From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: Beyond the Basics

Understanding system object positions - Sibelius Tutorial

From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: Beyond the Basics

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Understanding system object positions

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- [Instructor] By now, you should have a basic understanding of the difference between staff and system objects. System objects like tempo markings will appear in all parts regardless of what staves they're attached to in the score. Staff objects like slurs and expressions will only appear in the part that they're attached to and appearing with in the score. System objects like metronome marks created with the metronome mark textile will always appear at the top of your score. But they maya also appear above additional staves in the score, which may confuse you. It might even frustrate you if you're not sure why that's happening. So let's take a look at why in my score I have a metronome mark showing up at the top of the page but also, strangely enough, much lower down in my score above my violin staff. The positions that system objects appear at are called system object positions. You can adjust these positions by going to the appearance tab, the system objects group, and pressing the big button here for system object positions. I hope that by just going to this window you can easily see why the metronome mark, which is a system object, is appearing above the top staff in my score and above the violin staff. It's because both of those are staves that have been automatically selected to show system object positions above them. A thorough discussion of system object positions would require a lot of time. However, you should find the dialogue when there to be fairly self explanatory. In this example, if we were to deselect the violin one, for example, and then click okay, you'll see that the system objects like my metronome mark will no longer appear above the violin. And I think armed with just that much knowledge you should have a bit more control over your system objects for now. Feel free to experiment a bit more with the window if you'd like, keep in mind, your top staff always has to be selected, and you can only have up to five positions total in any score for system objects. You may think that that's much too limiting, but in fact, it tends to work out great even for the largest orchestral scores because typically system objects are found at the top of the score between families of instruments and sometimes below the bottom staff like bar numbers for example. Again, there's a lot more tot system object positions particularly with how they relate to the textiles definition of where they can be placed. These things can conflict, but for now you should be fine getting started with basic system object position adjustments.

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