Avid Sibelius Annual Subscription

The Avid Sibelius Annual Subscription gives you professional music notation software for writing, arranging and engraving scores on desktop and mobile. Choose Sibelius Artist for scores up to 24 staves, or Sibelius Ultimate for unlimited staves, full engraving tools and video sync with timecode. Both come as a new subscription or a renewal, suiting screen composers, arrangers, educators and everyday creators scoring their own content.

Which Sibelius Option Do You Need?

This listing covers four options: Artist or Ultimate, each as a new 12 month subscription or a renewal of an existing one. Pick New if you are starting out, or Renewal if you already have an active subscription and want to keep it running without interruption.

Sibelius Artist

A good fit for smaller ensembles, songwriters and creators who need clean, readable scores without the full engraving toolset.

• Sibelius for mobile and desktop
• Create scores with up to 24 staves
• Sibelius Cloud Sharing for up to 20 scores
• Limited set of symbols, lines and text styles

Sibelius Ultimate

The complete toolset for composing, arranging and engraving without limits. If you score to picture, this is the version with video sync and timecode support.

• Sibelius for mobile and desktop
• Unlimited staves per score
• Unlimited Cloud Sharing
• Complete engraving features
• Video sync and timecode support
• Educational worksheet creator

Write Music the Way You Work

Sibelius adapts to how you like to get notes down. Enter music with a MIDI controller, a stylus, touch gestures, or your computer keyboard and mouse. Flexi-time recording turns a live performance into editable notation, and MIDI import brings parts across from your DAW so you are not rebuilding them by hand.

Panorama View lets you compose in one continuous score without page breaks getting in the way, while the Ideas Hub stores melodies, rhythms and fragments so half-finished ideas are always within reach. AI-assisted chord suggestions offer new harmonic directions when you want them, and you stay in control of the final call. Playback uses premium sounds with VST3 support, so you can hear a realistic version of the score as you write.

Layout That Looks After Itself

Fixing spacing by hand is one of the slowest parts of notation. Magnetic Layout and Auto Optimise adjust spacing and formatting in the background, resolving collisions between notes, dynamics, lyrics and symbols as the arrangement grows. The result is a clean, readable score without the constant nudging.

Arrange for Any Ensemble

Work from a single master score and let Sibelius keep every instrument part in sync. Dynamic Parts update automatically when the score changes, while each part keeps its own layout, spacing and page turns.

• Explode and Reduce turn a piano sketch into a full orchestration, or condense an ensemble into a playable piano score
• Swap instruments and transpose passages for a new line-up while keeping the arrangement intact
• Advanced filtering isolates sections such as strings or brass so you can work without clutter
• Multi-edit workflows apply dynamics and articulations across dozens of staves at once
• Score Versions save snapshots so you can compare orchestrations or roll back to an earlier idea
• Espressivo playback adds dynamic phrasing, rubato and a natural rhythmic feel
• Annotations capture rehearsal notes and revisions directly on the score

Ready for Rehearsal and Performance

When it is time to hand music to players, Sibelius helps you catch problems before they reach the stand.

• Parts Extraction generates clean performance parts from the master score
• The Cueing Engine adds cues and cross-references to help musicians find their place
• Instrument Ranges flag notes that are too high or low for a given player
• Review Mode locks the score to prevent accidental edits while you check the final arrangement

Publishing-Quality Engraving

For scores headed to print or publication, Sibelius gives you detailed control over how every element looks. House Styles apply your fonts, symbols and engraving rules across every score and part in a project, and ManuScript Plugins automate repetitive jobs like aligning hairpins, adding cautionary accidentals and batch-naming parts.

• Engraving rules for spacing, positioning, beams and tuplets
• System spacing controls to balance staves and systems on the page
• A choice of professional music fonts and notation styles
• Custom noteheads for percussion, educational material and contemporary scores

Work on Any Device and Share Anywhere

Sibelius runs on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android and Chromebook, so you can start an idea on your phone and finish it at your desk. Cloud Publishing lets you view, share and publish scores with collaborators across the room or on the other side of the world, which is handy when a director, client or bandmate needs to see the latest version.

Built for the Classroom Too

Teachers can share files with students and guide their focus from their own workstation. Sibelius includes more than 1,700 built-in projects, exercises and teaching resources to help get lesson plans started, and students can keep working across the devices they already use.