The Rock and Pop Collection contains 108 pitched instruments plus 20 drum kits (featuring a vast range of percussion sounds from Disco to World Music), of which you can play up to 32 at once. It includes all the sounds you'll need to write rock and pop music – from guitars, keyboards and drums to horns, strings, and even a Hammond B3 organ.

The collection has been created in partnership with Sonic Implants and Native Instruments, who are among the world's leading sampling companies. It includes well-known instruments such as a Fender Stratocaster guitar and Rickenbacker bass, and multiple samples are provided for many of the instruments, with different styles and tones so you can get just the sound you're looking for.

The Rock and Pop collection integrates seamlessly with Sibelius 4, via a special version of the acclaimed Kontakt sample player from Native Instruments. This gives you a range of adjustable parameters – including reverb, brightness, tuning and other audio characteristics – so you can control the sound of each instrument individually. You can even export an audio file to create a CD of your music, or convert to an MP3 file.

Rock and Pop Collection sounds

The list below shows the full range of sounds in the Rock and Pop collection, and indicates where there are multiple sounds for an instrument.

Keyboards

Bass guitars

Electric Guitars

Acoustic guitars

• Steel string (five sounds)
• Nylon string

Voice

• Lead Voice – Male
• Lead Voice – Female
• Scat Voice – Female

Drum kits

Other instruments

• Vibraphone (two sounds)
• Trumpet (two sounds)
• Soprano Saxophone
• Alto Saxophone
• Tenor Saxophone
• Baritone Saxophone
• Trombone
• Horn Section
• Flute
• Violin Section
• Viola Section
• Violoncello Section
• Double Bass Section
• String Section (three sounds)

System requirements

Requires 3.2GB hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 4); Windows XP (or some Windows 2000 configurations); Mac OS 10.3.9 or later; DVD drive; Sibelius 4. Additionally:

Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:

• Windows: 1.2GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM, preferably ASIO compatible sound card
• Mac: G4/G5 , 1GB+ RAM

Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds:

• Windows: 2.5GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM . ASIO-compatible sound card strongly recommended (not sound chip on motherboard), preferably separate graphics card
• Mac: 1.8GHz processor or faster, 1GB+ RAM

Scores that use reverb or more than 20 different sounds will need a faster processor and more RAM.

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