1. Product did not ship.
2. After re-verifying my address, product was 'shipped' w/o a tracking #.
3. After asking again, product was shipped with a tracking # & arrived.
4. Several hours & downloads"”Sibelius 7 won't mount on OS X 10.11.6.
5. Called Avid support desk"”their Sibelius 7 techs are busy and will call back!
6. Will give this a few more hours of time, & if not resolved, will ask for a refund. :-(
7. Once Avid tech support got online the fix was fairly easy and the program is now running. Now to play with it. ;-)

Not user friendly. Difficult to use. Does not do well on measures where 8th note rests are required. It also does poorly on measures
where dotted quarter notes are required.

The reviewers who say that Sibelius is user-friendly are either coming from extremely difficult software, or they haven't had the pleasure of working with Encore and Cakewalk. Sibelius is simply the farthest thing from user-friendly. It's stressful enough just getting a few notes on there without the computer automatically changing a few things up. It's not easy to find the most basic facets of music such as dynamic markings. What's more: the company does not have any phone-based technical support! All we have is an automated voice loquaciously going on about the website before hanging up on you. I am very disappointed with this company and will think wisely before my next music software investment.

The program is easy to learn and if you know music, you can start writing music immediately with just the basic knowledge of how to use a computer. The quality of the sheet music is Awesome, there're many templates available with which you can start writing your sheet music. I tried Finale 2014 for 30 days and the experience was not what I expected. Finale is a very good program but is kind of hard to understand because for some reason they use their own way of programing that is not the standard of most computer programs. In other words you cannot predict how to do some very simple commands. In my case I went several times for the help provided by Finale to write my first sheet music. Sibelius also has some negative things, like the way bars are distributed, for example; if for you is important to have all bars equally distributed, probably you will have hard time with this program, it's very complicated, because the program automatically adjust the width of the bar as you write music, which is good in certain ways, but regardless you can drag the bar lines, the program has like an "elastic or magnet ability" that doesn't allow you to adjust bars manually in the exact place you want. Neither I haven't find a command in Sibelius that make all bars the same width.

I earned a degree in music and since then entered into a field as far removed from music as possible. I still like to compose once in a while for fun. This is perfect. The shortcuts function is perfect