sibelius ultimate composite metronome mark

Mark to copy the first metronome mark in your score to the count-in start (see Example 2 and Example 3).Ĭreate a Pagebreak between count-in and original score (so you can print out your score without the count-in),Ĭreate a Barnumber change at the beginning of the original score (to set the first bar in your score to bar-number 1),

Set some other options: Accents on the first beat in bar (see above examples), longer sounds at the beginning: Tie first half of note-pairs (see Examples 2 and 4), Copy Metr.

Here a 3/8 count-in beat adds an interesting metrical ambiguity to a melody in 4/4 time which starts with melodic 3/8 figures:

Select the beat length to get different variations.

If you need other instruments and you are an advanced user you can ( carefully!) enter your own instruments and sound pitches – see the Sibelius 6 Reference and the ManuScript Language reference for this purpose.

Hint: By repeatedly clicking on instrument 2 or 3 the lower sound will be swapped with the higher sound. These instruments/sounds are all part of the Sibelius 6 Sound Essentials which are in the standard Sibelius 6 package.

Select the instrument: Claves (1 sound, see Example 1), Djembe (2 sounds, see Example 2) or Bongos (2 sounds, see Example 3).

If your score includes a pick-up (upbeat) bar the plug-in creates a complementary bar before it, so together they add up to a regular bar: It can be as short and simple as one bar:

Select the Count-in length (1-4 bars).However, if you want you can customize it: Is it difficult to use? Absolutely not – just click the Create Count-In button at the bottom of the dialog and the plug-in creates a nice count-in with all options automatically and intelligently set for you – that’s all! If your music starts with a pick-up (upbeat) bar, the plug-in creates a complementary bar before it, so together they add up to a regular bar.Īs you can see from the above screen-shot, there are several options available. The plug-in acts like a conductor would count-in a performance by taking into account the metric structure of your music. This plug-in does not simply add just a few count-in beats at the beginning of your score, it is rather something which could be called the art of count-in: Since Sibelius does not have a native play-back count-in feature, I decided to write my own. When dealing with play-along exercises a count-in is essential: After having started the play-back of the exercise (either from an audio file (or CD) created from Sibelius or directly in Sibelius) the student can prepare his hands on the instrument and start exactly from the beginning of the piece at the end of the count-in.

Here is another new plug-in I wrote for my need to quickly and automatically create play-along exercises for my students: Create count-in.

Sibelius ultimate composite metronome mark