The driving force behind this thread is that I'm having some issues with with a Dorico Music XML import. Unfortunately they forget that the end-results of all of that marketing confuses the unwashed masses (aka customers) like me. Sometimes marketing folks tend to focus on marketing stuff like market segmentation and positioning, profitability for each segment, and marketing penetration. I didn't want to bring in the "Sibelius 2018" thing because it just adds to the confusion. > Sib 7.5, GPO4, NotePerformer, lots of EWQL stuff > To those who think the recent name changes (Sibelius 8 -> Sibelius 2018 ->Sibelius Ultimate) have not caused confusion: Posted by Robin Walker - 02 May 02:07AM (edited 02 May 04:21AM)
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Question for Ingrid: Is the 30 day trial in this link for Sibelius 8 or Sibilius 8 | Ultimate? And probably download a trial version of Sibilius 8. I think I'll have to interpolate the reviews with the Sibilius 8 comparison chart. However, the reviews in the links appear to compare 7.5.1 to Sibilius 8| Ultimate and not Sibilius 8. Since it appears that Sibelius 8 (not Ultimate) is a more limited version, I'm trying to figure out if upgrading to "Sibelius 8" would give me LESS functionality than Sibelius 7.5.1 (which I already own).
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#Sibelius 8 features upgrade
Given that the "Sibelius 1-7.5" (Sibelius | Ultimate upgrade) price is almost four times as expensive as the upgrade to "Sibelius 8" (link below), I'm more inclined to buy the "Sibelius 8" upgrade. Regarding "Sibelius Standard", I was referring to the "Sibelius" product (versus "Sibelius | Ultimate"). So tablet enhancements aren't being considered. Regarding my workstation environment, I use a workstation (not a laptop) with two monitors - one 27" running at 2760 X 1440 and one 24" running at 1900 X 1200.