Dolet 1 for Sibelius

Recordare is proud to present our first release of Dolet^® 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 for Sibelius is a plug-in for Sibelius versions 2.1, 3.1, 4, and 5, written in ManuScript. It exports Sibelius files to MusicXML format. Use Dolet to:

Share music you have created in Sibelius with people who use Finale, Notion, and other programs that support MusicXML.
Read Sibelius 2.1, 3.1, 4, and 5 files into Sibelius 1.4 (requires Finale 2000/2001 and Dolet 4 for Finale, or use Recordare's file translation services).
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.

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, here's the start of an English folk song as entered into Sibelius 2.1:

I'm Seventeen Come Sunday - Sibelius original

Here's how this gets translated into Finale 2003 using Standard MIDI Files. You might as well just start over rather than try to use this:

I'm Seventeen Come Sunday - Finale via MIDI

Compare that interpretation to how the song gets translated into Finale 2003 using MusicXML. Now this is usable! The pickup bar, repeat, lyrics, arpeggio, dynamics, tempo, slurs, stems, title, and composer are all present and accounted for.

I'm Seventeen Come Sunday - Finale via MusicXML

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

Screen shot of Dolet for Sibelius MusicXML Export

Note that Dolet for Sibelius writes out MusicXML files, but does not read in MusicXML files. Sibelius 4 and 5 come with a built-in MusicXML file importer.

Dolet for Sibelius software is available under the terms of Recordare's software license agreement. More information about installing and using Dolet is available in the V1 readme file. You can see what has changed recently at the Dolet 1 version history.

For common support questions, see our Frequently Asked Questions for Version 1.

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Last updated September 3, 2008.