Note: There is another installment of “Finale to Sibelius Translation” coming soon. In the meantime:
Can’t you boys turn that music down!
When Sibelius boots up it plays a short snippet from Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6 Op. 104 as performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Many mornings it’s like my wake up call, “Welcome to Sibelius time to get to work!” I kind of like it.
But I run into many Sibelius users who say, “I love Sibelius but that start up music is really annoying!” What they don’t realize is, there is a simple way to turn that rousing melody off.
Go to the menu Sibelius> Preferences>Other (which is the last option in the list on the left). In the lower right quarter of this window you’ll see this:
Uncheck “Play music” and you won’t hear those lovely strains again, until the next time you drop in on the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and they happen to have Sibelius Symphony No. 6 on the program.
BTW: This subject was most recently brought to my attention by Tyler Summers a wonderful multi instrumentalist/singer/songwriter here in Nashville, who I had the pleasure of working with for the first time this past weekend. Click on his name here and check out his website, he is doing some pretty unique stuff!
Hinch
Thanks, man! It’s a nice little piece of music, but it often interrupts my musical thoughts and/or plays while I’m already listening to something, so this really helped.
You’re welcome, glad it helped!
Ditto on that. Thanks for the tip.
Glad I can help!
Yes – very helpful info. Thanks! The Sibelius menus are very similar to Windows Office v10, and a year later, I’m still in the learning curve on that one also,
Cheers,
–>S.
John: Thanks for the heads up – I love Jean Sibelius’ music, but the start up fanfare is wearing thin, and it’s always way too loud. John Douglas
Hi John, You are welcome, this is a very popular post! Thanks for reading my blog! Hinch
Thanks for the info. Sometimes the start-up music seems to drag on and on, especially if I am already listening to something when starting the program.
Aw, this was an incredibly good post. Taking a few minutes and
actual effort to generate a very good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate a lot and don’t seem to get anything done.
Looks like I’m having the opposite issue. Sibelius Ultimate has stopped playing the music upon opening, even though the “Play music” is checked. Could it be because I am using a HDMI connection to a large screen monitor as my video and audio?
I’m not sure exactly why that happened but that may be the issue if this is a recent change to your setup. I have notice that the startup music plays through the computer system audio but no necessarily through the audio interface chosen in the Sibelius playback setup.