7.5 announced: An evolutionary, not revolutionary upgrade
- From: Gordon Kent <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:18:26 -0500
Well, since Avid is still involved with Sibelius development as opposed to the
rumor that some Russian company had taken it over,
there may be hope. Avid has certainly done a lot of good things with Pro
tools. The foundation that has already been laid to accessibility to sib 7 is
a good start really. If they could just make a few key tweaks like giving us
direct feedback from expression text, lyrics, and system items, we would really
have something. Threr must be some UI automation going on since it works with
NVDA better than Jaws. It really shouldn’t be that hard to port that over to
the Mac. We probably don’t have as manmhy of us using sibelius as compared to
Pro Tools, but maybe if we really can present a united front and outline the
current short comings, something might be done. It seems that I’m the only one
who has actually used sib 7 and I would need to get some of you playing around
with it as well.
GordOn Jan 23, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Dale Lieser <dale.lieser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
>
> You may view the latest post at
> http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/sibelius-7-5-announced/
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