Music comes alive with Finale.
Finale provides easy access to everything you need to compose, arrange, play, and print music. Whether you’re creating orchestra film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, your music comes alive with Finale.
Preferred by musicians worldwide
Finale is the world standard for music notation software. More than 2.5 million professional and aspiring musicians, composers, engravers, arrangers, and educators use the Finale family of notation products.
Finale is for everyone
Finale 2011 provides you with the power, flexibility, and freedom to create any music you can imagine. Instead of forcing you to adapt your creative process to the software,
Finale adapts to you. The result? You can quickly and easily turn your inspiration
into applause.
The most note entry options
Play a MIDI keyboard, use a mouse and computer keyboard, scan existing music, capture a brass or woodwind performance, or import a variety of files.
Linked Parts and more
Finale saves you time with Linked Parts, Multiple Page Editing, Save Audio Files, Drum Groove, ScoreMerger™, Video Support, and more.
SmartMusic Support and Music Education Worksheets
Exclusive SmartMusic support, over 800 customizable Music Education Worksheets, and the ability to share files with students via Finale NotePad® or the free downloadable Finale Reader™ are just a few of the many reasons Finale remains the first choice of music educators worldwide.
What’s New in Finale 2011
Finale 2011 frees you from software constraints so you can focus on music. From lyrics and staff layout to Garritan sounds and new fonts, Finale 2011 is more intuitive, efficient, and flexible. Learn more.
World-Class Sounds
More than 375 instrument sounds from the renowned makers Garritan Personal Orchestra, 100+ sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, AND support for external sound libraries means Finale offers the very best in playback. Learn more.
Finale Exclusives
Finale is the only music notation software program that lets you record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback, includes Band-in-a-Box Auto-harmonizing, has Human Playback, and more.
What’s New in Finale 2011
Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing
Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision.
Garritan sounds
Finale now includes more than 375 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include bass trombone, brass section, children’s choir ahs, flute section, electronic drum kit and more.
New Fonts
Hundreds of new font characters are included for percussion, mallet and handbell graphics.
Expanded Percussion Playback
Last year the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to was simplifed. This year Finale 2011 makes it easy to switch between pitched and non-pitched percussion anywhere in your score.
Instant Capo Chords
Automatically add capo chords to your music with the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo chords.
Easier Staff Layout
New Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, and never lose a note.
Music Education Worksheets
Finale now includes more than 800 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets and flashcards. New this year are jazz improvisation worksheets and more than 100 titles of classroom repertoire.
Finale AlphaNotes™ Font
Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names or solfčge syllables inside noteheads.
Updated Aria Player
The Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. Updated for Finale 2011, the Garritan Aria Player has an integrated Ambience reverb and the ability to save Ensembles.
Improved Pickup measures and more
Pick-up measures automatically insert the correct rests when you start your score, improved file support for multiple-user environments, and a new Quick Reference Guide that shows you how to complete common tasks quickly and easily in Finale.
Using an older version of Finale?
Finale is constantly being improved and new features are added each year. In the past few years these include: Linked Parts, easier chord entry, automatic rehearsal marks, multiple page editing, cut/copy/paste improvements, and more.
Features
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.
Music Fonts – Updated in Finale 2011
Finale includes a variety of engraved, hand-written and specialty fonts and supports third-party fonts. New in Finale 2011 are three new fonts: Finale Percussion™ Font, Finale Mallets™ Font and an AlphaNotes™ Font for use with beginning music students. Finale gives you complete control over the fonts used for notation and text in your music.
Questions on how to use Finale?
Finale offers the freedom and versatility to create anything you can imagine. Finale 2011 is also easy to use, but sometimes you might want to know more about the variety of ways to enter notes or how to indicate a nonstandard time signature.
- New Quick Reference Guide shows you how to complete common tasks quickly and easily.
Quick Reference Guide
- Don’t like manuals? Finale’s QuickStart Videos guide you through the process of putting your music on the page.
- Comprehensive help that is contextual, interactive, and searchable.
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, import MusicXML files, 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 by adding:
- Text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist)
- Key and time signatures
- Pickup measures
- Tempo markings
Setup Wizard
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.
Music Fonts
Finale gives you complete control over the fonts used for notation and text in your music. It includes a variety of engraved, hand-written and specialty fonts and supports third-party fonts.
New in Finale 2011
Three new music fonts for percussion, mallets and an AlphaNotes™Font for use with beginning music students.
Finale Percussion™ Font
Many publishers use icons to represent standard percussion instruments in their scores. This font contains the most complete collection of percussion characters available. Also included are handbell symbols and many unique characters including castanets, vibraslap, cannon and repeatable characters like sine waves, scribbles, and more.
Finale Mallets Font
This font includes icons to represent any variety of mallet usages, including the ability to create cross-mallet symbols. As an example you could use images to indicate that the performer should use a hard and soft mallet in the left hand, and a medium and steel mallet in the right hand.
The following fonts are included in Finale:
- Maestro Wide
- Maestro
- Petrucci
- Engraver
- Broadway Copyist
- Jazz
- Seville
- Tamburo
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.
Entering Notes
- 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 exclusive 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.
No other notation software offers this breadth of note entry options.
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 — 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.
- Record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
MicNotator® – No MIDI Required
This revolutionary 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.
- Interface to specify the instrumentation so that your staves will automatically be properly transposed and configured for playback.
- 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.
Smartscore Lite is designed to scan original engraved music – not handwritten scores. These examples were scanned from original engraved music using a Canon N670U scanner at 360 dpi. Both images were untouched to enhance results. The PhotoScore example was transferred, without edits, to a competitor's product. The time to correct errors in the two examples: Finale, 10 seconds to add missing rests and tie necessary notes, hence the term 'easy edits' compared to the 2 minutes it took to add Voice 2 notes, correct notes, change notes from Voice 1 to 2, etc., in the competitor's product, thus the term 'difficult' or time-consuming edits.
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
Lyrics – Improved in Finale 2011
Finale allows an unlimited number of lyric verses and automatically spaces the lyrics to match the notes they’re attached to. New in Finale 2011 – Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision.
Dynamics & Tempo markings
Finale makes entering, creating, copying and moving dynamics, tempo indications, and other text and markings intuitive and powerful.
Chords
Enter chord symbols by typing in their names or playing them with a MIDI keyboard. Change or delete notes without changing your chords. New in Finale 2011 – Instant Capo Chords.
Percussion Notation – Expanded in Finale 2011
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation – now it’s also incredibly easy to use.
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.
More
Finale also automates countless other entry tasks like repeats and codas, cue notes or rehearsal marks to your parts, and tablature and fretboards for guitar and other fretted instruments.
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
Selection, entry and placement of expressions or articulation markings is quick and intuitive. Once in your score, they are easily moved – now 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
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Drag and drop expressions
Simply drag the text anywhere in your score. 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 now 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 – Improved in Finale 2011
Finale allows an unlimited number of lyric verses and automatically spaces the lyrics to match the notes they’re attached to.
New in Finale 2011 – Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision.
Automatic Lyric Placement – Improved in Finale 2011
Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically so that you can have engraver-level quality without manual editing.
- Additional space at the beginning of measures has been removed.
- Punctuation, at the beginning or end of a lyric, can now be ignored for better alignment and centering of different verses.
Auto-Slur Melismas – Improved in Finale 2011
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.
New in Finale 2011 – The first note of a melismatic passage no longer receives unnecessary space.
Easy Edits – Improved in Finale 2011
- Finale 2011 makes it much easier to access multiple fonts and font sizes within lyrics. Now you can easily access the text menu or use common keyboard shortcuts as you're typing into score.
- Lyric fonts, word extensions, and hyphens now instantly update as you enter them and look exactly as they will print out.
- If you don't recall the associated keystroke for a needed umlaut, grave accent or other diacritical character, you can now simply select those items by sight.
- New Lyrics Window lets you switch between typing into score and automatically assigning existing lyrics without switching tools.
Automatic Word Extensions – Improved in Finale 2011
Word extensions automatically draw to the next rest and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
Also in Finale
- Smart Hyphens - Finale offers automatic hyphen placement with precision results even in tight spacing. Plus Lyric hyphens automatically wrap to the next staff system.
- Export all or part of your lyrics to a word-processing document.
Percussion Notation – Expanded in Finale 2011
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.
New in Finale 2011
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation. Last year the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to was simplified. This year Finale 2011 also lets you change Percussion Playback Maps on any staff anywhere in your score, making changes between pitched and non-pitched percussion easy.
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:
- Create custom percussion MIDI maps for ultimate control over the sounds your percussion staves play back.
- Easily change between pitched and non-pitched percussion by changing percussion playback maps on any staff anywhere in your score
- When more than one instrument appears on the same line or space, you can now 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 – Expanded in Finale 2011
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.
New in Finale 2011 – Instant Capo Chords
Finale 2011 automates the process of adding capo chords to your music and gives you the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo chords, as well as whether they appear in specific sections or the entire piece.
Additional Chord Functionality
Chord symbols in Finale featuring the Broadway Copyist hand-written font.
- 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.
- Intuitive 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 and Codas
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.
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.
Tablature and Fretboards
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.
New in Finale 2011 – Instant Capo Chords
Finale 2011 automates the process of adding capo chords to your music.
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 now contain an expanded list of guitar-specific lines.
- Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.
Slurs
Finale’s engraver-quality 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.
Slurs have also been fine-tuned 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.
Editing Tools
Finale’s introduction in 1988 represented a revolution in saving time. Today it is taken 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.
- Intuitive cut/copy/paste enhancements ensure that you always get the results you seek – the first time.
- 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.
- SmartFind and Paint copies articulations, dynamics, and expressions to the same rhythmic motif across your score.
- Quick Change makes it easy to change expressions and articulations with simple keystrokes.
- Multiple Undo lets you reverse any number of changes you made in the current session (even past the point you saved your score).
Selection Tool
New Selection ToolThe 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.
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 new 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.
Multiple Page Editing
True multi-page viewing and editing which allows users to both see more of their music and edit everything they see.
- 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.
- View your entire piece on screen at once with a tiled view.
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.
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.
Hearing Your Music
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 375 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 – Updated in Finale 2011
The Garritan Aria Player is included FREE and is fully integrated into Finale to simplify the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. Updated for Finale 2011, the Garritan Aria Player has an integrated Ambience reverb and the ability to save Ensembles.
External Sound Library Support
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 mixerwith integrated sequencer controls
- 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 375 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 2011
New sounds include bass trombone, brass section, children’s choir ahs, flute section, electronic drum kit, steel drums and more.
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 external sound libraries. Exciting libraries of additional VST/AU 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.
1GB RAM or more recommended for optimal use of Garritan sounds.
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.
New in Finale 2011 – Finale Percussion and Finale Mallets Fonts.
Row-Loff Marching Percussion Sounds
Nothing extra to buy! Nothing extra to install! Sounds include: Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum and Tenor Drums.
New in Finale 2011 – Finale Percussion and Finale Mallets Fonts.
Row-Loff 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 exclusive 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, accelerando / rallentando, fermatas, trills, tremolos, baroque and jazz ornaments, guitar bends, slurs, rolled chords, glissandi, 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.
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, the floodgates have been opened 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.
Aria Player – Updated in Finale 2011
The 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 and easily change MIDI channel assignments. Plus you can add other external sound libraries (VST/AU Instruments and Effects).
New in Finale 2011
- Integrated Ambiance reverb
- Save Ensembles so that you can quickly load multiple sounds – even when configuring the player manually
- New user interface with clearer controls
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. More than 20 years later, 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
- Sharing your Finale files with anyone who downloads the free Finale Reader to view, print and play your music.
- Collaborate with others by sharing your Finale files with users of Finale family notation software like Finale PrintMusic, Finale SongWriter and Finale NotePad.
- 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 or play on your iPod. Hear all the nuance of your music, including interpretation provided by Finale’s exclusive 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.
MusicXML Compatibility in Finale
Finale 2006-2011:
- Finale for Windows
MusicXML Import/Export Included
- Finale for Macintosh
MusicXML Import/Export Included
Finale 2004 & 2005:
- Finale for Windows
MusicXML Import/Export Included
- Finale for Macintosh
MusicXML Import/Export Available Separately (OS X only)
Finale 2003:
- Finale for Windows
MusicXML Import/Export Included
Finale 2000-2002:
- Finale for Windows
MusicXML Import/Export Available Separately
Exporting your Music as a Graphics File
Create textbooks, worksheets or quizzes by exporting your music into a word processing program.
EPS files include TIFF previews for better cross-platform compatibility. This means that EPS files created on Macintosh computers can now 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 interactive music software for band, orchestra, and voice that is transforming the way students practice.
Music Education Worksheets and Flash Cards – Expanded in Finale 2011
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. Also included are hundreds of individual and classroom flash cards and 30 ear-training worksheets.
New in Finale 2011 – Jazz Improvisation worksheets, form and analysis worksheets, and more than a 100 titles of classroom repertoire.
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 ($9.95) adds the ability to compose new pieces as well as edit and save any Finale file.
Finale AlphaNotes™ Font – New in Finale 2011
Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names or solfčge syllables inside noteheads. More.
Teach Composition
Finale’s exclusive 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
- New in Finale 2011 – Improved support of music labs where multiple users can have their own preferences and templates. Working on a network? Once you login to the network to use Finale, you see your documents. The next person to login only sees their documents.
Create SmartMusic Accompaniments
Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed interactive music software for band, orchestra, and voice.
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 now 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.
Music Education Worksheets – Expanded in Finale 2011
Finale now includes more than 800 ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets, individual and classroom flash cards, jazz improvisation worksheets, and ear-training worksheets.
New in Finale 2011
- More than 50 Jazz Improvisation worksheets that play back with the free, downloadable Finale Reader, offer tips to beginning improvisers, and include jazz rhythm section accompaniment.
- More than 100 titles of Classroom Repertoire – popular public domain literature that includes folk songs, traditional songs and all the Bach Inventions.
- Form and Analysis worksheets that can be used with the classroom repertoire.
- New additions to the music-themed puzzles and games like Drum Bingo and the Mozart Dice Game.
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
Classroom and Individual Flash Cards
Finale also includes 271 classroom flash cards to use in front of the classroom and 126 individual flash cards for students to use for self-quizzing. The flash cards are designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back). Topics include keys, note names, rhythm, vocabulary, and musical symbols.
- Classroom Flash Card Example
- Individual Flash Card Example
Easy to Customize and 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.
Interactive Ear-Training Worksheets
The ear-training worksheets are designed to be used with the free, downloadable Finale Reader. Students can print the worksheets, use the Finale Reader to play the examples, and write the answers on the printed worksheets. Topics include intervals, chords, and melodic dictation
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.
Finale AlphaNotes™ Font – New in Finale 2011
Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names inside noteheads. In addition to note names, sharps, flats, and solfčge syllables are also provided. Finale 2011 also automates the process of applying these new noteheads to any region of any piece. Also included are Finale EmotiNotes™, a collection of fun noteheads that include smiley faces and other emoticons to delight younger students.
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.
1. 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
2. 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, Drum Groove, 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.
New in Finale 2011 – AlphaNotes™ Font places notes inside noteheads.
Composing & Arranging Timesavers
Finale takes the work out of composing and arranging and lets you concentrate on the inspiration.
- Linked Parts mean you no longer have to make edits to your parts and score separately.
- Finale handles instrument transpositions, offers range checking, and provides instant arrangements and piano reductions.
- ScoreMerger consolidates multiple movements into a single score or a collection of parts into a conductor’s score
- Automatic rehearsal marks dynamically update when you delete, insert, or move measures in your score.
- 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 or 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.
More Timesavers
- Chord Analysis generates chord names from your harmony and creates chord symbols automatically.
- Resize Noteheads automatically to notate harmonization within a specified region.
- FinaleScript® is an exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language that saves you time whether you create your own scripts or simply use those provided.
- 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.
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
Measure Numbers
Control the alignment, positioning, and fonts of your measure numbers separately for 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 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
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.
Automatic Rehearsal Marks
Finale automates 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).
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. A Finale exclusive!
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.
FinaleScript 2.0
FinaleScript® is Finale’s exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language that saves time by allowing you to automate your tasks by using one of the dozens of scripts provided – or by 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.
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
- 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 new 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.
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 new 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 Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Sherlock Holmes, Princess and the Frog, District 9, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
- 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 new 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.
Finishing Touches
Finale offers ultimate control of the printed page, making it the first choice for engravers, publishers and others who seek perfection. Equally important, Finale also speeds up and simplifies the process.
- New in Finale 2011 – Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, change your mind whenever you want, and never lose a note.
- Choose from a variety of included music fonts or use a third-party font.
- 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.
- Vertical Collision Remover - Easily adjust white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.
- Add graphics to your score like pictures or logos.
- 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.
Hiding Staves – Improved in Finale 2011
Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, change your mind whenever you want, and never lose a note.
Finale 2011 has made Staff Layout easy. If the oboe doesn't play on this page you can easily hide the oboe staff. If you change your mind and add some notes, the oboe staff automatically reappears. If you'd like to hide staves containing music, that's been simplified too; but you'll never hide music by accident.
Hiding Empty Staves
Finale makes it easy to hide staves that don't contain music, in your whole score or selected regions. On-screen feedback and new contextual menus offer instant access to hidden staves.
Auto-Showing Music
If you choose to hide empty staves in your score, and then subsequently move measures or add notes to the hidden staves, the appropriate notes and staves now automatically appear.
Hiding Staves Containing Music
Finale even makes it easy to hide staves that contain music.
- Need parts for an instrument that you don't want to appear in the score? Simply hide staves in the score.
- Want an unseen playback effect? Hide a staff!
- On-screen feedback makes it clear when music is hidden and new contextual menus make it instantly accessible. Finale makes it easy and flexible.
Moving and Editing Staves – Improved in Finale 2011
Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, change your mind whenever you want, and never lose a note.
Finale 2011 has made Staff Layout easy. The complexity has been taken out of moving staves, reordering staves, and working with staff and group names and brackets, while adding flexibility. Ease of use AND flexibility means freedom to go anywhere the music takes you.
Moving Staves
It’s now incredibly easy to move staves. Want to increase the distance between staves? Click and drag.
- Your music updates automatically as you drag and you receive on-screen feedback about the distance between the staves and what staves will be impacted.
- As you drag a staff handle up or down, all subsequent staves move too, retaining their relative positioning.
- No additional steps are required to move one staff in this system only or the whole score, or to move multiple staves in selected systems.
- Plus, when you add a new system it will now reflect the staff spacing of the previous system.
Reordering Staves
Finale makes it easy to move staves or groups of staves with a single click – while retaining all positioning. No more dragging and repositioning.
Live Dragging
Dragging or nudging one staff now also moves the staves below it to retain relative staff spacing and the dragging moves the staves in real-time, so you instantly see the results.
Editing Groups and Brackets
The process of editing group names and brackets, and to change groups and brackets for the whole score or just selected regions, has been simplified.
- Groups automatically adjust their measure ranges when measures are added or removed.
- It's also easy to have full staff and group names appear anywhere in your score which is very helpful when you're starting a new movement in the same Finale file.
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.
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.
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- 750MB 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 2011.
Optional
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- Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
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- Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments.
Authorization
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File Compatibility
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System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and other manufacturers.
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