Sib. Template 7.1 or 6.0b?

[JBenson]

Hello,
I recently made a huge jump in my music notation software so a lot of this is very new to me.  Please forgive any questions that may seem very obvious.  I upgraded from Sib. 3 with VDL 2.5 to Sib. 7.1 with VDL 2.5.2 and Kontakt 5.  I have no idea what kind of template to buy/which one is compatible with my system.  Also I think I read that Sib. 7 is now compatible with Kontakt 5.  Is that true or do i need to find Kontakt 4? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,

Johnathan Benson

[Hugh Smith]

Welcome to the forum, Johnathan!

Yes, I'd say that's quite a jump. Sibelius 7.1 does indeed see Kontakt 5 correctly, so you won't need to hunt down KP4. VDL Template 6.0b will work within Sib 7, though I'm getting close to having the 7.0 version done.

S7S Template 7.1 supports the Sibelius 7 Sounds sample library that's included with Sibelius 7.

[JBenson]

I thought so.  Thank you so much for responding.  Merry Christmas!