From inspiration to applause, bring your music to life with Finale.
Compose, Arrange, Teach, Share, unleash your potential with Finale.
Your creative flow
Focus on your art. Leave the rest to Finale. When inspiration strikes, Finale takes care of the details so you can focus on your music. Capture ideas as fast as you can – with no obstacles to slow you down.
Your music. Your way.
In an instant you can move measures, change keys, or perform dozens of edits to capture, arrange, perfect, and print anything you can imagine.
Finale even offers creative and editorial input, from automatically harmonizing your melody to indicating when an instrument is out of range.
Enter notes. Your way.
The choice is yours. Play in your notes with a MIDI keyboard, mouse, or computer keyboard. Scan existing sheet music or import a wide variety of file types, including MIDI and MusicXML. You can even capture a brass or woodwind performance with Finale’s MicNotator.
No more barriers between inspiration and applause.
Listen as you create
Prepare to be blown away. Sound quality makes a difference.
With Finale you get a selection of world-class instrument sounds from Garritan’s Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, Concert & Marching Band, World Instruments, and Authorized Steinway libraries. Finale also includes sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline.
- Experience the quality of Garritan instrument sounds:
- Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky
- play pause mute unmute
Human Playback
What’s more, whether you enter your notes with a MIDI keyboard or a mouse, Finale’s exclusive Human Playback ensures that your music plays back with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance of a live performance.
Hear Your Music Come Alive with Garritan™ Instruments for Finale
Finale includes more than 400 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, a variety of electric guitars, world instruments and more.
New in Finale 2012
Based on your requests, Soprano Sax, Recorder, Celeste, Mandolin, Accordion, Euphonium solo and more Pipe organs have been added.
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.
External Sound Library Support
The entire world of VST/AU instruments and effects are now at your disposal for the most powerful sounding Finale ever. From the integrated Ambiance Reverb, to the plug-ins that come with current Macintosh operating systems, to the untold numbers of free and commercially available options, we've opened the floodgates for ultimate sonic shaping within Finale.
- Third-party VST/AU instruments and effects can also be combined with the sound libraries included with Finale.
- Apply effects to individual instrument libraries as well as add up to three mastering level effects on your entire mix.
- 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.
Make your music come to life with the best sound quality in the industry.
Print it out.
Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection.
Whether you’re creating a lead sheet for a folk song or pushing the boundaries of music notation, Finale lets you achieve anything you can imagine.
Publish perfect scores.
Personalize your music to fit your style.
From music fonts to chord symbols, from time signatures to music spacing, from lyrics to percussion notation, how your music appears is up to you.
Simply choose a Document Style from Finale’s Setup Wizard, and Finale handles all the details. However, should you choose to customize ANY aspect of your music, Finale lets you do that, too.
Your music is as unique as you are. Now it can look as unique as it sounds. Only Finale provides you with the flexibility to create anything you can imagine.
Inspire your students
- Challenge, equip, and empower your students.
- Students can compose on their own with Finale NotePadA Finale exclusive!
- SmartMusic integration.
- Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and celebrate their success.
And, with Finale’s Exercise Wizard, you can create more than 50,000 exercises for your entire ensemble.
What is SmartMusic?
SmartMusic provides the ideal practice environment for students, including access to the world’s largest accompaniment library and instant feedback on each performance.
Creative resources at your fingertips.
Finale provides hundreds of customizable music education worksheets. Quickly produce flashcards, puzzles, and exercises for classes in general music, theory and ear training, composition, arranging, and jazz improvisation.
Whether you’re creating music for beginning students or guiding advanced students through harmonic analysis, you have the customized tools and resources you need to teach and inspire your students.
Music is a universal language.
How you choose to communicate is up to you.
When you’re ready to share your music with the world, Finale provides you with more options than any other notation software.
Share your music as:
- Audio files including .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF
- MusicXML and MIDI files
- PDF files, from entire pieces to small excerpts
- Finale files that can be shared with users of the entire Finale family: PrintMusic, SongWriter, Finale NotePad, and the free Finale Reader
And of course, you can always print your music and pass it out. No matter how you want to share, Finale has you covered.
Creative flow and control
- Focus on your art.
- Leave the rest to your manager.
- Finale’s ScoreManager takes care of the details – controlling how your staves look and sound – so you don’t have to.
Easily change a flute staff to a clarinet staff. Switch between flute and clarinet on the same staff. The ScoreManager knows how a clarinet staff transposes, looks, and sounds, so it makes all the necessary arrangements. The ScoreManager also handles playback and sound setup, so you don’t have to navigate to various players or assign correct MIDI channels.
In one setting, the ScoreManager lets you change staff name, order, transposition, clef, and playback sounds. Let Finale’s new ScoreManager handle all the details, so you can focus on the music.
Changes in Finale’s ScoreManager are simultaneously visible in your score.
World-class sounds
Hearing is believing.
- 400+ Garritan sounds are built in
- Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ sounds
- External sound library support The highest-quality virtual instruments.
- Improved sound management.
You already know that Finale’s sound libraries are without equal.
With Finale 2012, you have access to even more Garritan sounds. Based on your requests, new instrument sounds include:
- Soprano sax
- Celeste
- Mandolin
- Accordion
- Euphonium solo
- Recorder
- Pipe organ – Baroque Plenum Reed stop
- Pipe organ – Pedal stop
Of course, in addition to more than 400 instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, Finale also includes sounds from the makers of Virtual Drumline and more.
Sound setup.
With the updated Setup Wizard, you simply indicate what instrument you’re writing for. No need to specify a sound library first. Finale automatically associates the instruments you’ve selected with the sound libraries on your computer, even if you’ve added libraries not included with Finale. It even remembers which sound libraries you prefer.
More ways to communicate.
Unicode text support.
Easily write and share your music with Finale 2012’s Unicode font support. Now you can use all the characters in your fonts. Want to correctly type Dvorák’s name? Are you translating a hymn to Korean? Need to add a hard-to-find symbol? Today’s Finale can display any character you wish.
Create PDF files.
Now it’s simple to create PDF files within Finale, whether you use a Mac or a PC. Easily combine all your pages into a single document, share a single page, or any excerpt of a page.
Your files always play back.
Send a Finale file to someone who doesn’t have the same software libraries installed, and all your staves will play back the instruments you intended – even if they’re using a PC and you’re using a Mac. Finale uses the libraries you’ve specified whenever possible, and provides the best alternative when they’re not. No matter how you share your music, everyone gets the best possible playback – automatically.
Using an older version of Finale?
Every year Finale is better.
If you haven't upgraded in a while, Finale 2012 offers multiple years of innovation!
New in Finale 2012
- Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing
- Enter your lyrics and they instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, automatically spaced with engraver precision. Easier Staff Layout
- Simple and intuitive ways to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets.
From previous years of Finale
- Expanded Percussion
Playback
- Notes on your percussion staves look – and play back – exactly how you want them to.
Simplified Chords
- Enter chord symbols by typing in their names, playing them in with a MIDI keyboard, or by alternating between these two entry methods – all without visiting a menu.
Automatic Rehearsal Marks
- You can automatically create rehearsal marks in any score.
Linked Parts
- Finale’s intelligent linking knows when to enforce consistency and when to allow differences.
Features
Getting Started
- Getting started is easy. Whether you’re setting up your score, picking a music font, 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 exclusive MicNotator®, no other software offers you more note entry options.
Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
- Finale automates and streamlines the process of entering lyrics, guitar tab, chords, and more.
Editing Tools
- Finale makes it easy to perfect your score with handy editing tools like the Selection tool, Multiple page editing, ScoreManager, and intuitive cut/copy/paste options.
Hearing Your Music
- Finale includes world-class instrument libraries, support for external sound 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 exclusive features like SmartMusic® support, customizable music education worksheets, and the Exercise Wizard, Finale offers music educators more ways to save time.
Composing and Arranging Timesavers
- Exclusive idea-generating features, essential tools like transposition and range checking, and timesavers like Linked Parts 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.
Finishing Touches
- Finale is the industry standard because it offers ultimate control of the printed page.
Popular Finale Features
- Unicode Text Support
- Score Manager controls how staves look and sound
- More Garritan Sounds
- Improved MIDI Instrument Setup
- Playback Portability
- Music Education Worksheets including Jazz Improvisation, Flashcards & Repertoire
- Finale Numerics and Finale Copyist Fonts
- Improved Setup Wizard
- Import graphics in PDF format
- Export your score as a PDF and graphics tool enhancements
- Improvements to Finale AlphaNotes Font
- Staff Layout
- Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing
- Finale Percussion & Finale Mallets Fonts
- Expanded Percussion Playback
- Instant Capo Chords
- Import Graphics (New formats JPEG, PNG, BMP & GIF)
- Easy Chord Entry
- Automatic Rehearsal Marks
- Export your score or section as a graphics file (New formats – JPEG & PNG)
- External Sound Library Support (VST/AU Instruments and Effects)
- Improved Scanning with SmartScore« Lite & MusicXML
- Streamlined Workflow and Expression Enhancements
- Faster SmartMusic Accompaniment Creation
- Multiple Page Editing
- Expanded Human Playback Support
- Record/Import Audio
- Cut/Copy/Paste Improvements
- ScoreMerger
- Linked Parts
- Video Support
- Powerful Mixer
- TempoTap
- Create an Audio CD Save as .WAV/.AIFF/.MP3
- Drum Groove
- Improved Guitar Tab
- Exercise Wizard
- Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing
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Institutions must be enrolled in Finale Advantage Program and initially purchase at least 10 units of the Finale Home Edition, and then may purchase incremental quantities for their students of any amount during the Finale Advantage agreement term. Finale Home Edition is identical to the full Finale program. Insitutions may sell the Finale Home Edition to students, and students take full ownership of the software will their own serial number. |
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- 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
- Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
- 600MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional - 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.
Optional
- MIDI interface
- MIDI input and/or playback device
- Printer
- Scanner
- Microphone required for use of MicNotator
- A soundcard (including a DirectSound AS20 recommended driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.
- Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments.
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.
System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and other manufacturers.
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- G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.5-10.6 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
- DVD-ROM drive.
- 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
- Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
- 700MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.
Optional
- MIDI interface
- MIDI input and/or playback device
- Printer
- Scanner
- Microphone required for use of MicNotator
- A soundcard (including a DirectSound AS20 recommended driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.
- Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments.
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.
System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and other manufacturers.
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