Music Notation Solutions

In today’s connected world, composers need the right tools to stay relevant and empower their creative abilities. Avid’s industry-leading music notation solutions enable you to become a tech-savvy composer and quickly turn your ideas into fully realized scores that can be easily shared with the world.

Centered around our groundbreaking Sibelius music notation tool, our solutions do the heavy lifting for you, so you can focus on what matters—composing your best material.

Meeting the challenge

Whether you’re a professional or aspiring composer or arranger, Avid has the solutions to help you compose, share, and publish your work.

Remove technical barriers to music notation and quickly write, edit, and arrange complex musical scores with Sibelius
Elevate your scores above the competition with Magnetic Layout, Dynamic Parts, and more
Share scores easily with anyone in the cloud or on your website with Sibelius | Cloud Sharing
Bring your skills into the 21st century and view, play, and perform scores on your iPad with Avid Scorch
Hear what your composition sounds like without the need for live instrumentation by playing back scores with the included Sibelius Sounds library
Take your compositions beyond the page by integrating Pro Tools into your workflow to start, enhance, and/or finish compositions
Enable collaboration with easy score sharing, annotations, and printing easy-to-read music notation
Avoid having to buy separate software to scan and transcribe music with PhotoScore & NotateMe and AudioScore Lite included
Learn or teach music notation and theory with access to more than 1,700 ready-made education tools—read more about Sibelius in the classroom
Protect your creative work through our Cloud Publishing tools and full Digital Rights Management
Connect and collaborate with others, promote scores shared via Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, and expand your opportunities with the free Avid Link app

How it works

Composers and arrangers
Students and educators
Music publishing

Sibelius provides everything you need to create and arrange exquisite, dynamic scores for live performances, film, television, and other entertainment. With PhotoScore & NotateMe and AudioScore Lite included, you can also scan, handwrite, and transcribe music as well. Integrate Pro Tools into your workflow to start, enhance, and/or finish compositions. And send your scores to your iPad with Avid Scorch for playback, practice, and performance on-the-go.
As the world’s best-selling music notation software, Sibelius is the top choice for music educators and students entering a career in composition. Sibelius’ task-oriented interface guides you through the entire score-creation process. Learn and teach music notation and theory with more than 1,700 ready-made education tools at your disposal. And share compositions with other students and classrooms with MusicXML and Avid Scorch for iPad. Find out more about Sibelius in the classroom—and see if you qualify for discounted education pricing.
Sibelius makes it easy to distribute and sell compositions as digital sheet music. Composers can publish their scores from Sibelius to Avid Scorch and ScoreExchange.com for anyone to buy and print. And for professional engravers and music publishers, our Sibelius | Cloud Publishing technology can help boost sales, enabling your customers to browse, play, transpose, and purchase scores on your Cloud Publishing-enabled website from any device.

Integrated software

Audio (DAW)

Professional music and audio production software and hardware

Community

Social solutions for connecting and collaborating with the creative community

Avid Link

Find, connect, and collaborate with other audio and video creators with this free app

Notation & Scoring

Music composition, performance, and publishing solutions

Resources

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Music Notation Blogs

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Featured Press Release

Avid unveils a new version of Sibelius | First

Avid Education: Sibelius

Find out how you can teach Sibelius in the classroom

Jeff Wayne Reimagines Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds with Help from Sibelius

I’ve had Sibelius since it came out and it has remained the program I work with ever since. I was trained to orchestrate by hand, but digital technology took over and made the process easier and faster.

JEFF WAYNE, COMPOSER, ARRANGER, CONDUCTOR, AND PRODUCER

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From Michael Jackson to Meshuggah, Aussie Drummer Troy Wright Brings Sibelius to the Masses

By transcribing I can actually see what I’m playing and then, when I’m reading the transcript, I’m playing it 100% correct from the beginning so muscle-memory is kicking in right from the start.

TROY WRIGHT, PROFESSIONAL DRUMMER & MUSIC TEACHER

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Stage Presence: Benny Rietveld on Perfecting Live Performance

I use Sibelius | Ultimate to get the most salient melodic and rhythmic fragments, and then move things around, copy and paste, and fine-tune. I’ve got it down to where it’s really simple and really fun.

BENNY RIETVELD, BASSIST AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR, SANTANA

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