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Finale 2010--the world's most powerful music-notation software--lets you express your creativity and love of music. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.
The first choice of music educators worldwide
Notation meets sound editing
But that's not all. Finale also offers more features to fine-tune your music including the ability to edit MIDI files, TempoTap to control tempo nuances, a mixer with integrated sequencer controls, and Human Playback, which makes even notes entered with a mouse play back with the nuance of live performers.
Please note: Finale Academic is intended exclusively for the use of qualified faculty, college students, music ministers, and music ministry representatives. Only qualified buyers may purchase this product.
Overview:
Entering Notes
From MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale's exclusive MicNotator, no other software offers you more note-entry options.
SmartMusic Support and Music Education Worksheets
Exclusive SmartMusic support, over 300 customizable Music Education Worksheets, and Finale's Exercise Wizard are just a few of the many reasons Finale remains the first choice of music educators worldwide.
Linked Parts and other Timesavers
Finale includes dozens of time-saving tools like Linked Parts, Multiple Page Editing, Band-in-a-Box Auto-harmonizing, ScoreMerger, SmartFind and Paint, and more.
Redesigned for 2010
Vast areas of Finale have been updated for 2010. From Percussion Notation and Chord Entry to Rehearsal Marks and Measure Numbering, common tasks have been automated and simplified to save you time and to easily make your music perfect.
World-Class Sounds
More than 350 instrument sounds from the renowned makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, 100+ sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, AND the ability to add any VST/AU Instrument or Effect Plug-in means Finale offers the very best in playback.
Record/Import Audio
Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Only Finale lets you record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback.
What's New in Finale 2010
- Percussion Notation: we've simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look--and playback--exactly the way you want them to.
- 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.
- Music Education Worksheets: Finale now includes hundreds of ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets designed for K-12 students.
- 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.
- 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.
- Graphics Support: export as .JPEG and .PNG and import as .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, and .GIF in addition to previously supported formats of .TIFF and .EPS.
- Broadway Copyist: inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores, the Broadway Copyist hand-written font offers a lighter, classic appearance.
- VST/AU Support and 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.
- Measure Numbers: control measure-number alignment, positioning, and fonts separately in your score and linked parts.
- Scanning Improvements and More: New Smartscore Lite scanning interface enables you to specify the instrumentation so that your staves will automatically be properly transposed and configured for playback. Also new are transparent selection handles, exporting lyrics to a word-processing document, and improved help documentation.
Getting Started
Getting started is easy
Finale's Launch Window saves you time by putting all of Finale's power at your fingertips. Choose to create exercises, scan existing sheet music, or work from provided templates. You can also create a score with an unlimited number of staves from scratch with Finale's Setup Wizard--which configures things like instrument transpositions so you don't have to.
Don't like manuals? Finale's QuickStart Videos guide you through the process of putting your music on the page.
Finale also includes comprehensive help that is contextual, interactive, and searchable. Quickly get the answer to any question, whether you want to know how to indicate a nonstandard time signature, need to create a marking whose name you're unsure of, or are just curious what that checkbox does.
New in Finale 2010:
- Convenient user-manual welcome screen
- Powerful filters allow for targeted searches, which allow you to quickly identify the content you are looking for
- Improved topic organization
Entering Notes
Enter notes your way!
- Enter notes with your computer keyboard and/or mouse.
- Use your MIDI keyboard (or any other MIDI device) in combination with your computer keyboard and mouse to enter notes and chords.
- Play a MIDI keyboard and watch your music appear on-screen in real time.
- Use Finale's exclusive MicNotator to play notes into your microphone with a brass or woodwind instrument.
- Scan existing sheet music.
- Import MIDI, MusicXML, Smartscore, or Finale family notation files.
Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
Finale automates and streamlines the process of entering everything
Dynamics and Tempo markings
Finale makes entering, creating, copying, and moving dynamics, tempo indications, and other text and markings intuitive and powerful. New in Finale 2010--transparent selection handles so you can easily see the articulation or marking that you are editing.
Chords--Improved in Finale 2010
Enter chord symbols by typing in their names or playing them with a MIDI keyboard. Change or delete notes without changing your chords.
Percussion Notation--Improved in Finale 2010
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation--now it's also incredibly easy to use.
Lyrics
Finale allows an unlimited number of lyric verses and automatically spaces the lyrics to match the notes they're attached to.
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Finale also automates countless other entry tasks like repeats, codas, adding measure numbers, cue notes or rehearsal marks to your parts, and tablature and fretboards for guitar and other fretted instruments.
Finale now offers more control over what elements (including notes, articulations, expressions, lyrics, smart shapes, chords, and fretboards) are shown or hidden when you apply alternate notation. Additional enhancements include stems up/down options for rhythmic notation and the ability to add augmentation dots to slash notation in compound meters.
Hearing Your Music
Your music sounds as good as it looks
Finale includes world-class instrument libraries and several innovative tools to make sure your music sounds as good as it looks.
Integrated Sound Libraries included in Finale:
- More than 350 world-class sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra
- More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline
- Latin Percussion instruments and rhythms
- Marching percussion from Row-Loff
- A general MIDI set with minimal system requirements (compatible with nearly any computer), which offers consistent playback when your Finale files are heard in SmartMusic, Finale NotePad, and other MakeMusic products.
Only Finale lets you record or import an audio file for even more realism.
Aria Player
The Garritan Aria Player is included free and is fully integrated into Finale. Updated for Finale 2010, the Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments.
VST/AU Instruments and Effects
Plus Finale supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects, providing users with unlimited sonic possibilities.
Fine-tuning your Playback
But that's not all. Finale also offers more features to fine-tune your music including the ability to edit MIDI files, TempoTap to control tempo nuances, a mixer with integrated sequencer controls, and Human Playback, which makes even notes entered with a mouse play back with the nuance of live performers.
Sharing Your Music
More ways to collaborate and share your music
Printing
With its introduction in 1988, Finale revolutionized the art of putting music on the printed page, placing world-class, engraver-quality printing within everyone's reach. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Finale remains the first choice for composers, arrangers, publishers, engravers, educators, and other professionals who demand the very best.
Beyond Printing
Technology has advanced at a breathtaking speed in the last 20 years--and so has Finale. You can also share your music by:
- Creating .mp3 or .wav audio files
- Exporting MIDI or MusicXML files
- Creating textbooks, worksheets, or quizzes by exporting music as a graphics file into a word-processing program
- Creating SmartMusic accompaniments
- Posting your music at the Finale Showcase, a free site hosted by MakeMusic where people can see, play, and print your music.
The first choice of music educators worldwide
Finale's easy-to-use, time-saving features help you customize music curriculum to meet the individual needs of all your students.
SmartMusic Support
Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed music-learning software for band, orchestra, and choir.
Music Education Worksheets--New in Finale 2010
Hundreds of ready-made, educator-approved, customizable worksheets are included in Finale. Print them out or distribute them via e-mail to be opened and printed with the free Finale Reader.
Instant Exercises
Finale's Exercise Wizard helps you create custom exercises or lessons--for your entire ensemble--in minutes.
Share Files with Students
Full compatibility with downloadable MakeMusic software lets your students--at home or on school computers--complete tests or assignments created in Finale. Finale Reader is free and lets students open, view, print, and play any Finale file. Finale NotePad (sold separately) adds the ability to compose new pieces, as well as edit and save any Finale file.
Teach Composition
Finale's exclusive Studio View is perfect for teaching and practicing composition and arranging using the language of music notation.
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- Video support to sync your marching band show with your score
- Marching percussion sound libraries from Tapspace Virtual Drumline and Row-Loff
- Create worksheets or quizzes by exporting music into a word-processing program
- Colored Noteheads and Boomwhackers sounds
Timesavers
Making the best use of your time
Finale's introduction in 1988 represented a revolution in saving time. Today we take it for granted that you don't have to start over if you decide to add another bar on page one, or make a slight change in instrumentation. Similarly, Finale's subsequent evolution has continued to offer musicians new and more ways of making the best use of their time.
- Linked Parts mean you no longer have to make edits to your parts and score separately.
- Finale's Selection Tool takes the guesswork out of editing nearly anything on the page.
- Multiple Page Editing lets you place as many pages on your screen as you wish AND edit anything you want.
- Automatic rehearsal marks dynamically update when you delete, insert, or move measures in your score.
- Intuitive cut/copy/paste enhancements ensure that you always get the results you seek--the first time.
- ScoreMerger consolidates multiple movements into a single score or a collection of parts into a conductor's score
- SmartFind and Paint copies articulations, dynamics, and expressions to the same rhythmic motif across your score.
- Chord Analysis generates chord names from your harmony and creates chord symbols automatically.
- Quick Change makes it easy to change expressions and articulations with simple keystrokes.
- Resize Noteheads automatically to notate harmonization within a specified region.
- Multiple Undo lets you reverse any number of changes you made in the current session (even past the point you saved your score).
- Automatic Note Spacing, Smart Page Turns, automatically generate a "Handbells Used" chart, and more (.pdf).
Composing and Arranging Tools
Lets you concentrate on the inspiration
Finale takes the work out of composing and arranging and lets you concentrate on the inspiration. Finale handles instrument transpositions, offers range checking, and provides instant arrangements and piano reductions. Writing for video or film? Use Finale's seamlessly integrated video support.
Idea-generating Tools
Running low on inspiration? Finale offers composers and arrangers several idea-generating tools, perfect for saving time and suggesting creative options.
- Generate up to 6-part harmony with Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing
- Create custom drum parts with DrumGroove
- Choose from a variety of authentic Latin Percussion rhythms.
- Transform your score with Canonic Utilities which apply inversion, retrograde, transposition, or any combination of these to a selected region.
- Use the Composer's Assistant to realize chords, create common-tone transpositions, transition from one melody to another with melodic morphing or one chord to another with chord morphing and generate a series of chords with increasing complexity and texture with the frequency modulation chord generator.
Notation meets sound editing
Wish your sequencing software could print professional manuscript? Need the playback power of your sequencing software to hear what you've notated? Now more than ever professionals are using Finale's production and sequencing tools to partner the genius of sequencing with the refinement of Finale notation.
- Record or Import an audio file for even more realism.
- Transfer your music to and from Finale by saving as a MIDI file.
- Writing for video or film? Use Finale's seamlessly integrated video support.
But that's not all. Finale also offers more features to fine-tune your music including the ability to edit MIDI files, TempoTap to control tempo nuances, a mixer with integrated sequencer controls, and Human Playback, which makes even notes entered with a mouse play back with the nuance of live performers.
Engraver Tools
Perfection
Finale offers ultimate control of the printed page, making it the first choice for engravers and others who seek perfection. Equally important, Finale also speeds up and simplifies the process.
- Only Finale's Engraver Slurs automatically snap to avoid collisions even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.
- FinaleScript is an exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language that saves you time whether you create your own scripts or simply use those provided.
- Document Styles let you control the appearance of your documents and make creating your own Styles instantaneous.
- Customize your workspace with textured paper backgrounds, display colors, views, and palettes.
- Control the appearance of the printed page with engraver tuplets, a selection of music fonts--including the new Broadway Copyist handwritten font, Vertical Collision Remover, and other spacing controls.
- Add graphics to your score like pictures or logos.
- Alternate Notation--Finale now offers more control over what elements (including notes, articulations, expressions, lyrics, smart shapes, chords, and fretboards) are shown or hidden when you apply alternate notation. Additional enhancements include stems up/down options for rhythmic notation and the ability to add augmentation dots to slash notation in compound meters.
- Finale also has over 50 time-saving plug-ins for specialized notation tasks like applying Patterson Beams, cross-staff beaming, creating tremolos or specifying different split points for selected regions using TGTools, and more.
Product Description
The best tools are designed by the people who use them. Introducing Finale 2010 – the world standard in music notation software. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Finale continues to lead the way, helping you reach perfection faster. - Streamlined user interface is more efficient, intuitive, and consistent - Setup Wizard configures your score beautifully in seconds. - Enter your music into Finale using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic, or scanner. - Scan existing sheet music directly into Finale. From there you can change the key, edit, and save as a Finale file. - Linked Parts – intelligently links your score and parts to save you time. - More than 300 customizable and printable Music Education Worksheets. - Video Support – import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code. - TempoTap™ – conduct your own tempo changes. - Playback – here are just a few reasons why Finale’s sound is unsurpassed: - Record or import an audio track for unprecedented realism. - More than 350 world-class Garritan instrument sounds – and more. - More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline. - Human Playback® makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it – even if you entered your notes with a mouse! - Integrated Garritan Aria player. - Full support for VST/AU instruments AND effects. - Powerful Mixer (real-time control of volume, panning, patch, and more). - Save Audio Files (including .MP3) to create CDs or save to an iPod. - Document Styles let you instantly personalize the appearance of new documents. - Colored Noteheads and integrated Boomwhackers tuned percussion tube sounds.
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I purchased this product to help arrange music pieces for a small plucked string ensemble. Some in the group don't read notation. This software, with a couple of clicks, converts notation into Tab so quickly I had to do it twice just to see if it was real. Very happy.
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