In reply to Daniel Spreadbury.

for me the move of the Sibelius programming team to Steinberg is a great opportunity to merge the outstanding MIDI controller features which have been present in Cubase for the best part of two decades with an advanced, user-friendly notation interface. If the playback control is not improved from Sibelius then I'm not sure that there will be any pressing reason to upgrade. Those of us who are unlikely to ever see large scale orchestral works ever performed by a real orchestra (and surely that is the majority!) would really like to have everything in one software application. In my view the more advanced audio features of Cubase are not necessary (I don't understand how to use them anyway...) but a simple editor along the lines of the Cubase Key editor would probably be sufficient, together with more intelligent versions of the performance presets in Sibelius.

David