Scoring Express for Sibelius – Jazz
$59.99
Scoring Express is a collection of professional templates, libraries, fonts, manuscript papers, and plug-ins for Sibelius Ultimate — based on the same templates used every day at NYC Music Services.
Scoring Express is a collection of high-quality, professional templates for Sibelius — based on the same templates used at NYC Music Services, an industry-leading music preparer.
Each Scoring Express package is much more than just the templates. It contains manuscript papers, house styles, high-quality music and text fonts, and plug-ins — all installed in one go, so you can get started right away.
The settings in Scoring Express files are the result of decades of experience preparing music notation at the highest level. Embedded throughout each file are carefully considered parameters that refine positioning, placement, and design. They reflect the expert advice and tips you’ll find on the Scoring Notes blog.
Drawing on our knowledge of the ins and outs of Sibelius, we have made use of some of the more obscure features and settings and baked them right into the Scoring Express defaults so that you don’t have to spend time fiddling with them. Each file also includes loads of additional symbols, lines, and text styles that extend Sibelius’s default capabilities in many ways.
Plus, Scoring Express takes full advantage of the Norfolk and Pori fonts that not only bring a unique beauty to your music, but deliver unique features as well, like the angled slash chord (ASC) symbols.
What’s the difference between downloading the Norfolk or Pori fonts and purchasing Scoring Express?
| Feature | Norfolk / Pori fonts only | Scoring Express |
|---|---|---|
| Fonts | Norfolk and Pori are separate items | All Norfolk, Pori, and other high quality music and text fonts included with every purchase; more than 40 in all |
| Installation | Manual | Automatic installer. No separate font download or installation necessary |
| Templates | No | At least 9 different templates included |
| House Styles | 1 basic per font | Yes: One per template, plus a parts house style |
| Manuscript Papers | No | Yes: One per template |
| Plug-ins | No | Yes |
| Custom features | Limited | Many extra symbols, lines, hierarchical text styles, engraving rules, positioning settings and note spacing rule |
| Example files | No | Yes |
| Support | No | Yes |
| Price | $20.00 (suggested contribution) | $59.99 - $69.99 |
All Scoring Express installations come with these fonts: the Norfolk and Pori fonts, plus the Figurato figured bass font, and the Academico, Gothic A1, P052, and Petaluma Script text fonts. Several useful plug-ins are also included to help you quickly get results.
Scoring Express — Jazz includes 11 professional Sibelius templates for stand-alone use, plus corresponding Manuscript Papers and House Styles for each, in addition to two Parts House Styles that can be easily imported into any part.
License
Can I use Scoring Express on more than one computer?
Yes! A purchase entitles one person (you) to use it on one computer at a time, on as many computers that you personally use. Unless you have extra limbs, that should suffice nicely.
Can my buddy who shares my computer use Scoring Express?
No! Well, there’s no way to technically prevent it. But please ask your buddy to purchase his own copy.
My buddy wants to use my copy of Scoring Express. Can I send it to him?
No! He should purchase his own copy. Let’s all be buddies!
Can I change the default Scoring Express files — customize, modify styles, add instruments, etc.?
Yes! That’s the beauty of it — it’s totally customizable for your own use. You can change it straight away or keep the original handy and duplicate it for your own use. If you need to, you can always re-install the default Scoring Express files again.
So, once I do that, can I send those files to my buddy?
You can share Sibelius files with anyone you like, and these files may inherently contain many settings derived from Scoring Express. But please encourage your buddies to purchase their own copies of Scoring Express so that they get the full benefit of the package and easy compatibility with your files — including all the fonts, house styles, and manuscript papers that come with Scoring Express.
Compatibility
Scoring Express is built for the latest version of Sibelius Ultimate, but should work with all Sibelius Ultimate versions dating back to 2020.3. Use with earlier Sibelius versions is not recommended nor supported.
Scoring Express templates and manuscript papers are designed for North American page sizes, but they will look just fine switching to the nearest ISO equivalent (i.e., A4) with a quick toggle in Sibelius’s Layout > Document Setup > Size. Depending on your tastes, in certain circumstances you may prefer adjusting the staff size by a fraction of a millimeter or two in either direction as well.
Documentation
Scoring Express – Guide to usage and features
Scoring Express User Guide
Scoring Express Sibelius documentationAngled slash chord (ASC) fonts
ASC documentationTheatre & Studio — Additional documentation
Theatre – Additional documentation| Operating System | Mac, Windows |
|---|---|
| Platform | Sibelius |
BJC3991 (verified owner) –
These templates are absolutely phenomenal.
The installer makes getting them up and running a breeze, and they are very easy to learn how to use.
I am a new user of Sibelius and am currently in the process of transferring my big band arrangements from Finale into Sibelius via XML files.
These Scoring Express templates have taken what I thought would be an arduous and time consuming process and turned it into an astoundingly efficient and tremendously enjoyable endeavor.
The angled slash chord functionality alone makes it worth the purchase price, but these templates do so much more than just change the appearance of chord symbols.
It is endlessly delightful to import an XML file into these templates and, with a few clicks, watch them transform from poorly formatted charts with numerous clashes and note spacing issues into beautifully engraved files which would pass the eye test of even the most discerning musicians, conductors, and librarians.
The best part of this package, however, may very well be the ability to use these templates to format not only a score, but individual instrument parts as well (which, as anybody who has ever had to produce parts for a large ensemble work on a tight deadline can tell you, is an extremely stressful undertaking using the default templates provided by Sibelius or Finale).
This product will undoubtedly save you many, many hours of laborious work, all the while ensuring when you pass out your charts to a big band that you can be confident your music will look as pleasing to the eye as possible.
I had no idea that my scores and parts could look this fantastic, but now that I do, I can’t imagine ever using anything other than these templates for any of my arrangements or compositions.
Further, the companion set of templates for chamber music are equally fantastic, and I will soon be using them to edit my compositions for orchestra and pierrot ensemble.
I cannot recommend the Scoring Express templates highly enough.