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Respell Uncommon Accidentals

Version 01.56.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 26 Sep 2023)

For use with Sibelius 3.x, Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__Respell Uncommon Accidentals respells certain accidentals that are avoided in some musical styles. It will find and respell B# to C, E# to F, Cb to B and Fb to E. It can also respell double and triple accidentals. It assumes you know what you are doing in running it, and makes no judgments, but the author would like to remind the user that there are many musical situations where an E# is perfectly appropriate, and using this plug-in would produce incorrect musical notation. __You can run the Mark Enharmonic Pitches plug-in if you just want to know if you have these kinds of pitches in your score. __New in version 1.3: __This version shows both consecutive and displayed bar numbers in Sibelius 4, and has a new option to locate: write to text file or trace window uncommon accidentals without changing the score. __Updated 25 Feb 2014 to fix endless loop when processing written names in transposing instruments. Changed some dialog defaults. __ Updated 8 September 2017 to speed up the progress bar, and hopefully the entire plugin when run on large scores. __Updated 29 September 2017 speed up plus in Sib 8.3 and later changes made in a part will only affect that part __Updated 26 September 2023 Version 01.56.00. Restored coloring post Sib 8_3

Download RespellUncommonAccidentals.zip (17K, downloaded 1770 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Arrange Voicings

Version 02.03.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Jazz arranger David O'Rourke has contributed this document, which describes how to create great jazz voicings using the Arrange feature and the Jazz Arrange styles in Sibelius 3 and 4.

Download Writing for Saxophone using Jazz Arrange styles in Sibelius (1.35MB)

Download ArrangeVoicings.zip (16K, downloaded 29525 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Arrange Brass Voicings

Version 01.12.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Jazz arranger David O'Rourke has contributed this document, which describes how to use Bob Zawalich's Arrange Brass Voicings plug-in. You will also need the Arrange Voicings plug-in by Bob Zawalich.

Download BrassVoicing.pdf (1.2MB)

Download ArrangeBrassVoicings.zip (17K, downloaded 29538 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Extract Parts From Folder

Version 01.03.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

This plug-in extracts parts from all the scores in the selected folder.

Updated 20 Feb 2020. Version 01.03.00. Updated text used for version display.

Download ExtractPartsFromFolder.zip (3K, downloaded 28081 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Coloring

Version 01.60.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 01 Jun 2019)

This plug-in removes all colors or a single specified color from objects in the open score, turning them back to their default color (i.e. black).

Updated 26 April 2016 to allow coloring of individual note objects

Updated 01 June 2019. Version 01.60.00. Fix processing colored rests.

Download RemoveColoring.zip (8K, downloaded 27783 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Apply Named Color

Version 01.15.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 07 Jun 2024)

__This plug-in allows you to color any selection of objects using a set of named colors. Simply select the objects you want to color, run the plug-in, and choose the desired color from the drop-down list. __Updated 13Feb2015 to respell version name; no code change, no update of version number. __Updated 14 April 2016 to allow coloring of individual note objects __Updated 26 April 2016 to allow coloring of individual note objects. __Updated 01 June 2019. Version 01.06.00. Fix processing colored rests __Updated 29 July 2019. Version 01.08.00. Add ability to set opacity/Color Alpha Channel, and to trace color and opacity of selected objects. __Updated 22 Feb 2020. Version 01.09.00. Allow white as a color. __Updated 6 June 2021. Version 01.11.00. Code restructured to allow being called by other plugins. No new features. __Updated 23 June 2021. Version 01.12.00. Bug fixes. __Updated 2 May 2023. Version 01.13.00. Fixed crashing bug when something unexpected was selected. Made trace results optional, adding a checkbox to the dialog. Default is to not trace the number of changes. __Updated 22 January 2024. Version 01.14.00. Made list of colors a full size list. Added ability to edit RGB values for colors. __Updated 6 June 2024. Version 01.15.00. Updated to better handle invalid color fields from Comments

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove All Coloring

Version 01.02.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in resets all colored objects in the open score back to their default colors (i.e. black).

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Locate Colored Objects

Version 01.40.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 01 Jun 2019)

This plug-in creates a log file listing the location of every colored object in the selected score.

New in version 1.3:

When run in Sibelius 4, now handles bar number changes

For Sibelius 5 or later, you can use Find Colored Objects or Filter Colored Objects instead of generating this log file.

Updated 01 June 2019. Version 01.40.00. Fix processing colored rests

Download LocateColoredObjects.zip (14K, downloaded 27605 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Intervals From Keys

Version 01.10.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Find Intervals From Keys calculates the intervals needed to transpose from one key to another. The calculated intervals can then be used in Notes > Transpose. It also provides information on how to produce intervals that Notes > Transpose cannot produce directly.

Download FindIntervalsFromKeys.zip (11K, downloaded 27799 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Multirests and Empty Bars

Version 04.30.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 22 Aug 2019)

Multirests and Empty Bars creates a text file showing the locations of:

Multirests and their terminators (for the entire score; process parts as separate files)
Empty bars (bars without notes)
Empty bars without bar rests (probably notation errors)
Occupied bars
Irregular bars (whose length differs from the time signature)

This information may be useful for proofreading, for determining why multirests split, or for managing rehearsals and allocation of players to instruments. Copyists may also find it to be useful.

Changes in version 3.6:

Now handles unsaved scores, or scores with \"untitled\" in their filenames

Changes in version 3.16:

Fix to show terminators of certain 1-bar \"multirests\"
Added warning about multirests that are split by Auto Layout options

Changes in version 3.0:

A new option, Multirests in Selected Staves Only. Previously, all staves in the score were checked, and multirests were reported only when the multirest was present in all staves. This was intended to report only on multirests that could be visible at the moment that the plugin was run. To check a specific staff, you had to extract a part. With the new option (on by default), you can check individual staves in the full score. (The multirests will still not be visible in the score until you extract a part). Note that even when the Selected Stave option is selected, the system staff is checked as well, since contents of the system staff (system text like composer and title and headers) often influence the breaking of multirests.
Since the plug-in is used most often to check multirests, the empty bar checkboxes are now off by default.
A number of minor bugs have been fixed.

Changes in version 3.12:

When run in Sibelius 4, the plug-in makes a better determination of what terminates a multirest
When run in Sibelius 4, if there are bar number changes present, the log file will show both the \"displayed\" and \"consecutive\" bar numbers

Changes in version 3.1:

There was an error that if you choose the \"selected staves only\" option, but have no selection, it continues but only processes the system staff, with the result that the multirests are wrong. Now fixed.

Changes in version 3.5:

Can now detect hidden objects that do not break multirests (Sibelius 4.1 only)
Adds staff name to location of object breaking a multirest

Updated 14 July 2016. Added the ability to treat a single bar followed by a multirest as a 1-bar multirest, thus showing its terminator. This will help the common case of a single bar being split from a multirest.

Updated 29 September 2017. Optimized progress bars to speed up processing large scores; also change log file creation to buffer writing for better speed.

Updated 22 August 2019. Version 04.30.00. Significant rewrites to improve speed for large scores. Writes to the trace window are not buffered, and there is an option to show only totals and subtotals. New option to show bars that are empty for an entire system.

Download MultirestsAndEmptyBars.zip (24K, downloaded 28253 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Copy Signatures To New Score

Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in copies all the time and key signatures from the current score into a new score.

To use the plug-in, open the score from which you want to copy the key and time signatures, choose the plug-in from Sibelius\'s menus, then follow the on-screen instructions.

Updated 21 February 2007: Can now also copy metronome marks from the current score to the new score.

Download CopySignaturesToNewScore.zip (3K, downloaded 27891 times)

Plug-in written by Neil Sands.

Narrow Two Voices

Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in controls the horizontal note offset in passages which use voice 1 and voice 2 simultaneously. There are three actions predefined (you can define and save more actions for yourself):

Default Rules of Sibelius: This essentially behaves identically to Sibelius, but corrects some known problems: a unison of two semibreves shows now two noteheads, and so does a unison of e.g. a dotted minim and an undotted crotchet.
Narrow Mode: In situations where voice 2 goes above voice 1, move the voice 2 notes to the left. This allows a more dense note typesetting and is used in particular in organ and piano music.
Arpeggio Mode: If you have fast arpeggios running in voice 1 while voice 2 doubles the first note of each arpeggio with a longer note, it is common that the noteheads on the first beats are typeset overlapping.

To use the plug-in, make a passage selection (i.e. a single box), then choose Narrow Two Voices from the Plug-ins menu and follow the on-screen instructions.

Changes in v2.0 (updated 29 August 2005):

Plug-in now requires use of the Preferences plug-in, so will only run in Sibelius 4
Added wizard with three pre-defined modes, to select your job with two clicks
Added font metrics for Helsinki font
improved offset mechanism for several combinations of dotted/undotted notes

Changes in v1.20 (updated 17 November 2004):

Now possible to force noteheads to overlap, even if their shape differs (useful for arpeggio-like passages where the first note is played with longer notes in a second voice)
Added fixes for the positioning of unison semibreves and dotted notes in one voice at the same pitch as undotted notes in another
Added a full set of user options

Download NarrowTwoVoices.zip (14K, downloaded 28376 times)

Plug-in written by Hans-Christoph Wirth.

Mark Enharmonic Pitches

Version 02.05.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 26 Apr 2016)

Mark Enharmonic Pitches allows you to specify a color for individual pitches, using separate colors for enharmonically equivalent pitches (such as F#/Gb). You can use it to apply a \\\"spectrum\\\" of unique colors for each pitch, or use it for proofreading and analysis.

Double sharps and flats are colored the same as an enharmonic pitch (Gx -> A) and quartertones are colored as the nearest flat or sharp. You can, however, select a color from the double/quartertone lists, and all double accidentals or quartertones will get the same color, regardless of pitch.

This plug-in can be useful for locating any \\\'mispelled\\\' accidentals, such as F# where you might expect Gb. The Sibelius filters do not allow you to distinguish between enharmonically equivalent pitches, but this plug-in will do that.

It does not explicitly generate a log file showing marked objects, but it allows you to call the Locate Colored Objects plug-in to do so. (If that option is chosen, a recent version of Located Colored Objects must be downloaded as well).

Updated 26 April 2016 to allow colors to be added to individual notes.

Download MarkEnharmonicPitches.zip (10K, downloaded 27514 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Move Pitches to Transposed Mid-Line

Version 02.01.65
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 03 Mar 2024)

__This plug-in transposes music on the selected staff or staves to the center staff line and can change the style of the notehead (e.g. to create slashes). It puts the notes in the right place for transposed instruments. __Fixed in v 1.56: __Corrected to handle some enharmonic misspellings. Added the ability to move either type of slashed noteheads at the same time. __Fixed in v1.50: __Now respects partially selected bars, rather than processing them as if fully selected __Fixed in v1.20: __You can now specify any supported notehead to be the only notehead moved. Previously, only normal noteheads could be specified. __Fixed in v1.15.0: __instrument handling changed so that new instruments are dealt with automatically (3.1 instruments are handled properly) __transposition changes handled __Updated 21 Feb 2009 version 2.0: __New option to move to center line of concert score, rather than transposed score __Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup __Updated 17 October 2022. Version 02.01.00. Major code restructuring to allow plugin to be called by RunPluginEntry_cu. Added New Macro/Plugin button to generate and store RunPluginEntry_cu command lines. __Updated 24 January 2024. Version 02.01.40. Added notehead styles 27 (Large stemless slash) and 28 (Large slash with stem). Internal changes to allow better calling from other plugins using New macro/plugin. __Updated 03 March 2024. Version 02.01.65. Updated to support New Plugin button. Needs updated Execute Commands, cmdutils, and New Plugin Lib.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Split Bar Rests

Version 01.30.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 26 Jul 2020)

This plug-in converts any bar rests in the selection to rests of shorter durations. The duration of the smaller rests will be one per beat, with the beat length determined by the time signature. This can be handy if you want to see the contents of irregular bars, or for other obscure reasons.

New in v1.04:

The plug-in can now split bar rests into other than beat-sized units. One can now spcify the size of the rest to use as well as how to dispose of any excess.

Updated November 15, 2007:

Now properly splits all bars rests if rests are present in more than one voice

Updated June 7, 2008. Version 1.10. New option to split rests only in irregular bars.

Updated June 24, 2008. Version 1.15. If a bar is too small for a single rest of the requested size, the largest possible rest is now written, rather than skipping the bar.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 28 February 2010 to optionally select entire score if there is no passage selection.

Updated 25 July 2020. Version 01.30.00. Added option to replace a bar rest with a normal rest of the same duration where possible. It will try undotted through triple dotted durations to try to match the bar size. If there is not a single-note match, the plugin will use the closest-sized single note it could find, and fill the remainder of the bar with whatever rests Sibelius finds appropriate.

Download SplitBarRests.zip (8K, downloaded 27467 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Multirest Line

Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in allows you to replace a selected multirest with a line, e.g. a wavy line (as used in percussion parts to indicate that the player should simply play for that number of bars).

To use the plug-in, first set the multirest display to Blank in House Style > Engraving Rules > Bar Rests, then select the multirest in which you want to use a line, and run the plug-in.

Updated 20 Mar 2009 to run in Sibelius 5

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Download MultirestLine.zip (4K, downloaded 27324 times)

Plug-in written by Peter Hayter and Bob Zawalich.

Count Notes

Version 01.05.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Count Notes counts the number and type of notes and rests in a selection, and list counts by bar and in total. It will also display the durations of the counted notes.

Updated 29 January 2007: Now has an option to display the number of notes or chords on an instrument by instrument basis.

Download CountNotes.zip (11K, downloaded 27566 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Fix Tied Notes Live Playback

Version 01.02.01
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in processes notes and corrects problems with the Live Playback Original Duration in tied notes. If the Live Playback duration in a tied note has been set such that it ends either before or after the notational duration (i.e., if the note is a quarter note/crotchet, and Live Playback only plays for an eighth note/quaver), the note can playback incorrectly (the following note it is tied to will play with a separate attack). To prevent that, the Live Playback duration is set to the notational duration less the Live Start Position in those cases, so the tied note playback stops exactly at the end. A log file of changes will be written.

Download FixTiedNoteLivePlayback.zip (5K, downloaded 28154 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

German Chord Names

Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 2.x, Sibelius 3.x, Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in converts chord symbols text in your score between the German (B = B flat, H = B) and standard (Bb = B flat, B = B) conventions for chord symbols. This is useful when e.g. wanting to transpose German chord symbols (convert them to standard chord symbols, transpose, then convert them back to German chord symbols).

Updated August 9, 2008 to handle alternate flat symbol in Sib 5.

Updated 20 October 2014 to mark them as usable through Sibelius 7.5. No code changes were made. Note that the plugin will only work with Legacy Chord Symbols, and that the Engraving Rules-Chord Symbols-Language feature is a better way to show German chord symbol names.

Download GermanChordNames.zip (2K, downloaded 27382 times)

Plug-in written by Gunnar Hellquist.

Add or Replace System Text

Version 01.86.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 28 May 2018)

This plug-in can write up to three items of system text (e.g. Title, Copyright, Composer, etc.) to all the scores in a folder. It is able to replace any existing text if required.

Updated May 22, 2008 to work with user-defined styles in Sibelius 4 and 5.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 7 June 2012 to add quiet opening checkbox to open scores from earlier versions with default options.

Updated 28 May 2018. Internal code cleanup. No new features.

Download AddReplaceSystemText.zip (8K, downloaded 27597 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Reverse Text

Version 02.00.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 23 Apr 2018)

Reverse Text reverses the order of text in each selected Text, Lyric, or System Text object. It will not reverse the orderof a sequence of objects, but just the text within single objects. If you want objects in the system staff (like Title Text) reversed, create a system (double blue box) selection.

One use for this might be to reverse Hebrew or Arabic text.

This plug-in does not handle multi-line text well; it is best to split such items into separate text objects for each line. (Multi-line items will reverse, but the line separator will be lost).

Updated 22 April 2018. Now handles line feeds, and adds several new options for reversing letters, words, or lines.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

French Chord Names

Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in converts chord symbols text in your score between the French (sol-fa) and standard (Bb = B flat, B = B) conventions for chord symbols. This is useful when e.g. wanting to transpose German chord symbols (convert them to standard chord symbols, transpose, then convert them back to French chord symbols).

Download FrenchChordNames.zip (2K, downloaded 27297 times)

Plug-in written by Tim Watson.

Multirest Text

Version 01.81.00
Added 01 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Multirest Text builds a text string out of 2 user-typed pieces of text and the optional multirest number, so you can add text like \\\\\\\"Play 3 times\\\\\\\" automatically to a multirest.

There are a number of centering options possible (see the Help screen for details), but it generally works best with text styles that are defined as centered. There are 2 \\\\\\\"built-in\\\\\\\" styles (Lyrics and Lyrics(chorus)), and you can also type in the name of any text style you wish.

Some sample text styles are defined in the included MultirestTextStyle.lib house style. Import the text styles from this house style, and two new entries will appear in the built in style list (Multirest center (Times) and Multirest center (Inkpen). You can also define your own styles, named Multirest center3 through Multirest center6, and these will also show up in the list. They are assumed by the plugin to be centered in both directions.

You can use uncentered styles and make adjustments by clicking on the Advanced button and using the fields in that dialog.

Updated 19 April 2009 to fix failure to handle custom text styles in Sib 5.

Download MultirestText.zip (15K, downloaded 27344 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Number Multirest Bars

Version 02.05.00
Added 22 Aug 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in adds text containing numbers for the range of bars contained in multirests. You can change the location of the text by changing its text style. You can specify text to precede or follow the bar numbers and a character to separate them.

For example, if bars 2 through 5 are a multirest, and you choose the defaults, you will see the text (2 - 5) below the staff at bar 2.

New in v2.05:

Custom text styles work in Sibelius 4, and there is a new option to center the text if a centered text style is used.

Download NumberMultirestBars.plg.zip (18K, downloaded 27493 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

List Plug-ins

Version 01.51.00
Added 29 Aug 2005 (last updated 23 Aug 2024)

This plug-in writes a list of plugin names and numbers, sorted by name, to the trace window. If you have a lot of plug-ins, it makes it easier to find the plugin you want to assign a shortcut to, since the list on the Menus and Shortcuts page of File > Preferences is sorted by plug-in number.

Updated 17January2015. Added option to show full plugin path name for any loaded plugins so you can see if you will currently run a shipping or user version of a plugin. Sort by name is probably the useful option.

Updated 8 March 2019. Version 01.30,00. Sped up listing. Added ability to see all plugins, shipping plugins only, or user-installed plugins only.

Updated 20 March 2019. Version 01.40.00. Fixed plugin numbers when only shipping or only user plugins are listed.

Updated 15 May 2020. Version 01.51.00. Tidied up a bit, added option to not display plugin numbers, which are rarely useful.

Updated 22 August 2024. Version 01.52.00. Added an option to List plugin names only, with no path or subfolder name.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts (Windows only)

Added 03 Sep 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

Did you ever want to assign keyboard shortcuts to your favourite plug-ins which do not change each and every time you install a new plug-in or change anything else in your plug-ins folder? If so, the Fixed Shortcuts plug-in is the right tool to use.

Assign from Sibelius one single shortcut to this plug-in, e.g. F5. Whenever Sibelius should decide to scramble shortcuts, only update this single shourtcut, F5 for the Fixed Shortcut plug-in.

You can define up to 26 plug-ins to be called by Fixed Shortcuts. These are accessed with the 26 letters A..Z. Develop your own memorizing scheme, and access your favourite plug-ins with a sequence of three keys which will no longer change. What about:

F5 c RET to call Cresc./Dim. Playback
F5 r RET to call Remove All Highlights
F5 s RET to call Split Bars

Of course you can always read the list on the screen, in case you forgot the chosen shortcut. Defining the 26 favourite plug-ins is only one additional keystroke away.

Updated 16 October 2010 by Corwin Newall
Now includes a 25% faster sort method which will be of great assistance to Sibelius 4 or 5 users who may have slower processors.

Download FixedShortcuts.zip (5K, downloaded 27598 times)

Plug-in written by Hans-Christoph Wirth & Corwin Newall.

Fill With Slurs

Added 14 Sep 2005 (last updated 22 Mar 2017)

This plug-in allows you to quickly fill string passages with legato slurs. Create a multiple selection consisting of all notes where a slur should start. The plug-in will insert for each selected note a slur which ends on the note preceding the next selected note.

The plug-in is prepared to work properly with selections containing notes from different voices or instruments.

Download FillWithSlurs.zip (5K, downloaded 27447 times)

Plug-in written by Hans-Christoph Wirth.

Edit Instrument Names

Version 02.22.10
Added 02 Dec 2005 (last updated 18 Aug 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in allows you to edit the full and short instrument names, even if the name is empty, and difficult to click on. It creates a list of the instrument names (both the current visible name and the name when the instrument was created) of all staves in a score, and lets you change them.

It attempts to maintain font changes in the instrument name (such as the Opus Text change to b in Clarinet in Bb). You should check such names carefully, however.

Rewritten in February 2009 to allow up to 30 instruments to be updated one one dialog screen, and have multiple screens for more instruments.

Updated 23 February 2009 to improve tabbing order when there is more than 1 column of instruments.

Description edited - no longer works in v4

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 17 January 2012 to make dialog text fit better in Sib 7.

Updated 28 May 2018. Cleanup and bug fixes

Updated 16 August 2019. Version 02.21.00. This is a major update. For Sibelius 6 or later, the main dialog now retains formatting information for all instrument names, which was not previously available. There is also a new Format names button that will take you to a new dialog where you can apply preset formatting patterns to names. You can edit or add new formatting presets. In Sibelius 7.1.3 or later you can multiselect instruments and apply formatting to all selected instruments at once.

Updated 22 Feb 2020. Version 02.22.00. Removed unintended debug trace.

Updated 17 August 2021. Version 02.22.10. Set initial focus to first edit box in dialog.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hide Duplicate Rests

Version 01.18.00
Added 21 Dec 2005 (last updated 29 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in hides (but does not delete) rests that duplicate a rest (of the same position and duration) in another voice. It requires Sibelius 4.1 or later.

Updated 2 November 2009 to allow dialog to be hidden and results reporting to be optional

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 dialog control changes

Updated 28 May 2018. Fixed some Sib 7 memory issues.

Download HideDuplicateRests.zip (8K, downloaded 28201 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hide Rests in Voice

Version 02.03.00
Added 21 Dec 2005 (last updated 29 Mar 2021)

For use with Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in hides (but does not delete) selected rests in any chosen voice(s). It requires Sibelius 4.1 or later.

Updated 2 December 2011 to select hidden or shown rests (in Sib 5 or later) so they can easily be deleted if desired.

Updated 29 March 2021. Version 02.03.00.

Changes for use in commands plus speedup for large scores. You can now hide the dialog after the first time in a session, and the results of the hide will only be shown if you check a checkbox, and they are traces rather than message boxes. The progress bar is also removed.

Download HideRestsInVoice.zip (8K, downloaded 27896 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Duplicate Hit Points

Version 01.04.00
Added 22 Dec 2005 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in removes hit points with the same label and time as another hit point in the score.

Download RemoveDuplicateHitPoints.zip (2K, downloaded 27238 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Chord Symbol No Superscript

Version 01.35.00
Added 12 Jan 2006 (last updated 19 Feb 2019)

Changes the numeric characters, flat, or sharp symbols in chord symbols to a font of your choice in which the characters are not superscripted. The most likely replacement font choices are Opus PlainChords or Inkpen2 Text, but you can type in any font you like. There is no way for the plug-in to validate the existence of the font, so please type carefully!

Only single numbers will be changed, not stacked digits. Do not use the \\\'flat\\\' option if you are using lower case \\\'b\\\' characters that are not flat symbols, as all lower case \\\'b\\\'s will be changed.

By default, all numbers and accidentals will have the font applied. If you need more control over which characters change, use Advanced Options, which allows you to have, for example, only numbers or accidentals not in extensions un-subscripted. So as an example, you could have Abmaj7b5, and in Opus Chords font all the numbers and accidentals are superscripted. By applying various options, the b following the A can be normal, but the b following the 7 can be subscripted; the 7 can be un-subscripted, while the 5 can be subscripted.

The resulting text objects can have multiple fonts; if you add new chords, they changes will not be applied, but the plug-in can be re-run as needed.

Since any font can be typed in, you can choose different fonts with the proper characteristics to add superscripts rather than removing them, and other options as well.

While this does work in Sibelius 5, it should rarely be needed. Its function is taken by the Chords(superscript root accidental) Word menu in the Chord Symbol text style.

Updated 1 Feb 2015 to respell menu name. No code change.

Updated 18 February 2019 changed version number on download page to match file (01.35.00)

Download ChordSymbolNoSuper.zip (10K, downloaded 28127 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

List Scale Tones

Version 01.50.00
Added 24 Jan 2006 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plugin lists the scale tones and non-scale tones for a number of scale types and all roots with 1 or fewer accidentals; these can be displayed in English, German, French or Spanish, and a sample can be written as notation in a score. It is possible to change how non-scale tones are spelled, and to add and edit definitions of new scales.

Download ListScaleTones.zip (24K, downloaded 27427 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Apply Color To Text In Style

Version 01.08.00
Added 27 Feb 2006 (last updated 13 Mar 2021)

Apply Color To Text In Style allows you to specify a named color and a text style, and apply the color to all selected text, system text, and lyrics object whose style matches the specified style.

The latest version of the plug-in fixes a problem with coloring system text that was not in a passage selection.

Updated 13Feb2015 to respell version name; no code change, no update of version number.

Updated 13 March 2021. Version 01.08.00. Fixed truncation of text in dialogs.

Download ApplyColorToTextInStyle.zip (7K, downloaded 28069 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create Score Database

Added 27 Feb 2006 (last updated 22 May 2019)

Create Score Database can be run on a folder of Sibelius scores, and generates a text file suitable for opening in e.g. Microsoft Excel or Access, listing the salient information about the scores in that folder (and, optionally, its subfolders), including:

Complete path and filename
Contents of Score Info fields
Time signature
Key signature
Instrumentation

and more.

The plug-in was updated on 2 March 2006 to fix a problem with incorrectly logging scores with minor key signatures.

Download CreateScoreDatabase.zip (6K, downloaded 27530 times)

Plug-in written by David Stafford.

Trace Hidden Objects

Version 01.02.00
Added 19 Apr 2006 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in writes to the Trace Window the locations of all objects in the score (or current part) that have been hidden, which can be useful when proof-reading your score.

Download TraceHiddenObjects.zip (6K, downloaded 27384 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Lower & Raise Pitch Chromatically

Version 01.51.00
Added 24 Apr 2006 (last updated 17 Jul 2017)

Raise Chromatic Pitches raises the pitch of any selected notes by 1 half-step (semitone). Lower Chromatic Pitches lowers the pitch of any selected notes by 1 half-step. The note spelling (such as C# vs. Db) is determined by Sibelius. It should be comparable to what you would get if you entered the same pitch on a MIDI keyboard.

These are intended as a chromatic replacement for Up and Down Arrow, which move pitches diatonically. Typically, one would assign each plug-in to a shortcut key so it could be run with a single keystroke. Please be aware that if you assign shortcuts to plug-ins and download more plug-ins, the shortcuts will shift to different plug-ins and you will need to reset them.(Edit - this has been fixed in the most recent update when run in Sibelius 5.2)

Warning: unlike Up and Down Arrow, these plug-ins cannot move individual notes within chords. If you select any notes within a chord, all the notes in the chord will be moved! (Edit - this has been fixed in the most recent update when run in Sibelius 5.2)

Quartertones will be moved to their closest half-step (semitone) in the desired direction. At that point running the plug-in again will move the notes by a half-step (semitone).

Articulations and Live Playback data are retained in the moved notes.

Updated October 31 2008. If these plugins are run in Sibelius 5.2 or later, most of the limitations are removed. Individual notes within a chord can now be moved, and the problem with plugin shortcuts instability was fixed in Sibelius version 5.2.

Updated 17 July 2017 to support Magnetic Glisses in Sibelius 8.6 and later. Note however that these plugins should not be needed in Sibelius 7.5 and later, since chromatic transposition is now supported using the Shift PgUp/PgDn keys.

Download LowerRaisePitchChromatically.zip (7K, downloaded 27520 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Respell For Wrong Clef

Version 02.00.00
Added 24 Jul 2006 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

This plug-in might be very useful if needed. It can help e.g., after Photoscore or some other converter misreads a clef, but reads the notes in the correct location (so Sibelius will interpret them incorrectly). It lets you specify the wrong clef and the right clef, and then transposes the notes appropriately.

The plug-in will now handle alto, tenor, and French violin clefs, in addition to bass and treble.

Cautionary accidentals will be lost, and in some keys this can result in incorrect accidentals after transposition. Users should proofread accidentals carefully.

Download RespellWrongClef.zip (28K, downloaded 27242 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Get User Folder Names

Version 01.33.03
Added 15 Aug 2006 (last updated 07 Apr 2023)

This plug-in lists the full path names of the various Sibelius User folders in a form for copying. This can be useful when determining where to place plug-ins, manuscript papers, house styles and other such files. **** Updated 11 February 2010 to give correct paths for Vista and Windows 7 **** Updated 8 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility **** Updated 15 August 2011 to correct some Sib 7 folder names and to add the likely locations of Example Scores for Sib 6 and later. **** Updated 1 August 2015 to add locations of shipping plugins. **** Updated 15 February 2017. Included default scores folder. **** Updated 19 February 2020. Version 01.32.00. Added User Editable Files base folder to list of folders. This is the folder that is the parent folder for most of the user-editable files such as plugins, house styles, and manuscript papers. You can copy the folder name from the edit box and paste in into Windows Explorer or Finder to access all the child folders and files. **** Updated 21 February 2022. Version 01.33.00. Added OS Version. Fixed 23 Feb 2022 to deal with incorrect OS Version numbers. **** Updated 5 April 2023. Version 01.33.02. Fixed incorrect Desktop **** Updated 7 April 2023. Version 01.33.03. Added folder validator to check if folder exists.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Pitch Spectrum

Version 01.05.00
Added 21 Aug 2006 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1 and Sibelius 5

This plug-in allows you to specify the colors of the pitches in the pitch spectrum from a list of named colors. Since, unlike Edit > Color, the pitch spectrum can color individual notes in a chord, this can be a useful way to color chords. The plug-in allows you to reset to the Sibelius default spectrum colors when you are done.

This plugin will not work in Sibelius 6. Try the shipping Color Pitches plugin for the closesest workaround.

Download PitchSpectrum.zip (6K, downloaded 26799 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Rhythm Section Assistant

Added 25 Aug 2006 (last updated 15 Mar 2019)

Rhythm Section Assistant is designed for writing jazz or any other music that uses slashes and rhythmic cues. The author says:

"While writing a big band chart in Sibelius, I found that I spent a lot of time hiding playback-only passages and creating slashes and rhythmic cues in other voices. This plug-in is intended to automate those tasks.

The plug-in includes on-screen help: just click the Help button in the main plug-in dialog.

Updated 15 March 2019. No code change; marked to be useable up to current Sibelius version so Install will pick it up.

Download RhythmSectionAssistant.zip (14K, downloaded 28627 times)

Plug-in written by Ross Lafleur.

Combine Rests Empty Voices

Version 01.00.00
Added 30 Aug 2006 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Combine Rests Empty Voices combines rests in a voice that contains only rests. It creates the largest single rest possible. It also hides the rests in empty voices for all voices later than the first voice containing notes or rests.

>p>Updated 21 June 2010. For Sib 5 or later, the plugin will now produce bar rests when possible, rather than just large rests.

Download CombineRestsEmptyVoices.zip (3K, downloaded 27419 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Distribute Score Info

Version 01.50.00
Added 18 Sep 2006 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Distribute Score Info takes data from the File > Score Info Title, Composer, Lyricist, Subtitle, Dedication, or Copyright fields and replaces the contents of any existing Title, Composer, Lyricist, Subtitle, Dedication, or Copyright text items with this data. If no such text items exist, the plug-in will create an appropriate item in the first bar of the score. It can write out a wildcard for the data, or the data itself.

Updated 6 February 2014 to fix subtitle bug.

Updated 21 February 2012 to handle unsaved scores better.

Download DistributeScoreInfo.zip (7K, downloaded 27398 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Fill Score Info

Version 01.38.00
Added 18 Sep 2006 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Fill Score Info will take data from edit boxes in a dialog and put them into the File > Score Info fields. It can be run on a single score or on a folder of scores.

It can also take Title, Composer, Lyricist or Copyright text in the score and put those into the corresponding Score Info fields. It can optionally fill only empty Score Info fields, and leave already filled ones alone.

If can be very useful for scores to be published on the web via Scorch (which require Score Info data, in order for the web page templates to look correct), and also as a starting point for database programs that can look at the Score Info fields, such as the Create Score Database plug-in.

Updated 26 April 2011. Include Subtitle and other fields not available in Sibelius 4. Now requires Sibelius 5 or later. For Sib 4, see Fill Score Info for Sibelius 4.

Updated 29 May 2011. New option (on by default) to maintain formatting in system text imported from the score. Useful for multi-line text. Be careful using this if you will generate Scorch files that use Score Info data, as formatting may not be accepted in all fields.

Download FillScoreInfo.zip (9K, downloaded 27334 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Change Case for Sibelius 4

Version 01.60.00
Added 17 Oct 2006 (last updated 26 Nov 2017)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1 and Sibelius 5

This plug-in changes the case of text in a score. It will only convert the letters A..Z or a..z; it cannot handle accented characters. It can change text to UPPER CASE, lower case, tOGGLE cASE or Word Initial Case. It can change various types of text objects, including system text, lyrics, instrument names and score info data. It can be run on a single score or on a folder of scores.

Note that text that is in multiple lines will be converted to a single line, and any internal formatting (fonts or bold/italic, etc.) will be lost.

For Sibelius 5, use Change Case Pre-Sibelius 6 (included). For Sibelius 6 and later, use Change Case.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 29 Sept 2011 to change name/

Updated 25 November 2017 to add Change Case Pre-Sibelius 6 to zip file to use for Sib 5.

Download ChangeCaseSib4and5.zip (39K, downloaded 26740 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Get Page Count

Version 01.08.00
Added 15 Dec 2006 (last updated 10 Dec 2023)

__Get Page Count stores the number of pages in a score (at the time the plug-in is run) into the Other Information field of the File > Score Info. This makes the number of pages available for use in text fields (such as \"Page x of y\") if the $MOREINFO wildcard is used. The full text would be \"Page $PAGENUM of $MOREINFO\". If the number of pages changes, the plug-in should be rerun, but any wildcards will be automatically updated. __Updated 4 April 2010. In Sib 6 or later, the plugin will store the page count both in the full score and in each part, so a footer containing the MOREINFO wildcard will be correct in the parts. __Updated 5 April 2010 to allow you to specify different Score Info locations for the page count data. __Updated 21 June 2012 to allow count to exclude Special Page Break title pages and following blank pages. __ As of Sibelius 7.1.3, you can use the NumPages wildcard, and this plugin should not be needed. ____Updated 10 December 2023. Version 01.08.00. This update adds a fixed offset adjustment to the number of pages, after discovering that in some cases the plugin gets the wrong answer when determining the number of title and other blank pages before the first bar in the score. If the full score and every part have the same number of leading blank pages, you can use the offset instead of the title page adjustment. In that case use a negative adjustment. Since the plugin processes the full score and all parts, this will not help if the score and parts have different numbers of leading blank pages. __The traced outputs gives more information about the number of pages the plugin is detecting. __My current impression is that some bug in Sibelius is confusing the number of blank pages.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Enumerate Instruments

Added 13 Feb 2007 (last updated 24 Aug 2018)

This plug-in will enumerate consecutive, similar instrument names in a score, useful to have e.g. Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, etc. as instrument names in the score.

The plug-in will handle instruments with multiple staves (e.g. Piano, Harp) correctly and running the plug-in again after changing the instrumentation will update the ordinal numbers. The plug-in won't be able to identify where multiple players would read from a single staff (e.g. Horn 13, 24); the user should manually put this in.

Download EnumerateInstruments.zip (2K, downloaded 27581 times)

Plug-in written by Andrew Moschou.

Find Irregular And Misfilled Bars

Version 01.08.00
Added 22 Apr 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

This plug-in displays (in the plug-in trace window) any bars whose length and time signature do not match (irregular bars), and also any misfiled bars, which are bars that have missing rests, so that the sum of the lengths of the notes and rests (in each voice) do not match the length of the bar.

Misfilled bars can come from deleting rests, or when using scores generated by an errant plug-in or file converter.

Updated 2 May 2007: the plug-in now handles grace notes and notes within tuplets.

Updated 21 Feb 2013: Plugin now treats completely empty bars (no notes, rests, tuplets or bar rests in any voice as misfilled. It also handles misfilled tuplets better.

Download FindIrregularAndMisfilledBars.zip (6K, downloaded 27410 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Guitar Capo Notation_Sib 4

Added 27 Apr 2007 (last updated 07 Aug 2016)

For use with Sibelius 4.1 and Sibelius 5

This is a set of resources for notating guitar music that uses a capo, especially in TAB staves. TAB staves do not support transposition changes, so if you want a staff that plays back at the correct pitch, you must define a staff type whose pitches are the pitches at the capoed fret.

Capo Notation plug-in. This plug-in takes an initial key and guitar tuning and calculates the tunings at various capo positions. It also calculates the transposition interval, final key, and transposition change setting for notation staves.
Special capo clef house styles. This is a series of house styles, each of which redefines the symbol \"Tall 4 string tab clef\", which is used for a clef style in Create > Clef. The house style name explains the kind of clef available (such as \"Tab Capo Clef Full 1.lib\", which has a marking for a full capo on fret 1, or \"Tab Capo Clef E Sus 2.lib\", which has a marker for a partial capo on strings 3, 4, and 5 on fret 2). Import the symbols from the desired house style into the document containing the TAB staff, and then use Create > Clef.
Capoed TAB staff definition house style, \"Capoed Staff Types\". This contains staff type definitions for tunings capoed from 1 to 12 frets, with both sharp and flat variants for these tunings:

Standard, no rhythms
Standard, with rhythms
DADGAD
Dropped D
Double D
D minor
Open A
Open C
Open D
Open G
Open A

A set of scores, suitable for saving as manuscript paper, set up for standard tuning guitar (with rhythms) capoed from frets 1 to 12. A sample score that demonstrates how to set up a score for standard tuning capoed at fret 2 is also included.

To use these, you can make a copy of one of the included scores if applicable, or make up you own scores from the included parts.

Run the plug-in to determine which type of TAB staff you will need, or guess from the house style names after importing the staff types in house style \"Capoed Staff Types\". Then if you want a graphic marker, import the Tab� house styles appropriate to your TAB staff (only import symbols, noteheads, and text styles from these House Styles). If you have a standard tuning staff capoed with a complete capo on the 3rd fret, you should import \"Tab Capo Clef Full 3.lib\". Then Create > Clef, and pick the last TAB clef, the one with the line and number next to the word TAB.

The resulting TAB staves will play back at the capoed pitch and look nice too!

CapoNotation.plg updated 9 August 2011 to Sib 7 dialog control fixes.

Updated and renamed 8 August 2016 to reflect the fact the the scores and House Styles were built for Sibelius 4 and do not work in Sibelius 6 and later. A new plugin suite Guitar Capo Notation has been added with files that work in current versions of Sibelius

Download Capo Notation_Sib4.zip (1032K, downloaded 26966 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Instrument List

Version 01.15.00
Added 05 May 2007 (last updated 01 Mar 2018)

This plug-in adds a list of the instruments at the start of the selected staves as a text item at the start of the score.

You can choose which elements will appear in the list, and the order in which they will appear.

Updated 29 November 2009. Now places the text at the start of the selection if any, fixes a bug with the title text, adds Instrument changes for Sib 5+, and allows you to specify if the list will appear in the score or in a part.

Updated 27 July 2010. Under Sib 6, it can now insert the instrument list onto a Sib 6-style title page.

Updated 26 August 2017. New option to omit empty staves, plus dialog was rearranged to make it clearer that list can go either to the title page or the score but not both.

Updated 28 August 2017. Fixed Omit Empty Staves Option. Added options to trace lists and to Not show dialog for this session, which makes it easier to use with Run Plugin on Score and Parts.

Updated 1 March 2018. Can now write to either the title page or to any blank pages that immediately follow it (there is a list box of available blank pages). The text styles, though listed in English, will now work correctly in other languages. The destination and the hide state radio buttons are now independent. At the end of the plugin the text object for the list will be selected and brought into view. Writing the Instrument List to the plugin Trace window is now optional.

Download InstrumentList.zip (11K, downloaded 28444 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Fix PhotoScore Lyrics

Added 17 May 2007 (last updated 24 Jul 2009)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1 and Sibelius 5

This plug-in replaces lyrics read by Photoscore (which when sung over many notes usually lack of the appropriate hyphen line or end of word line) with the correct Sibelius objects.

Simply make a passage selection and run the plug-in. Use Layout > Reset Position afterwards if you find hyphens colliding with adjacent syllables.

Download FixPhotoScoreLyrics.zip (1K, downloaded 26760 times)

Plug-in written by Hans-Christoph Wirth.

Convert Folder of Scores to Earlier Sibelius Version

Version 01.18.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Converts a folder of Sibelius 5 scores to Sib 4, 3, or 2 format.

For Sibelius 6, use the shipping version of this plugin.

Download ConvertFolderToEarlierSibeliusVersion.zip (4K, downloaded 26756 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Export Each Staff As Audio

Version 01.08.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 22 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Creates audio files for each staff or instrument (if multi-staff) in a score.

For Sibelius 6, use the shipping version of this plugin.

Download ExportEachStaffAsAudio.zip (6K, downloaded 26870 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Bar Rests In Empty Voices

Version 01.05.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 15 Mar 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds bar rests to chosen empty voices in selected bars (empty voices contain neither notes, rests, nor tuplets).

Updated 21 March 2010 to allow result display to be turned off.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 dialog control changes

Updated 22 Feb 2020. Version 01.04.00. Handle completely empty bars when there is a passage selection.

Updated 14 March 2020. Version 01.05.00. Changed to handle discontiguous passage selection (a selection where some staves are excluded from the middle of the selection).

Download AddBarRestsInEmptyVoices.zip (3K, downloaded 27657 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Bookmark

Version 01.63.01
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 22 Sep 2023)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__Lets you add, delete, and go to hidden text objects (or hitpoints) that will function as bookmarks. The bookmark will stay at the same location when music is added, deleted or reformatted. Bookmarks can also be navigated to using the Go To plugin. __Updated 9 November 2009 to allow Comments in Sib 6 to be used as bookmarks __Updated 25 May 2010 to handle out-of-range hitpoint bookmarks. __Updated 5 November 2011 to make the main dialog work more smoothly. __Updated 6 November 2011 to fix Delete All. __Updated 6 April 2013 to fix bug in Delete. __Updated 22 September 2023. Version 01.63.01. This plugin has been greatly sped up and is much more usable on large scores. Hit points can make good bookmarks. There is new dialog text on how to hide them, and there is now a checkbox that can bring up the Edit Hitpoints dialog in Sibelius Ultimate 2021.2 or later, so you can uncheck the Display checkboxes and hide all hitpoints.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Go To

Version 01.52.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 04 Jul 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Lets you navigate to rehearsal marks, hit points, bar number changes, bookmarks (as created in the Bookmark plugin), special barlines, or dynamics.

Updated April 30, 2008 to allow Go To Special Barlines.

Updated July 28,2008 to select the previous search object relative to the start of selection and to add Go To Dynamics, which shows the currently active dynamic.

Updated December 19,2008 to fix problems with Dynamics if there was no initial selection.

Updated 14 Feb 2009. Fix if only barline selected and disable lists if empty.

Updated 24 August 2009 You can now just type in a target (such as a Rehearsal Mark name, as well as finding it in a list.

Updated 28 August 2009 You can now type letter/number names for bracketed Rehearsal Marks.

Updated 30 August 2011. Fix bug if selected objects chosen and there was no selection; add text to Restore button.

Updated 1 September 2015. Corrections to Go To Selected Objects

Updated 7 February 2016 fixed GO To button so it closes dialog as intended.

Updated 26 April 2016. Improved bring into view for selected objects.

Updated 8 May 2016 to greatly speed up go to selected objects in Sib 6 and later.

Updated 5 June 2016 to fix a bug preventing objects at the same location from being listed separately.

Updated 24 April 2017. Fixed crash for selected objects in system staff. Renamed Go To to Go To and Close for clarity. Added Help button.

Updated 7 May 2018. Added Trace List button most useful for tracing selected objects. Also sped up some operations that displayed progress bars.

Updated 4 July 2018. Fixed bug in selected objects list that allowed duplicates, which yielded incorrect results.

Download GoTo.zip (22K, downloaded 27543 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Dynamics

Version 01.12.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Similar to the Sibelius dynamics filter, but filters expression text and all hairpins that are derived from the originals, including from silence and dashed hairpins.

This plugin will run in Sibelius 6, but it should not be needed. Use the built-in filters instead.

Download FilterDynamics.zip (2K, downloaded 26703 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Hairpins

Version 01.12.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Similar to the Sibelius 5 hairpin filter,but filters all hairpins that are derived from the originals, including from silence and dashed hairpins.

This plugin will run in Sibelius 6, but it should not be needed. Use the built-in filters instead.

Download FilterHairpins.zip (2K, downloaded 26719 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Objects In Bar

Version 01.30.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 08 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds filters for objects by their Type property (Rehearsal Mark, Text, NoteRest, Instrument Change, etc).

Updated October 16, 2007 to also filter HighLights

Updated June 8, 2008 to filter BarNumbers and to allow objects not in the list to be used.

Updated August 5, 2008 to use better defaults.

Updated August 29, 2008 to look in system staff for system objects even without a system selection.

Updated September 9, 2008 to clean up user interface (all entries are now visible at once), and you can type a case-insensitive prefix to select in the list.

Updated 5 April 2012 to add Guitar Scale Diagrams to the list of objects to filter.

Updated 28 August 2016. Added Annotations to list of objects to filter.

Updated 7 May 2018. Added options for All Lines, All Staff Lines and All System Lines, in addition to individual line types.

Download FilterObjectsInBar.zip (5K, downloaded 27358 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Rehearsal Mark

Version 01.15.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the following (default) or previous rehearsal mark (if any), starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction, run the plug-in with no selection.

Download FindRehearsalMark.zip (5K, downloaded 27284 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Bar Number Change

Version 01.15.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the following (default) or previous bar number change (if any), starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction, run the plug-in with no selection.

Download FindBarNumberChange.zip (5K, downloaded 27266 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Empty Text Strings

Version 01.53.00
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 06 Nov 2019)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Deletes truly empty text strings, which were probably put into a score by a plug-in or file converter. These are usually not a problem, but if they are, this will clean them up.

Updated Jan 1, 2009 to add staff info to trace.

Updated Jan 11, 2009 to fix bug that deleted *all* text if the all-spaces checkbox was unchecked.

Updated 12 Feb 2009 to restructure some code.

Updated 16 May 2009 to allow empty and spaces only strings to be deleted separately, and also added a trace-only option

Updated 28 May 2018. Bug fixes.

Updated 6 November 2019. Version 01.53.00. It will now look for empty or all-spaces strings of all 3 text types: text, system text, and lyrics, in both the system staff and regular selected staves. This handles some weird cases where system text ends up in a regular staff.

Download DeleteEmptyTextStrings.zip (6K, downloaded 27398 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Colored Objects

Version 01.51.10
Added 05 Oct 2007 (last updated 04 Jun 2024)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the following (default) or previous occurrence of an object of a chosen color starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction or color, run the plugin with no selection.

From Sibelius 8.3 on, use Filter Colored Objects to locate the objects and Go To > Selected Objects or Browse Selected Objects to navigate among them, so that notes can be individually colored.

Updated 28 May 2018. Tidy dialog.

Updated 4 June 2024. Version 01.51.10. Changed mechanism that enabled or disabled dialog controls to avoid changing controls in a different dialog.

Download FindColoredObjects.zip (8K, downloaded 581 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Duplicate Text Lines Symbols

Version 01.20.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Deletes copies of text objects, lines, or symbols that have the same properties and location as another object of the same type.

Updated 19 March 2018. Internal code cleanup, no change in results.

Updated 21 March 2018. For System objects, the Y offset field, which is not valid, is no longer used to evaulate duplicate objects.

Updated 8 August 2019. Version 01.10.00. For Sibelius 6 and later:

1. The plugin will now bring up a dialog, which can be hidden after the first time run in a Sibelius session.

2. It will now delete page-aligned system text that is in different bars on the same page, and so would overlap on the page.

3. The dialog will let you trace any duplicates that could be deleted.

4. If you are not deleting the duplicates, you can have the duplicate objects selected when the dialog ends. You could then use the Browse Selected Objects plugin to inspect the duplicates. Note that if you run the plugin again on these selected objects you will not get the correct results, since the original objects are not selected. To delete duplicates after selecting duplicates, repeat the original selection before running this plugin.

Updated 21 Feb 2020. Version 01.20.00. Removed commas from menu name;no code change.

Download DeleteDuplicateTextLinesSymbols.zip (7K, downloaded 27505 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Rests With Bar Rests

Version 01.01.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 22 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds bar rests to voices in selected bars which contain rests, but neither notes, nor tuplets. Essentially replaces multiple rests with a bar rest as appropriate. Optionally skips bars of small duration (user can select the minimum duration).

Updated 22 Feb 2020. Version 01.01.00. Added more internal options for deciding the state of the rests in a bar.

Download ReplaceRestsWithBarRests.zip (4K, downloaded 27501 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Move System Objects For Delete Bar

Version 01.50.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This is an update of Copy Text For Delete Bar. Copies any system objects (such as Title, Composer, or Instrument name at top left, time signatures, key signatures, rehearsal marks) from one bar to another.

Typically you will copy from bar 1 to bar 2 when you want to delete bar 1 without losing the system objects. If a bar number is duplicated in the score (because of bar number changes), you will need to make a selection that excludes the duplicate of any bars you want to process.

Updated 15 May 2010 to fix incorrect copying of time signatures from pickup bars and special barlines

Download MoveSystemObjectsForDeleteBar.zip (7K, downloaded 27202 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Split Multirests

Version 01.60.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 29 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Breaks up multirests at various intervals using true split multirest breaks (the previous version used hidden text).

Updated June 7, 2008 to allow multirests to be split before and after irregular bars

Updated February 7, 2009 to add a separate option to split all multirests and to allow totals notification to be inhibited.

Use this version for Sibelius 5 and later. For Sibelius 3 and 4, use Split Multirests for Sibelius 4.

Updated 28 May 2018. Fixes and improvements.

Download SplitMultirests.zip (9K, downloaded 27490 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Chord Diagrams

Version 01.20.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Adds chords diagrams at the same location as selected chord symbols. The chord voicings are determined by what is currently selected in the Create Chord Diagram dialog.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

This plugin will run in Sibelius 6, but it should not be needed. Use the new ability of chord symbols to hide or show diagrams instead.

Download AddChordDiagrams.zip (6K, downloaded 26745 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Set Play On Pass

Version 01.15.10
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 03 Mar 2024)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__(Edited on 12 February 2024 to work differently. See notes from that date.) Toggles (default), disables, or enables all 8 passes of Play on Pass for any selected objects. To change the option from Toggle, run the plugin with no selection. It will change *all* selected objects, so it will often be useful to filter just the items you want to change. __ Updated January 15, 2008 to add a "Show dialog" flag to the dialog so it can be run with the dialog always visible. The flag is on by default so it will always appear the first time the plugin is run. __Updated 31 January 2012 to give options for individual passes. __Updated 21 May 2016 so you can cancel the dialog when run with no selection and the setting changes will still be recorded. __Updated 10 March 2021. Version 01.13.00. Dialog layout changes. Removed progress bar. Do Not Show Dialog will reset at the start of each Sib session. __Updated 12 February 2024. Version 01.15.00. This version just has 8 checkboxes to set on and off, as in the Inspector. The old version had On/Off/Toggle buttons that really did not make a lot of sense. I think this is simpler, clearer, and more useful. As before, there is a Do Not Show Dialog checkbox, and the dialog will always appear if you run the plugin with not selection. Checkbox settings are remembered over Sibelius sessions. __Updated 3 March 2024. Version 01.15.10. Change to disable debug trace and to refresh inspector.

Download SetPlayOnPass.zip (5K, downloaded 1057 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Restore Tempo

Version 01.15.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Restores the tempo at the start of the selection to the end of the selection. It can be used for �a tempo�.

Updated 18 December 2011 to add in missing variable.

Updated 19 December 2011. New option for text style, options saved across Sibelius sessions, new warning text.

Updated 21 December 2011. Fixed bug that gave wrong values if time signature changes within the selection range.

Updated 22 December 2011. Changed the way a beat is calculated to match what Sibelius does for current tempo.

Download RestoreTempo.zip (7K, downloaded 27313 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete or Update Title Page

Version 01.20.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Deletes title pages that use hidden bars (with staff type or instrument changes). Also deletes Sib 5 Special Page Break title pages or selected blank pages.

Can also convert title pages created using hidden staff changes into Sib 5 Special Page Break pages. Manual adjustment of position of text will be required.

Renamed from Update Title Page on November 27, 2007

Download DeleteOrUpdateTitlePage.zip (9K, downloaded 27259 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Pedal Lines

Version 01.06.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Reads MIDI pedal control messages and converts them to pedal lines. You must make a passage selection. It will convert pairs of ~C64 (sustain pedal), ~C66 (sostenuto pedal) or ~C67 (soft pedal) messages, and will optionally delete the messages. You can choose pedal line styles for different controllers.

Updated 2 October 2011 to fix error message that said "false" instead of "0".

Updated 18 October 2011 to ignore (with warnings) unmatched OFF messages and to create short lines for any unmatched ON messages. This lets the plugin do more with scores where the MIDI message are not properly matched, but if you see messages, check the output VERY carefully, because some pedal lines will surely be the wrong position or the wrong length. I recommend not having the plugin delete MIDI messages if you see warnings, so you can do better manual adjustments.

Download PedalLines.zip (6K, downloaded 27452 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Inverse Select Notes

Version 01.01.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Selects any unselected notes in a chord consisting of more than 1 note, and unselects previously selected notes.

Download InverseSelectNotes.zip (2K, downloaded 27281 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Exchange Staff Contents

Version 01.40.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 26 Apr 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Swaps the contents of 2 selected staves. If two staves are selected, they will be swapped. If more than two staves are selected, the top and bottom staves are swapped.

Updated 1 July 2012 to fix problems with irregular bars and some unusual selection.

Updated 4 November 2012 to fix problems with partially selected bars. Thanks, Laurence! Please note that you should not use dragged-box passage selections with this plugin - use keyboard or click-shift click selecting instead.

Updated 31 May 2018. Added option to make octave changed when exchanging between octave-transposing instruments, such as piccolo or guitar, or exchanging an instrument with a treble clef with an instrument that has a bass clef, as in the staves of a piano. A PDF file explaining this is included in the zip file. The option is off by default. If you hide the dialog after the first run, and want to set the option you can run the plugin with no selection, which will bring up a dialog and let you change the settings. The settings are not retained across Sibelius sessions. Thanks to Ilkay Bora Oder for suggesting this, and the Robert Puff and Philip Rothman for trying it out.

Updated 25 August 2018. Version 01.30.00. Added ability to swap the first and last bars in a passage selection in a single staff. The bars must be fully selected and must be the same size.

Updated 26 April 2021. Added support for Run Plugin Hide Dialog.

Download ExchangeStaffContents.zip (11K, downloaded 29797 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create Insert Symbol Plugin

Version 02.07.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 29 Sep 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Lets you create and install new plug-ins that, when run, will insert a chosen symbol of a chosen size into a score. If you assign a shortcut to the new plug-ins, you will have, in effect, a way to assign a shortcut to an individual symbol.

The generated plugins will be put by default in the Zymbols subfolder of your user Plug-ins folder. The name will include the symbol name, the size, its attachment status, and its position offsets.

In order to assign shortcuts to the newly-created plug-ins, you must first close and restart Sibelius, so the new plug-ins will be loaded.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated April 13, 2009. Added the ability to choose vertical position of a staff symbol relative to a selected note.

Updated 22 July 2009. Added ability to center a symbol horizontally in a bar, and also the ability, in Sib 6, to turn off Magnetic Layout for inserted symbols

Updated 13 October 2010. Fixed bug that ignored clef change in bar 1.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility

Updated 22 October 2011 to fix Sib 7 file changes.

Updated 7 March 2016 to have default be symbol be first selected symbol, if any.

Updated 28 November 2017 to add Find In List

Updated 29 September 2018 to fix missing error message if text not found. Version 02.07.00.

Download CreateInsertSymbolPlugin.zip (38K, downloaded 27469 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Insert One Symbol

Version 01.85.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Inserts a symbol to a selected location. It is meant to have a shortcut assigned to it, to give Sibelius the ability to effectively assign a shortcut to a symbol. Updated to list Sibelius 5 symbols.

To determine which symbol will be inserted, a dialog comes up the first time you run the plugin in a session, or if you run the plugin with no selection. The dialog lets you select a symbol, its size, and whether it is attached to a system or a staff. The dialog lets you put several symbols into a list, which is saved across Sibelius sessions. By re-running it and selecting a different symbol, you change the symbol that will be inserted when Insert One Symbol is run.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated April 13, 2009. Added the ability to choose vertical position of a staff symbol relative to a selected note. Also, Insert One Symbol Show Dialog is no longer required. Now the dialog comes up the first time you run the plugin in a session, or if you run the plugin with no selection. A checkbox on the dialog will let you run the plugin with no dialog showing.

Updated 22 July 2009. Added ability to center a symbol horizontally in a bar, and also the ability, in Sib 6, to turn off Magnetic Layout for inserted symbols

Updated 13 October 2010. Fixed bug that ignored clef change in bar 1.

Use this version for Sibelius 5 and later. For Sibelius version 4 use the plugin Insert One Symbol for Sibelius 4.

Download InsertOneSymbol.zip (38K, downloaded 27221 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Custom Find

Version 01.51.00
Added 17 Oct 2007 (last updated 28 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

A plugin that will find Highlights as is, but which is designed to be modified. Change the condition in the IsDesiredObject method. The remaining code will find objects that pass the IsObjectDesired test.

Finds starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction, run the plugin with no selection.

Updated 28 May 2018. Minor bug fix.

Download CustomFind.zip (5K, downloaded 27310 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Highlights

Version 01.50.00
Added 17 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the following (default) or previous occurrence of a Highlight starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction, run the plugin with no selection.

Download FindHighlights.zip (5K, downloaded 27247 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hidden Instrument Change

Version 01.80.00
Added 22 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Sep 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds an instrument change to No instrument(hidden).

This is equivalent to using Create > Other > Instrument Change > Others > No instrument (Hidden) with no clef and no warning text. Assign a shortcut if you will use it often.

Updated 22 October 2009. This update restores the original instrument after a passage selection, which it did before Sibelius 6.1

Updated 5 January 2010. This update lets a change at the start of the first bar hide the initial clef. Also, if you run with no selection it brings up some options to allow you to choose warning text.

Updated 24 March 2010 minor bug fix.

Updated 27 April 2010.

Note that there are 2 ways that the plugin might not restore the original instrument as of Sibelius 6.2. The first is if you make a non-passage (blue box) selection. So if you want the restoration, always make a passage selection. The second way is if you select a single bar, and have turned off the Note Input Preference Restore Original Item After Single Bar Selection. If you want the plugin to restore the original instrument, you must turn this preference on.

Updated 15 May 2010. New option to Always restore instrument in single bar selection (on by default).

Updated 24 September 2020. Added the ability to apply the change to all selected staves, not just the first one. Only actually selected staves will be processed, so you can use a discontiguous selection.

Run the plugin with no selection to see an options dialog. By default the plugin will skip staves hidden by Focus On Staves, or staves all of whose bars are hidden by Hide Empty Staves in the range of the selection.

Download HiddenInstrumentChange.zip (6K, downloaded 27662 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Rehearsal Marks to Double Barlines

Added 08 Nov 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in simply creates a rehearsal mark on every double barline in your score.

Download AddRehearsalMarksToDoubleBarlines.zip (1K, downloaded 27438 times)

Plug-in written by Neil Sands.

Bracket Expression Text

Version 01.88.00
Added 15 Nov 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Puts brackets or parentheses (or any chosen character(s)) around selected expression text. It is especially useful for bold expressions entered with the ctrl or cmnd key, since those involve a font change.

Updated 7 November 2009 to add spacing around 'f' characters to avoid collisions with the brackets. Sib 6.1 is recommended, though it will work in Sib 5.

Updated 23 Feb 2011. It now allows you to process Expression dynamic text (which starts with a font change, and is typically bold) separately from normal expression text. It also allows to to use bold brackets for dynamics only or for all expressions.

Updated 21 November 2011 to handle dynamics correctly in Sib 7.

Download BracketExpressionText.zip (7K, downloaded 27547 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Cresc Dim Lines

Version 01.64.00
Added 15 Nov 2007 (last updated 25 Jun 2021)

Adds crescendo and/or diminuendo lines and optional expression text to a selection.

You can include Expression Text if desired; if the edit boxes are blank, only the line(s) will appear. Type or select an appropriate font if you want bold expression text.

To increase the amount of space surrounding the characters, increase the Rhythmic space per character (quarter note = 256 units). This may expand the output past the selection. It cannot be expanded past the end of the score.

You may still need to adjust horizontal spacing using arrow keys.

This will run in Sib 4, but some features are missing and text and lines will not align as well as in Sib 5

Updated April 4, 2008 (version 1.20) to allow choice of line type at each position, so you can reverse the dynamics

Updated 1 December 2011 to handle Sib 7 fonts.

Updated 10 January 2012 to allow more line type.

Updated 24 August 2014 to retract lines over barlines and add an option to specify space between 2 lines if no text is used, and to process a single note or the first note in a selection.

Updated 4 February 2014 to fix crash in Sib 5 and 6.

Updated 2 February 2016, adding straight, dotted and dashed lines to the list. These behave differently from the dynamics lines and the horizontal position is not very good, but it is too complex to fix right now. It might at least get you in the ballpark with such lines.

Updated 2 February 2016 to fix not bold text bug

Updated 4 June 2016 fixed some crashing typos when there was no text with the lines.

Updated 19 April 2021. Version 01.63.00. Added ability to hide dialog.

Updated 25 June 2021. Version 01.64.00. Fixed some issues with enabling edit controls when the line type changed.

Download AddCrescDimLines.zip (13K, downloaded 27961 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create Blank Page

Version 01.02.00
Added 14 Dec 2007 (last updated 02 Mar 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds one or more blank pages before or after a selection. (This is somewhat redundant because it just adds a Special Page Break, but it avoids having to select a barline and is comparable to Create Title Page).

Updated 3 March 2018. Fixed bug that might happen if using a multiple selection where items were selected out of chronological order.

Download CreateBlankPage.zip (3K, downloaded 27448 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Lyric Extension Lines

Version 01.70.00
Added 14 Dec 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

Changes all final syllables or single word lyrics to apply to 1 note, thus removing the extension lines. May be useful if note values have changed.

Updated 17 December 2011. Added ability to center of left justify syllables and ability to remove only durationally short extension lines.

Download RemoveLyricExtensionLines.zip (5K, downloaded 27669 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Chord Diagrams With Chord Symbols

Version 01.06.00
Added 11 Jan 2008 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This plug-in replaces guitar chord diagrams in the current score with text chord symbols.

Updated August 21, 2008 to work around problem with the plugin being unable to delete chord diagrams in Sib 5.2. It will now add the chord symbols and select the chord diagrams so they may be manually deleted.

Updated August 25, 2008 to work around problem with the plugin being unable to *select* chord diagrams in Sib 5.2. It will now only add the chord symbols and it advises you to filter the chord diagrams so you can delete them.

This plugin will run in Sibelius 6, but it should not be needed. Use the built-in ability of chord symbols to show or hide diagrams instead.

Download ReplaceChordDiagramsWithSymbols.zip (2K, downloaded 26795 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Scordatura

Version 01.54.00
Added 03 Mar 2008 (last updated 27 Jul 2023)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__This plug-in creates a scordatura staff for a stringed instrument in an altered tuning. Effectively it maps pitches so that they appear as if the notes were in standard tuning. __More specifically, it maps a [string, position] value from an altered tuning to the note that represents the same [string, position] value in standard tuning. Example: D2 on the low D string on a DADGAD tuned guitar is string 6 fret 0. In standard tuning, string 6 fret 0 is E2. So the plugin will rewrite the note D2 [in a notation staff] to be E2. __A scordatura staff will not play back the way you might like it to. __Check Google for scordatura if you are not clear what that means. If you are not clear on whether you want to use this you should probably not. __WARNING: this plugin will completely rewrite the selected staves. Save and maybe make a copy of your score before running. Make a copy of the original notation staff, and run the plugin on that copy. __You must specify the standard tuning and altered tuning used, in the form Sibelius uses for editing staff types. __There are lists of common instruments in the dialog, and if what you want is not in the list, find something close and modify it. Be careful to get the octaves correct. One other way to get the pitches for strings is to enter the notes for the open strings in a notation staff, then select each note and look for the name in the Notes pane of the Properties Window. __See Help for more information, including a discussion of the ambiguity of scordatura. __Updated 27 Feb 2009 to replace .plg file with .zip file __Updated 28 May 2018. Fixed message typo. __Updated 20 July 2018 Version 1.52.00. Improved error handling for dialog input. Added Cajun Fiddle tuning. __Updated 21 July 2018 Version 01.53.00. Removed unintended debug tracing. __Updated 27 July 2023. Version 01.54.00. Pitch names must now be in UPPER CASE. Flat accidentals work.

Download Scordatura.zip (14K, downloaded 1207 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Save Score With Date

Version 01.20.00
Added 17 Mar 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin saves a copy of the current score, combining the current date and/or time with the file name. The original score remains open and unchanged. This is useful for making date-stamped backup scores. The plugin requires a simple one-time setup to determine the format of the date on your machine. It allows you to choose one of a number of formats for the saved file name (such as file_03132008.sib or 081303_file.sib), and it will remember your preferences.

Download SaveScoreWithDate.zip (13K, downloaded 27281 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Loop Selection

Version 01.15.00
Added 24 Mar 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

This plugin will let you loop playback by adding marker and jump text to the start and end of the selection. If you play the score within the markers, playback will loop. The default target name is the first selected bar number.

By default, marker/jump text only jumps to the start or end of a bar; to loop partial bars, select the text and turn off \\\'Jump at bar end\\\' in the Property Window Playback pane.

In Sibelius 5, the plugin can delete any marker or jump text in the selection or in the score.

To make it more obvious which notes will loop, you may want to add a highlight or color to the selected notes.

Updated November 24, 2008 to fix problems deleting hidden markers and all markers in score.

Download LoopSelection.zip (7K, downloaded 28192 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Highlight Entire Selection

Version 01.10.00
Added 07 Apr 2008 (last updated 19 Feb 2019)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds a highlight to all selected staves, rather than just the top staff (which is what Create Highlight does). The highlight is not continuous, but is one Highlight line per selected staff.

Updated April 10, 2008 to allow coloring the highlight, and to delete selected highlights in addition to adding them. There is now a dialog that can be turned off after the first display.

Updated April 12, 2008 to fix endpoint on single bar selections

Updated 31 May, 2010 to include Comment user colors if Comments are present

Updated 17 May 2018. Highlights are now retracted to the end of the last bar if the entire bar is selected, rather than running over into the following bar.

Download HighlightEntireSelection.zip (7K, downloaded 27408 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Selected Highlights

Version 01.03.00
Added 10 Apr 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Removes any highlight lines within the current selection.

Download RemoveSelectedHighlights.zip (2K, downloaded 27296 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Reposition Dynamics

Version 01.07.00
Added 14 Apr 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Processes Expression text and hairpins for \"vocal\" staves, which expect dynamics to go above, rather than below the staff. It will also move dynamics on non-vocal staves to the bottom of the staff.

If it finds dynamics in the wrong location relative to the center staff line, it will move them to the corresponding location on the opposite side of the center staff line.

This is useful for scores with a mix of vocal and non vocal staves.

It does not change the text or line style, but moves the objects as you would by dragging them by hand; \"Reset Position\" will restore them to their original position. It will not change the position of objects that are already on the correct side of the center line.

Download RepositionDynamics.zip (5K, downloaded 27282 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Deleted Rests

Version 01.08.00
Added 20 Apr 2008 (last updated 25 Feb 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Looks for places where rests have been deleted rather than hidden, and will add rests back. By default it will hide the added rests.

It can also trace the locations of deleted rests

Updated 24 Feb 2016 to prevent unwanted duplication of non-note objects.

Download ReplaceDeletedRests.zip (8K, downloaded 27295 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Trombone Slide Positions

Version 02.02.00
Added 21 Apr 2008 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

Adds possible slide positions for selected Bb/F trombone notes in the range from F an octave below the bass stave to the Bb an octave above it.

You can specify which voices should be marked.

Download TromboneSlidePosition.zip (4K, downloaded 27975 times)

Plug-in written by Ian Cugley.

Cautionary Time Signatures

Version 01.08.00
Added 22 Apr 2008 (last updated 15 Jan 2018)

Forces all selected time signatures to use cautionary or to not use cautionary.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 15 January 2018. Reset Note Spacing is now done for affected bars.

Download CautionaryTimeSignatures.zip (3K, downloaded 27525 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Fix TAB Collisions

Version 01.13.00
Added 29 Apr 2008 (last updated 13 Jul 2017)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Looks on a TAB staff for places where there are 2 or more notes on the same string and the same starting position in a bar, and it tries to move notes to different strings.

It can trace the location of any notes it moves.

It won\'t try if there are more notes than strings. It tries to correct notes that have no string assignment. It will skip grace notes and unison notes with the same duration (though the location of skipped unison notes will be traced).

Updated 10 July 2017. Support added for magnetic glisses in Sib 8.6 and later

Updated 13 July 2017. Remove unused code.

Download FixTABCollisions.zip (10K, downloaded 27856 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Pickup Bar

Version 01.77.00
Added 09 May 2008 (last updated 02 Apr 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds a pickup bar of a specified length before a specified bar. It moves any system objects (title, copyright, time signature, etc.) formerly attached to the following bar to the pickup bar.

Specify the pickup bar length by choosing from the list box or typing the first letter or number (key) in the list, with optional plus signs or spaces separating multiple entries.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 15 May 2010 to fix incorrect copying of special barlines.

Updated 29 November 2011 to add . (dot) as an allowable duration.

Updated 24 January 2012 to fix issues with bar number changes.

Updated 26 February 2012 to fix dialog text overflow in Sib 7

Updated 14 March 2012 to add warnings where score starts with a page number change or with hidden staves.

Updated 19 October 2012. For Sib 7.1.3 and later, the plugin will now restore the Hide Empty Staves state of all the staves that were hidden before adding the pickup bar.

Updated 2 April 2018. Internal code changes.

Download AddPickupBar.zip (9K, downloaded 33107 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Draw Free Rhythm Barline

Added 14 May 2008 (last updated 06 Sep 2009)

For use with Sibelius 5

This plug-in allows composers to write music directly into Sibelius, without having to think about bar lengths or time signatures. They can simply enter notes, and when they want to draw a barline at the end of a bar, they run this plug-in. The plug-in draws the barline, and calculates the appropriate time signature. It then advances the note input caret ready for the next note. For some composers, this offers a much more natural approach to using Sibelius as a composition tool than what they've been used to.

For Sibelius 6, use the shipping version of this plugin.

Download DrawFreeRhythmBarline.zip (32K, downloaded 27087 times)

Plug-in written by Neil Sands.

Add Pipe Ornaments

Version 01.40.00
Added 11 Jun 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Add bagpipe grace note ornaments before a selected note. Choose a named ornament from a list (Doublings, Embellishments, Piobaireachd, Grace Notes, Custom) or customize your own ornaments. Customized ornaments are saved across Sibelius sessions.

Updated June 17, 2008 to fix problems when the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"do not show dialog\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" button is active

Updated August 5, 2008 to make dialog come up initially by default

Updated February 2, 2009 to add explanation for editing custom entries.

Updated 31 December 2010 to match changes made in the Bagpipes suite

Download AddPipeOrnaments.zip (12K, downloaded 27268 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Merge Bars

Version 01.50.00
Added 29 Jul 2008 (last updated 28 Aug 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5 and Sibelius 6

Merges adjacent bars into a single larger bar.

It requires a passage (blue box) selection of at least 2 bars. Any unselected portions of the first and last bars selected will be split off as separate bars.

Any blank pages attached to barlines that are merged will be lost.

It can draw barlines where the barlines were, but their spacing must be adjusted manually. It can also reset bar numbering in the following bars.

One use is to simulate tuplets crossing a barline. Merge 2 bars so the tuplet crosses the former barline, then draw in a barline.

For Sibelius 7 and later, Merge Bars ships with Sibelius and is invoked from Home-Bars-Join. Use the shipping version rather than installing this plugin (which is an earlier version).

Download MergeBars.zip (7K, downloaded 26804 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Arpeggiate Chords

Version 01.06.00
Added 10 Aug 2008 (last updated 15 Jul 2017)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Writes out the pitches of notated chords (not chord symbols or diagrams) as separate notes so they can be clicked on and heard individually. It will generate a new instrument at the bottom of the score, and arpeggiate the notes of chords in the first selected staff.

*** Notes in tuplets and grace notes will not be arpeggiated.

Notes in different voices playing concurrently will be treated as part of the chord to be arpeggiated.

Rests can be hidden in the output instrument.

The arpeggiated notes will play at the same duration as the original chord; in some cases this will require the arpeggio to be placed in a tuplet. If this happens, all notes in the chord will be made into a single voice (otherwise the original voice is maintained).

Updated 15 July 2017 to handle nagnetic glisses in Sib 8.6 and later.

Download ArpeggiateChords.zip (7K, downloaded 27566 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Transform Scale for Sibelius 5 (English)

Added 26 Sep 2008 (last updated 08 Oct 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This updated plug-in corrects a problem with the version that shipped with Sibelius 5.2.5 whereby the plug-in would fail with the error Run:129-Method TranslatePitchIntoEnglish not found.

This plugin is not needed in Sibelius 6.

Download TransformScale.zip (58K, downloaded 26767 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Transform Scale for Sibelius 5 (German)

Added 26 Sep 2008 (last updated 08 Oct 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This updated plug-in corrects a problem with the version that shipped with Sibelius 5.2.5 whereby the plug-in would fail with the error Run:129-Method TranslatePitchIntoEnglish not found.

This version is for the German-language version of Sibelius.

This plugin is not needed in Sibelius 6.

Download TonleiterUmwandeln.zip (60K, downloaded 26746 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Transform Scale for Sibelius 5 (Italian)

Added 26 Sep 2008 (last updated 08 Oct 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This updated plug-in corrects a problem with the version that shipped with Sibelius 5.2.5 whereby the plug-in would fail with the error Run:129-Method TranslatePitchIntoEnglish not found.

This version is for the Italian-language version of Sibelius.

This plugin is not needed in Sibelius 6.

Download TrasformaScala.zip (60K, downloaded 26753 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Transform Scale for Sibelius 5 (Japanese)

Added 26 Sep 2008 (last updated 08 Oct 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This updated plug-in corrects a problem with the version that shipped with Sibelius 5.2.5 whereby the plug-in would fail with the error Run:129-Method TranslatePitchIntoEnglish not found.

This version is for the Japanese-language version of Sibelius.

This plugin is not needed in Sibelius 6.

Download TransformScaleJP.zip (63K, downloaded 26717 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Transform Scale for Sibelius 5 (Spanish)

Added 26 Sep 2008 (last updated 08 Oct 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

This updated plug-in corrects a problem with the version that shipped with Sibelius 5.2.5 whereby the plug-in would fail with the error Run:129-Method TranslatePitchIntoEnglish not found.

This version is for the Spanish-language version of Sibelius.

This plugin is not needed in Sibelius 6.

Download TransformarEscala.zip (60K, downloaded 26778 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Current Dynamics

Version 01.20.00
Added 03 Oct 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Displays the most recent dynamics marking (expression text or hairpin) for each staff in the score at the start of the selection. The list is in the debug trace window, which can stay on screen after the plugin runs.

Updated 7 October 2008 to allow multiple dynamics at same location and improve choice of dynamics for multi-stave instruments.

Updated 12 May 2009 to show multiple adjacent hairpins.

Updated 14 August 2011 to filter out some expression text that is unlikely to be dynamics

Updated 16 October 2012 to change Dynamics text to be recognized as Expression text that matches a list of dynamics words.

Download CurrentDynamics.zip (6K, downloaded 27691 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Counterpoint Intervals

Version 01.04.00
Added 23 Oct 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Calculates the intervals between notes in adjacent staves (in Fux-style counterpoint) and writes the interval below the upper staff in Lyrics text style. Intended for use by teachers writing counterpoint examples. Works only with single notes and one voice per staff.

Download CounterpointIntervals.zip (4K, downloaded 29152 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Notes Tied To - Simple

Version 01.20.00
Added 03 Nov 2008 (last updated 29 Jun 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Filters notes in a selection that are the targets of a tied note, i.e., if one note is tied to a second note, the filter will select the second note.

This plugin will not catch all notes that are tied to. It assumes that the note with the ties immediately precedes its target, and so will miss arpeggiated notes tied to a block chord. It will also miss notes tied to from a note in a different voice. It general, for simple cases it works well, but please check all output carefully, and do not assume it is always correct.

This was intended for the use of selecting target notes in guitar tab, to make it easier to hide them, but there are likely many other uses as well. The Filter Other plugin has an option to filter tied notes, and these may find uses in tandem.

Updated 27 May 2010. A dialog was added, along with the ability to deselect as well as select notes.

Updated 5 April 2010. Changed initial test to allow plugin to run in Sibelius 5.25.

Updated 9 May 2016. Reworked the way tied to notes are calculated for better results and faster execution.

Updated 28 June 2018. Added option to filter tied-to notes only if the note was the first note in the first bar in a system. This helps find notes that are tied-to across system and page breaks.

Download FilterNotesTiedTo-Simple.zip (6K, downloaded 27417 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Input Durations

Version 01.15.00
Added 12 Nov 2008 (last updated 28 May 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

The Input Durations plugins are a set of Sibelius plugins that allow you to enter notes into a score by specifying only the duration. The pitch is automatically chosen, typically to be the note on the center line of the staff.

These plugins can be useful if you want to enter drum rhythms, or if you want to enter rhythms and pitches in separate passes, entering the rhythms with these plugins and repitching to add pitches.

There are 9 plugins, 8 of which are mapped to a different ctrl/cmnd+ key on the numeric keypad. The durations entered are mapped to the familiar keypad keys (with the ctrl/cmnd key held down), from a whole note/semibreve (numpad 6) to a 32nd note/demisemiquaver (numpad 1), and optional plugins for 64th and 128th notes.

A PDF file in the zip file explains how to install and set up shortcuts for these plugins

Updated 14 November 2008 to fix an intermittent bug. All downloaders requested to download and replace the InputDuration.plg file (that is the only one that changed).

Updated 13 October 2010 to fix a bug involving clef changes in bar 1 of a score. The InputDuration.plg file is the only file that changed).

Update 28 May 2018 to replace corrupted zip file and add version number

Download InputDuration.zip (81K, downloaded 27620 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create Add Text Plugin

Version 01.83.00
Added 21 Nov 2008 (last updated 19 Mar 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Lets you create and install a new plug-in that, when run, will insert a piece of text into the score. The properties of the text are taken from text (staff text, system text, or lyrics) that is selected when Create Add Text Plugin is run. If you assign a shortcut to the new plug-in, you will have, in effect, a way to assign a shortcut to an individual piece of formatted text.

The generated plugin will be put by default in the "Add Text" subfolder of your user Plug-ins folder. The name will include the text style and some of the text.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility

In order to assign shortcuts to the newly-created plug-ins, you must first close and restart Sibelius, so the new plug-ins will be loaded.

Updated 13 December 2010 to transfer the show/hide state in both the score and parts (Sib 6 only). The zip file now contains 2 plugins one for Sibelius 5 only, the other for Sibelius 6 and later.

Updated 22 Oct 2011 to restore the Sib 5 version

Updated 6 February 2012 to fix crash when choosing system text.

Updated 12 Oct 2012 to reduce restrictions on user-defined text.

Updated 14 Feb 2015 to restore the Sib 5 version again...

Updated 19 March 2018. Some code cleanup including requiring Sib 6.2 to run rather than 6.0.

Download CreateAddTextPlugin.zip (19K, downloaded 27304 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hide Specific Accidentals

Version 01.16.00
Added 05 Dec 2008 (last updated 09 Feb 2022)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin hides accidentals on selected notes with the specified pitches in any octave. It may be useful when you are simulating an unconventional key signature. Updated 24 August 2011 to tidy up the main dialog. Updated 18 May 2014 to allow hiding only visible accidentals in Sibelius 7.1.3 and later only. Updated 9 February 2022. Version 01.16.00. Added Naturals to accidentals to hide, added buttons to set of clear all accidentals, and changed matching to be language independent.

Download HideSpecificAccidentals.zip (7K, downloaded 28483 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Pitch Class to Notes

Version 02.51.00
Added 13 Dec 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds pitch class numbers for selected notes, including quartertones.

You can specify which pitch to use for pitch class 0, and also mark classes 10 and 11 so they will not be confused with 1 and 0.

All pitch classes with be assigned to the voice \\\'all voices\\\'. If you use Lyrics style, each voice will be assigned to a different lyrics verse (voice 1 = Lyrics line 1, etc.), so the voices will be at different heights and may be filtered for, using the text style.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Download AddPitchClassToNotes.zip (7K, downloaded 27325 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Change Selected Barlines

Version 01.07.00
Added 07 Jan 2009 (last updated 03 Dec 2022)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__Adds a barline of a specified type to each bar in the selection, thus allowing multiple barlines to be changed at once. __It offers a special barline type called Default, which resets the barline in selected bars to the default barline type as defined in Engraving Rules. This is usually, but not always Normal. Normal adds in a Special Barline of type Normal, which is also what Create Barline in Sibelius does. __Updated 7 August 2009 to work with individually selected barlines as well as passage selections of bars __ Updated 24 August 2009 to fix problems with individual barlines __Updated 19 April 2021. Version 01.06.00. Improvements to handling of hiding dialog. __Updated 3 December 2022. Version 01.07.00. Changed dialog layout.

Download ChangeSelectedBarlines.zip (5K, downloaded 1560 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hidden Key Signatures

Version 01.21.00
Added 22 Jan 2009 (last updated 05 Sep 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin turns the \\\"Hide\\\" property on or off for selected key signatures. This is the same as using the \\\"Hide\\\" property in Create Key Signatures.

This is a companion to the Cautionary Time Signatures plugin.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 15 January 2018. Reset Note Spacing is now done for affected bars.

Updated 5 September 2021. Version 01.21.00. Changed code, for Sib 6.2 or later, which used to delete and rewrite KS changes, to just change the Show/Hide state instead. This is simpler and has fewer side effects, and should give better results with one-staff-only KS changes.

Download HiddenKeySignatures.zip (3K, downloaded 27517 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Previous Rehearsal Mark

Version 01.15.00
Added 28 Jan 2009 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the previous (default) or following rehearsal mark (if any), starting from the start of the selection. To choose direction, run the plug-in with no selection.

This is a companion to Find Rehearsal Mark, which by default finds the following Rehearsal Mark. Assign keys to each of these to easily switch directions.

Download FindPreviousRehearsalMark.zip (5K, downloaded 27225 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Custom System Filter

Version 01.60.00
Added 16 Feb 2009 (last updated 22 Aug 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

A filter that will filter objects in the System staff, even if the selection is not a system selection. By default it will filter for Tempo text, but it is designed to be modified. Change the condition in the IsDesiredObject method. The remaining code will filter objects that pass the IsObjectDesired test.

Updated 10 October 2019. Version 01.50.00. This plugin now will run only in Sibelius version 6.2 or later. It is now completely in the public domain, so that any code within the file may be used in and other plugins without attribution (or support).

As before this plugin is intended to be a template for making your own filtering plugins. I recommend making a copy of the plugin and changing the value of the variable "_PluginMenuName" to be the new plugin name. If you install the plugin "Copy Plugin", it will make a copy of any other plugin and update _PluginMenuName if that variable is available.

In most cases all you should need to change is the code in the method "IsDesiredObject" to produce a new filter. This trick is knowing exactly what to ask for, but at least the structure of getting objects and selecting them will be taken care of by the existing code. Happy filtering!

The default code will filter for Special Barlines.

Updated 22 August 2021. Version 01.60.00. Made tracing of results options based on the global variable g_fTraceResults. Made results a Trace call rather than a message box. Made minor code cleanups.

Download CustomSystemFilter.zip (4K, downloaded 27364 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Color

Version 01.20.00
Added 03 Mar 2009 (last updated 01 Jun 2019)

Changes the color of all selected objects that match the original color to be the replacement color. It will only replace \\\'\\\'added\\\'\\\' colors, such as from Edit > Color or a plugin, not the built-in colors.

You can remove coloring by setting the replacement color to Black, or add colors by setting the original color to black.

If you want to replace the colors of system objects, such as Tempo text, run the plugin with a system (double purple box) selection.

Updated 24 June 2012 to fix version information.

Updated 13Feb2015 to respell version name; no code change, no update of version number.

Updated 26 April 2016 to allow coloring of individual note objects

Updated 01 June 2019. Version 01.20.00. Fix processing colored rests

Download ReplaceColor.zip (5K, downloaded 27663 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find and Replace Text for Sibelius 5

Added 17 Mar 2009 (last updated 21 May 2009)

For use with Sibelius 5

This is an update of the plugin that ships with Sibelius version 5.25. The update fixes a problem encountered with processing lyrics, and also allows colors other than Red for coloring changes, and lets you run the plugin without showing the dialog after the first time it is run in a Sibelius session.

It also fixes a problem where all text in all bars that included selected text would be processed. Now only text which is actually selected will be processed.

Changes made by Bob Zawalich

In Sibelius 6 use the shipping version of this plugin.

Download FindAndReplaceText.zip (9K, downloaded 26692 times)

Plug-in written by Stefan Behrisch.

Extend Slur / Extend Hairpin

Version 01.20.00
Added 19 Mar 2009 (last updated 22 Sep 2019)

This plugin finds the line (usually a slur) that *ends* closest to the first selected note in each voice of the selection, and extends it to the note. The line must be attached to the same staff as the selected note(s). The line must either match the voice of the note or be set to \\\"all voices\\\".

If more than one line ends at the same point, the plugin will choose the one that started first, which tends to extend the outside slur when there are nested slurs.

The intended use is during note input, to extend an existing slur to cover recently added notes without leaving note input mode. It is useful to assign a keyboard shortcut to this plugin.

If the plugin is run with no selected notes or (non bar) rests, a dialog will appear to allow you to choose a different type of line to be extended (such as hairpins). To actually extend a line, close the dialog, select a note, and run the plugin again.

You may have to adjust the endpoint of lines other than slurs.

Extend Hairpin is also included in the .zip file. It is essentially the same plugin but defaults to finding Hairpins instead of Slurs.

Updated 27 February 2019. Version 01.10.00. Gave more space in dialog for text on Macs.

Updated 22 September 2019. Version 01.20.00. If the selection includes more than 1 staff, each staff will be processed separately, allowing you to extend multiple slurs or hairpins at once. Also hairpins no longer over-extend at the end of bars.

Download ExtendSlurAndHairpin.zip (11K, downloaded 27690 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Note Names To Noteheads White

Version 02.05.00
Added 08 Apr 2009 (last updated 27 Jun 2023)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x and Sibelius 21.x

Works like the shipping Add Note Names to Noteheads plugin, writing the name of a note inside the notehead using the Opus Note Names font.

It also creates a stemless white colored note behind each note to block out the staff and leger lines.

You must install the included House Style, Opus Note Names No Leger.lib in your user House Style Folder (located at the same level as your user Plugins folder).

It will only work on a file that has notes only in voice 1. The visible notes will be changed to be in voice 3 (the white notes are in voice 1). You can rerun the plugin if you need to change notes that have been transposed.

Updated 29 June 2009 to handle notes within tuplets

Updated 17 November 2011. If running in Sibelius 6.1 or later, you must install the included House Style, Opus Note Names No Leger 6-1.lib in your user House Style Folder.

If you are running Sibelius 7.1.2 or later, you will be better results by using the shipping Add Note Names To Noteheads Plugin (Notations - Noteheads - Add Note Names).

Download AddNoteNamesToNoteheadsWhite.zip (178K, downloaded 27487 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Trill Wiggly Lines

Added 14 Apr 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in removes the wiggly lines from selected trills in a score. If there is no initial selection, the user is given a choice of changing every trill or cancelling the operation.

Behind the scenes, the plug-in shortens the length of a trill\'s wiggly line to zero. As such, trills are maintained as \"line\" type elements and keep their ability to sound a trill during score playback.

Download RemoveWigglyTrillLines.zip (2K, downloaded 27280 times)

Plug-in written by Ed Hirschman (edited by Bob Zawalich).

Insert Current Dynamics

Version 01.30.00
Added 16 Apr 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Will insert the most recent dynamic (expression text) into all selected bars, or optionally into selected bars that follow a system or page break, double barline, or Rehearsal Mark. The dynamics may be parenthesized.

It cannot determine where a system or page starts, but if you lock the score or put in explicit page and system breaks, dynamics can effectively be placed at the start of systems.

If you want bold expressions, you must specify a Music text font. Valid fonts include Opus Text and Inkpen2 Text.

Updated 26 May 2009 to allow dynamics to be placed in the first bar of a system or page, even if the file is unlocked, when run in Sibelius 6.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 23 Oct 2011. Music text font now initialized to the score music text font.

Download InsertCurrentDynamics.zip (10K, downloaded 27234 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Trill Symbols with Trill Lines

Added 18 Apr 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plug-in replaces trill symbols that don�t play back with trill lines that do playback. It handles the standard trill symbol �tr� as well as the bracketed trill symbol �(tr)�, which are replaced with a trill line without the wiggly line. If there is no initial selection, the user is given a choice of replacing every trill symbol or canceling the operation.

This plug-in is useful if you receive a score from another copyist that used trill symbols or for scores imported into Sibelius from some other programs.

Download ReplaceTrillSymbolswithTrillLines.zip (2K, downloaded 27289 times)

Plug-in written by Ed Hirschman.

Color Harp Strings

Version 01.05.00
Added 27 Apr 2009 (last updated 26 Apr 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This zip file contains 2 plugins: Color Harp Strings and Pitch Spectrum for Harp. These plugins are different approaches to coloring notes that are on a harp\\\\\\\'s C strings (pitches Cb, C, and C#) Red, and those on the F strings (Fb, F, and F#) Blue. This is sometimes done for introductory harp music, though some harpists like it for all their scores.

This would be fairly simple to do except for the fact that Sibelius colors all notes in a chord the same color.

These plugins offer solutions that will work in some cases, and offer at least a starting point when they cannot do all the coloring.

*Color Harp Strings* will color notes that are not in chords or intervals. It will color (using the mechanism of Edit > Color) single notes of the desired pitches, but will not color the same pitches in a chord. Instead, it traces the location of such pitches so you can find them to hand color after printing.

If chords are broken up so that each chord tone is in a different voice (quite tedious), all the notes can be colored with this plugin. This plugin has no problem differentiating enharmonically equivalent pitches (C#/Db, Cb/B, etc).

*Pitch Spectrum for Harp* uses the Sibelius Pitch Spectrum feature, which can color chord tones separately, but will not differentiate among enharmonically equivalent pitches (C#/Db, Cb/B, C/B#, F#/Gb. etc.). These would be colored the same, which can be a problem in harp music, which often contains enharmonic pitches. The plugin looks to see if there are conflicts. If so, it offers a choice of coloring each pair of the equivalent notes or not.

This plugin can completely color music with chords if there are no enharmonic notes.

Be sure you understand how Pitch Spectrum works (check the Reference and the plugin Help) before using this plugin, or you may be surprised.

Pitch Spectrum for Harp will not work in Sibelius 6, which removed the Pitch Spectrum feature. It will still work in Sibelius 5. Color Harp Strings does work (with the same limitations) in Sibelius 5 and 6.

Updated 20 February 2015. The plugin will now also color chords that consist only of notes on the C string or on the F string.

Updated 26 April 2016 to allow coloring of individual note objects

Download ColorHarpStrings.zip (4K, downloaded 27545 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Enharmonic pitch

Version 01.19.00
Added 12 May 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Finds the next or previous occurrence of an note with a specified pitch starting from the start of the selection.

Unlike Edit Find, You can specify enharmonically equivalent pitches separately, such as G# and Ab, Cb and B, or Dbb and C. You can also look for either the Written pitch or the Concert pitch in a transposing score or part.

The zip file contains 2 plugins, both of which must be installed. Find Enharmonic Pitch Next finds the next occurrence of the specified pitch, and Find Enharmonic Pitch Previous finds the previous.

To choose pitch, octave, or whether to find Written or Concert pitch, run the plugin with no selection.

These plugins are dedicated to Gareth Glyn and Richie Vitale.

Download FindEnharmonicPitch.zip (7K, downloaded 27173 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Focus Set

Version 01.90.00
Added 17 Jul 2009 (last updated 12 Feb 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This is a set of plugins that let you create, save, and apply groups of staves [focus sets] that can be applied to a score to cause it to display those staves in View - Focus On Staves.

You can create custom groups of staves for specific scores. You need to set up the groups for each score you work on, but you can group any staves you want.

Use the plugin Focus Set to create, save, and apply your focus sets. Use Clone Focus Set if you have a number of scores with the same instrumentation. You can set up focus sets for one score, and use Clone Focus Sets to copy the settings into another score.

Focus Set 1, Focus Set 2, .. Focus Set 10, can be assigned to keystroke shortcuts. Focus Set 1 will apply the first focus set in the list of sets, Focus Set 2 runs the second [regardless of the names]. These plugins run with no dialogs.

It is recommended that these plugins be installed into a separate user Plugins subfolder [e.g., Focus Set]. A PDF help document is included in the zip file.

Updated 21 July 2009 to improve error handling.

Updated 4 September 2009. Clone Focus Set plugin was updated because it would fail with focus sets created by the July update. The plugins should now automatically stay in sync.

Updated 29 January 2011 to update PDF document.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 26 October 2014 in put Clone Focus Set back in the zip file and update it to work in Sibelius 7.5.

Updated 25 January 2015. Set version number in Clone Focus Set to be the same as Focus Set and its children to avoid not picking up saved versions that used a different version number.

Updated 2 April 2019. Version 01.86.00. For Sibelius 7.1.3 and later, the Create or Edit Focus Sets dialog now allows you to multi-select [ctrl/cmnd-click] the big list box, which lets Delete Selected delete multiple staves. Also there is a new Add multiple staves... button that lets you add more than one staff at a time to the staves in a focus set.

Updated 4 October 2019. Updated version number of Clone Focus Set so it would work with the previously updated Focus Set plugin. Both now have version number 01.86.00, so Clone Focus Set should be able to run.

Updated 12 Feb 2021. Version 01.90.00.

Fixed Clone Focus Set to work in Sib 6. Did some layout work on several dialogs to avoid truncation in Sib 6.You should install at least Focus Set and Clone Focus Set.

Download FocusSet.zip (200K, downloaded 27658 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Focus Families

Version 01.10.00
Added 17 Jul 2009 (last updated 16 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

The Focus Families plugins let you display, in Focus On Staves, instruments contained in one or more families of instruments. The families are predefined by Sibelius and are: "Brass", "Exotic", "Fretted", "Keyboard", "Other", "Pitched Percussion", "Singers", "Strings", "Unpitched", and "Wind".

Use Focus Families (and its 2 clones, Focus Families 1 and Focus Families 2) to display multiple instrument families. These plugins bring up a dialog, at least the first time run in a session, and save their settings across Sibelius sessions.

There is also a set of plugins that will display one family of instruments. These have no dialog, and are meant to be assigned to shortcut keys. They are Focus Brass, Focus Exotic, Focus Fretted, Focus Keyboard, Focus Other, Focus Pitched Percussion, Focus Singers, Focus Strings, Focus Unpitched, and Focus Wind.

All instruments are in one family only. So for example, though you can find a Harp in Create > Instruments in both the Strings and Pitched Percussion families, the plugin will always place a harp in Pitched Percussion.

While these plugins are less customizable than the Focus Set plugins, they do not require setup for each score, and so can be mixed and matched with the Focus Set plugins.

It is recommended that these plugins be installed into a separate user Plugins subfolder (e.g., Focus Families). A PDF help document is included in the zip file.

Updated 23 June 2010. Focus Families/2/3 were not restoring their saved settings, and this in fixed.

Updated 29 January 2011. Added Focus Families 4..9, and added an option to put harps in either the Strings or Pitched Percussion families. the PDF document was also updated.

Updated 29 August 2012 to restore the missing single family plugins, such as Focus Brass.

Updated 5 September 2012 to fix settings for including Harps in string and pitched percussion.

Updated 16 June 2015 to make the Focus Families plugins remember the settings for Wind instruments

Download FocusFamilies.zip (226K, downloaded 27451 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Other for Sibelius 5

Version 02.09.00
Added 03 Sep 2009 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Adds filters for symbols, notehead styles, tied notes, time signatures, and grace notes, as well as a filter to text styles (defaulting to Technique).

Updated October 9, 2007. Now filters special barlines as well.

Updated March 19, 2008. Noteheads default to number rather than name.

Updated April 22, 2008. Minor notehead dialog change.

Note: This version of the plugin requires Sibelius 5.2

Updated August 5, 2008 to allow Deselect

Updated September 16, 2008 to filter note pitches and allow results to not appear.

Updated November 5, 2008 to filter colored (non-black) objects.

Updated August 29, 2009 to filter notes in parentheses (bracketed property).

September 4 2009 Split off from Sib 6 version of Filter Other

Download FilterOther.plg (108K, downloaded 26860 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Trace Internal Bar Numbers

Version 01.02.00
Added 01 Oct 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

The bar numbers you see in a score (the external or displayed bar numbers) may not reflect the consecutive ordering of the bars. So you may have bars numbered 0 (for a pickup), 1, 2, then 1 again, 2, 3, then 10, 11, 12� in an extreme case. You could at least restart bar numbers as a section break.

Sibelius keeps an internal or consecutive bar number as well so that each bar has a unique and consecutive number. If your score has any bar number changes, the internal and external bar numbers are most likely different.

Note that in the General Pane of the Properties Window, the bar number displayed is the external number (it reflects bar number changes) while the page numbers displayed are internal page numbers (they do not reflect page number changes).

In Sibelius 6.1, the new Manual Repeats Playback feature (in Play � Repeat) requires that internal bar numbers be used.

This plugin writes the internal and external bar numbers of selected bars to the Trace window.

Updated 3 October 2009 to show range of selected bars for a passage selection.

Download TraceInternalBarNumbers.zip (3K, downloaded 27284 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Harp Arpeggio

Version 2.0
Added 0000-00-00 00:00:00 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Designed specifically for playback of arpeggios on the harp but may be used on other instruments.

Uses Live Playback data to play back an arpeggio in one or more voices and on one or more staves. The arpeggio plays before the beat. Requires that Live Playback is turned on. (If Live Playback is turned off, Sibelius's usual arpeggio will still play if arpeggio lines are present in the score).

Download HarpArpeggio.zip (3K, downloaded 28421 times)

Plug-in written by Ian Cugley.

Harp Gliss

Added 0000-00-00 00:00:00 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Designed specifically for playback of glissandos on the harp.

Select the start and end notes for a glissando on the same staff or adjacent staves, then run the plug-in. You can then set the harp tuning, control the volume (velocity) of the glissando, and choose whether to show the tuning in the score. The glissando plays back using MIDI messages, and works across two staves and across barlines.

Download HarpGliss.zip (7K, downloaded 29239 times)

Plug-in written by Ian Cugley.

Filter Harp Pedal Diagrams

Version 01.40.00
Added 13 Dec 2009 (last updated 27 May 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Filters all selected harp pedal diagrams (as generated by the Add Harp Pedaling plugin).

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 9 May 2012 to filter diagrams created with a text character style rather than a font change in Sib 7.

Updated 27 May 2016 to allow harp diagrams of any text style to be recognized.

Download FilterHarpPedalDiagrams.zip (3K, downloaded 27529 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Label Harp Diagrams

Version 01.17.00
Added 13 Dec 2009 (last updated 27 May 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Can add a hidden text label next to any selected harp pedal diagrams. The text consists of the pitches in the pedal diagram.

The plugin can also trace the location and pitches of any selected pedal diagrams, or any "tuning text", which is text that contains the pitches (CDEFGAB plus accidentals, in any order) in a harp tuning.

It can optionally also label tuning text with a hidden pedal diagram.

This will probably be at least as useful for occasional readers of pedal harp music, (such as composers of harp music) as for harpists.

Updated 24 December 2009. Remove unwanted traces and clean up trace of boxed text diagrams.

Updated 24 November 2012 to pick up diagrams that use character styles in Sib 7.

Updated 14 February 2016 to clarify dialog text. No code changes

Updated 27 May 2016 to allow harp diagrams of any text style to be recognized.

Download LabelHarpDiagrams.zip (8K, downloaded 27605 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Harp Gliss From Pedal Diagram

Version 01.07.00
Added 13 Dec 2009 (last updated 27 May 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This is a "front end" for Ian Cugley�s "Harp Gliss" plugin, which must be installed before this plugin is run.

Ian�s plugin will generate pitches for a harp gliss from a tuning string that is typed in. This plugin will look for harp pedal diagrams or "tuning text", which is text that contains the pitches (CDEFGAB plus accidentals, in any order) in a harp tuning, and run Ian�s plugin using the tuning information closest to the selected pitches.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 4 September 2011 to pick up pedal diagrams that start at the same location at the first selected pitch.

Updated 24 November 2011 to pick up diagrams that use character styles in Sib 7.

Updated 27 May 2016 to allow harp diagrams of any text style to be recognized.

Download HarpGlissFromPedalDiagram.zip (8K, downloaded 28279 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

String Harmonics

Version 01.09.00
Added 18 Feb 2010 (last updated 21 Apr 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds diamond-shaped notes above each single notes that has a normal notehead to notate string harmonics. There is a choice of which harmonic to notate, and an option to call the Harmonics Playback plugin to set up playback for these notes.

Updated 27 December 2010. If run without running the Harmonics Playback option, both the original note and the diamond notes are now silenced (since neither is the actual sounding pitch).

Updated 3 November 2018. Version 01.06.00. Added ability to not silence notes, which is useful for Note Performer, which cam properly play such dyads as harmonics.

Updated 14 March 2019. Version 01.08.00. Added 1/6 Harmonics, which are are not supported in Harmonics Playback, but which Note Performer can play.

Updated 21 April 2021. Version 01.09.00. Can now hide dialog and outside plugins can force plugin to run without showing a dialog.

Download StringHarmonics.zip (5K, downloaded 28584 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Previous Ties and Remove Final Tied Notes

Version 01.06.00
Added 23 Feb 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

These plugins offer different ways of dealing with notes tied across a barline after using the Sibelius 6 R (Repeat) command.

Given a single selected note or chord that is tied to:

Remove Previous Ties removes ties from the previous note or chord in the same voice, if any, and leaves the note or chord following the barline selected.

Remove Final Tied Notes deletes the note or chord after the barline, removes the tie from the previous note or chord, and selects the previous note or chord

In both cases, the final note is selected and is ready for further note input, so if you assign the plugin to a shortcut (I found shift-R to be handy), you can remove the tie or tied note with one keystroke and continue inputting notes without having to reselect a note.

Either plugin may be used; your workflow can determine which method you prefer.

Download RepeatPlugins.zip (5K, downloaded 27192 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Simplify Tied-To Notes

Version 01.14.00
Added 30 Mar 2010 (last updated 28 Feb 2022)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

**** Selects notes that are tied to: notes that are immediately preceded by a note of the same pitch, in the same voice, with a tie, and removes any articulations and cautionary accidentals on these notes. **** Notes tied to from different voices or notes tied to but separated by other notes, will not be detected or processed. **** Updated 15 August 2011 to remove brackets accidentals as well as cautionaries. **** Updated 18 January 2012 to remove articulations in chords only if all the notes are tied to. **** Updated 9 May 2016. Reworked the way tied to notes are calculated for better results and faster execution. **** Updated 29 July 2017 Removed debug traces which slowed it down greatly **** Updated 28 February 2022. Version 01.14.00. Removed respositioning to start of select at end, and changed result notification from a message box to a trace.

Download SimplifyTied-ToNotes.zip (7K, downloaded 27579 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Verse Styles For Lyrics

Version 01.15.00
Added 10 Apr 2010 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Combines selected lyrics that are of approximately the same vertical spacing into a single lyrics text style, aligned at the same position.

It will not work well if there are overlapping lyrics, or the heights of lyrics in a verse have greatly different vertical positions, or there are different numbers of verses in different parts of the score. You can run the plugin on sub-selections of the score to get around some of those problems.

It can create up to 5 lines of lyrics, with styles Lyrics Line 1 to 5. Only lyrics below the staff are processed.

This plugin may be particularly useful after using Photoscore to read in a score with multiple verses of lyrics, as Photoscore puts all lyrics in the style Lyrics Line 1. It is intended to be used to prepare a score for running the Fix Photoscore Lyrics plugin.

Please proofread carefully after running the plugin.

Updated 2 December 2014 to allow plugin to run in Sibelius 5.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Music Only

Version 01.01.00
Added 26 Apr 2010 (last updated 21 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Deletes all notes, tuplets and slurs in any fully selected bars, replacing them with a bar rest, but leaving any text attached to the bars.

Note that if there are lyrics attached to the resulting bar rest, they cannot be dragged. You need to have notes or rests in a bar for lyrics to be moveable.

Updated 21 March 2015 to rename the plugin which was formerly called Delete Notes Only, which was misleading.

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Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Note Names

Added 02 May 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

This is an update of the plugin that ships with Sibelius 6.2 and earlier. The update allows it to process notes selected with a multiple (non-passage) selection. Earlier versions would select the entire score if there were not a passage selection. So now you can filter notes and run the plugin on the result.

One small quirk is that if you select only some notes of a chord, the chord will be processed as if it were completely selected. However, unselected single notes in a bar will not be processed (unlike earlier versions).

Updated by Bob Zawalich.

Download AddNoteNames.zip (8K, downloaded 27878 times)

Plug-in written by Sibelius Software.

Line Between Notes

Version 01.91.00
Added 14 Jun 2010 (last updated 03 May 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds a line (such as a gliss line)between 2 selected notes (skipping rests).

You can adjust horizontal and vertical offsets, and these values are remembered across Sibelius sessions. You should only have to set these up once.

If selected notes are on multiple staves, the line will be added only to the staff when the line starts; you will need to drag the other end to its destination. Use alt/opt right arrow to select the line end point.

Magnetic layout is turned off by default. For transposing instruments, a line added to the full score will be repositioned in the parts.

These is also an option to realign lines between 2 notes for situations where the notes might have changed without the lines following

Updated 17 June 2010. Handles grace notes (though the lines do not line up well when the interval is less than a 5th). The alignment option has been removed (it never really worked), and a new option to connect a selection with lines has been added.

Updated 13 October 2010. Bug fix to handle clef changes in bar 1 and another for connecting selections with an odd number of notes.

Updated 27 December 2010. Minor tweak to prevent unneeded transposing score view change

Updated 3 June 2011. Removed a trace message and changed the text on the dialog to clarify what the options mean.

Updated 9 October 2011. Extra window on main score could appear in Sib 7 if there were transposing parts - fixed.

Updated 3 November 2011.

* takes the line style names from the score, so it will work in any supported language.(It will now dirty the score even if you add no lines. If you run the plugin and make no changes, Sibelius will ask you to save changes, and you can ignore that).

* adds a new option that will add lines across multiple selected notes, restarting the line if rests are encountered.

* for the �connect the notes options, it now connects within voices and also processes notes staff by staff, so it can correctly handle a multi-staff selection.

* it will now process slurs, though they do not work with grace notes.

* if there are chords, the line will be connected to the highest selected note in the chord

* the style of any lines in the score will be added to the list of available styles. To get additional styles to use, add a line of that type somewhere in the score.

Updated 24 December 2011 to make the Do not show dialog option turn off at the start of every Sibelius session, rather than staying off until you run the plugin with no selection. No selection will still bring up the dialog even if shut off for the session.

Updated 6 October 2012. Added option to disable playback for added lines.

Updated 22 November 2015 so plugin can be run in Sibelius version 5.2.5.

Updated 27 May 2016. Internal changes made to allow part of this plugin to be called by other plugins

Updated 17 June 2016. Added ability to stretch lines across staves in the space between staves is provided. Makes glissandos much easier to deal with.

Updated 20 June 2016 Minor adjustment to line end height for cross staff lines.

Updated 4 November 2017. Fixed typo in connect adjacent code.

Updated 11 February 2018. Some internal cleanup, plus now picking up more user-defined lines, plus added the ability to add vertical lines to a single chord.

Updated 30 April 2021. Version01.90.00. Added support for Run Plugin Hide Dialog.

Updated 3 May 2021. Version 01.91.00. Removed some unused code and unwanted debug traces.

Download LineBetweenNotes.zip (29K, downloaded 29103 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Rests Empty Voices

Version 02.01.00
Added 21 Jun 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Eliminates the rests in all empty voices, unless all the voices in the bar are empty. In that case, any rests in voice 1 will be consolidated into a bar rest, and rests in other voices will be deleted.

Download DeleteRestsEmptyVoices.zip (5K, downloaded 27615 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Find Next One Of These

Version 01.55.00
Added 06 Jul 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Using the properties of the first selected object, this plugin finds the next or previous object in the score that has the same properties. For example, you can select a piece of Fingering text and it will find the next piece of Fingering text.

If you run the plugin without a selection, it will bring up a dialog that allows you to change options, including the search direction and which properties to consider when finding. The options are saved across Sibelius sessions.

The zip file contains 2 plugins, each defaulting to a different search direction, and a PDF file explaining the options in more detail.

Download FindNextOneOfThese.zip (90K, downloaded 27270 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Run Previous Plug-in (for use with Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts)

Added 16 Oct 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

Have you noticed a slight delay every time you use Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts? Do you want to save even more time on Sibelius? Often you just want to rerun the last plug-in that you had selected, such as Cresc./Dim. Playback, Change Dynamics or Insert Current Dynamics. Run Previous Plug-in is the answer. It will immediately open the last plug-in you ran. Give it a shortcut similar to Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts, so if you are using F5 as suggested, why not used F6? Using Sibelius is time consuming and we need to save as much clicking and typing as we can. Even the download is quick (only 691 bytes!).

Download FixedShortcutsPrevious.zip (1K, downloaded 27343 times)

Plug-in written by Corwin Newall.

Tin Whistle Fingering

Version 01.16.00
Added 19 Oct 2010 (last updated 24 Jul 2015)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Tin Whistle Fingering adds fingering diagrams, which are characters in a special font mapped to specific pitches, under each selected note.

The font Tin Whistle Tab was designed and donated by Blayne Chastain for this plugin, and can be freely distributed.

The zip file contains the plugin, the font, and 2 PDF documents describing the plugin and the font.

Updated 29 October 2010. Now skip notes that are tied to and adds an option to use a fingering only the first time a note appears in the selection.

Updated 23 April 2015. Added more pitch range (4 octaves) and a button to reset the D whistle setting if used for another instrument.

Updated 30 April 2015 to add in a missing default preference value to restore.

Updated 24 July 2015 to add another PDF file explaining how to use the plugin with different fonts

Download TinWhistleFingering.zip (384K, downloaded 27807 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

String Harmonics Sounding Pitch

Version 01.63.00
Added 28 Dec 2010 (last updated 21 Apr 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds a bracketed, stemless, cue-sized sounding pitch note to selected chords that already have a regular notehead and a diamond-head note, indicating string harmonics.

The sounding notes are in an unused voice of the bar containing the chords. If there are not enough available voices, sounding pitches will not be added to those bars.

The sounding notes can playback or be silenced.

You are advised to run the plugin String Harmonics first, to add the diamond noteheads this plugin looks for.

Updated 29 April 2012 to fix problem with stemless notes in non-English versions.

Updated 3 November 2018. Version 01.50.00. Added ability to silence original notes and to make the sounding note hidden, unbracketed, hidden, and or diamond shaped. A diamond-shaped note at sounding pitch will produce a harmonic timbre with some sound libraries, and can be preferable to using Playback Harmonics, especially if the sounding note is hidden. This is a departure from the original use of the plugin, but this seemed a good place to put these features.

Updated 03/14/2019. Version 01.62.00. Added support for 1/6 harmonics (diamond note a minor 3rd above the primary note). Also added code to transpose sounding notes with 5 or more ledger lines down an octave, adding an 8va line to the note.

Updated 21 April 2021. Version 01.63.00. Can now hide dialog and outside plugins can force plugin to run without showing a dialog.

Download StringHarmonicsSoundingPitch.zip (12K, downloaded 27890 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Fingering To Notes For Sibelius 5

Version 01.08.00
Added 02 Feb 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds fingering numbers immediately to the left of noteheads. Type the numbers you want separating numbers with spaces or commas (or both). Numbers will be applied to selected notes in the order in which they were selected. For chords, notes are always processed from low to high pitch.

The fingering avoids accidentals if Magnetic Layout is on in Sibelius 6. You can adjust the horizontal and vertical offsets, and these values are remembered across Sibelius sessions.

Updated 22 August 2010. The original plugin is in the zip file renamed Add Fingering To Notes Sib 5, and it will run on Sib 5 or later. Add Fingering To Notes will now only run on Sib 6 or later, and the interface has changed so you see a keypad with numbers. Move the dialog so you can see the selected notes, then click a number button to add that number in fingering text to the next note in the selection.

Updated 23 August 2010. The Sib 5 plugin now allows you to specify the text style used for fingering. Some styles, like Expression, do not work well because their Magnetic Layout settings keep them out of the staff, so choose carefully. The Sib 6 version adds the ability to enter the fingering number 0.

Updated 2 February 2011. Placed separately from the Sib 6 version. This version is unlikely to be updated in the future except for bug fixes.

Download AddFingeringToNotesSib5.zip (8K, downloaded 27300 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Copy Notes Only and Repeat Notes Only

Added 04 Apr 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Are you tired of deleting unnecessary dynamics, techniques ('pizz.' for example) and other lines every time you copy music around your score? Your days of frustration are over! Two complementary plug-ins have been created just for you: Copy Notes Only and Repeat Notes Only. They act like Edit > Copy and Edit > Repeat respectively, except that expressions, technique markings, dynamics and hairpins are ignored � just run the plug-ins and you're away!

You can choose which objects are ignored by both plug-ins in their shared Options window, which will turn up the first time one of the two plug-ins is run. To change settings later, run the plug-in with nothing selected (hit Escape a few times just to make sure).

For these time-saving plug-ins, speed and ease of use is paramount. Why not give the plug-ins shortcuts?

Edit > Repeat is R, so you could use Shift+R for Repeat Notes Only.
Edit > Copy is Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C (or Cmd+Opt+Shift+C) could be used for Copy Notes Only.
Or, if pressing four keys at once feels a bit excessive, you could use Shift+X, since it is related to Cut

Also, these plug-ins are compressed twice: the code is as simple and compact as possible, meaning it does twice as much in half the file size, so Sibelius will spend almost no time loading the plug-ins.

If you have a Windows operating system, keep reading; if not, click download right now to start saving time!

In Sibelius for Windows, the Options window has hotkeys which help speed everything up: simply hold down Alt and type the underlined letter to select a check box or click a button (just like elsewhere in Sibelius!).

Update - 5 June 2011
Updated to help Fixed Shortcuts get along with these plug-ins. Only re-download if you are using Fixed Plug-in Shortcuts to call Copy Notes Only and/or Repeat Notes Only.

Download CopyAndRepeatNotesOnly.zip (14K, downloaded 27851 times)

Plug-in written by Corwin Newall.

Copy Double and Copy Halve Note Values

Version 03.01.01
Added 10 Apr 2011 (last updated 17 Apr 2023)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

__Copy Double Note Values and Copy Halve Note Values are variants of the shipping plugins Double Note Values and Halve Note Values. These plugins double or halve the durations of the selected notes, then put their results into the clipboard, rather than into a separate score. You can then paste the results into any score with the normal Paste command. __There are several things to note: __1. There will be no dialog. You can tell when it is finished when the progress bar and Stop button go away. Do not try to paste until that happens. __2. Only notes will be copied (no text or other bar objects). No system objects will be copied, even if you start with a system (double box) selection, and bars will never be inserted - notes will always flow into the destination bars. __3. The plugin temporarily adds bars to the score you copy *from*, and so will mark that score as having been edited (it dirties the score). So if you close that score it will ask you to save changes. If you have made no other edits, it is safe to either save changes or not. __Updated 9 August 2012 to clean up some unused code. No functionality change. __Updated 10 July 2017. Support added for magnetic glisses in Sib 8.6 and later. Only Copy Double Note Values updated. __Updated 2 December 2020. Version 03.00.00. Radically rewritten to use the Note and NoteRest property routines in the separate plugin Note Properties Lib, which will need to be installed in order for this plugin to run. __The plugin Note Properties Lib centralizes routines to get and set properties so that if changes are needed they can be made in a single plugin, and all callers will automatically be updated. __There are no changes to the functions of these plugins (Double and Halve), but many more Note and NoteRest properties will be transferred to the new notes. __Updated 18 December 2020. Version 03.01.00. Fixed typo that caused tuplet processing to fail. __Updated 16 April 2023. Version 03.01.01. Fixed typo in error message and set up for adjusted calls to Note Properties Lib.

Download CopyDoubleHalve.zip (22K, downloaded 1773 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Custom Note Filter

Version 01.60.00
Added 20 Apr 2011 (last updated 22 Aug 2021)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

A filter that will filter selected Note objects. By default it will filter for notes with ties, but it is designed to be modified. Change the condition in the IsDesiredObject method. The remaining code will filter objects that pass the IsObjectDesired test.

Updated 17 April 2016 to check for empty selections as ask to select entire score.

In most cases all you should need to change is the code in the method "IsDesiredObject" to produce a new filter. The trick is knowing exactly what to ask for, but at least the structure of getting objects and selecting them will be taken care of by the existing code. Happy filtering!

EDIT changed. See below. The default code will filter for quarter notes from the original selection.

Updated 22 August 2021. Version 01.60.00. Made tracing of results options based on the global variable g_fTraceResults. Made results a Trace call rather than a message box. Made minor code cleanups.

Changed default action to filter for Note-object-specific properties. By default, it now filters for Notes wholse notestyle is not NormalNoteStyle. Internal documentation was also updated.

Download CustomNoteFilter.zip (3K, downloaded 27484 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Resize Bar for Sibelius 5

Version 01.25.00
Added 26 Apr 2011 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Changes the length of selected bars by a fixed amount (e.g., a quarter note/crotchet) or to a given size, including the size of the current time signature. This will change the affected bars to be irregular bars in most cases. Updated 24 August 2009 to fix some error handling code Updated 26 August 2009 to fix problems with special barlines For Sibelius 6 and later use the Resize Bar plugin

Download ResizeBar.zip (17K, downloaded 26705 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Harp Diagram from Tuning

Version 02.08.00
Added 06 May 2011 (last updated 18 Mar 2017)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Produces a harp pedaling diagram from a list of 7 pitches that you type in.

Updated 5 May 2012 to allow running in Sib 5. In Sib 5 it will always use Opus Text as the music font for the diagrams.

Updated 6Feb2015 to replace plg file with zip file

Updated 17 February 2016. Added options to also output various forms of tuning text and to allow input tuning without spaces.

Updated 22 May 2016 Output of tuning text now contains formatted accidentals.

Updated 28 May 2016. Better filtering of pasted text.

Updated 29 May 2016 Added accidentals for Natural pitches in tuning text output

Updated 15 March 2017 to put initial focus in edit box

Download HarpDiagramFromTuning.zip (9K, downloaded 28464 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Convert Two Staves Piano

Version 01.03.00
Added 09 May 2011 (last updated 01 Aug 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Given 2 selected adjacent, single-staff instruments, it will convert them into a single grand staff instrument (piano, harp, marimba, or harpsichord, your choice).

Useful for Photoscore or other conversions where you end up with not exactly real pianos.

Converted staves are in the same score location as the original staves.

Updated 12 October 2012 to add option to not delete the original staves.

Updated 1 August 2014 to allow it to run in Sib 5. In Sib 5, the new grand staff will always be placed at the bottom of the score, instead of at the position of the original staves.

Download ConvertTwoStavesPiano.zip (5K, downloaded 27599 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Timing for Selection

Version 02.21.00
Added 23 May 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Displays the time at the start and end of a passage selection and the duration of the selection. This plugin uses a different (and slower) mechanism to determine time than the Fit Selection To Time plugin uses, and will give correct timings even when the score contains repeats.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 font compatibility

Updated 26 September 2012. For Sib 7.1.3 and later, the plugin now recognizes the timing for each pass, and the user can specify which pass timings should be relative to. It does not need to use Hit Points for timing and more, and will be spectacularly faster than it was previously, and likely more accurate.

Thanks to Michael Eastwood for making this possible.

Updated 18 October 2012. The previous version gave the timing to the start of the last selected object, rather than to the end of that object. This update gives timing to the end of the last selected object.

Download TimingForSelection.zip (18K, downloaded 27683 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter Notes And Rests

Version 01.25.00
Added 21 Sep 2011 (last updated 06 Feb 2015)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Filters any combination of notes and chords, rests, and bar rests.

This ability is also available in the Advanced Filter, but it may be more convenient to use the plugin, especially if you assign a shortcut.

Updated 6Feb2015 to replace .plg file with .zip version

Download FilterNotesAndRests.zip (5K, downloaded 27453 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Import House Style To Manuscript Paper

Version 01.12.01
Added 26 Oct 2011 (last updated 23 Apr 2022)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x and Sibelius 21.x

****Imports a House Style into a Manuscript Paper file, creating or modifying a user copy of the Manuscript Paper file. It does not change the shipping version of the Manuscript Paper.++++ ****After importing the House Style, files created with File - New will include the House Style information.++++ ****There is an option dialog which allows you to specify which elements of the House Style are to be imported.++++ ****In Sib 6, File New will have access to the MS paper immediately after running the plugin. In Version 7 and later (you will need at least version 7.0.3), you will need to restart Sibelius to have access to the modified manuscript papers.++++ ****Updated 3 March 2012 to remove duplicate names in Sib 7.++++ ****Updated 7 February 2017 to show folder names and ship/user status of MS Papers so it reflect subfolder use in Sib 7.1.3 and later++++ ****Updated 19 October 2020. Version 01.12.00. Post Sib 2020.1 the plugin can import Document Settings and Engraving Rules separately. There are both imported by default but you can change the setting in the Options dialog.++++ ****Updated 23 April 2022. Version 01.12.01. Sib 2022.3 changed how MS papers are stored and the plugin can no longer access the files. This plugin is disabled, and will no longer appear in the plugin installer in 2022.3 or later++++

Download ImportHouseStyleToManuscriptPaper.zip (10K, downloaded 27324 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Go To Text

Version 01.56.00
Added 10 Nov 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin lets you go to the next or previous piece of staff text, in any text style, relative to the current selection.

You can run it with no selection to change search direction.

You can type arbitrary text to use as bookmarks (hidden text starting with ~ is recommended, such as ~1, ~2, ~3 for easy to enter bookmarks), and use this plugin to find those bookmarks.

Updated 11 Nov 11 to select the bar containing the bookmark and move it to the upper left corner to increase visibility.

Updated 24 November 2011 selects the text, not the bar, so next finds work.

Download GoToText.zip (7K, downloaded 27219 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Trace TAB Collisions

Version 01.15.00
Added 18 Nov 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Looks on a TAB staff for places where there are 2 or more notes on the same string and the same starting position in a bar, and writes the location of any such notes to the Plugin Trace window.

Such collided notes are typically not visible, and can be a surprise in playback or when you copy to a notation staff, so it is useful to know if you have any.

Download TraceTABCollisions.zip (6K, downloaded 27710 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Filter System Objects

Version 01.22.00
Added 01 Dec 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Filters objects from the System Staff, including system text, lines and symbols, Rehearsal Marks, Time Signatures, Key Signature Changes, Bar Numbers, and Special Barlines.

The plugin allows you to specify which types of object will be filtered.

This can be useful when copying the structure of a score onto a different score.

Updated 16 January 2013. Fixed a typo in the Rehearsal Mark code. Also changed the dialog to say "Bar number changes" instead of "bar numbers" and added set/clear all buttons.

Download FilterSystemObjects.zip (4K, downloaded 27243 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Title Page

Version 01.05.00
Added 01 Jan 2012 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Deletes "special page break"-style title pages, or lets you change the number of additional blank pages associated with a title page.

Download DeleteTitlePage.zip (4K, downloaded 27849 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Pitch Values

Version 01.07.00
Added 12 Apr 2012 (last updated 29 Jan 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin displays the all possible MIDI values for note names, or all possible names for MIDI pitches, including double accidentals or quartertones. This can be helpful when writing plugins. It is pretty geeky.

Updated 5 September 2017. Added ability to trace pitches by accidental type, including triple accidentals, which can be produced only by plugins, convertors or other processes, but which sometimes appear. Now you can see all the possible sharp,or flat, or double/triple accidentals in one place. Still pretty geeky.

Updated 29 September 2017 Fixes to triple accidental display.

Updated 4 January 2018. Added accidental value for traces, chiefly for use with quartertones.

Updated 29 January 2020. Version 01.07.00. Reworked most of the code to fix problems with Cb and B# and their variants. Added triple accidentals to some listings and added a new option to trace note values in all pitches in a specific octave.

Download PitchValues.zip (8K, downloaded 27438 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Plugin Set

Version 01.53.00
Added 01 Sep 2014 (last updated 11 Jan 2016)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

This plugin assigns shortcuts for running a fixed set of plugins. The plugins are stored in an internal list and cannot be changed except by editing the plugin.

This provides a way to run a set of sight-impaired plugins without needing to assign a Sibelius keyboard shortcut for each plugin. This simplifies installation of the Sight-impaired tools.

The plugins in the list will need to be installed before they can be run with this plugin. A warning will be given if the plugins are not installed.

The initial set of plugins are Breaks, Find System Objects, Go To Staff, Initial Key Signatures And Clefs, and There It Is!

You can make a copy of this plugin and edit the variable _lstPluginsToRun to give yourself a list of plugins that will give you fixed shortcuts for any installed plugins that you want to set up. The first 9 plugins get the shortcuts 1 - 9, and then the next 26 will get A - Z (case insensitive). More plugins that that are ignored. See Run Plugins By Name or Fixed Plugin Shortcuts if you are dealing with large groups.

Updated 25 April 2015 to make the file easier to edit in a text editor. There will be no change at all from the user point of view.

Updated 23 November 2015 to allow it to run in Sibelius 5.2.5. No significant code was changed.

Updated 11 January 2016 to fix a small shortcut bug that would only show up if more plugins were added to the list. Current users should not need to update.

Download PluginSet.zip (5K, downloaded 27330 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hide MIDI Messages

Version 01.30.00
Added 20 Apr 2016 (last updated )

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Adds the Hidden attribute to selected text that starts with a ~ and is structured as a MIDI message. This allows Sibelius to use Hide Empty Staves on staves containing MIDI messages.

The code will not hide any other text, so it is generally safe to select an entire score and run the plugin.

Download HideMIDIMessages.zip (4K, downloaded 27403 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Trace MIDI Messages

Version 01.37.00
Added 19 May 2016 (last updated 25 Aug 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Writes the text and score location of selected MIDI messages (that start with ~) to the plugin trace window. For Note on (~N) and Note Off (~O) messages, it also translated pitch numbers to note names.

This can be useful when you have a "cloud" of MIDI messages, as when you use the Harp Gliss or Cresc/Dim plugins.

Updated 19 May 2016 to add a blank line between blocks

Updated 16 August 2016. Added blank line between messages for each bar.

Download TraceMIDIMessages.zip (5K, downloaded 27334 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create N by M Tuplet

Version 01.56.00
Added 05 Oct 2016 (last updated 24 Jun 2019)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

Creates a tuplet with a specified ratio from the first selected note or rest. You can choose any positive integer values for N and M, and a wider range of values is allowed compared to creating a tuplet in Sibelius.

Updated 26 June 2018 to add a Do Not Show Dialog checkbox.

Updated 31 May 2019 by Bob Zawalich. Version 01.53.00. This plugin now stores its dialog settings in Preferences so it retains them across Sibelius sessions. Also added version to title bar.

Updated 24 June 2019. Version 01.56.00. Changed processing when there is no selection; also added controls to allow choice of bracket and number properties similar to what is available in Create Tuplet.

Download CreateNbyMTuplet.zip (5K, downloaded 27699 times)

Plug-in written by Hans-Christoph Wirth.

Retract Selection

Version 01.05.00
Added 02 Sep 2019 (last updated 02 Sep 2019)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x, Sibelius 20.x, Sibelius 21.x, Sibelius 22.x, Sibelius 23.x and Sibelius 24.x

A passage (blue box) selection or system passage (purple box)selection, is considered full selected if the last bar was selected by clicking in the bar rather than on a note. When adding lines to such a selection, the lines will often extend into the following bar. This plugin move the end of such a selection to end end of the previous bar so lines will end where you expect them to.

Download RetractSelection.zip (3K, downloaded 27315 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.