Finale is an incredibly powerful and versatile music composition software. It offers a wide range of instruments and voices, allowing you to create complex and beautiful music. The ability to scan sheet music and import MIDI and MusicXML files makes it easy to work with existing compositions. The interface is intuitive and easy to use, making it a great choice for both experienced and novice composers. Highly recommended!
There are a lot of people who think that music is the most beautiful out of the seven arts. Creating music is a thing of beauty, but it can also be a very difficult task. Finale is designed to help composers come as close to perfection as humanly possible.
Finale is an application which truly impressed me. It allows its users to create music for a wide array of instruments, voices, choirs and even entire orchestras. You can add the notes any way you want to and even add the lyrics that go along with the song.
In my opinion, a great feature that Finale offers is that it allows you to download some truly awesome music and voice samples. This will ensure that you will be able to listen to the music that you composed in the best way possible. Furthermore, it will give you the opportunity to instantly make the necessary adjustments to your compositions.
As a general conclusion, Finale is an application that I would recommend to every composer out there. This great music tool is one of the best available on the market today and I think that it is definitely worth its price, as steep as that might be.
v2012.1.4003.10 [Jul 20, 2012]
- Improved Instrument Handling. Finale now integrates staff attributes and playback sounds into its new Instrument paradigm, which allows for easier score management and automatic assignment of playback sounds.
- ScoreManager. Administer complete control over score instruments in one convenient, modeless window. The ScoreManager allows you to add, delete, and reorder score instruments, change instrument sounds, and even apply mixer settings like panning and volume.
- Easy Instrument Doubling. Introduce mid-score instrument changes at any measure with a new option under the Utilities menu. Transposition, clef, and other staff settings, as well as playback sound, are configured automatically.
- New Garritan Sounds, including soprano sax, celeste, accordion, recorder, mandolin, euphonium solo, baroque pipe organ with plenum reed stop, and pipe organ pedal stop.
- Improved File Sharing. Exchange Finale files with colleagues worry-free with intelligent sound mapping that identifies the appropriate playback sound for each score instrument based on each computer's unique setup.
- Auto-detect MIDI Devices. Finale now identifies external MIDI devices as soon as you plug them in. No setup required!
- Unicode Support. Finale now recognizes and displays Unicode font characters.
- PDF Export. Save your document, or a selected portion of it, as a PDF directly from Finale.
- Better Graphics Export. Exporting graphics has never been easier with a resizable selection area.
- New "Add Again" Metatool. Add the marking you just added, again. No setup required.
- New Finale Numerics Font. Easily add harmonic analysis and figured bass with stackable zero-width characters.
- New Finale Copyist Font. Like Broadway Copyist, but lighter-weight and with lower-case characters, this font was inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores.
- Alpha Notes Plug-in. Add note letters to your noteheads in a flash with this new plug-in.
- Space Systems Plug-in. Automatically position staff systems according to your particular spacing requirements.
- MusicXML 3.0. Finale supports the latest MusicXML technology, including instrument knowledge and Unicode.
- Updated Tutorials. Learn all the Finale basics guided by new, easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials.
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