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Finale is one of the most widely used music notation packages in the world. A favourite especially among composers and arrangers, Finale includes many extended engraver features specifically designed for complex concert music, as well as all the special symbols required for jazz and popular music. For arrangers, transposing and manipulating music is easy. Finale lets you work the way you want to.

Record Yourself

Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. No other notation software offers this capability.
Garritan Sounds

Hear Your Music Come Alive with a Built-in Aria™ Player and Garritan™ Instruments for Finale

NEW in Finale 2012

Finale’s ScoreManager™ takes care of the details – controlling how your staves look and sound – so you don’t have to.
Easily change a flute staff to a clarinet staff. Switch between flute and clarinet on the same staff. The ScoreManager knows how a clarinet staff transposes, looks, and sounds, so it makes all the necessary arrangements. The ScoreManager also handles playback and sound setup, so you don’t have to navigate to various players or assign correct MIDI channels.

Improved sound management - world class sounds - the highest quality virtual instruments
With Finale 2012, you have access to even more Garritan sounds. Based on your requests, new instrument sounds include:

Unicode text support - more ways to communicate
Easily write and share your music with Finale 2012’s Unicode font support. Now you can use all the characters in your fonts. Want to correctly type Dvořák’s name? Are you translating a hymn to Korean? Need to add a hard-to-find symbol? Today’s Finale can display any character you wish.
It’s alsosimple to create PDF files within Finale, whether you use a Mac or a PC. Easily combine all your pages into a single document, share a single page, or any excerpt of a page.

NEW in Finale 2011

Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing
Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision.

Garritan sounds
Finale now includes more than 375 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include bass trombone, brass section, children’s choir ahs, flute section, electronic drum kit and more.

New Fonts
Hundreds of new font characters are included for percussion, mallet and handbell graphics.

Expanded Percussion Playback
Last year we simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to. This year Finale 2011 makes it easy to switch between pitched and non-pitched percussion anywhere in your score.

Instant Capo Chords
Automatically add capo chords to your music with the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo chords.

Easier Staff Layout
New Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, and never lose a note.

Music Education Worksheets
Finale now includes more than 800 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets and flashcards. New this year are jazz improvisation worksheets and more than 100 titles of classroom repertoire.

Finale AlphaNotes^™ Font
Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names or solfège syllables inside noteheads.

Updated Aria Player
The Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. Updated for Finale 2011, the Garritan Aria Player has an integrated Ambience reverb and the ability to save Ensembles.

Improved Pickup measures and more
Pick-up measures automatically insert the correct rests when you start your score, improved file support for multiple-user environments, and a new Quick Reference Guide that shows you how to complete common tasks quickly and easily in Finale.

NEW in Finale 2010

Percussion Notation. The process of getting notes on percussion staves to look and playback exactly the way you want them to has been simplified.

Garritan sounds. Finale now includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include organ, a variety of electric guitars, five octaves of handbells, and a brush drum kit.

Broadway Copyist. Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores, the Broadway Copyist hand-written font offers a lighter, classic appearance.

Automatic Rehearsal Marks. Use a keystroke to enter rehearsal marks and Finale automatically sequences them correctly and dynamically updates them when you delete, insert, or move any rehearsal mark or measure.

Chords. Change or delete notes without changing your chords. Attach chords to measures whether or not they contain notes or rests – and have the chords appear and playback correctly.

VST/AU Support & Updated Aria Player. Finale now supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects, providing users with unlimited sonic possibilities. Updated for Finale 2010, the Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments.

NEW in Finale 2009

Streamlined workflow. The creation, entry, moving, and editing of dynamics, tempo indications, and other text and markings has been reinvented and streamlined.

Multiple page editing.Now you can simultaneously view and edit as many pages as you choose to view on your monitor.

More than 300 world-class sounds from the creators of Garritan Personal Orchestra®. Free new sounds include baritone saxophone, vintage electric piano, electric guitar, handbells, and more. Multiple sound libraries work together seamlessly in Finale 2009. Combine all the included sounds, including Finale's Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff™ Marching Percussion, Jose Cortijo's Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont.

Aria Player: the next generation. The Garritan Aria Player is included FREE and is fully integrated into Finale 2009. The level of custom integration is unsurpassed and offers superior sound, more control, and a vastly improved user playback experience.

Finale's streamlined, easy-to-use interface lets you focus on the music with less switching tools and more universal menu commands specifically designed to help you finish projects faster.
The most intuitive cut/copy/paste/insert for more efficient workflow

NEW in Finale 2008

A powerful new Selection Tool has inherited all the functionality of the former Mass Edit Tool. Adapted for selecting measure regions, the Selection Tool is now Finale's universal editing utility.

Multiple sound libraries now work together seamlessly in Finale 2008. Combine all the included sounds, including Finale's Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff marching percussion, Jose Cortijo's Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont. Add your choice of additional Native Instruments-supported libraries (available separately). Choose your own sounds, hear them all in playback, and save the results in an audio file.

Finale's 2008's enhanced Setup Wizard offers more options and control. Make your choices and get up and running quickly.
Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own, then use them over and over again. With Document Styles in Finale 2008, you can instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.

New useful colored noteheads
Colored noteheads have multiple applications and are especially popular in elementary education.

Easily merge multiple scores automatically using the ScoreMerger™.
Consolidate multiple movements into a single document - even if they don't contain the same number of staves, or have different instrumentation (a Finale exclusive).
Merge a collection of parts into a full conductor's score.

No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale, with its included SmartScore® Lite by Musitek®.
NEW in Finale 2008. Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
Easier Scanning - Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within Finale. With a compatible scanner, Finale 2008 provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. * All you have to do is click "Final Scan".
Improved recognition of multi-measure rests.

Finale can import and export MusicXML files-right from the File menu and the launch window. Unlike MIDI files, MusicXML allows you to transfer the sounds and graphical elements in your file to other applications.

Playback with the nuance of live performers - that's what you get with Finale's Human Playback®, now enhanced and improved for 2008.

Hyperscribe
Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard - even record continuous data including the sustain pedal. NEW in Finale 2008
Record your live vocal or instrumental performance - an exclusive Finale feature. Recording first and second endings with HyperScribe is now seamless - Finale skips over the first ending on the second pass allowing for smooth transitions Specify a playback tempo before you record or Finale can record at the tempo you use when playing your MIDI keyboard.

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