Having seen how badly the surface pro works for my partner in his job, I wouldn't waste your money on it. I have a Scarlett 2i4 which is small, compact but very flexible. If you are going to be live recording, you'll need a mic and some MIDI interface. they are tiny, fit in a pocket and 5TB costs around £100. For portabe HD space for your sound library and/or files, you could do worse than the WD Passport series of drives. If you really want to go down the route of audio engineering, Cubase or Nuendo from Steinberg are your best toys - but they're both relatively expensive. It has a tiny footprint compared to most libraries and is relatively cheap and generally has much better sounds for mock-ups and so on. I would highly recommend NotePerformer as a travelling sound library. If you get a powerful laptop, with enough RAM (32GB) and Disc space (Whatever you can afford - preferably SSD) you should have no issues with sibelius.
I would never recommend a Mac to anyone for personal reasons. OK, what you seem to want is not a dream computer, but dream software! Would appreciate lots of comments and advice geared towards a slow learner. I am not much of a technician, however, and have not graduated to using ProTools or the like. 7.5 continues to work very well for me, so could live with it - does the Ultimate or even a step up upgrade do much more or have some cool things I would appreciate? (I am presently writing for a small ensemble but have written for combined orchestra and choir.) I have 7.5 and wonder if I should really go for the Ultimate Sibelius but am hesitant because of the cost. But I wonder what the learning curve is for using a Mac with Sibelius. I've had Sibelius freeze up on me quite a bit on the variety of PCs I've used over the years. (The whole pen thing - I don't know about that.There just seems to be so much tweeking involved.)My daughter suggests a 2 in 1 powerful refurbished lap top as a possibility.Īlso, I have always used a PC, but I hear from other Sibelius users, that using a MAC is better because Macs have always been more graphic oriented. parts) for rehearsing and performing (I'm also a performer - vocal, guitar, keyboard, etc.) with the ability to easily change pages.Īm I asking too much in a 'dream' computer and/or laptop? I have Surface Pro 5, but after reading online about it, I don't think putting Sibelius would work for me. Having decent playback to actually be used in perfomance not too ponderous in weight so tha I can easily take entire unit for travelling (for instance, I have a commission to write incidental (digital) music fior a children's play and I would like to take it to rehearsals for any changes the director wants and this involves an air flight) and using the monitor to use as display of sheet music (i.e. I would like this 'dream' computer capable of addressing several functions:Ĭomposing and doing all the things that one usually does when using Sibelius in terms of filing, exporting, copying, going to the Forum and other places for correcting goofs, etc. I am in the market for a new computer to use primarily with Sibelius and all things musical.
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