Music begins with Finale.
Finale 2010 lets you express your creativity and love of music. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.
Entering Notes
From MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale’s MicNotator, no other software offers you more note entry options.
SmartMusic Support and Music Education Worksheets
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.
Orleans Blues featuring Debbie Duncan (.wav)
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
Finale has 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 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 includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free 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, .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 & Updated Aria Player
Finale 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
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.
Features
Getting Started
Getting started is easy. Whether you’re setting up your score or watching a QuickStart Video, Finale guides you to perfection.
Entering Notes
Enter notes your way – from MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale’s MicNotator®, no other software offers you more note entry options.
Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
Finale automates and streamlines the process of entering everything besides notes, too.
Hearing Your Music
Finale includes world-class instrument libraries and several innovative tools to make sure your music sounds as good as it looks.
Sharing Your Music
In addition to printed pages and audio files, Finale helps you create electronic documents that anyone can edit, print, and save. No one offers more ways to collaborate and share your music.
Educator Tools
With features like SmartMusic® support, customizable music education worksheets, and the Exercise Wizard, Finale offers music educators more ways to save time.
Time Savers
Save time with Linked Parts, Multiple Page Editing, and other innovative features that automate tasks and streamline your workflow.
Composing and Arranging Tools
Idea-generating features and essential tools like transposition and range checking are all included.
Production and Sequencing Tools
Finale is able to open or save as a standard MIDI file to work in conjunction with the industry’s most in-demand production and sequencing programs. Video support and Finale’s built in mixer are just two of many tools inside of Finale that help you prepare your score for final production.
Engraver Tools
Finale is the industry standard because it offers ultimate control of the printed page.
Getting Started
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.
- 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
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, scan music, access the Installation and Tutuorial Guide, and more.
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, orchestral and band scores, 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.
Setting-up your score
Finale’s Setup Wizard helps you get up and running quickly.
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, instrument transpositions, tempo marking, staff groupings, intelligent page layout that automatically adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on the page.
You can also choose from a wide variety of personal document styles, specify the number of measures in your score, and insert text for the title, composer, arranger, lyricist, copyright and a sub-title.
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 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.
Simple Note Entry
Enter notes with your computer or MIDI keyboard. Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or enter notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ But entering notes is just the start. You can also:
- Change octaves
- Enter rests
- Add accidentals
- Create triplets
- Add grace notes
- Add notes in a chord to an existing note
- 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
- Add expressions like dynamics or tempos
- Enter a rhythmic pattern using a single note and then re-pitch the repeated notes using your MIDI or computer keyboard
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.
HyperScribe®
Enter notes in real-time as you play a MIDI keyboard.
- You can play along with a click, provide the click as you play (for example with a sustain or other foot pedal), or enter the pulse later.
- Record your live vocal or instrumental performance
- 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.
- Record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
MicNotator® – No MIDI Required
This technology allows you to enter notation into Finale simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument. Pick up your clarinet and start making music!
Scanning
No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale, with its included Smartscore® Lite by Musitek®.
Finale’s Smartscore Lite Scanning includes:
- Improved accuracy with XML technology including triplet recognition and better results when scanning polyphonic music.
- Easier Scanning – scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window. With a compatible scanner, Finale provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings.* All you have to do is click "Final Scan."
- Secondary voice recognition – counterpoint.
- Correct transposed instrument recognition.
- Multiple page scans.
- Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes.
- Up to 32nd note resolution.
- Improved recognition of multi-measure rests, grace notes, and repeat measures (slash and dot symbol).
- Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models that save in this format.
- Improved recognition when scanning scores with optimized staves.
Need additional recognition?
Finale is also compatible with full-fledged scanning products including Smartscore X and SharpEye. Sold separately, these products offer expanded recognition.
- Finale and Smartscore X are fully integrated. Finale is automatically launched from Smartscore X and files import with notes, text, lyrics, dynamics, articulations, and chord symbols intact. Upgrading to Smartscore X is optional and once installed, replaces the Lite version when “Scanning” is initiated in Finale. Discounted pricing is available for Finale registered users.
- Finale also imports SharpEye MusicXML files. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the MusicXML files it creates can be read by Finale on Macintosh and Windows computers.)
*Scanning directly from Smartscore Lite within Finale is supported by nearly all Windows scanners and Epson scanners on Macintosh.
Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
Finale automates and streamlines the process of entering everything
Dynamics & Tempo markings
Finale makes entering, creating, copying and moving dynamics, tempo indications, and other text and markings intuitive and powerful. Transparent selection handles so you can easily see the articulation or marking that you are editing.
Chords
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
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.
More
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 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.
Dynamics and Tempo Markings
In Finale, expressions include dynamics, tempo markings, rehearsal marks, technique text like arco and pizzicato, and expressive text.
Reinvented and streamlined
In Finale, expressions include dynamics, tempo markings, rehearsal marks, technique text like arco and pizzicato, and expressive text. Selection, entry and placement of expressions or articulation markings is quick and intuitive. Once in your score, they are easily moved – with transparent selection handles, so they never obscure the object you’re editing. You can instantly change the appearance of an entire category of expressions or articulations.
Drag and drop expressions
Let’s say you’ve entered an expression in your score and need to move it elsewhere in the music. In the past you needed to delete it and start over if you were doing anything but minor adjustments. Now you simply drag text items anywhere. Clear visual feedback instantly shows you what each selected expression is attached to, which changes dynamically as you drag – even across pages. Drag expressions and rest assured they’ll always change playback – and appear in linked parts – just the way you want them to.
Plus, you can drag-apply expressions to multiple staves at once. No matter how you enter these markings, Finale continues to apply the same collision avoidance rules so you don’t have to think about it.
Lyrics
Finale offers unlimited lyric verses and the following time-saving enhancements.
Automatic Lyric Placement
Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically.
Export your lyrics to a word-processing document
- Export all or part of your lyrics
- Controls to edit your lyrics – with verse or chorus designations not found in your score – before you export
- Easy Lyric Font Changes
- Lyric fonts can be easily changed after lyrics are entered.
Automatic Word Extensions
Word extensions 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
Finale offers automatic hyphen placement with precision results even in tight spacing. Plus Lyric hyphens automatically wrap to the next staff system.
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!
Percussion Notation
Whether you’re an expert user customizing percussion scores, or not sure where a bass drum goes on the staff, Finale gets your percussion notation to look and sound perfect in no time.
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation – now it’s also incredibly easy to use! Finale has simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to.
Easy to Enter
- Simply drag the cursor over the staff and on-screen feedback indicates whether you’re about to enter a snare, bass drum, or other percussion instrument – and displays the appropriate notehead.
- Dragging notes up and down the staff scrolls smoothly through all available instruments.
- Seamlessly copy music back and forth between percussion and standard notation staves.
Automatic Playback
- Automatic playback configuration – your snare will playback with a snare sound – and so forth – without any manual intervention.
- Easily re-map your percussion playback without changing your score. Change playback from one instrument library to another – or to an external midi device. If you use built-in sounds in the office, and external MIDI sounds at home – Finale 2010 was made for you.
Plus:
- When more than one instrument appears on the same line or space, you can control which appears first – you don’t have to switch from side stick to snare.
- Choose to retain staff position or MIDI pitch when copying between percussion and standard notation staves.
- On-screen feedback indicates when a staff contains notes not found in that staff’s percussion layout.
Chords
Enter chord symbols by typing in their names, playing them with a MIDI keyboard, or by alternating between these two entry methods – all without visiting a menu. Simple, intuitive keystrokes make it easy to move to the next beat or measure as well as delete or edit existing 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 exactly how you wish.
- On-screen feedback lets you instantly see what beat or measure each chord is attached to even if you manually reposition your chords.
- Enter chords before entering notes.
- Easily create chord-only charts.
- Chords and fretboards automatically resize as your page resizes – plus you have easy scaling controls for fretboards and chords in document options.
- QWERTY and MIDI keystrokes let you move the cursor to the first beat of adjacent measures (plus it’s easy to move to adjacent beats) and vertically stack chords.
- Chords attached to whole rests or notes automatically appear at the beginning of a measure.
Repeats
Repeats are easy to add and edit and they automatically play back. Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select "Create first and second ending." You’re done.
Finale automatically does the rest of the work for you:
- All numbers and brackets are entered and lined up.
- Repeat numbers are automatically followed by periods.
- Backward Repeat Bars or Repeat Endings can be defined to find their targets automatically.
You can also choose to:
- Add mid-measure repeats without affecting your measure numbering.
- Specify where text and brackets appear in your score and parts.
- Align Brackets and Reset Bracket Position.
Create Codas
Finale automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.
Measure Numbers
Measure numbers are essential for synchronizing an ensemble during rehearsals and performances. Finale offers unprecedented flexibility and control of measure numbers.
- Control alignment, positioning, and fonts separately in your score and linked parts.
- Separate positioning for measure numbers under multi-measure rests.
- Control the alignment and positioning of measure numbers that appear at the start of each system separately from numbers in the rest of your score.
Finale also features automatic rehearsal marks that dynamically update when you delete, insert, or move measures in your score.
Tablature and Fretboards
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.
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 300 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
All of Finale’s sound libraries work together seamlessly so that you can mix and match sounds in your score.
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.
Garritan Sounds
Hear Your Music Come Alive with Garritan™ Instruments for Finale
Finale includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free sounds include orchestral instruments, jazz brass, saxophones, piano, choirs, drum set, guitar, organ, handbells, marching percussion, world instruments, and more.
New sounds include church organ, a variety of electric guitars, five octaves of handbells, steel guitar, and a brush drum kit containing 50 additional sounds.
Authentic
Garritan provides different players to fill the section realistically.
Expandable
Garritan sounds can be used with the Tapspace Virtual Drumline, Latin Percussion, and Row-Loff Marching Percussion sounds included in Finale and combined with other VST/AU Instruments and Effects. Exciting libraries of additional instruments are also available for purchase from Garritan and Tapspace.
Human Playback® further enhances the integration of Garritan Instruments in Finale by including customized legato and a variety of instrument techniques.
Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ Sounds
Finale includes more than 100 sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, the world’s most powerful marching and concert percussion software instrument, featuring the world-champion Santa Clara Vanguard percussion section.
In addition to lite versions of the drum line instruments, a variety of pitched percussion is included, as well as combination instruments for General MIDI and Finale’s marching percussion mapping.
Row-Loff Marching Percussion Sounds
Nothing extra to buy! Nothing extra to install! Sounds include: Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum and Tenor Drums.
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.
Human Playback
Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance you felt when you wrote it. Finale’s Human Playback plays your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter your notes with a mouse.
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 other sounds.
- With dozens of playback techniques to choose from, Human Playback makes the most of Garritan® and other popular instrument libraries.
- Compatible with the Aria player and third party VST/AU Instruments and Effects
- 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.
VST/AU Instruments and Effects
The entire world of VST/AU effects are at your disposal for the most powerful sounding Finale ever. From the included Ambiance Reverb plug-in, to the plug-ins that come with current Macintosh operating systems, to the untold numbers of free and commercially available options, Finale has opened the floodgates for ultimate sonic shaping within Finale. You can apply effects to individual instrument libraries as well as add up to three mastering level effects on your entire mix.
What's more, Finale offers an expanded dynamic range, and greater control over VST/AU playback volume, letting you control relative volume of various sound libraries as well as overall volume of your mix.
Finale checks plug-ins for compatibility before loading, and tracks which plug-ins were previously checked for better performance. Third-party VST/AU instruments and effects can also be combined with the sound libraries included with Finale.
Aria Player
Garritan Aria Player is included FREE and is fully integrated into Finale. All of your Finale sound libraries work together seamlessly in the Aria player so that you can mix and match sounds in your score. Plus you can add other VST/AU Instruments and Effects.
The Garritan Aria Player greatly simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. The Aria player offers superior sound, more control, and a vastly improved user playback experience. Aria works so well, you’ll take it completely for granted and concentrate on making music.
Sharing 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.
Save as Audio: Save As .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF
Turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button to save your Finale score as an .MP3, .AIFF, or .WAV file to burn onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuance of your music, including interpretation provided by Finale’s Human Playback, though your choice of integrated Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) sounds and other supported VST/AU instruments. (.MP3 format available with SmartMusic Sound Font only.)
MusicXML
Finale can import and export MusicXML 2.0 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 including older versions of Finale.
MusicXML Import also recognizes:
- Accidentals and ties
- Slurs and other articulations
- Fretboards
- Metronome markings
- Piano pedal lines
- Composite time signatures
- Embedded graphics
Finale also supports a compressed file format which makes MusicXML files much smaller and more transportable.
Backwards Compatibility
MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone using selected older 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.
Exporting your Music as a Graphics File
Create textbooks, worksheets or quizzes by exporting your music into a word processing program.
- Export as .JPEG, and .PNG in addition to previously supported formats of .TIFF, .EPS, and .PICT (Mac only)
- Export in color – including graphics and noteheads
- EPS files include TIFF previews for better cross-platform compatibility. This means that EPS files created on Macintosh computers can be opened and previewed on Windows computers before printing.
Finale allows you to save entire pages or just a section in the following formats:
- .TIFF
- .JPEG
- .PNG
- .EPS
- .PICT (Mac only)
Finale can also import graphics into your score.
Educator Tools
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
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 adds the ability to compose new pieces as well as edit and save any Finale file.
Teach Composition
Finale’s Studio View™ is perfect for teaching and practicing composition and arranging using the language of music notation.
More
- 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
Academic pricing discounts for single and multiple licenses are available for Finale in addition to Finale Advantage, a maintenance program for educational institutions with a Finale site license.
Create SmartMusic Accompaniments
Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed learning software for band, orchestra, and choir. Simply open your score, Choose Export as SmartMusic from Finale’s file menu, and specify the type of accompaniment you’d like. Students select their instrument from the resulting SmartMusic file.
Easy to Create
- Save any new or existing Finale file as a SmartMusic solo, ensemble, or assessable accompaniment
- With linked part support, educators create one file for the entire ensemble. Students simply select their individual parts when practicing. This represents a tremendous savings in time and effort compared to creating separate SmartMusic accompaniment files for every part in older versions of Finale.
- SmartMusic accepts repeats and a great variety of notated items that were previously blocked in the Finale export process.
- Easily add Intelligent Accompaniment, “wait for note” and other SmartMusic markers with one trip to Finale’s Edit menu.
Remember: ONLY Finale can create assessable SmartMusic accompaniments. Visit www.smartmusic.com to learn more about SmartMusic learning software for band, orchestra, and choir.
Music Education Worksheets
Finale includes more than 300 ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets.
Designed for K-12 students of general music, theory, band, orchestra, and choir, these educator-approved worksheets help teach basic elements of music. Here are a few examples:
- Circle of Fifths
- Grand staff and note names
- Sharps and flats
- Counting and rhythm exercises
- Scales
- Chords
- Intervals
- Music vocabulary
- Rounds
- Puzzles and more
Easy to customize & use
Because they’re provided as Finale files it’s easy to edit them to your specific needs and print them out, or distribute them via email to be printed with the free Finale Reader. Used in conjunction with Finale’s powerful Exercise Wizard, these worksheets provide educators with instant access to thousands of pages of printable AND editable materials for their students.
Exercise Wizard: Over 50,000 customized exercises. Instantly.
You have only 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!
Click on the following screen shots to view each page of the Exercise Wizard and you will see how easy it is to create exercises instantly.
- Select the exercises (page 2 of 4)
- Select Key and Articulation for each exercise (page 3 of 4)
- Select which ensemble you want the sheet music printed (page 4 of 4): 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.
It's that automatic! Finale will produce every part for you - in the very best range for your class!
Teach Composition with Studio View
With Studio View™ in Finale, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.
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.
Students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols.
How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears.
Create
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®.
Experiment
While listening to the melody, students experiment with counter-melodies, canons, and the like. Studio View plays back these experiments, encouraging students to make choices.
Choose
Studio View encourages intelligent choices. With melody and counter-melody working together, students continue to experiment with harmonies, bass lines, and instrumentation. Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing, Rhythm Section Generator, and other composition tools provide creative options. With each choice, students shape their music and make it their own.
Colored Noteheads
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 even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.
Timesavers
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.
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.
Control the alignment, positioning, and font of your measure numbers separately for your score and linked parts.
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
Cut/Copy/Paste
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.
- Use intuitive keystrokes to select additional staves, additional notes, or additional measures without using the mouse.
Multiple Page Editing
Added true multi-page viewing and editing which allows users to both see more of their music and edit everything they see.
While Finale has always been able to display multiple pages on your computer screen, edits could only be made on one page at a time. Now you can simultaneously view and edit as many pages as you choose to view on your monitor.
- Copy and paste measures from one page to the next
- Drag slurs from the end of one page to the beginning of another, and much more.
Choose from multiple viewing options including single pages, facing pages, and tiled pages. Click to the next page, next pair of pages, or choose to scroll continuously – horizontally or vertically. You can even choose to view your entire piece on screen at once with a tiled view. No other music notation software offers this flexibility.
Best of all, you can edit any page in any view at any time.
Automatic Rehearsal Marks
Finale has automated the process of creating rehearsal marks in your score.
Easy to enter
- Use one keystroke (M) to quickly enter rehearsal marks anywhere in your score.
- Finale automatically sequences them correctly regardless of what order you enter them.
- Rehearsal marks are dynamically updated if you delete, insert, or move any rehearsal mark or measure.
Easy to customize
- Change the appearance (enclosure shape, font, size, numbers or letters, etc.) once to impact all current and future marks in your score.
- Control where to begin rehearsal mark sequencing (especially helpful when creating separate movements of a larger piece).
Selection Tool
The powerful 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.
With the selection tool you can:
- Cut, copy or paste music
- Change time and key signatures and clefs
- Transpose
- Add repeats
- Adjust expressions, change bar lines, and more
Accomplish more without changing tools
- 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 additions, transposition, measure layout, auto-orchestration, and much more.
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.
- Merge a collection of parts into a full conductor’s score.
SmartFind and Paint™
Instantly transfer articulations, dynamics and expressions to repeated rhythmic motifs in other voices.
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.
Composing & Arranging Tools
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.
Latin Percussion
Exciting Latin Percussion choices 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.
Combine all the included sounds, including Finale’s Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff™ Marching Percussion, Jose Cortijo’s Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont.
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.
Auto-Harmonizing
Automatically transforms your melodies, creating up to 6-part hamonies in dozens of styles and voices. Thanks to a partnership with the makers of the popular Band-in-a-Box software, the incredible Auto Harmonizer is FREE with the purchase of Finale.
Production & Sequencing Tools
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.
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.
Record/Import Audio
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.
A world of possibilities
Finale’s audio support allows you to:
- 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.
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.
Mixer
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.
Mid-Measure Playback Controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want. Playback controls also indicate elapsed time, time code and repeat pass information.
Video Support
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 Angels & Demons, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Changeling, Defiance, and Monsters vs. Aliens.
Watch and 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.
Import and Export MIDI files
You have the perfect MIDI file of your favorite song, but you don’t have the sheet music to arrange it for your ensemble. There is a simple solution. Finale can open midi files and display notation.
- Finale recognizes the time and key signatures from MIDI information, and plots the pitches on the staff lines for you.
- Skip right to the editing stages and prepare the song for your next rehearsal.
Save notation as MIDI and save time sequencing
You’ve notated your film score with hundreds of time changes and twice as many tempo changes. Now it’s time to create a background track in your sequencing program, before your soloist arrives to record.
- Save your Finale file as a MIDI file, and open it into your sequencer.
- Your time and tempo changes will be written with MIDI information.
Engraver Tools
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 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 Broadway Copyist handwritten font, Vertical Collision Remover, and other spacing controls.
- Add graphics to your score like pictures or logos.
- Alternate Notation – Finale 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.
Creating cross-staff beaming is a snap. Just select the notes you want to move to the bass staff. It's that easy.
Engraver Slurs
Finale’s Engraver slurs, introduced with Finale 2002, revolutionized music notation software with their ability to automatically snap to avoid collisions – even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.
Finale has always provided the highest resolution for world class printout, but on-screen images have been less smooth. Now Windows users join their Macintosh counterparts with anti-aliasing for smoother on-screen appearance of slurs, hairpins, and brackets for more accurate on-screen representation of your final output.
Finale has also fine-tuned engraver slurs to ensure that edits made at high view percentages always produce the same results when viewed at 100% and when printed – and that on-screen appearance is consistently representative of high-resolution output so there are no surprises at the printer.
Document Styles
Create the look you want with personal Document Styles
Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own to instantly personalize the appearance of new documents. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.
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…
Create Your Own
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.
FinaleScript 2.0: Script with ease.
FinaleScript® is Finale’s easy-to-use scripting language that saves time by allowing you to automate your tasks by using one of the dozens of scripts Finale provides – or easily creating your own. Finale performs your tasks with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. The possibilities are endless.
FinaleScript could save you hours of work. For example, let’s say you have several Finale files for voice and piano you want to use for Alto Sax. With FinaleScript you could create a script to automatically replace the staff name “Voice” with “Saxophone”, apply the appropriate Eb transposition, remove the lyrics and more.
FinaleScript also includes:
- User interface scripting: script any items in a Finale dialog box such as buttons, checkboxes, text boxes, popup menus (Mac) / dropdown lists (Windows) Emulate keystrokes and mouse clicks.
- Quick access to scripts through the FinaleScript menu and keyboard shortcuts. Combined with user interface scripting, these additions make FinaleScript 2.0 a potent replacement for third-party macro recorder programs.
- Easy to use script editor: including syntax coloring, contextual dictionary, and syntax checker.
- Organize your scripts hierarchically.
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.
It's automatic!
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.
Music Fonts
Finale gives you complete control over the fonts used for notation and text in your music.
Introducing the Broadway Copyist font – created by Robert P., designer of the esteemed November and Medieval music fonts. Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores, the Broadway Copyist font offers a lighter, classic appearance and:
- A "cleaner" look with greater legibility (especially with text)
- Expanded support of upper ASCI characters
- Improved cross-platform capability
Finale 2010 also continues to include the Jazz handwritten font for those who prefer its distinctive look.
The following fonts are included in Finale:
- Maestro Wide
- Maestro
- Petrucci
- Engraver
- Broadway Copyist
- Jazz
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.
Textured Paper
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.
Vertical Collision Remover
Easily adjust white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.
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.
Importing Graphics
Add embedded or linked graphics to your score like pictures or a logo. Embedded graphics allow you to easily transport your files to anyone.
- Import as .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, and .GIF in addition to previously supported formats of .TIFF, .EPS, and .PICT (Mac only)
- Support of graphic transparency and translucency in imported .PNG and .GIF files
- Easy re-sizing of graphics that you’ve imported into your music
Finale can import the following file formats:
- .TIFF
- .JPEG
- .PNG
- .EPS
- .BMP
- .GIF
- .PICT (Mac only)
Embedded Fonts in Macintosh 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. You can also export your score or a section of music as a graphics file to create textbooks, worksheets and quizzes.
Authorization
Finale requires that you authorize the software within 30 days after installation. You are allowed to install Finale on two operating systems (multiple licenses excluded).
File Compatibility
Finale family software can open files in the same or newer software version, but files created in a newer version cannot be opened in an older version unless converted via MusicXML.
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