Finale SongWriter

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Product Features

• Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches -- drag them up and down to find the pitches you want
• Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly -- or import and export MIDI files, adding your own lyrics and verses
• Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard - Try any tempo, transpose to any key and add automatic harmonies
• Print great-looking sheet music - Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams, with up to 6 lyric verses; Add dynamics, slurs, articulations & transpose to any key

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009RENAW
• Item model number: MM0010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 16, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,731 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description

While Finale SongWriter makes it easy to create great sheet music at an affordable price, that's just the beginning. Finale SongWriter allows you to enter notes from a mouse, computer keyboard, or midi keyboard. You can add chord symbols, fretboard diagrams, and multiple verses of lyrics. Finale SongWriter can automatically add two and three voice harmony to your melodies and instantly add a drum part. The music you create sounds great through your computer's speakers thanks to Human Playback and 128 professional sounds. You can import and export MIDI files, create MP3 files, and save your work as a standard Finale file which can also be shared with users of Finale Notepad (a free download). If getting music on the printed page is part of your songwriting project, Finale SongWriter is the perfect collaborator.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mozart had this software..., May 1, 2006

By	J. Gale (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...in his head! (Well actually he probably had the several hundred dollar professional version of Finale). This is fantastic software, perfect for the beginner or amateur songwriter or arranger. The only drawback for me is the limit of 8 staves, but that would not be a problem for your typical band, only if you want to try orchestral composition and arranging (you would need the professional version). The Human Playback feature is great, it truly sounds realistic, not like MIDI. I cannot recommend this software enough!

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning to read and write music, September 11, 2005

By	Howard R. Ingold "HRINGOLD" (Pittsburgh PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased SongWriter without knowing how effective it would be in teaching how to read and write music. It turns out that it is excellent... especially when you have a piano keyboard connected by MIDI to the computer. Very user friendly.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars lousy handbook, February 1, 2007

By	J. Selzer "jonthin" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although I was originally amazed at the ability to convert a midi file to paper, I was later very disappointed in the ability to make changes to the music.

There is certainly a lot more in the program than I know of, but the handbook is poorly organized and not very helpful. It does not even explain what the cursor symbols mean. I had to call technical support for that. Their answer to my problem: purchase their other products.

For $30 more, I could have purchased a more powerful product from Intelliscore.