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Insert One Symbol for Sibelius 4

Version 01.35.00
Added 11 Aug 2005 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 4

Insert One Symbol inserts a symbol to a selected location. It is meant to have a shortcut assigned to it, to give Sibelius the ability to effectively assign a shortcut to a symbol.

To determine which symbol will be inserted, you must run Insert One Symbol Show Dialog, which puts up a dialog that lets you select a symbol, its size, and whether it is attached to a system or a staff. Insert One Symbol Show Dialog lets you put several symbols into a list, which is saved across Sibelius sessions. By re-running it and selecting a different symbol, you change the symbol that will be inserted when Insert One Symbol is run.

So, you run Insert One Symbol Show Dialog to choose the symbol, and Insert One Symbol to insert it.

New in version 1.35:

  • The X and Y offsets of staff attached symbols may now be specified.

New in version 1.33:

  • The list of symbols is now sorted in the order they appear in the symbols list, so it should be easier to find a symbol.
  • Fixed some problems with different symbol names in Sibelius 3 and Sibelius 4, as well as adding the ability to differentiate symbols with the same names.

For Sibelius 5 and later, use the plugin Insert One Symbol.

  • Download InsertOneSymbol.zip (14K, downloaded 25293 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Quiz Plug-ins

Added 20 Aug 2005

For use with Sibelius 3.x and Sibelius 4

Vst

The plug-in's author says:

'I created a template for writing little musical games in Manuscript. With it, I wrote these three quiz-games - these can be used for testing your (or your students) knowledge or just for fun. You can easily write more games or tests by using one of these as a template. There are clear instructions in the Run method of each of these plug-ins. Preferably create a new folder for these in the plug-ins folder and put these there. Name it Quiz or whatever you want.'
  • Download QuizPlugins.zip (12K, downloaded 25277 times)

Plug-in written by Väinö Piipponen.

List Scale Tones

Version 01.50.00
Added 24 Jan 2006 (last updated 17 Jun 2015)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plugin lists the scale tones and non-scale tones for a number of scale types and all roots with 1 or fewer accidentals; these can be displayed in English, German, French or Spanish, and a sample can be written as notation in a score. It is possible to change how non-scale tones are spelled, and to add and edit definitions of new scales.

  • Download ListScaleTones.zip (24K, downloaded 25679 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Scales and Arpeggios

Added 06 Feb 2006 (last updated 31 Mar 2009)

For use with Sibelius 4 and Sibelius 4.1

This is a minor update to the plug-in that ships with Sibelius 4 and Sibelius 4.1. It fixes a problem whereby the plug-in would sometimes create the wrong number of bars for a given set of scales.

For Sibelius 5 use the shipping version of this plugin.

  • Download ScalesAndArpeggios.zip (14K, downloaded 25300 times)

Plug-in written by Gunnar Hellquist.

Create Score Database

Added 27 Feb 2006 (last updated 22 May 2019)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Create Score Database can be run on a folder of Sibelius scores, and generates a text file suitable for opening in e.g. Microsoft Excel or Access, listing the salient information about the scores in that folder (and, optionally, its subfolders), including:

  • Complete path and filename
  • Contents of Score Info fields
  • Time signature
  • Key signature
  • Instrumentation

and more.

The plug-in was updated on 2 March 2006 to fix a problem with incorrectly logging scores with minor key signatures.

  • Download CreateScoreDatabase.zip (6K, downloaded 25631 times)

Plug-in written by David Stafford.

Score Original Version

Version 01.80.20
Added 29 Mar 2006 (last updated 17 Jan 2020)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Score Original Version displays (in the trace window) the version of Sibelius under which the score was originally created.

Updated January 23, 2009. Under Sibelius 5.0 or later the plugin will now also display the score modification date and time in local (rather than GMT) time.

Updated July 24, 2010. A warning is given that an imported House Style may update the internal version number. Under Sibelius 6 or later, both the file creation and last modification dates are now shown, also with warnings.

Updated July 26, 2010 to tidy up the warning text.

Updated 24 August 2011 to add ability to process all open scores or a folder of scores.

Updated 21 June 2012 to display currently running Sibelius version number.

Updated 17 February 2018. Added score title to information. Changed formatting to be more compact. Marked plugin as only running from Sib 6 or later, which has been true for a while.

Updated 17 February 2018. Added progress bar and ability to process a range of scores from a folder.

Updated 20 December 2019. Version 01.80.00. Updated to handle ProgramVersion variable format change.

Updated 17 January 2020. Version 01.80.20. Improvements made to handling version numbers from 2018 and 2019 versions of Sibelius Ultimate.

  • Download ScoreOriginalVersion.zip (10K, downloaded 25654 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Get User Folder Names

Version 01.32.00
Added 15 Aug 2006 (last updated 20 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plug-in lists the full path names of the various Sibelius 'User' folders in a copyable form. This can be useful when determining where to place plug-ins, manuscript papers, house styles and other such files.

Updated 11 February 2010 to give correct paths for Vista and Windows 7

Updated 8 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility

Updated 15 August 2011 to correct some Sib 7 folder names and to add the likely locations of Example Scores for Sib 6 and later.

Updated 1 August 2015 to add locations of shipping plugins.

Updated 15 February 2017. Included default scores folder.

Updated 19 February 2020. Version 01.32.00. Added User-Editable Files base folder to list of folders. This is the folder that is the parent folder for most of the user-editable files such as plugins, house styles, and manuscript papers. You can copy the folder name from the edit box and paste in into Windows Explorer or Finder to access all the child folders and files.

  • Download GetUserFolderNames.zip (5K, downloaded 25661 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Groovy Music Mark-up

Added 04 Sep 2006 (last updated 30 Mar 2009)

For use with Sibelius 4 and Sibelius 4.1

This plug-in allows you to mark up a Sibelius score before exporting it as a MIDI file in order to open it in Sibelius Groovy Music.

The plug-in contains detailed instructions -- just click Help after running it from the Plug-ins menu.

For Sibelius 5, use the shipping version of this plugin.

  • Download GroovyMusicMarkup.zip (5K, downloaded 25251 times)

Plug-in written by David Harvey.

Create Insert Symbol Plugin for Sibelius 4

Added 26 Nov 2006 (last updated 09 Aug 2011)

For use with Sibelius 4 and Sibelius 4.1

This plug-in lets you create and install new plug-ins that, when run, will insert a chosen symbol of a chosen size into a score. If you assign a shortcut to the new plug-ins, you will have, in effect, a way to assign a shortcut to an individual symbol.

The generated plugins will be put by default in the Zymbols subfolder of your user Plug-ins folder. The name will include the symbol name, the size, its attachment status, and its position offsets.

In order to assign shortcuts to the newly-created plug-ins, you must first close and restart Sibelius, so the new plug-ins will be loaded.

For Sibelius 5 and later use Create Insert Symbol Plugin.

  • Download CreateInsertSymboPlugin.zip (15K, downloaded 25258 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Get Page Count

Version 01.07.00
Added 15 Dec 2006 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Get Page Count stores the number of pages in a score (at the time the plug-in is run) into the Other Information field of the File >Score Info. This makes the number of pages available for use in text fields (such as 'Page x of y') if the $MOREINFO wildcard is used. (The full text would be 'Page $PAGENUM of $MOREINFO'). If the number of pages changes, the plug-in should be rerun, but any wildcards will be automatically updated.

Updated 4 April 2010. In Sib 6 or later, the plugin will store the page count both in the full score and in each part, so a footer containing the MOREINFO wildcard will be correct in the parts.

Updated 5 April 2010 to allow you to specify different Score Info locations for the page count data.

Updated 21 June 2012 to allow count to exclude Special Page Break title pages and following blank pages.

As of Sibelius 7.1.3, you can use the NumPages wildcard, and this plugin should not be needed.

  • Download GetPageCount.zip (4K, downloaded 25566 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Chord Diagrams

Version 01.20.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Jun 2012)

For use with Sibelius 5

Adds chords diagrams at the same location as selected chord symbols. The chord voicings are determined by what is currently selected in the Create Chord Diagram dialog.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

This plugin will run in Sibelius 6, but it should not be needed. Use the new ability of chord symbols to hide or show diagrams instead.

  • Download AddChordDiagrams.zip (6K, downloaded 25232 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete or Update Title Page

Version 01.20.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Deletes title pages that use hidden bars (with staff type or instrument changes). Also deletes Sib 5 Special Page Break title pages or selected blank pages.

Can also convert title pages created using hidden staff changes into Sib 5 Special Page Break pages. Manual adjustment of position of text will be required.

Renamed from Update Title Page on November 27, 2007

  • Download DeleteOrUpdateTitlePage.zip (9K, downloaded 25614 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Exchange Staff Contents

Version 01.30.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 25 Aug 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Swaps the contents of 2 selected staves. If two staves are selected, they will be swapped. If more than two staves are selected, the top and bottom staves are swapped.

Updated 1 July 2012 to fix problems with irregular bars and some unusual selection.

Updated 4 November 2012 to fix problems with partially selected bars. Thanks, Laurence! Please note that you should not use dragged-box passage selections with this plugin - use keyboard or click-shift click selecting instead.

Updated 31 May 2018. Added option to make octave changed when exchanging between octave-transposing instruments, such as piccolo or guitar, or exchanging an instrument with a treble clef with an instrument that has a bass clef, as in the staves of a piano. A PDF file explaining this is included in the zip file. The option is off by default. If you hide the dialog after the first run, and want to set the option you can run the plugin with no selection, which will bring up a dialog and let you change the settings. The settings are not retained across Sibelius sessions. Thanks to Ilkay Bora Oder for suggesting this, and the Robert Puff and Philip Rothman for trying it out.

Updated 25 August 2018. Version 01.30.00. Added ability to swap the first and last bars in a passage selection in a single staff. The bars must be fully selected and must be the same size.

  • Download ExchangeStaffContents.zip (267K, downloaded 26465 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Create Insert Symbol Plugin

Version 02.07.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 29 Sep 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Lets you create and install new plug-ins that, when run, will insert a chosen symbol of a chosen size into a score. If you assign a shortcut to the new plug-ins, you will have, in effect, a way to assign a shortcut to an individual symbol.

The generated plugins will be put by default in the Zymbols subfolder of your user Plug-ins folder. The name will include the symbol name, the size, its attachment status, and its position offsets.

In order to assign shortcuts to the newly-created plug-ins, you must first close and restart Sibelius, so the new plug-ins will be loaded.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated April 13, 2009. Added the ability to choose vertical position of a staff symbol relative to a selected note.

Updated 22 July 2009. Added ability to center a symbol horizontally in a bar, and also the ability, in Sib 6, to turn off Magnetic Layout for inserted symbols

Updated 13 October 2010. Fixed bug that ignored clef change in bar 1.

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility

Updated 22 October 2011 to fix Sib 7 file changes.

Updated 7 March 2016 to have default be symbol be first selected symbol, if any.

Updated 28 November 2017 to add Find In List

Updated 29 September 2018 to fix missing error message if text not found. Version 02.07.00.

  • Download CreateInsertSymbolPlugin.zip (38K, downloaded 25642 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Insert One Symbol

Version 01.85.00
Added 06 Oct 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Inserts a symbol to a selected location. It is meant to have a shortcut assigned to it, to give Sibelius the ability to effectively assign a shortcut to a symbol. Updated to list Sibelius 5 symbols.

To determine which symbol will be inserted, a dialog comes up the first time you run the plugin in a session, or if you run the plugin with no selection. The dialog lets you select a symbol, its size, and whether it is attached to a system or a staff. The dialog lets you put several symbols into a list, which is saved across Sibelius sessions. By re-running it and selecting a different symbol, you change the symbol that will be inserted when Insert One Symbol is run.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated April 13, 2009. Added the ability to choose vertical position of a staff symbol relative to a selected note. Also, Insert One Symbol Show Dialog is no longer required. Now the dialog comes up the first time you run the plugin in a session, or if you run the plugin with no selection. A checkbox on the dialog will let you run the plugin with no dialog showing.

Updated 22 July 2009. Added ability to center a symbol horizontally in a bar, and also the ability, in Sib 6, to turn off Magnetic Layout for inserted symbols

Updated 13 October 2010. Fixed bug that ignored clef change in bar 1.

Use this version for Sibelius 5 and later. For Sibelius version 4 use the plugin Insert One Symbol for Sibelius 4.

  • Download InsertOneSymbol.zip (38K, downloaded 25569 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hidden Instrument Change

Version 01.80.00
Added 22 Oct 2007 (last updated 24 Sep 2020)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Adds an instrument change to No instrument(hidden).

This is equivalent to using Create > Other > Instrument Change > Others > No instrument (Hidden) with no clef and no warning text. Assign a shortcut if you will use it often.

Updated 22 October 2009. This update restores the original instrument after a passage selection, which it did before Sibelius 6.1

Updated 5 January 2010. This update lets a change at the start of the first bar hide the initial clef. Also, if you run with no selection it brings up some options to allow you to choose warning text.

Updated 24 March 2010 minor bug fix.

Updated 27 April 2010.

Note that there are 2 ways that the plugin might not restore the original instrument as of Sibelius 6.2. The first is if you make a non-passage (blue box) selection. So if you want the restoration, always make a passage selection. The second way is if you select a single bar, and have turned off the Note Input Preference Restore Original Item After Single Bar Selection. If you want the plugin to restore the original instrument, you must turn this preference on.

Updated 15 May 2010. New option to Always restore instrument in single bar selection (on by default).

Updated 24 September 2020. Added the ability to apply the change to all selected staves, not just the first one. Only actually selected staves will be processed, so you can use a discontiguous selection.

Run the plugin with no selection to see an options dialog. By default the plugin will skip staves hidden by Focus On Staves, or staves all of whose bars are hidden by Hide Empty Staves in the range of the selection.

  • Download HiddenInstrumentChange.zip (6K, downloaded 390 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Add Rehearsal Marks to Double Barlines

Added 08 Nov 2007 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plug-in simply creates a rehearsal mark on every double barline in your score.

  • Download AddRehearsalMarksToDoubleBarlines.zip (1K, downloaded 25620 times)

Plug-in written by Neil Sands.

Save Score With Date

Version 01.20.00
Added 17 Mar 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plugin saves a copy of the current score, combining the current date and/or time with the file name. The original score remains open and unchanged. This is useful for making date-stamped backup scores. The plugin requires a simple one-time setup to determine the format of the date on your machine. It allows you to choose one of a number of formats for the saved file name (such as file_03132008.sib or 081303_file.sib), and it will remember your preferences.

  • Download SaveScoreWithDate.zip (13K, downloaded 25572 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Highlight Entire Selection

Version 01.10.00
Added 07 Apr 2008 (last updated 19 Feb 2019)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Adds a highlight to all selected staves, rather than just the top staff (which is what Create Highlight does). The highlight is not continuous, but is one Highlight line per selected staff.

Updated April 10, 2008 to allow coloring the highlight, and to delete selected highlights in addition to adding them. There is now a dialog that can be turned off after the first display.

Updated April 12, 2008 to fix endpoint on single bar selections

Updated 31 May, 2010 to include Comment user colors if Comments are present

Updated 17 May 2018. Highlights are now retracted to the end of the last bar if the entire bar is selected, rather than running over into the following bar.

  • Download HighlightEntireSelection.zip (7K, downloaded 25610 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Remove Selected Highlights

Version 01.03.00
Added 10 Apr 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Removes any highlight lines within the current selection.

  • Download RemoveSelectedHighlights.zip (2K, downloaded 25543 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Cautionary Time Signatures

Version 01.08.00
Added 22 Apr 2008 (last updated 15 Jan 2018)

For use with Sibelius 4, Sibelius 4.1, Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Forces all selected time signatures to use cautionary or to not use cautionary.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 15 January 2018. Reset Note Spacing is now done for affected bars.

  • Download CautionaryTimeSignatures.zip (3K, downloaded 25680 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Current Dynamics

Version 01.20.00
Added 03 Oct 2008 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Displays the most recent dynamics marking (expression text or hairpin) for each staff in the score at the start of the selection. The list is in the debug trace window, which can stay on screen after the plugin runs.

Updated 7 October 2008 to allow multiple dynamics at same location and improve choice of dynamics for multi-stave instruments.

Updated 12 May 2009 to show multiple adjacent hairpins.

Updated 14 August 2011 to filter out some expression text that is unlikely to be dynamics

Updated 16 October 2012 to change Dynamics text to be recognized as Expression text that matches a list of dynamics words.

  • Download CurrentDynamics.zip (6K, downloaded 25629 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Hidden Key Signatures

Version 01.20.00
Added 22 Jan 2009 (last updated 15 Jan 2018)

For use with Sibelius 5, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plugin turns the 'Hide' property on or off for selected key signatures. This is the same as using the 'Hide' property in Create Key Signatures.

This is a companion to the Cautionary Time Signatures plugin.

Updated 2 April 2009 for internal code cleanup

Updated 15 January 2018. Reset Note Spacing is now done for affected bars.

  • Download HiddenKeySignatures.zip (3K, downloaded 25585 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Advanced Calculator

Added 10 Sep 2009 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with unknown versions of Sibelius.

This plug-in is designed for Sibelius 6 as a Sibelius-inclusive calculator. The classic calculator interface allows you to input equations, including variables derived from the score.

The plug-in also remains running as long as you would like for as many equations as you like. There is built-in memory so your solution remains after every time you hit Enter, so that it may be used for the next equation.

In other words, it functions just like a real calculator would just within Sibelius.

  • Download AdvancedCalculator.zip (5K, downloaded 25403 times)

Plug-in written by Roman Molino Dunn.

Add Authentic Jazz Flips

Added 08 Jan 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

The default fonts, symbols and lines provided with Sibelius, including Inkpen2, do not currently contain an authentic-looking jazz articulation called a flip. A flip (sometimes called a turn) looks somewhat like half of a flying seagull and is used to indicate the pitch rising above a first note and then dropping down to a second note. The item most similar to a flip that is provided with Sibelius is the guitar bend staff line.

This plug-in allows you to bulk replace guitar bend staff lines with flips created from a provided TIF graphic. The recommended usage is to create your score using guitar bend staff lines in all the places where you want to have flips, and when the score is near completion, run this plug-in to replace the bends with flips.

By inserting flips as graphic items, it ensures that they will be preserved if your score is submitted to SibeliusMusic.com or if you send the score file to another Sibelius user (an engraver, publisher, etc.), regardless of the fonts you and the recipient have installed.

This plug-in is for visual purposes only and has no effect on sound playback.

This plug-in requires that you move the flip.tif graphic included in the archive you download to your user's application data folder, which is by default C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication Dataflip.tif for Windows XP, C:UsersusernameAppDataRoaming for Windows Vista/Windows 7, and /Users/username/Library/Application Support/flip.tif for Mac OS X. If your folder is located elsewhere or the TIF file is missing, the plug-in will advise you on how to correct the problem.

  • Download AddJazzFlip.zip (4K, downloaded 25809 times)

Plug-in written by Ed Hirschman.

Export Selection As Score

Version 01.33.00
Added 23 Jan 2010 (last updated 20 Nov 2020)

For use with Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Creates a score containing only the contents of the selection. It ensures that the instrument type, time signature, key signature, and clef at the start of the new score match those present at the same location in the original.

Updated 20 April 2010 to preserve special barlines at end of selection

Updated 10 June 2010 to delete all versions but the current one.

Updated 2 August 2010 to better handle file names with periods and without extensions.

Updated 9 October 2010. If run from a part, the part will be in view at the end. The other staves and parts, which will be empty, are still in the score. To get only the part as a score you should extract the part before or after running this plugin. Version 1.22.

Updated 11 August 2011 to save the score after removing unused bars so it will be the right size even if the user does not save it. Version 1.26.

This plugin ships with Sibelius 7 and later so use the shipping version

Updated 11 October 2020. Version 01.32.00. There are significant improvements so it is being made available for install after Sib 6. Installing it will cause it to be called instead of the shipping version. Be sure you do not already have a copy of this plugin in another user plugin folder.

This version fixes bugs that caused irregular bars, including pickups, to expand to full size, and for deleted rests to reappear. It will also restore systems hidden by Hide Empty Staves, which were previously unhidden.

For other plugins that may call this, it now returns the newly created score from the Run() method.

Updated 20 November 2020. Version 01.33.00. Fixed a bug where in some cases music in the resulting score was not deleted. The intention is that if you select parts of bars, or leave some staves in a system unselected, then the unselected portions of the first and last selected bars, and the staves outside the selections will be cleared of music. This fix will restore that behavior, while retaining the previous version fixes.

  • Download ExportSelectionAsScore.zip (11K, downloaded 234 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Install New Plugin

Version 02.02.00
Added 08 May 2010 (last updated 03 Jul 2018)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Moves a Sibelius plugin file, which is typically downloaded and unzipped from the Sibelius Plugin Download page, into a subfolder of your user plugins folder.

The intention is that the file is unzipped to a convenient location (the same one every time), and the plugin will get the list of available subfolders, and let you choose which folder should get the plugin. You can also create a new subfolder.

The plugin does itself need to be installed before you can use it, so you will still need to follow the instructions on the Sibelius Plugins Download page to install it (in Sib 7 use the plugin installer).

Updated 9 August 2011 for Sib 7 user file location compatibility

Updated 29 February 2012 to clarify the fact that it installs .plg files and not .zip files.

Updated 14 April 2014 to fix incorrect folder names in Sib 7.5

Updated 26 February 2016 to greatly improve file copy speed.

Updated 12 March 2016. It will now let you install a folder of plugin (.plg) files, checks for duplicate plugins, and by default copies rather than moves the original plugin file.

Updated 15 March 2016. If the plugin finds a plugin that is already installed it will issue a warning but will not replace the installed plugin.

Updated 3 July 2018. Added option to allow overwriting if installing into the same plugin subfolder. Installing if the plugin is already in a different subfolder is still disallowed to prevent duplicates.

  • Download InstallNewPlugin.zip (13K, downloaded 25929 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Delete Versions in Folder

Added 10 Jun 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plug-in deletes all the versions from the current score, or all open scores, or all of the Sibelius scores in a folder (optionally including subfolders), leaving only the 'Current Version' in each score.

  • Download DeleteVersionsInFolder.zip (3K, downloaded 25524 times)

Plug-in written by Jan Kok.

Insert Bars with Different Time Signatures

Added 14 Aug 2010 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plug-in can be used to insert many consecutive bars with different time signatures in a single step. It is particularly convenient to insert many bars with alternating time signatures. The bars will be inserted before a passage selection or at the end of the score if there is no passage selection. The time signature at the insertion point is restored at the end of the inserted bars.

  • Download InsertManyBars.zip (3K, downloaded 25678 times)

Plug-in written by Andrew Moschou.

Run Plugins By Name

Version 02.30.00
Added 11 Aug 2011 (last updated 22 Feb 2020)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Run Plugins By Name lets you find plugins to run by name in a sorted list.

Recently run plugins are shown at the top of the list, in most-recently run order first, followed by all the other plugins in alphabetical order.

By default you select a name in the list, and click the Run button or type enter to run the plugin. If you want to work more with a mouse, there is an option to run a plugin by simply clicking on a list entry. That does not work for the currently selected entry (the click must change the selection to run), so to run that plugin, type Enter or click Run.

Assign a shortcut to this plugin to have a list of recently run plugins easily available.

Updated 14 December 2011 to give better file name information when there are plugins with the same menu name.

Updated 31 December 2011 for better error recovery when a plugin is renamed or deleted.

Updated 13 October 2-12 adding option to change the maximum number of recent plugins on the list.

Updated 12 August 2014 to allow specifying zero 'recent' plugins.

Updated 6 October 2014 to speed up the list sort so it starts up faster.

Updated 16 January 2017.The option to run a plugin when the list box was clicked has been disabled for Sib 7.5 and later because the list box appeared to receive a click before a user could click on it. It is still available for Sib 6 and 7.1.3.

Updated 13 February 2017. Added a Find button so you could search the plugin list without needed to know the exact name. I am adding a PDF document to the zip file explaining some intricacies of using the find button.

Updated 15February 2017. Some bug fixes, and rearranged dialog to fit a laptop screen better. Clicking the 'Find button default' button now takes effect immediately.

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Updated 17 February 2017. Rearranged dialog buttons slightly to make it easier to switch between Find and list mode. Each has advantages based on context.

Updated 9 September 2017 for some minor speed improvements.

Updated 18 October 2017. Cleaned up handling of deleted or renamed plugins showing up in the recent plugin list.

Updated 20 October 2017. Fixed some potential crashing bugs

Updated 19 February 2018. Added additional plugin Run Last Named Plugin, which will run the first plugin in the recent plugin list created by Run Plugins By Name. If you assign as shortcut to it, it is very fast to run a plugin with Run Plugins By Name, and then keep rerunning that plugin without waiting for the dialog to come up.

Updated 13 March 2018. Improved reporting of duplicate plugins.

Updated 27 April 2018. Added Run Stopwatch option will will time the plugin currently being run, putting the result in the plugin trace window.

Updated 2 May 2018. Run Plugins By Name now saves the Run Stopwatch Setting to Preferences, and Run Last Named Plugin will time a plugin if that preferences was set.

Updated 15 July 2018 Version 02.20.00. For calling plugins, Run() now returns the filename of the last plugin run. This makes it easier for a plugin that calls Run Plugins By Name to know what was run so they can call it again. Also added some API routines for callers. No specific user features, but Browse Selected Objects wants to use at least this version.

Updated 22 Feb 2020. Version 02.30.00. Mainly typo corrections in both plugins.

  • Download RunPluginsByName.zip (13K, downloaded 25709 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Edit Initial Instruments

Version 02.20.00
Added 14 Sep 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Allows you see view and change the initial instrument assigned to each staff in a score.

This can be particularly useful if you open a score created prior to Sibelius 4, where sometimes the conversion to newer versions of Sibelius causes instruments to be assigned to unnamed treble or bass staves, which play back as piano.

  • Download EditInitialInstruments.zip (17K, downloaded 25620 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Export Manuscript Paper Unchanged

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Version 01.04.00
Added 21 Sep 2011 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plugin will export the active score with no changes (all music, text, bars, etc., are unchanged) as Manuscript Paper. This is comparable to how Sibelius 6 exported Manuscript Paper. Note, though, that you will need to restart Sibelius to see the new Manuscript Papers in the File New list.

In File:Export:ManuscriptPaper, Sibelius 7 removes music, text, and all but 8 bars, which is often, but not always, desirable, so this plugin offers an alternative.

  • Download ExportManuscriptPaperUnchanged.zip (5K, downloaded 25526 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Open Selected Parts

Version 01.22.00
Added 22 Dec 2011 (last updated 20 Apr 2019)

For use with Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Provides a multi-selectable list of parts in the current score. Select the parts you want open in tabs, and deselect the ones you do not want open

Vst plugin tracks3. This can be very useful for doing things like importing house styles into all open parts, and similar multi-part operations.

Updated 23 December 2011. Made change to ensure window opened in tabs.

Updated 5 April 2012. A new version uses a non-checkbox multi-select list - needs Sib 7.1.2. The earlier version (Open Selected Parts Checkbox) is also available as is a document describing its uses.

Updated 21 November 2012. Fixed crash if the plugin closed all parts and no full score were open. Now the plugin will reopen the full score if all parts are being closed.

Updated 16September 2014 to fix possible bug in array sort.

Updated 11 December 2017 to seep up for large scores.

Updated 27 February 2018. Fixed crash when there were no parts.

Updated 22 March 2018. Added button to check for duplicate part names. Added suffix in dialog to duplicate part names so such parts can be opened.

Updated 28 May 2018. Cleanup, some error recovery.

Updated 20 April 2019. Added Open All Parts and Close All Parts buttons, rearranged dialogs slightly.

  • Download OpenSelectedParts.zip (84K, downloaded 25689 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Symbol

Version 01.08.00
Added 25 Apr 2013 (last updated 07 Mar 2014)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Replaces one symbol with another, which is normally not possible in Sibelius.

You can choose the name of a symbol that is in your score to be replaced, the type the name of the replacement symbol. If the replacement symbol is also defined in the score, you can use the Copy text button to avoid retyping.

The symbol name is case sensitive and must be typed exactly as defined in the Insert Symbol dialog. Note that some symbols have the same name, and this plugin cannot differentiate between such symbols.

Updated 2 May 2013 to make the dialog button larger to avoid truncating text.

  • Download ReplaceSymbol.zip (5K, downloaded 25552 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

My Plugins

Version 02.10.10
Added 26 Jan 2016 (last updated 09 Sep 2019)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Provides a list of plugins that can be run using the shortcuts in the list. The list can be edited by the user without editing the plugin itself, using the Customize feature. This lets you add plugins to a list in a specific order which will remain until you customize again. Each of the up to 35 plugins will have a specific one character shortcut (1-9 and a-z) so it should make having a working set of plugins easier to manage.

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Tip: If you are adding the contents of the sketch staves to the template file, setting ‘auto system breaks’ to every 4 or 8 bars (depending on the content density) gives better page distribution of material which can then be tweaked as necessary.

For ease of navigation to the template file, it seems to help if it is located in the same folder as the sketch file. This will shortcut the menus to the relevant folder when opening and saving the template. It can also help to set the default saving location to the folder that contains the sketch file and the template file. This path can be set by going to Sibelius > Preferences > Saving and Exporting > Saving Scores.

2. Running the plug-in

  1. Open the file you want to extract the bar structure from.
  2. Run the plug-in and follow the on-screen instructions.

The plug-in may be found (by default) in the following locations:

  • Sibelius 7.x, Sibelius 8.x: Home tab > Plug-ins
  • Sibelius 6.x: Plug-ins menu > Other

For a video showing how the plug-in works, click the link: https://youtu.be/8b-RzPx7H5I

Thanks to Neil Sands for his support and advice on the creation of this plug-in.

Version history

Version 2.01 adds the option to include the sketch staves on the bottom of the template, and also the option to add their contents.

Version 3.01 adds the option to transfer the title and subtitle of the sketch score to the template file so long as those fields are utilised in 'score info’. This update also separates the metronome mark and metric modulation text styles from the standard tempo text so that they can be selected independently, and adds the option to select Timecode. Sketch score brackets, braces and barlines will now correctly transfer to the template file if the option to add the staves is enabled. This update also offers a filename for the ‘save’ dialog box, and users are able to specify a filename extension for the template file in order to distinguish it from its sketch counterpart.

Version 3.02 fixes a bug when using the plug-in with Sibelius 8.3 and higher, which would add a stray double bar between bar 1 and 2 if Key Signatures were selected to impose.

  • Download ImposeSketchontoTemplate.zip (9K, downloaded 25740 times)

Plug-in written by Tom Curran.

Add Rehearsal Mark Plus Double Barline

Version 01.06.00
Added 06 Dec 2016 (last updated 12 Jun 2018)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Adds a consecutive Rehearsal Mark and a double barline to the start or end of a selected bar. By default it will add them to the start of the bar containing the first selected object, but if you run the plugin with no selection, it will bring up a dialog that will let you change whether insertion is at the start of end of the bar.

If the bar is at the start of a system, the double barline will appear at the end of the previous system, which is actually the same location.

This would be a good plugin for a shortcut.

Upgraded 6 December 2016. The plugin will now work if you select a barline. If you select a barline for the first bar in a system it cannot tell if the leading or trailing barline is selected, and will ask you where to put the objects.

Updated 12 June 2018 to avoid crashing when adding RM to last bar in score when there was a system selection.

  • Download AddRehearsalPlusDoubleBL.zip (6K, downloaded 25574 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

No Duplicates Paste

Version 1.0
Added 16 Jan 2017 (last updated 16 Jan 2017)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

For Sibelius 6, 7, 7.5 and 8

This plugin pastes a selection without doubling lines and text when bars are partially selected.

It supersedes the Complete Copy and Paste plugins which are now deprecated.

It has the following advantages over them:

  • Conventional copying is used. No copy plugin is required.
  • It does not affect the draw order of notes, lines or text in any way.
  • It supports multipaste, ie copying a passage as many times as possible in a selected passage.
  • By default, Sibelius has two shortcuts for pasting. Shift+Insert is the least used of the two, so it can be assigned to this plugin if desired.

Many thanks to Bob Zawalich for his encouragement and technical contributions to this plugin.

  • Download NoDuplicatesPaste.zip (4K, downloaded 25516 times)

Plug-in written by Kenneth Gaw.

Close All Parts

Version 01.23.00
Added 23 Apr 2019 (last updated 31 May 2020)

For use with Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Version 01.22.00. Closes all open parts for the current score. This is a dialog-free subset of the closing code from Open Selected Parts. It will take a while to close a lot of parts - watch the names change on the title bar to see progress.

It will only close the part tabs in the window in which the plugin is run. If you have parts open in separate windows, you will need to close them separately.

Udpated 31 May 2020. Version 01.23.00. Cleanup and make easier to be called from other plugins.

  • Download CloseAllParts.zip (3K, downloaded 611 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Replace Parts With Defaults

Version 01.06.00
Added 05 Apr 2020 (last updated )

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Delete all the current dynamic parts, then create a set of default parts, in the active score.

This is for replacing corrupted parts or for starting over with parts. The original score is changed, and no copy is made. Any previous edits to parts will be lost. Please be sure you want to do this!

The score will be left unsaved, open, and with the full score displayed, so you can close without saving if you change your mind.

If you run it under Run Plugin On Folder Of Scores, be sure to have that plugin save the scores it opens.

  • Download ReplacePartsWithDefaults.zip (4K, downloaded 665 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Export to Blackbinder

Version 01.00.00
Added 05 Apr 2020 (last updated 07 Apr 2020)

For use with Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

This plug-in exports your score as a MusicXML file with special Blackbinder formatting, ready to use within the app.
  • Download ExportToBlackbinder.zip (2K, downloaded 547 times)

Plug-in written by Blackbinder.

Add One Symbol Per Beat

Sibelius Free Download

Version 01.07.00
Added 22 Aug 2020 (last updated 22 Aug 2020)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Added 22 August 2020. Version 01.07.00. Calculates the size of a beat based on the time signature of each selected bar, and inserts a symbol with X and Y offsets at each multiple of a beat in the selected bars.

You must use the index of the symbol in the symbol table to identify the symbol. One way to find the index is to add your desired symbol to a score, and run the plugin Identify Selected Symbols.

  • Download AddOneSymbolPerBeat.zip (6K, downloaded 454 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

Note Properties Lib

Version 01.60.00
Added 02 Dec 2020 (last updated 18 Dec 2020)

For use with Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7.1, Sibelius 7.5, Sibelius 8.x, Sibelius 18.x, Sibelius 19.x and Sibelius 20.x

Added December 2, 2020. Version 01.50.00

The is a library plugin meant to be called by other plugins. Its Run method should not be called directly. It centralizes routines used to store and transfer Note and NoteRest properties when plugins add Notes.

Previously each plugins handled such transfers independently, and as properties changed, many were not updated. The intention of this plugin is to have plugins that add notes use these routines so that it properties change only this plugin needs to be updated, and any plugins that use these routines will get the updates for free.

Any plugins that call this plugin should check that is has been installed, and stop if it has not been.

Updated 13 December 2020. Version 01.60.00.Bug fixes and added routines mostly for analyzing durations.

  • Download NotePropertiesLib.zip (23K, downloaded 101 times)

Plug-in written by Bob Zawalich.

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What are plugins and how do I run them?

In Sibelius, plug-ins are extra features created using a programming language called ManuScript. Sibelius ships with about 150 plug-ins. These plug-ins are documented in the Sibelius Reference. Plug-ins can do many of the same things that built-in Sibelius commands do.

In Sibelius 7 and later, several commands on the Ribbon (Home > Bars > Split and Note Input > Arrange >Reduce, for example) are actually plug-ins.

You can run plug-ins from the Plug-ins menu in Sibelius 6 and earlier, or from plug-in galleries present in most of the tabs in the Sibelius 7+ Ribbon.

You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to commonly used plug-ins.

In addition to the shipping plug-ins, it is possible to write your own plug-ins or download and install plug-ins that other Sibelius users have written. The Sibelius Plug-in Download Page (http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html) contains hundreds of plug-ins, written by and donated by Sibelius users, which are available for free.

Any plug-ins on the download page are approved by Avid Sibelius, but as the disclaimer says, Sibelius does not provide support for them, and you use them at your own risk. In my experience, these plug-ins are reliable and useful.

Please note that while it is possible to view plug-in code, this code is not open-source, but is copyrighted by the author unless otherwise specified. You may not copy or modify this code without permission. Please treat the plug-ins the same way you would like you have people treat your published music.

Installing downloadable plug-ins

Plug-ins which are downloadable from the Sibelius plug-in download page need to be installed in order to be run. Prior to Sibelius 7, you would have to go to the plug-in download page, download and unzip the file for the plug-in you wanted, and copy the unzipped file to an appropriate user plug-in folder. Instructions for finding that folder and for installing plug-ins are in the Need Help article How to install plug-ins on the download page at http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?help=install.

You may find it easier to install plug-ins prior to Sibelius 7 by first installing the Install New Plug-in plug-in, and running it to install other plugins after you download and unzip plug-in files.

Once a plug-in is installed, you will need to close and restart Sibelius in order to use the new plug-in.

Sibelius 7 provided a plug-in installer for downloadable plug-ins at File >Plug-ins > Install Plug-ins. If you know the name of the plug-in and its category, you can select it from the list of plug-ins and install it. Plug-ins installed this way can be run immediately, without closing and restarting Sibelius.

The Sibelius Plug-in installer will only work for plug-ins on the download page. If you write your own plug-ins, or get plug-ins from another user, you will need to copy them manually to an appropriate user plug-in subfolder, using the same techniques that were used prior to Sibelius 7.

Plug-in files, folders, categories, and menu names

Plug-ins are text files, with the extension “.plg”. Shipping and user plug-ins are stored in separate folders. You will rarely need to actually access the shipping plug-in folders. If you need to you can find them in the files created when Sibelius itself is installed, with separate sets for each language that Sibelius supports.

Installing and running the downloadable plug-in Get User Folder Names (category Other, Sibelius version 4+) will show you all the user subfolders and the shipping plug-ins folder on your machine. Here are examples this plug-in’s output on a Windows 7 machine and on an OSX machine.

The names produced by this plug-in will be correct for English installations of Sibelius. The “root” of the folders will be properly translated for other languages, but the words “Plugins”, “House Styles”, “Chord Shapes”, “Manuscript Paper”, “Keyboard Shortcuts”, and “Sibelius Example Scores” will always be shown in English, so you will have to mentally translate that part of the folder name in other languages.

Running Get User Folder Names will avoid some of the folder name confusion; it should always get you the correct folder names for your machine, at least in the English version of Sibelius.

Folders for Shipping Plug-ins

On Mac OSX, the shipping plug-ins reside inside the Sibelius Application Package itself. To navigate to them, right-click on the Sibelius application choose “Show Package Contents”. From here you can drill down to “Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Plugins”

On a Windows 7 machine, the shipping plug-ins for Sibelius 7.5 inEnglish are typically at

C:ProgramDataAvidSibelius 7.5Resourcesen.lprojPlugins

Free mixing vst. If you look at that folder in Windows Explorer, you will see a set of subfolders: Accidentals, Analysis, Batch Processing, etc.

On both platforms, plug-in files are never stored in the main “Plugins” subfolder itself, but only in its subfolders. Plug-in files stored in the main Plugins subfolder will not be found by Sibelius.

The name of the subfolder is the name you will see in the plug-in menus as plug-in Category names.

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In this example, you will see the menu names of these plugins in the Accidentals plug-in menu in Sibelius. It is best to never edit, add, or delete any of the plug-in files in the shipping file folders; you can accomplish nearly everything you might need to do with a shipping plug-in by making a copy of it in a user plug-in folder, as described below.

As long as the user plug-in folders have identical names as the shipping plug-ins folders, any plug-ins stored in those user folders will show up organized in the “shipping plug-in categories” in Sibelius. You can also create a new user category for plug-ins by simply creating and naming a new subfolder in the user plug-ins folder.

Finding user plug-in folders

To find the main user plug-in folder, you can run the Get User Folder Names plug-in or follow the instructions for installing plug-ins at http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?help=install.

User folders in general will not be created until you create an object that would be stored in the user folder.

If you have never installed a user, the simplest way to ensure that the user plug-in folder has been created in Sibelius 7 or later is to use File >Plug-ins > Install Plug-ins to install a plug-in from the download page. For example, you could go to Show: All plug-ins and open the Accidentals category, and install Respell Uncommon Accidentals into its default location Accidentals. Once you have done this, you can either keep that plug-in or navigate to its folder and delete the file. The folder structure will have been set up.

Prior to Sibelius 7 you could create the folder structure by creating a new empty plug-in in the plug-in editor (Plug-ins > Edit Plug-ins) and then delete that plug-in, but since you will have to be looking at the installation instructions anyway, you can use those instructions to set up the folder structure.

In Windows, the user folder and subfolders may be hidden, and you may need to unhide them. The instructions for installing plug-ins explains how to do that.

On Mac, in the newer versions of OSX, the user library folder which contains Application Support files is hidden by default. To navigate to this folder, choose “Go To Folder” from the Go menu in the Finder and when the search dialog opens up, type “~/Library” into the search field to navigate directly to the hidden User Library. There are also ways to permanently show this folder – a Google search for “Show the user library folder in OSX” will return various options for the different OS versions.

Plug-in menu names and File names

When you install or edit plug-ins, or run them from a plug-in menu, the plug-in is identified by its Menu Name. This is a human-friendly name, such as Simplify Accidentals or Nashville Chord Numbers. When Sibelius starts up, it loads all the plug-in files into memory, and looks into the file to find its menu name, if it has one. The combination of the subfolder for the file and the menu name determines where the plug-in will appear in the plug-in menus. (Plug-ins without a menu name will not appear on any menu).

The plug-in file name is typically just the menu name without spaces, with a “.plg” extension, though this is a convention, not a rule. The file name for Simplify Accidentals is SimplifyAccidentals.plg. Similarly, downloadable user plug-ins are stored as zip files, and the zip file names are typically the same as the plg files with a different extension.

If you install plug-ins manually you need to unzip them to get at the plg file or files inside them. The plug-in installer in Sibelius 7 and later does the unzipping automatically. Zip files, however, may contains multiple plg files and may also include documentation, example scores, or house style libraries. When there are multiple files in the zip file, the plug-in installer does its best to put the various types of files into appropriate locations. (Prior to Sib 7 you are on your own for this!)

Sometimes you have the menu name for a plug-in and need to get the file name. How do you do that?

One way is to make an educated guess. If you know Respell Uncommon Accidentals is in the category Accidentals, and you know that your user plug-in folder is C:UsersBobAppDataRoamingAvidSibelius 7.5Plugins, a reasonable guess for the file name would be

C:UsersBobAppDataRoamingAvidSibelius 7.5PluginsAccidentals RespellUncommonAccidentals.plg

You can use a similar technique to find the file names of shipping plug-in file names as well, starting from a known path for your shipping plug-ins, such as C:ProgramDataAvidSibelius 7.5Resourcesen.lprojPlugins.

You can also find the zip file names of download page plug-ins by going to the download page (http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html) and looking through the categories to find the menu name in the list of plug-ins in each category. The description for your plug-in will include the zip file name.

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The Plugin Info plug-in

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I wrote the free downloadable Plugin Info plug-in (category Developers’ Tools, Sibelius version 6+) to make it easier to go from a plug-in menu name to a file name. The plug-in gives you a list, alphabetized by menu name, of all the user or shipping plugins that are installed on your machine. When you select a plug-in in the list, its properties, including the file name with full path, appear next to the list.

This is probably the simplest way to find a plug-in file name given the menu name.

In a later post, I will discuss editing or replacing a shipping plug-in, using the plug-in editor, and issues with translations of plug-ins.

Bob Zawalich is a composer, guitarist, and software designer who lives near Seattle, Washington. He has studied both computer science and music, and has written software at Microsoft. Bob is the author of several hundred plugins for Sibelius notation software.