Avid Sibelius Software For Education: Schools, Colleges, Universities, Students and Teachers; plus: Private and Business.

Sibelius Ultimate

More composers, arrangers, publishers, and educators use Sibelius, the world’s best-selling music notation software, than any other notation software.  With easy-to-use tools and Cloud Sharing features it’s easy to create, arrange, print and share your compositions.

(Sibelius Ultimate used to be known as Sibelius)

Subscription & Perpetual licenses available:

• Individual
• Updates & Support renewals
• Upgrades
• Multiseat for education institutions

Subscription licenses automatically include Updates and Support.

Perpetual licenses include 1 Year of Updates and Support.

At the end of the year Updates and Support can be renewed.  If not renewed you can continue to use the latest version you received at the end of the year.  You will not be able to use a software version that was released afterwards or access Support.

Eligibility for education pricing

You can check eligibility at: www.avid.com/eligibility and contact Entec if you have queries.

Multiseat Licenses for education institutions - 2 options:

Network:

Using a centralised License Server application on a school server administrators can install Sibelius on multiple computers (more than your number of licenses) and activate licenses any connected to your network. It allows one license on your server to control deployment across your entire network and, with Classroom Control features, managing students’ files and machines is easy.  Users can check out a license (e.g. for holidays) to run off the network.

Classroom Control enables you to freeze/unfreeze student’s workstations, get scores from a workstation or send a score to one or more copies of Sibelius on the network.

Music created anywhere can be edited and reviewed by anyone, anywhere and learning can be done in classrooms or remotely.

Teams:

Team licensing is an easy way to deploy and manage licenses for students and teachers across their own devices or school computers.  Using the Admin Console you can assign and unassign licenses when students or staff join or leave and they can have Sibelius Ultimate on any of their personal devices or school use computers.

Administrators set up Users with only the user’s name and email address (can be batch processed using CSV upload).  Each User gets an invitation to create a MyAvid account and redeem a license for Sibelius Ultimate and is then provided with the downloads and entitlement to use Sibelius on any of their devices: Windows, Mac, iPhone or iPad, Android and Chromebook.

Key changes in August/September 2023:

• Introduction of Teams licenses for education at £27.91/User
• Reduction in cost for Network Subscription licenses from £47.78 to £27.91 with minimum order quantity of 10
• Parity in cost between renewing perpetual license Updates & Support (£27.91) and renewing a subscription license (was £47.78, now £27.91)
• Standalone Subscription licenses were discontinued 30 September

Avid have lots of support for customers new to Sibelius: https://www.avid.com/sibelius/learn-and-support

What may be best for you:

New Schools

Hybrid learning setup, both types of licenses:

• a network license that covers the physical computers at school
• a team license that covers the number of students and staff needing Sibelius Ultimate

Completely remote, or phones and tablets only:

• a team license that covers the number of students and staff needing Sibelius Ultimate

For existing perpetual license holders

Stay current with an Updates & Support plan for £27.91/seat/year
Move over to:

• a new network subscription for classroom use
• a team license subscription for staff and students

For existing Multiseat subscription license holders
Consider supplementing licenses with:

• a new team license for hybrid approach

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate

Scan music for transposition, arrangements, and editing

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 8 is the full-featured version of the PhotoScore & NotateMe Lite scanning software for Sibelius.  Handwrite music on a tablet or laptop and convert your writing into professional scores.  Scan printed sheet music into other MIDI software, such as sequencers.  You can also use it on its own to scan in, play back, transpose, and print scores - and even save audio files.

PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate reads printed and handwritten music or PDFs in seconds - not just the notes, but also printed slurs, dynamics, lyrics, guitar tab, chord diagrams, and more.  You can then edit or transpose the music, play it back, extract the parts, and print.

AudioScore Ultimate

Transcribe music recordings and performances into a score

AudioScore Ultimate 8 is the full featured version of the AudioScore Lite audio transcription software included with Sibelius Ultimate. With AudioScore Ultimate 8, you can quickly and easily turn CD tracks, MP3s, MIDI files, and even your own vocal and instrument performances into detailed music notation. It's the ultimate music composing secret weapon for your Sibelius workflow.

Sibelius Artist

Sibelius Artist is great for students and skilled amateurs.  It supports up to 16 staves and provides all the tools you need to create professional looking scores for music of moderate complexity.

Included:

• Sibelius software
• Sibelius mobile app (for iPad and iPhone)
• Sound library - 10 GB of professional-quality samples
• Additional software—AudioScore Lite audio transcribing software, PhotoScore and NotateMe Lite music scanning and handwriting recognition software

Desktop: Limited bar numbers, fixed beam/rest groupings, fixed brackets and braces, limited chord symbol presets, basic guitar tab.
Mobile: Basic guitar tab.