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Powerful Productivity – Combined with your creative vision
Finale is a powerful tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale’s intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. In Finale 2008 there is more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow.
Creative Control – If you can imagine it
Finale can help you create it. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. In Finale 2008, record or import an audio track.
State of the Art – Professional-quality instrument playback
Superb playback thanks to the integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2. Rich sounds provided by the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra®, included for free. With Finale, you get the best in everything for your music.
Record/Import Audio
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.
Finale’s audio support opens up a world of possibilities.
- Record a vocal track to a soprano aria.
- Add a trumpet solo to a jazz chart.
- Import a stereo mix of a rock band and add a horn arrangement.
- Import audio for transcription/take-down
- Create learning files for choir students with accompaniment and sung text.
- Import an audio recording of music, use the TempoTap feature to line-up notation barlines and times, then add additional orchestration.
Garritan™ Sounds
Hear Your Music Come Alive with a Built-in KONTAKT™ Player and Garritan™ Instruments for Finale
- More than 250 world-class sounds from the creators of Garritan Personal Orchestra®. Sounds include saxophones, choirs, guitar, marching percussion, world instruments, and more.
- Multiple sound libraries 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.
AUTHENTIC
- Garritan provides different players to fill the section realistically.
INTEGRATED KONTAKT™ Player 2
The most respected name in playback technology comes included with Finale — absolutely free! Listen to your music played with stunning realism thanks to the integrated KONTAKT® Player 2 —updated to run natively on Intel Based Macs. The KONTAKT® Player 2 is automatically configured and loaded by Finale's Setup Wizard. Simply click and play! Human Playback further enhances the integration of Garritan Instruments in Finale by including customized legato and a variety of instrument techniques. One simple process authorizes both Finale 2008 and the KONTAKT Player 2.
EXPANDABLE
- Exciting libraries of additional instruments are available from Garritan and Native Instruments.
Cut/Copy/Paste/Insert Improvements
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
- Use intuitive keystrokes to select measures or partial measures horizontally and vertically. No need to visit a menu.
- Consistent clipboard- and drag-copying make it easy to copy all measure items, even between documents.
- Quickly drag and drop music, even over highlighted regions. Make small adjustments easily, like shifting music a beat or two right or left.
- Paste faster: no need to highlight the entire destination when clipboard-copying.
- Get improved visual feedback when pasting and inserting.
- Different-colored cursors indicate how your music will be inserted.
Selection Tool
A powerful Selection Tool has inherited all the functionality of the former Mass Edit Tool. Adapted for selecting measure regions, the Selection Tool is Finale’s universal editing utility.
Accomplish more without changing tools
- Copy music, adjust expressions, transpose, add repeats, and much more – all with one tool.
- Get what you need faster from streamlined menus.
- Keep your momentum going with more powerful contextual menus and intuitive keystrokes.
- Get it done using the Selection Tool or other tools that support copy/paste, measure additional, transposition, measure layout, auto-orchestration, and much more.
Integrated Sound Libraries
Playback brings it all together with fully integrated sound libraries.
Multiple sound libraries 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.
Setting-up your score
Finale’s 2008’s Setup Wizard offers more options and control. Make your choices and get up and running quickly.
- Personal Document Styles — Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own.
- Text inserts - specify the arranger, lyricist and a sub-title in addition to the composer, title and copyright.
- Expanded spacing control — Just click the "Add Vertical Space" button for more space between staves.
- Intelligent page layout that automatically adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on the page.
- Specify the number of measure in your score.
Just answer a few questions: What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly.
Document Styles - Create the look you want with personal Document Styles
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.
It’s easy to create your own Document Styles. Just copy a completed Finale file (including notes) into the Document Styles folder and its settings become the basis for a new Document Style. Finale automatically knows what items pertain to the style, and which, like notes, do not. The next time you visit the Set-up Wizard you’ll be able to select your new Document Style.
Documents Styles control:
- Text and music fonts
- Text inserts
- All libraries (including expressions, articulations, document settings, etc…)
- Graphics (a company logo, for example)
- Page size and orientation
- Page layout
- Measure numbering and much more…
Colored Noteheads and Boomwhackers® Sounds
Colored noteheads have multiple applications and are especially popular in elementary education.
- Use them to notate Boomwhackers® tuned percussion tubes and other instruments that use the Chroma-Notes™ colored music system.
- Assign colors to specific pitches as an aid to composition or proofing.
- Color all noteheads a single bright color for beginning readers who need help distinguishing noteheads from stems.
Colored noteheads can be applied regionally within a piece, offer two notehead styles (with or without a “border”), and allow for user customization of colors.
Boomwhackers® Tube Sounds
Finale 2008 includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.
ScoreMerger™
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.
Scanning
- Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
- Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within Finale.
Finale’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:
- Secondary voice recognition - counterpoint
- Correct transposed instrument recognition
- Multiple page scans
- Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
- Up to 32nd note resolution
- Finale's SmartScore® Lite scanning utility has been updated to run natively on Intel-based Macs.*
- Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format
Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window. What's more, Windows and Mac users can scan directly from Finale, and Finale determines the ideal resolution and color depth.
Finale imports scanned SmartScore 5.5 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the Music XML files it creates can be read by Finale on Macintosh and Windows computers)
* Mac-Intel Users – Finale 2008 has a universal binary version of SmartScore Lite Scanning. If you are using Finale 2007, download the Finale 2007c maintenance update to use SmartScore Lite Scanning on your Intel-based Macintosh.
Import and Export MusicXML Files
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.
- Export of MusicXML 1.1 files
- Import of MusicXML 2.0 files –both uncompressed (.xml) and compressed (.mxl)
- Fretboard import
- Improved import of stem direction and Engraver slurs
- Improved metronome marking support
- Import of piano pedal lines
- Improved import of accidentals and ties
- Composite time signature import
- Nested tuplet import
- Import of linked page- and measure-attached graphics
- Drag and drop functionality
Backwards Compatibility
MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone with newer versions of Finale for Macintosh or Windows.
Want more options? Recordare.com offers plug-ins (sold separately) that allow you to open these files into Finale for Mac OS X (back to 2004), and Finale for Windows (back to Finale 2000). You can even read MusicXML files created in other music notation programs.
Human Playback®
Playback with the nuance of live performers – that's what you get with Finale's Human Playback®. Human Playback enhancements include support for the following Garritan products: Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0, Gofriller Solo Cello, and Garritan Concert & Marching Band.
Your music sounds better with Human Playback
Beyond adding feeling and natural nuances automatically, Human Playback also interprets any kind of musical elements right from the notation, including: crescendo/diminuendo and sforzandi (even on held long notes), accelerando/rallentando, fermatas, trills, tremolos, baroque and jazz ornaments, guitar bends, slurs, rolled chords (guitar, harp, harpsichord, ...), glissandi (piano, harp, strings, ...), piano pedaling, harmonics, pizzicato, mute, and others.
Perfect the performance with customizable instrument techniques, transportable preferences, and expanded support for a wide variety of Garritan and Native Instruments® sounds.
- With dozens of playback techniques to choose from, Human Playback makes the most of Garritan Personal Orchestra® and Garritan Jazz & Big Band libraries.
- Edit and save your preferences for Human Playback. Create and merge multiple sets of custom preferences and attach custom preferences to your Finale files.
- Expanded interface gives you complete control over playback effects, allowing smooth and in-depth compatibility with a wide variety of sound libraries.
- Combine, retain, or overwrite existing MIDI data.
- Edit the output of Human Playback with Finale’s MIDI tool.
- Apply different Human Playback styles to specific regions of your piece.
- Jazz-specific techniques create the unique sound of live musicians.
- Custom settings let you specify reverb room types, marching band options, and more.
- Techniques for strings, woodwinds, brass, harp, timpani, and other instruments dramatically improve playback.
Templates
When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window. Select from more than 60 pre-made templates (including SATB, Kodály, solfege, and more) then let Finale’s Setup Wizard do the rest, adding text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist) as well as key/time signatures, pickup measures, tempo markings, and the number of measures.
Expanded Documentation
Finale’s documentation resources, including the User Manual, Tutorial Guide, and Context Help, have all been consolidated into a single, contextual, interactive, searchable environment.
- Updated documentation provides the information you need quickly and easily.
- Improved navigation and the ability to search all of Finale’s documented resources simultaneously.
- Improved knowledge base available on-line
- The Finale Reference lets you look up Finale items and learn how they’re used
- The Finale Encyclopedia lets you look up musical terms and learn how they’re accomplished in Finale
- The Visual Index lets you click on any item in a music notation example to learn how it was created
- Adobe Acrobat is no longer required
- Prefer to learn by watching a video? Finale also contains a variety of QuickStart Videos.
HyperScribe®
Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard — even record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
- Record your live vocal or instrumental performance — an exclusive Finale feature.
- Recording first and second endings with HyperScribe is 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.
Finale Launch Window
The Finale Launch Window saves you time by putting everything at your fingertips. Open files, access the Setup Wizard, create SmartMusic Accompaniments, watch videos, access the Installation and Tutuorial Guide and more.
QuickStart Videos
Never before has Finale been so easy to learn. Besides a more intuitive interface, a broader range of short onscreen videos step you through most common functions of Finale. Easily access the videos from the Launch Window.
Save as Audio File - Save As .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF
Turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button and save your Finale files into an audio format for recording onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuances of your music through the fabulous sound font from SmartMusic and the Human Playback feature.
Real-time Save As Audio supports .WAV and .AIFF output for Finale’s integrated Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) sounds and other supported VST/AU instruments. Plus, adjustments to the Mixer or Staff Controls during the saving process apply to the generated audio file.
Latin Percussion
Exciting choices like Latin Percussion stimulate your creativity. Choose from a variety of authentic rhythms — all correctly notated — to any piece, instantly. Then listen to the results — high-quality Latin percussion sounds are included.
Multiple sound libraries 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.
TempoTap™
Create Tempo Nuances Effortlessly with TempoTap™. Finale gives you complete control over rubati, accelerandi, and ritardandi. Perfection is just a tap away.
- Import an audio recording, use the TempoTap feature to line-up notation barlines and time, and then add additional orchestration.
SIMPLE INPUT
- Just tap your tempo changes and Finale captures every nuance.
TOTAL CONTROL
- Define appropriate subdivisions on the TempoTap staff to accurately control ritardandi and other changes.
IMMEDIATE RESULTS
- Hear your music play as you tap. Your playback nuances are automatically retained for future performances.
Integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2
The most respected name in playback technology comes included with Finale — absolutely free! Listen to your music played with stunning realism thanks to the integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2.
- Universal Binary format update available for Intel-based Macs.
- Easy updating - All "Powered by NI" libraries can be loaded with one player
- One simple process authorizes both Finale and the KONTAKT Player 2.
- Optimized sample management - load multiple instruments simultaneously
- Optimized disk-streaming performance for large sample libraries
- Increased maximum instruments and maximum voice polyphony
- More audio outputs and more MIDI channels
- KONTAKT script processor — offers custom instrument parameter control
- Output mixer/Master effects — adjust instrument master levels and send effects from within the KONTAKT 2 Player interface
- Sample purge - save memory (RAM) using an intelligent "sample purge" option
- Save your most-used instruments and multi-instrument setups for use between different projects
- Instrument mute and solo for easy sound referencing
- Metronome, master tune, reference tone
Bring your music to life with the SmartMusic SoundFont
You want your music to look good. It can also sound great with SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional-grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. SmartMusic SoundFont playback is expanded from 16 channels to 128. Add this to Finale’s Human Playback and the results are astounding.
Row-Loff® Marching Percussions Sounds
Nothing extra to buy! Nothing extra to install! Sounds include: Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum and Tenor Drums.
Marching bands rejoice! Check out the percussion sounds in Finale. From Row-Loff Productions – foremost in marching and concert percussion literature.
Sounds include:
- Bass Drums: Five Drums plus Rims, Unison and Buzz Roll.
- Crash Cymbals: Crash Choke, Hi Hat Choke, Open and Closed Hi Hat, Crash Cymbals, Cymbal Smash Ride Cymbal, Ride Cymbal Bell and Crash Cymbal with Stick.
- Snare Drum: LH, LH Rim Shot, RH, RH Rim Shot, Gok (both hands, rim shot), Short Guz, Long Guz, LH Rim, RH Rim, Cross Shot, Stick Shot, Stick Click, and Buzz Roll.
- Tenor Drums: Four Tenor Drums each with Rim Shot and Buzz Roll, plus Spock Drum, Spock Drum Rim Shot, Stick Click, High Rims and Low Rims.
Simple Note Entry – The Need for Speed.
Quite simply, this tool has been transformed. Create music the way you do with paper and pencil – writing all the music as you go with one utensil. It is all the function of Simple Note as you knew it, plus the power of Speedy Note Entry, with additional control. It may become the way you get most things done in Finale.
Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or input notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ Change octave. Enter rests. Add accidentals. Add notes in a chord to an existing note. Create triplets. Now add grace notes. Break and join beams.
But entering notes is just the start. Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock-in’ an articulation to place on several notes. Change the key or time signature simply with key commands. Flip enharmonics, add expressions and flip ties. Re-pitch existing notes, regardless of their durations, using any of the note-entry methods to re-pitch these rhythms. Change layers or create multiple voice lines on the staff as you write or edit.
Keystrokes are intuitive and a special key map for laptop users is provided. Best of all, if you prefer certain key commands, change the defaults in Finale to whatever you like.
MicNotator®
No MIDI required.
This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into Finale simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument. Finale’s MicNotator is more accurate and even easier than ever before. Pick up your clarinet and start making music!
Linked Parts
Managing a score and individual parts is effortless with Finale. Create a score and Finale generates and formats all the parts – automatically. Change something in a part and Finale updates the score simultaneously. This tremendous time-saver is yours when you upgrade today.
- Intelligent Linking
- Your score and parts stay perfectly matched … where it's desirable. Finale's intelligent linking knows when to enforce consistency and when to allow differences. And you can always set preferences for how you want to work.
- Faster Formatting
- Customize the format of multiple parts instantly
- Print exactly what you need—a set of parts, multiple copies, or the entire score—instantly
- Finale Exclusives for Linked Parts
- Create separate linked parts from a divisi staff in the score
- Show different enharmonic spellings between the score and part
- Link and unlink from a contextual menu
- Offer full control over title pages in score and parts
Video Support – Uniting Music and Video
Write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support. Finale streamlines the technology so you can focus on the art.
Finale is the first choice of music professionals in the film and television industry. Recent soundtracks prepared with Finale include The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Million Dollar Baby, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Finding Neverland.
- Watch & Listen
- Import digital video and Finale automatically synchronizes it with your music. View the resizable Movie Window as you compose, edit, and play back your score, enjoying video features like "Fit to Time."
- Professional Quality
- Finale’s integrated video support empowers you to set frame rates, write time code into your score, AND send SMPTE/MTC to external devices.
Auto-arrange — Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing
Automatically transforms your melodies, creating up to 6-part harmonies in dozens of styles and voices. Thanks to a partnership with the makers of the Band-in-a-Box software, the Auto Harmonizer is FREE with the purchase of Finale.
Drum Groove
Creating custom drum parts has never been easier. Select any region and apply a pre-created drum groove in the style and feel you want.
You can add to the list of available styles by placing any MIDI file into the Drum Groove folder. The plug-in intelligently copies only the drum and percussion information.
Never miss an entrance - Smart Cue Notes.
Give your performers an easier way to recognize their entrances after long multi-bar rests by having Finale automatically create cue notes. Tell Finale what decisions to use in creating cue note entrances, and it does all the work for you.
Everyone’s on the same page - Smart Page Turns.
Getting the music aligned in individual parts for natural page turns used to require careful evaluation and re-positioning measures and staff systems. Now, just tell Finale what to consider, and it does the page turn formatting for you.
Plug-Ins
Plug-ins let you add capabilities to Finale for specialized notation tasks. The following plug-ins are included in Finale:
- Add Cue Notes on any staves in any layer at any percentage.
- Apply Human Playback applies discrete Human Playback styles to specific regions of your piece, and allows you to edit the output of Human Playback with Finale's MIDI Tool.
- Automatic Barlines can place double-barlines automatically before all key changes and a final barline at the end of the score.
- Auto-Dynamic Placement automatically places dynamics on the score based on the key velocity of notes entered.
- Auto Slur Melismas analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. You can even specify dashed slurs in situations with multiple verses.
- Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing lets you automatically create an entire orchestration from any melody with or without chord symbols.
- Beam Over Barlines lets your easily create beams over barlines.
- Canonic Utilities transforms the selected region using inversion, retrograde, transposition or any combination of these. Also use this plug-in to apply or remove accidentals to every note within a selected region and remove ties in any selected region.
- Cautionary Accidentals can be added to your score including accidentals displayed on all notes.
- Change Font allows global editing of text blocks, staff names, group names and lyrics.
- Change Noteheads changes the noteheads of all the notes in the selected region.
- Change to Default Whole Rests changes all the whole measure rests in the selected region to default rests.
- Change to Real Whole Rests changes all the default measure rests in the selected region to real whole rests.
- Check Range verifies the range of notes for selected instruments with settings for beginner, intermediate and advanced players.
- Check Region for Durations checks the selected region for any measures that have too few or too many beats.
- Classic Eighth Beams beam eighth notes together when using common time over the selected region.
- Clear Lyric Positioning resets any changes you’ve made to your lyric baselines in the selected region.
- Clear Measure # Positioning clears all measure number positioning in the selected region and sets it back to the default position.
- Command Line allows for quick note entry by typing in specific text commands.
- Chord Analysis looks at your notes and generates chord names from the harmony, analyzing any number of staves across any region and placing chord symbols automatically according to your specifications.
- Count Items displays a count of various items in your score such as measures, notes and articulations.
- Create Coda System automatically creates a separate Coda section and adjusts the layout, with space before the coda, text, symbols, and properly configured playback.
- Create Tempo Markings is an easy way to make tempo markings that also affect playback.
- Cross Staff plug-in moves notes across staves with a single keystroke.
- Drum Groove. Add drum parts to your score — add more by simply placing any MIDI file in the drum groove folder — the plug-in intelligently cuts and pastes ONLY the drum and percussion information.
- Easy Measure Numbers easily places measure numbers over a region of the score.
- Extract Lyrics lets you save your lyrics to a text file and share. (Windows only)
- FinaleScript®. Apply a change or series of changes using many of Finale’s features and options to a single Finale document, or batch process multiple Finale documents at once.
- Find Range finds the highest and lowest notes in the selected region.
- Global Staff/Group Attributes applies the same staff or group attributes to any staves or groups.
- Latin Percussion for lively, authentic rhythms. Add these rhythms - all correctly notated - to any piece, instantly.
- Midline Stem Direction changes the stem direction of notes on the middle staff line to follow the direction of the melodic line.
- Mid-Measure Repeats makes it easy to put a repeat in the middle of a measure, without impacting measure numbering.
- Move Rests – moves rests in the selected region to a different vertical position.
- Number Repeated Measures places numbers over measures that are repeated again and again.
- Patterson Beams applies additional beaming options for the most elegant beams imaginable.
- Piano Reduction creates a piano reduction of the selected staves.
- Resize Noteheads can resize regions of notes including any specific voices within a staff making it easy to notate harmonization.
- Rhythmic Subdivision changes the selected region to eighth notes, or divides all your notes in half.
- Score System Divider automatically inserts or removes system separation marks between staff systems on the same page.
- Smart Cue Notes. Search an entire score for cue note opportunities, and add them automatically.
- Smart Page Turns. Tell Finale to intelligently edit the layout of an entire part to avoid awkward page turns.
- Split Measure automates the process of splitting a measure across two systems, right down to the proper flow of measure numbers.
- Split Point. This plug-in lets you reset the split point between two staves in the selected region.
- Staff Set-up places selected instruments automatically adding appropriate clef, transposition and instrument name.
- Text Search and Replace lets you search and replace text items or phrases.
- TGTools lets you align/move dynamics; add easy string harmonics fast; create tremolos for display and playback; write your own script to automate common tasks; and add a playback effect to glissandi, hairpins, and trills; the ability to specify a different split point for selected regions (or automatically analyze your music and make intelligent split point decisions); easily create parts from staves in which multiple instruments have been notated; automatically minimize rests by expanding preceding notes, and to automatically generate a "handbells used" chart.
- Update Brackets & Groups changes multiple items simultaneously. Convenience and flexibility sure to please engravers.
- Vertical Collision Remover easily adjusts white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.
- Voice 2 to Layer moves Voice 2 entries to the selected layer.
- Word Extensions is a very easy way to add or remove word extensions to or from your lyrics.
- Also: Flat Beams (Add/Remove) Ledger Lines (Hide/Show) Notes and Rests (Hide/Show) Slash Flagged Grace Notes (Add/Remove)
Cross-Staff Beaming
Cross-Staff Augmentation Dots
- The default positioning of cross-staff augmentation dots has been enhanced.
Cross-Staff Beaming Improvements
- Creating cross-staff beaming is a snap. Just select the notes you want to move to the bass staff.
Textured Paper — Easy on the eyes
Choose from over a dozen different paper textures and colors so your on-screen page is easy on the eyes and aesthetically pleasing when entering notes or editing.
Tempo Markings and Expression Customization
Create Tempo Markings
- Tempo Markings are generated automatically and can be assigned to staff lists. Allowing you to easily specify that they appear on some staves in the score but all staves in extracted parts.
Expression Customization
- Creating and editing tempo markings is easy. Many placement options are offered including alignment based on the note or measure.
- Finale allows you to use multiple fonts in the same expression, align expressions with automatic placement options, and add a description for each expression.
Expression Placement
- Expressions are automatically placed above or below the staff, and can be centered or justified left or right.
Multiple Undo
You can undo any number of your last moves in the current session—even past the point that you saved the document. Applies to all actions including plug-ins.
Introducing Studio View™, a Revolutionary Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas
Finale integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. It’s easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.
INTEGRATED SEQUENCER CONTROLS
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves – in real time – with the powerful mixer.
STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION
Build compositions track by track in Studio View’s multi-track recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there’s no need for separate sequencing software that uses complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited.
ALL-IN-ONE
Finale has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multi-track environments.
Mid-Measure Playback Controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want.
Revolutionary Tools for Teaching Composition and Arranging
Sculpting Musical Compositions
Composing in Studio View is a lot like sculpting: Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale empowers students to make creative choices.
Unlock the Possibilities for Composition Students with Studio View
With Studio View in Finale, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.
How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback™.
SmartMusic® Accompaniment Wizard
Using Finale to create or save music as SmartMusic Accompaniments® for your solo or ensemble practice needs has never been easier! The SmartMusic Accompaniment Wizard guides you through the process, simplifying and automating each step.
It's easy to customize what you need!
- Solo works with accompaniment.
- Full ensembles.
- Exercises that can be assessed and graded!
- Choose to display the music in SmartMusic for the soloist to read.
Plus Finale makes it easier than ever to create SmartMusic Markers - one trip to Finale's Edit menu gives you an interface that looks and feels just like SmartMusic, and makes it a breeze to add Intelligent Accompaniment like "wait for note" or any other kind of SmartMusic Markers!
- Multitimbral SmartMusic Accompaniment Generation. Create SmartMusic Accompaniments containing many instruments primed for SoundFont playback in SmartMusic.
- Customized part playback lets you practice a part within an ensemble piece in SmartMusic.
- SmartMusic subscription required to use Finale-created accompaniments in SmartMusic.
Exercise Wizard — Quick Custom Lessons
Over 50,000 customized exercises. Instantly.
You only have five minutes until your band, orchestra, or choir rehearsal begins, and you need warm-up exercises tailored to what you intend to rehearse that day. You're in luck! You can create an exercise or multiple exercise lessons in an instant. Just select the mode, note duration, intervals, articulations, key and range.
Look how easy it is!
- Select the exercises
- Select Key and Articulation for each exercise
- Select which ensemble you want the sheet music printed: You can also customize your ensemble (i.e. wind ensemble, orchestra, chamber singers), select a pre-defined instrument range level, and how many copies for each.
- PRINT!
It's that automatic! Finale will produce every part for you - in the very best range for your class!
Share Files with Free Finale NotePad®
This FREE downloadable notation software can be used to create up to 8 staves, but can also open a Finale file from the same version. You can even read the most complex Finale family file, edit notes, or type in text.
Create an assignment or test in Finale, have the students take the test with Finale NotePad. You can also share your music with anyone on the Internet. When they download Finale NotePad, all of your friends, relatives, colleagues, or publishers can play back, print, and even edit the music.
Published in seven languages and used worldwide by over a half-million composers of all ages.
FinaleScript®
FinaleScript is the exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language that saves you time. Create your own or use the dozens of scripts provided.
Take a Shortcut
This feature could save you days of work. Easily create your own set of commands that Finale will perform with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. Batch file process.
Example: You have a number of Finale files for voice and piano, and you want them to be for Bb saxophone and piano.
Create a script that:
1. Selects top staff.
2. Searches and replaces “Voice” with “Saxophone”.
3. Completes instrument transposition to Bb on top staff.
4. Removes lyrics.
5. Removes chord symbols.
6. Lays out the page in Landscape.
7. Respaces the music.
‘8. Updates the layout.
Features:
- The ability to invoke plug-ins no matter how many layers of subfolders they may be hidden. Similarly batch processing can be performed in any ridiculous number of subfolders.
- Apply Staff Styles.
- Enter notes via FinaleScript®.
- Expanded ability to execute menu items.
SmartFind and Paint™ — attention to detail
Let’s say your score has a rhythmic motif that is repeated throughout the score in other voices with other pitches. If you want the articulations, dynamics and expressions copied to all those other voices, just select this feature and you have instantly transferred the desired selections right where you need them.
Engraver Tuplets
Take control of tuplets with Finale's Engraver Tuplets. Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with rests, and tuplets automatically reposition when notes are raised or lowered on the staff. Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines. Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the angle of notes when on the note side. Pickup measures include improved tuplet compatibility.
More tuplet position options:
- Center tuplet number metrically or linearly within tuplet group.
- Bracket can extend over full duration of notes or just notes themselves.
- Placement options for Beam/Stem side and Above/Below staff.
- Specify flat tuplet brackets.
- Brackets flip when dragged across staff midline.
- Display ratio in multiple forms and ratio + note duration.
Spacing Controls
Take control of "before music" and "after music" space on a measure-by-measure level.
- Specify space between clef and key, key and time, and clef and time.
- Additional"before music" space at beginning of staff system and for notes with accidentals.
- Specify minimum distance between grace notes in music spacing and retain manual grace note positioning after music spacing.
Grace Note Spacing - Do you work with multiple grace notes?
- You can specify the minimum distance between grace notes in Music Spacing Options.
- Manual grace note positioning can be retained after music spacing.
- Improved user interface affecting grace notes and music spacing in Document Options.
Macintosh Enhancements
State-of-the-Art Enhancements – Finale runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC- based Macintosh computers. Finale was the first notation software to take full advantage of today’s most powerful computing programs.
Mac Momentum – Both Mac Intel and PowerPC users will experience speed and redraw enhancements in Finale.
Mighty Mouse Support – Mac-friendly support for horizontal and vertical scrolling makes viewing your score easier and faster.
Embedded Fonts in Mac EPS files – Finale embeds TrueType and OpenType fonts as well as Postscript fonts. This ensures that your files look and print the same for others as they do for you. (available with Macintosh OS 10.4 and higher)
Roll-Over Tool Tips – Just mouse-over an icon to view a tool tip.
Smoother On-Screen Graphics (anti-aliasing) – Slurs, beams and other graphics have the same smooth appearance on-screen as they do when printed.
More Music Fonts
Pick the look of your musical symbols from a variety of distinctive notation fonts included with Finale. Create the look you want with Personal Document Styles. Customize the appearance of new documents by controlling text and music fonts, page layout, and more.
Available Fonts:
- Maestro Wide
- Maestro
- Engraver
- Jazz
TGTools Plug-Ins
Create Handbells Used Chart – Automatically generate, to your specifications, a chart that shows which handbells are in use in your score.
Smart Split Point – Specify-a different split point for selected regions or set your preferences and it will analyze your music and make intelligent decisions.
Process Extracted Parts – Easily create parts from staves in which multiple instruments have been notated.
Modify Rests – Minimize rests by expanding preceding notes. Shift rests. Split whole, half and quarter rests based on time signatures. Divide note values in half by inserting rests.
More Time Savers
Vertical Collision Remover – Easily adjust white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.
Updated Playback Controls – Indicate elapsed time, time code, and repeat pass information.
Improved Pickup Measures – Pickup measures include improved tuplet compatibility:
- Entering extra notes for tuplets or grace notes in pickup measures has been simplified.
- Pickup measures have been perfected in extracted and linked parts.
- Pickup measures are fully compatible with staff styles.
- Additional improvements to copying, pasting, and inserting pickup measures and partial measures.
Enharmonic Spelling in Chromatically Transposed Staves – In staves configured to use chromatic (rather than key signature) transposition, changes in the enharmonic spelling of notes are based on the notation in the chromatically transposed staff rather than concert pitch.
Intelligent Repeats
Repeats just got easier — with smarter design, less editing and automatic playback. Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select "Create first and second ending". You're done.
- All numbers and brackets are entered and lined up.
- Numbers are automatically followed by periods.
- Text Repeats and Repeat Endings have Staff List options, like Expressions.
- Specify where text and brackets appear in your score AND parts.
- Backward Repeat Bars or Repeat Endings can be defined to find their targets automatically.
- The Repeat context menu contains functions including "Align Brackets" and "Reset Bracket Position".
- Enhanced repeat handle functionality including the ability to select multiple handles.
- The Document Option "Maximum Number of Repeat Passes" prevents infinite loops that cause files not to play.
No Edits Required
Note Spacing – All notes space themselves automatically as they’re entered. Your job is to compose, Finale’s job is to make it look great!
Engraver Slurs – Slurs automatically snap to avoid collisions—even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.
Automatic Lyric Placement – Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically.
Automatic Word Extensions – Word extensions actually flow into the score automatically and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
Smart Hyphens – Lyric hyphens wrap to the next staff system automatically. And Finale has improved how lyrics are copied from verse to verse.
Auto-Slur Melismas, Score System Dividers, and More
Auto-Slur Melismas – Finale analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. You can even specify dashed slurs in situations with multiple verses!
Score System Divider – Automatically inserts or removes score system dividers to mark separations between staff systems on the same page.
Auto Insert Copyright Symbol – Do you know how to type a ©? Let Finale do it for you!
Auto Resize When Printing –Need to print an A4 document to an 8.5 X 11 page? Finale 2006 resizes the page automatically.
Advanced Measure Numbering – Additions to the Measure Attributes dialog box makes it easy to “ignore” any measure from measure numbering.
Key Signature and Mass Edit Context Menus – More time-saving control at your fingertips. The Key Signature tool also allows you to select a region to change.
Smart Lines Libraries – Your customized smart lines like glissandi are easily transferred between files.
Composite Library Files – Save more than one type of library element in a single file. No need to save multiple libraries for clefs, articulations, expressions and more.
Your Music Online — Finale Showcase
Post your music for the world to see, play and print at www.finalemusic.com/showcase/, a free site hosted by MakeMusic. Anyone can see and play back your music using Finale NotePad. Available for Mac and Windows.
Export Graphics
Create quizzes, textbooks or worksheets by exporting music into word-processing software. Finale allows you to save entire pages or sections as a TIFF or EPS file. Macs can also save as PICT.
Import Graphics
Create interesting music with the addition of graphics (embedded or linked). Import TIFF or EPS. Macs can also import PICT. Embedded graphics allow to easily transport your files to anyone.
Reinventing Tab – Wide Selection of Fretted Instruments
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.
Finale can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments.
Enter notes directly into TAB staves using a mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI device. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.
Once the music is in the tab staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from '2' to '3', just select the note and type '3'.
Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.
Finale’s handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various stem styles are easily applied. Use the "Tab Styles" library that comes with Finale or create your own.
- Bends and shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves.
- Notating hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and releases is a breeze.
- User-defined defaults for guitar bends are standard.
- Custom Smart Shapes contain an expanded list of guitar-specific lines.
- Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.
Note: Finale 2007 is available in French. Please enter "Finale 2007 French" in the comments of your order to receive the French version.
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