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4. Playback & video
4.4 Sibelius Sounds Essentials 4.1 Working with playback, 4.3 Mixer, 4.5 Performance, 9.10 Exporting audio files.
Sibelius comes with Sibelius Sounds Essentials, a high-quality sound library consisting of carefully chosen instruments from the award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Concert & Marching Band and Garritan Jazz and Big Band, and Tapspace’s Virtual Drumline. The result is a versatile collection of sounds well-suited for every genre of music. You can add further sound libraries for use with Sibelius, including the full versions of all of the sound libraries from which the sounds in Sibelius Sounds Essentials are taken. Choose Help Sibelius Sounds to be taken to our web site for more information. Sibelius Sounds Essentials plays back through the built-in Sibelius Player, a sample player virtual instrument, based on the technology behind the Structure sampler for Pro Tools, developed by Digidesign’s world-beating Advanced Instrument Research group.
Computer requirements Be aware that sound libraries can take up a large amount of hard disk space, so ensure that you have plenty available, and that loading many sounds simultaneously requires more RAM. See How to get the best out of virtual instruments and effects on page 354 for advice applicable both to Sibelius Player and other virtual instruments.
Setting up Sibelius Sounds Essentials Sibelius is set to play back through Sibelius Sounds Essentials by default, but if you switch to another set of playback devices you may need to switch back to Sibelius Sounds Essentials, as follows: Choose Play Playback Devices From the Configuration menu at the top of the dialog, choose Sibelius Sounds. You will see Sibelius Player in the Active devices list on the right-hand side of the Active
Devices page of the dialog. Sound set will be set to Essentials. Click Close. As soon as you open a score, Sibelius automatically loads the necessary sounds in the background. Depending on the number of instruments in your score, this takes anywhere from a few seconds to half a minute or so, during which time you can input and edit in your score as normal. If you try to start playback before all of the sounds have been loaded, you will see a progress bar while the remaining sounds are loaded, and playback will then begin.
How Sibelius Player works Sibelius Player can play up to 128 different sounds at once, though the maximum number depends on the available resources of your computer. For example, if your computer has less than 1GB RAM, Sibelius will limit the number of available channels to 32; if your computer has 2GB RAM, 284