I don’t have much else to blog about so…
Sibelius 5 was announced not too long ago. (If you care, check it out here.) It looks like it has many new great features, its biggest being that it is a full VST host, like Overture 4, which I’ve been using for the past two years. Feature-wise, it looks like Sibelius 5 should be more impressive than Overture 4, but I’m so used to using Overture that I doubt Sibelius 5 will be on my shelf any time soon, even with its great looking features. This is all entirely due to usability. While I’d love to have the new features, I know Overture 4 too well. I downloaded the demo for Sibelius 5 and I’m having trouble figuring out how to do some basic things. Granted, if I bought and fooled around with it for months, I could work much quicker, but are the new features worth it? I don’t think so, not yet. And the demo doesn’t seem to allow me to test its VST capabilities (unless I’m missing something) which is a bummer.
Another big reason I probably won’t buy Sibelius 5 is cost. At over $300, a college student such as myself just has bigger priorities, like vacation expenses. (That’s a joke, by the way, about the vacation expenses.)