{"id":273,"date":"2007-06-08T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-06-08T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T02:52:00","slug":"sibelius-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Sibelius 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have much else to blog about so…<\/p>\n

Sibelius 5 was announced not too long ago. (If you care, check it out here<\/a>.) 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<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-4p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}