How To Make Sibelius Sound More Realistic (An Easy Fix)
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Hey friends, today’s video is all about NotePerformer 3. It’s an AI-based playback engine for Sibelius and Finale. It takes contextual cues and other inputs, like technique instructions, dynamics, articulations, divisis, etc. and creates fantastic playback. It beats all other MIDI playback options and I prefer NotePerformer than most sample libraries.
It’s paid software and has a monthly plan for about $10/month, but it completely worth the small fee for such satisfying returns. If you would like to download and install NotePerformer 3, click here: www.noteperformer.com. If you would like me to cover other important Sibelius workflow tips in the future, let me know in the comments down below.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - NotePerformer 3 Demo
3:07 - Benefits of NotePerformer
5:30 - Recap and Outro
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Well done young man, I wish I could have studied composition and orchestration when I was your age. I’m 63 years old and learning so much from the young people about music. I’ve played piano and guitar since I was young and always wanted to compose music but never though I could because I did not go to a great music conservatory or collage. Now that I can afford the daws and vst libraries, I find watching these videos have given me a new hope to become an amateur composer. Thanks for posting
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! Such a simple change and I didn't know that! I have been using my Sibelius Ultimate wrong for so long. I suscribed already! :D
I find that deselecting "Live Playback" makes it much better. I also use the digital mixer to pan instruments around.
I was looking something like that for a long time. THANKS!
Glad I could help!
Outstanding tutorial. I used to love Sibelius way back when I first started (Sib 3, lol). I noticed in the version I bought in 2018 how bad the sounds are. Thanks again.
Note Performer is very cool. That being said, the sounds from Sibelius Player w\Virtual Drumline are not too bad. I use both as there are special effects in Sibelius player that I am unable to access in NP
Thanks for the comparison Carlos - useful.
Bought NP yesterday - very pleased.
Beautiful :3
Good to watch your overview. It's a pity the developer's User guide isn't more intuitive as it doesn't go into a bit more detail especially how it interacts with the Mixer. I am working with organ music a lot and I'm sure there must be settings I haven't discovered about how to adjust organ registration. If you could find the time, I'm sure a more detailed tutorial would be much appreciated by those of us with less expertise than yourself.
Thanks. You made my ... well, year, as it were. :D
Nice!
Hi Carlos. Good vídeo.
Hey, great video! I notice that NotePerformer has decent string sounds, but the piano is definitely lacking. How would you go about making a realistic piano sound? Would you have to fire up a DAW and use a sample library? Thanks!
I am a percussion performance major about to start my Masters and just wanted to let you know that the first way you pronounced "crotales" (before the correction) was correct. At least this is the case in all percussion circles I have interacted with thus far, though this may be another instance of Americanization of Non-European percussion instruments (as tends to happen). Anyway, irrelevant information for a video over a year old lol; great video regardless and I'm interested to give NotePerformer a try myself :)
Yes, I realized that I was correct after some research haha. Thanks anyway!
i was thinking about even going a step higher with playback realism. Make the composition in e.g. sibelius + noteperfomer 3.. then once done, export the composition as musicxml to staffpad and load up the instruments from the addon libraries (berlin series, spitfire etc) and let staffpad do the playback for the final render.
Yes, I was planning on including DAWs into this video when it really is a glorified NotePerformer 3 review haha.
Great video! Do you know how to get logic or garage band sounds available in Sibelius?
I'd like to sent you a question. I started to work with Sibelius. I have a Yamaha PSR-S970. Sibelius recognizes it as mid out? Thank you.
Do u have full version program of noteperformer? I need the full version installer so that it can overwrite the trial version, I read it in web
I dont see any other option in "Configuration" but "general midi basic" in my Sibelius... How can I enable this other option...?
thanks so much for this! i have a noob question. will my scores that are all using Sibelius 7 sounds just start using Noteperformer sounds when i install it and select it under configuration? or are there other steps? do i need to allocate each instrument/channel again? that could be a lot of work to go back and do to all my scores :/ thanks for the help!
To my knowledge, yes. When I moved from using Sibelius 7 sounds to NotePerformer, everything worked perfectly much to my surprise!
Hi. Thanks so much for showing these sounds. I wonder how it works with Jazz. Is it possible you can do a demo of that? Thanks
It works fairly well with jazz, however I don’t really write for it too often.
Great job Carlos! It makes one wonder why AVID (or indeed Steinberg) won’t simply include NP with their software. Id also kindly ask your opinion on the best way to combine Sibelius 2020 with Spitfire’s BBC Symphony Pro - It is a great package for the price, but I wonder if there’s any point in trying to make it work alongside a notation program - or simply use it within cubase and go through the tedious job of creating a separate sequencer version of my scores... your opinion would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks and bravo again for your amazing channel
I'm personally not aware of a way to incorporate a large samples library like that into Sibelius. Most composers prefer mocking up something in their DAW (with Spitfire's BBC Symphony, for example), and then notating it in Sibelius (with NotePerformer3 for playback).
@@CarlosLalonde Thanks so much for your feedback! Yes, that’s what I would have thought, unfortunately. Dorico seems to be attempting to bridge that gap, although the amount of programming needed for good results is quite substantial even within Dorico. So we are still stuck with DAW mockups it seems. NotePerformer is the closest best alternative I’ve ever come across to date, thanks to your wonderful presentation of it. Thank you!
@@Gelazaridis There are ways to do exactly what you're asking, but it can be tedious and complicated to make it function properly.
What are your thoughts on BIg Sur and Sibelius? I have not updated my iOS after reading that it is not compatible with the version of Sib that I purchased in 2018. Thanks.
From my experience with the latest version of Sibelius I have (2020.6), it works flawlessly. Based on your case, I'd send a message to Avid or some other forum.
Is there a Note Performer type plug in but for Jazz/rock/Latin/Pop instruments...?
I'm mostly interested in different (but realistic) drums and keyboard sounds.
Thanks
You can use it for those genres, but it mostly excels in orchestral/chamber music.
How you install sounds?
1:12 yes the noteperfomer one is far, far more realistic than the default one, but i really-really love the default one, maybe because it sounds like that old 80s-90s game soundtrack, it sounds really nostalgic and epic
Nintendo and ps1 game
how do i download note performer ? ive tried to purchase it and it hasnt?
Through their website: www.noteperformer.com/
I would start with their 30 day trial before you commit to purchasing. If you tried to purchase and nothing worked, I'd contact their team.
If you are writing orchestral music, Note Performer 3 is better then the general midi. However, if you're doing pop or jazz or anything of a commercial nature it is not good. Makes the music sound like it's being played by orchestral personnel who don't have a clue about hipper sounds. Just a thought. It would be nice if you could combine the two, i,e, use Note Performer 3 strings with general midi rhythm parts.
I'm sure there's a way to mix both general midi and NotePerformer 3 sounds, but I'm not bothered to figure it out since I'm mainly working with orchestral sounds anyway.
would be funny if some parts were out of tune just to make it more realistic!
Surprisingly, when you choose solo instruments, like solo violin, the intonation can waver in-and-out of tune a bit, especially in a string quartet! I wish they had realistic key clicking sounds, or breathing to make it sound live!
@@CarlosLalonde Ha, cool!
@@CarlosLalonde How about a phone ringing in the background once in a while, glasses clinking, or an espresso machine? Or someone suddenly laughing out loud?
Ah yes the expensive option... But also it sounds better with a DAW
Es ist aber für Jazz relativ unbrauchbar.
your lowkey Beutiful
Dónde está tu secreto?? en que promocionas el producto???? jajajaja,
Good vid, but too much talk.
Sibelius does not have default, you meerly are jealous