Sibelius Compass

Waste of Money Bought this expecting it to both teach composition and provide composition software, and for the price that was a resonable assumption. Well, it does have a lot in there about many aspects of music theory and composition, but it doesn’t really stand alone well. It would work much better in conjunction with a teacher, and was probably intended to be used in a classroom setting. Not exactly what I was looking for. And the composition software is pre-notation–also not what I was looking for. I…

Here’s how it works. You spend WAY TOO MUCH money on this software that looks and feels like you are back in the mid-nineties once you start using it. You go to the first lesson (which will be in a really small window with no expansion or full screen options and then press “play” to hear the audio example attached to the lesson. At that point, either a red X appears over the box nothing appears. In either case you HEAR NOTHING. Since the program has now setup or options or file menu to…