Dolet 4 for Sibelius

Recordare is proud to present our newest member of the Dolet^® family, Dolet 4 for Sibelius. Dolet was a famous French translator of the 16th-century. Our Dolet software is also a translator, but this time between different music programs that previously would never talk to each other. Purchase it now!

Dolet 4 for Sibelius is a plug-in for Sibelius 5 and 6, written in ManuScript. It exports Sibelius files to MusicXML 2.0 format. Use Dolet 4 to:

• Share music you have created in Sibelius with people who use Finale, capella, Notion, and the many other programs that support MusicXML.
• Archive your Sibelius work into an open, text-based format that can be read by all sorts of programs - including the text editor on your computer.

If you are already using Dolet 3 for Sibelius, you will be delighted at all the new and improved features available in Dolet 4. Chord symbol diagrams, beaming, cautionary accidentals, cue-size notes, tablature staff tuning, multi-measure rests, double-note tremolos, percussion staff formatting, and blank pages are among the many new features that now translate from Sibelius to Finale. See the Dolet 4 version history for a full list of improvements.

Music interchange between these programs has been limited to MIDI files. MIDI is a great format for electronic musical instruments, but not for printed music. MusicXML lets you exchange the vast majority of information contained in a notation file, including rests, repeats, dynamics, lyrics, slurs, tempo marks, and much more.

To see how this works compared to Standard MIDI Files, watch the YouTube video or the higher-resolution video demonstration (5.5 MB). For a quick comparison, here's the start of a song as entered into Sibelius 5.2:

Here's how this gets translated into Finale 2009 using Standard MIDI Files. The pitches and most of the rhythms are transferred, but nearly every other detail of the original music notation is lost:

Compare that interpretation to how the song gets translated into Finale 2009 using a MusicXML 2.0 file. Now this is an accurate translation! The chord symbols, lyrics, dynamics, repeat barline, slurs, articulations, crescendo and diminuendo wedges, tempo mark, composer, title, and system breaks are all present and accounted for.

The Dolet translator is a plug-in for the Sibelius notation program. To use it, you must have Sibelius 5 or 6 installed on your system. If you are using Sibelius 2.1, 3.1, or 4, use the Dolet 1 for Sibelius plug-in instead.

Note that Dolet 4 for Sibelius writes out MusicXML files, but does not read in MusicXML files. Sibelius 4 and later come with a built-in MusicXML file importer.

Dolet 4 for Sibelius software is available under the terms of Recordare's software license agreement. More information about installing and using Dolet 4 is available in the V4 readme file. You can see what has changed recently at the Dolet 4 version history.

For common support questions, see our Frequently Asked Questions for Version 4.

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