{"id":25,"date":"2012-02-11T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2012\/02\/11\/converting-old-music-score-to-new\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T04:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T04:29:40","slug":"converting-old-music-score-to-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/converting-old-music-score-to-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting an old music score to new Sibelius"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to make a few revisions to an orchestral score I finished in 2004. It was in an early version of Sibelius, and I hoped it would be easy to update. However, when I opened the score in Sibelius 6, it didn\u2019t look good and I feared it would be a lot of work to make it ready to revise. I was wrong — the Magnetic Layout feature made it quick and easy.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the procedure I used:<\/p>\n

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  1. Select all.<\/li>\n
  2. Set Magnetic Layout to Default (Edit menu). That should have happened with the selections I made when I opened the score, but I wasn\u2019t sure all the symbols were behaving.<\/li>\n
  3. Reset Space Above and Space Below Staves to Default (Layout menu).<\/li>\n
  4. Reset Position and Design (Layout menu).<\/li>\n
  5. Optimize Staff Spacing (also on the Layout menu).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That\u2019s it. The score was basically ready for revisions.<\/p>\n

    In the past, I did a lot of little mouse movements to put symbols where I wanted them. Magnetic Layout is a great boon for carpal tunnel sufferers and obsessive editing. Along with Optimize Staff Spacing, it\u2019s pretty quick now to get page layout looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I wanted to make a few revisions to an orchestral score I finished in 2004. It was in an early version of Sibelius, and I hoped it would be easy to update. However, when I opened the score in Sibelius 6, it didn\u2019t look good and I feared it would be a lot of work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[13,45],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-composing","tag-sibelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}