Avoid Sibelius Upgrade rip off

[burgemaster]

Thanks,

But I ran the installer EXE and got a "Win NT 6.0 Service Pack 2" required popup???

Or are you saying that I can use the Sib 7 sound library with 6.2 ?

[zag]

Darn! we run xp also for students.

 

Oops didnt check that. grrrr

 

Can you downgrade to 6.2?

Edited October 8, 2011 by vikpaw
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[3s-gtech]

Just bought some machines for Music that hit the recommended specs for Sibelius 7, with Windows 7 x64, so that's lucky. Thanks for all the info Gareth.

[rich_tech]

just to clarify also - get the server installed and working first, register it all with sibelius then get the clients installed using the 70b8 updated installation file as @garethedmondson pointed out, we were seeing very large load times on our older hardware with the supplied client, its the same key for both network server and client also.

[garethEds]

just to clarify also - get the server installed and working first, register it all with sibelius then get the clients installed using the 70b8 updated installation file as @garethedmondson pointed out, we were seeing very large load times on our older hardware with the supplied client, its the same key for both network server and client also.

 

More news on the Sibelius front this week. @rich_tech has been working on it all week and we have decided it is a stupid program LOL. We have been forced to upgrade due to us moving to Windows 7 and now it looks as if we will be forced to upgrade the machines to 4Gb each (they are currently 2Gb) - just to play any of the high quality sounds that appear on the 3 DVDs that arrive with the package. The DVD's unpack to the 36Gb worth of sound files - it takes ages even when installing from a network store.

 

In addition there is a new update out there. It works, but once you have installed it the update will not play the new sounds. So Sibelius have released a further update which you add on after you have installed the sounds. This corrects the issue and the sounds play. - Or will they...

 

If you only have 2Gb and a large orcherstral piece only some of the sounds will load in. The rest will play through MIDI - creating an awful sound.

 

I'm not amused with what Sib' have done. The software is now bloated and a nightmare to deploy (no MSI).

 

Rant over.

 

Gareth

[garethEds]

A further update for those that are interested.

 

@rich_tech discovered a problem where certain instruments were not playing in large orchestral pieces. He had installed the updated application, the fixes and the three CDs worth of sound content - which are labelled Sound Content 1, 2 and 3 (or something similar).

 

A week had passed and @rich_tech was ripping his hair out trying to find out what was going on - he decided to shave his head to help :-) Nothing could be found on Google - but last night a post in the depths of a Google search said that a user had installed '4 disks of sound files' - 4 disks? 4 disks? We only have three disks!!!!!

 

Turns out there are sound files on the main application disk as well. Oh yes indeed there are. We didn't know this and there was no label to tell us. We just installed the app from the network after copying it across.

 

Anyhow if we had run the DVD as a standalone DVD then we would have seen the menu option that offers us the opportunity to install sound files.

 

Oh dear.

 

Never mind - it's all fixed now but beware - there are 4 content disks not three (if you are seeing the same issue as us).

 

Gareth

[3s-gtech]

^^I noticed this when installing, as there were a large number of sound files missing and the count of the discs didn't add up on the installer. I was looking to see if there were any other apps on the first disc, and noticed the extra sound files there. Well, at *huge amount* per copy, they're not going to waste precious DVD-Rs on content!

[peterbmetcalf]

Today, March 13, 2013, there is a press release accessed by Finale's blog that everyone will be interested in. I wrote Siblelius, Maestro, and Finale (MakeMusic.com) regarding the things I wanted to score that are impossible on Sibelius 3, my (un)current notation software. The Sibelius sales rep wrote he is sure the latest version does what I require, and suggested downloading a 30 day trial. I don't have time to spend finding out if it works. Finale sales rep answered one critical question regarding notation, and when I asked regarding the others and in more detail, suggesting I could send a fax of 5-10 measures, he referred me to tech support, which answered my questions. Finale does the oddities I want (notes without stems, irregular metered measures, and more), and their customer service was reliable. They have been offering for $140, an upgrade from their competitor's software, and the list is long. I am getting Finale after I pick up my next used computer in a few days.