As evidenced by the nearly endless-list of items at your disposal through this function, you might start re-training yourself to make use of it a lot more. Once you get in the habit of using Command Search, you might well embrace even more keyboard access, like in this sequence of applying Auto Breaks, which was done without taking my hands off the keyboard: Since these features are no longer tucked away in a dialog, they join the growing list of multi-edit commands - meaning they work on each selected staff. Speaking of Add Staff Below - a host of other commands previously only found in the Add/Edit Instruments dialog have arrived at the party: Add Staff Above, Increase Instrument Staff Size, Decrease Instrument Staff Size, Remove Staves, Move Instruments Up, and Move Instruments Down. In the above sequence, if you’re quick, you’ll notice three items previously only accessible via the Keypad or a custom shortcut: Cue size on/off, Accent, and 8 tremolos the elusive-but-helpful Move Down Chromatically command and a Dashed slur.Ĭouple this with some other commands like Add Staff Below, a repeat barline, and throw in time and key signature changes, and you can get powerful and fast really quickly: What it doesĪlthough you can click directly in the Command Search bar, to make it useful at all - and that means not touching the mouse - you’ll want to invoke the comma ( ,) shortcut to move focus to it. Practically speaking, though, you won’t find yourself in this list nearly as much as you will in the search bar itself, so let’s go there. You can filter this list by category to make it less overwhelming. Obviously you won’t be scrolling through this list every time you want to run a command (although you can click on an item to execute it) its purpose is to familiarize the user with the items that are available, so that you can discover what’s there. In Sibelius 2021.2 there’s a new Commands drop-down in the Home tab that contains everything you can access via Command Search. You don’t need to navigate to Preferences, though, to peruse the sorts of items you can access. Pretty much anything that you’d find in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts area - including all of the Keypad layouts and items in the File tab (Backstage) - you can find in Command Search. Now called Command Search, the box now has access to a huge number of items. In the 2021.2 update, though, your wish is Sibelius’s command - er, in the form of something that is increasingly evolving into a true launch bar. You could execute items that lived in the Ribbon and some other things like plug-ins, but if you wished to access most of the rest of Sibelius’s functions this way, it was out of its reach. The only catch was that there was lots missing here.
In Sibelius 2018.1, this box began to be re-imagined as a command launcher, whereby clicking or pressing Return on a search result would immediately execute that command. Selecting the found option then took you to that part of the Ribbon, where you would have to again click to run whatever command you wanted. What it wasĮver since the Ribbon’s introduction in Sibelius 7, there has existed a Find in Ribbon search box in the upper-right corner of the screen, designed to help users find what they were looking for (especially those used to the Sibelius 6 menus).Īt the time, the search box did what it said: it was purposely designed more as a Sibelius navigation tool and not necessarily to execute a command quickly. Sibelius’s Ribbon has had something of a turbulent journey over the years.
Updated April 15, 2021: Avid has officially qualified Sibelius 2021.2 to run on Macs with an M1 processor under the Rosetta 2 translation environment.
#SHORTCUT FOR SEARCH IN TEXT MAC UPDATE#
The Sibelius 2021.2 update also expands Sibelius’s scripting and plug-in capabilities, giving not just advanced developers, but also mere mortals an easier way to use them. This Sibelius release continues the ongoing evolution/repurposing of the Find in Ribbon function into an increasingly comprehensive launch bar, now called Command Search. In the recent past we’ve reliably seen the first Sibelius update of the year come in January in coordination with the opening of the NAMM Show, but with the mass gathering in Anaheim curtailed due to the pandemic, February it is this year. Avid has released the Sibelius 2021.2 update, its first of 2021.
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