Update: Avid Sibelius v2024.6 – Apple Silicon Support

Avid has added native support for Macs with Apple silicon chips, as well as a  number of improvements to Sibelius, the music notation software.

What’s new in Sibelius v2024.6?

Native support for Apple silicon

Load times and startup times for customers running Apple silicon will see a marked improvement in performance.

If you’re running silicon natively, you’ll see improvements in the following areas:

• Startup time is up to 30% faster
• Editing large scores is up to 50% faster

Copying MIDI between Sibelius and Pro Tools

In this release, Avid also included a number of smaller improvements to the way Sibelius copies and pastes MIDI.

• When pasting Time and Key Signatures from Pro Tools, the initial time and key signatures are now included.
• Pasting MIDI from the clipboard now ignores muted notes
• The “Round metronome marks” option in MIDI Import Options is now persistent
• When pasting MIDI from the clipboard or when importing a MIDI file, system text is no longer duplicated
• Key signatures are now positioned correctly after pasting MIDI
• Tempo changes aren’t included at every time signature change, unless needed
• Options to filter key switches in MIDI Import Options now no longer allow the values to cross

In Pro Tools:

• Select key, meter, ruler data individually or all at once to selectively paste
• You can now paste with or without notes, bringing across song structure independently from the music

Smaller improvements and bug fixes

• Blank clefs now appear when hidden objects are shown in the score.
• Unison ties are now correctly positioned
• Plus several general improvements

Full release notes