Define the MIDI output to VST on Sibelius First

It seems that the score editing is still far from being user friendly since doing a basic stuff, like changing the default MIDI output to VST instruments requires to be somehow a hacker. So, here is a "how to" for the dummies.

First, you must go in the play menu and click in the parameters little button.

Then, you should see a list of your ouput, something like this :

If you have not done anything to your first installation, you should only see the configuration using default windows MIDI mapper. But, you may add a new configuration by clicking new.

To set a VST instrument as the midi output, just click on the audio engine property (red arrow above) and you shoud see another window.

In this window, you can finally define your VST instrument folder by clicking on VST folder button (red arrow above)

You can then add or remove folders in that windows. For me, the simplest trick I found was just to copy my VST2 plugins file into the folder predefined i.e. copy C:\program filles\Steinberg\Cubase 7\VstPlugins\*.dll to C:\program Files\Avid\VSTPlugin folder.


You will need to restart Sibelius in order to see the change.

That's all folks. Hope it helped.