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Combined with your creative vision, Finale is the most powerful tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale’s intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. New for 2008 – more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow.
If you can imagine it, Finale can help you create it. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. New for 2008 – Record or import an audio track - a Finale exclusive.
Superb playback thanks to the integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2. Rich sounds provided by the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra®, included for free. With Finale, you get the best in everything for your music. New for 2008 – more world-class Garritan sounds and integrated sound libraries.
New Features:
Record Yourself
Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. No other notation software offers this capability.
Finale’s audio support opens up a new world of possibilities.
Record a vocal track to a soprano aria.
Add a trumpet solo to a jazz chart.
Import a stereo mix of a rock band and add a horn arrangement.
Import audio for transcription/take-down
Create learning files for choir students with accompaniment and sung text.
Import an audio recording of music, use the TempoTap feature to line-up notation barlines and times, then add additional orchestration.
Cut/Copy/Paste/Insert Improvements
Finale’s streamlined, easy-to-use interface lets you focus on the music with less switching tools and more universal menu commands specifically designed to help you finish projects faster.
The most intuitive cut/copy/paste/insert for more efficient workflow
Use intuitive keystrokes to select measures or partial measures horizontally and vertically. No need to visit a menu.
Consistent clipboard- and drag-copying make it easy to copy all measure items, even between documents.
Quickly drag and drop music, even over highlighted regions. Make small adjustments easily, like shifting music a beat or two right or left.
Paste faster: no need to highlight the entire destination when clipboard-copying.
Get improved visual feedback when pasting and inserting.
Playback brings it all together with fully integrated sound libraries
Multiple sound libraries now work together seamlessly in Finale 2008. Combine all the included sounds, including Finale’s Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff marching percussion, Jose Cortijo’s Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont.
Add your choice of additional Native Instruments-supported libraries (available separately). Choose your own sounds, hear them all in playback, and save the results in an audio file.
Setting-up your score — Enhanced in Finale 2008
Finale’s 2008’s enhanced Setup Wizard offers more options and control. Make your choices and get up and running quickly.
New in Finale 2008
Personal Document Styles — Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own.
New and expanded text inserts. Now you can specify the arranger, lyricist and a sub-title in addition to the composer, title and copyright.
Expanded spacing control — Just click the "Add Vertical Space" button for more space between staves.
Intelligent page layout that automatically adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on the page.
Specify the number of measure in your score.
Just answer a few questions: What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly.
Create the look you want with personal Document Styles
Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own, then use them over and over again. With Document Styles in Finale 2008, you can instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.
It’s easy to create your own Document Styles. Just copy a completed Finale file (including notes) into the Document Styles folder and its settings become the basis for a new Document Style. Finale automatically knows what items pertain to the style, and which, like notes, do not. The next time you visit the Set-up Wizard you’ll be able to select your new Document Style.
Documents Styles control:
text and music fonts
text inserts
all libraries (including expressions, articulations, document settings, etc…)
graphics (a company logo, for example)
page size and orientation
page layout
measure numbering and much more…
New useful 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 2008 even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.
ScoreMerger™ – New in Finale 2008
Easily merge multiple scores automatically using the ScoreMerger™.
Consolidate multiple movements into a single document — even if they don't contain the same number of staves, or have different instrumentation (a Finale exclusive).
Merge a collection of parts into a full conductor’s score.
Scanning
No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale, with its included SmartScore® Lite by Musitek®.
NEW in Finale 2008
Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within Finale.
Finale’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:
Secondary voice recognition - counterpoint
Correct transposed instrument recognition
Multiple page scans
Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
Up to 32nd note resolution
Finale's SmartScore® Lite scanning utility has been updated to run natively on Intel-based Macs.*
Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format
Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window. What's more, Windows and Mac users can now scan directly from Finale, and Finale determines the ideal resolution and color depth.
Finale now imports scanned SmartScore 5.5 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the Music XML files it creates can be read by Finale on Macintosh and Windows computers)
Import and Export MusicXML Files
Finale can import and export MusicXML files—right from the File menu and the launch window. Unlike MIDI files, MusicXML allows you to transfer the sounds and graphical elements in your file to other applications.
NEW in Finale 2008
Export of MusicXML 1.1 files
Import of MusicXML 2.0 files –both uncompressed (.xml) and compressed (.mxl)
Fretboard import
Improved import of stem direction and Engraver slurs
Improved metronome marking support
Import of piano pedal lines
Improved import of accidentals and ties
Composite time signature import
Nested tuplet import
Import of linked page- and measure-attached graphics
Drag and drop functionality
Backwards Compatibility
MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone with newer versions of Finale for Macintosh or Windows.
Want more options? Recordare.com offers plug-ins (sold separately) that allow you to open these files into Finale for Mac OS X (back to 2004), and Finale for Windows (back to Finale 2000). You can even read MusicXML files created in other music notation programs.
Human Playback - Improved in Finale 2008
Playback with the nuance of live performers – that's what you get with Finale's Human Playback®, now enhanced and improved for 2008.
Human Playback enhancements include support for the following Garritan products: Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0, Gofriller Solo Cello, and Garritan Concert & Marching Band.
Beyond adding feeling and natural nuances automatically, Human Playback also interprets any kind of musical elements right from the notation, including: crescendo/diminuendo and sforzandi (even on held long notes), accelerando / rallentando, fermatas, trills, tremolos, baroque and jazz ornaments, guitar bends, slurs, rolled chords (guitar, harp, harpsichord, ...), glissandi (piano, harp, strings, ...), piano pedaling, harmonics, pizzicato, mute, and others.
Perfect the performance with customizable instrument techniques, transportable preferences, and expanded support for a wide variety of Garritan and Native Instruments® sounds.
With dozens of playback techniques to choose from, Human Playback makes the most of Garritan Personal Orchestra® and Garritan Jazz & Big Band libraries.
Edit and save your preferences for Human Playback. Create and merge multiple sets of custom preferences and attach custom preferences to your Finale files.
Expanded interface gives you complete control over playback effects, allowing smooth and in-depth compatibility with a wide variety of sound libraries.
Combine, retain, or overwrite existing MIDI data.
Edit the output of Human Playback with Finale’s MIDI tool.
Apply different Human Playback styles to specific regions of your piece.
Jazz-specific techniques create the unique sound of live musicians.
Custom settings let you specify reverb room types, marching band options, and more.
Techniques for strings, woodwinds, brass, harp, timpani, and other instruments dramatically improve playback.
Templates — Improved in Finale 2008
When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window. Select from more than 60 pre-made templates (including SATB, Kodály, solfege, and more) then let Finale’s Setup Wizard do the rest, adding text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist) as well as key/time signatures, pickup measures, tempo markings, and the number of measures.
New and Expanded Documentation
Finale’s documentation resources, including the User Manual, Tutorial Guide, and Context Help, have all been consolidated into a single, contextual, interactive, searchable environment.
Updated documentation provides the information you need quickly and easily.
Improved navigation and the ability to search all of Finale’s documented resources simultaneously.
Improved knowledge base available on-line
The Finale Reference lets you look up Finale items and learn how they’re used
The Finale Encyclopedia lets you look up musical terms and learn how they’re accomplished in Finale
The Visual Index lets you click on any item in a music notation example to learn how it was created
Adobe Acrobat is no longer required
Prefer to learn by watching a video? Finale also contains a variety of QuickStart Videos.
HyperScribe
Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard — even record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
NEW in Finale 2008
Record your live vocal or instrumental performance — an exclusive Finale feature.
Recording first and second endings with HyperScribe is now 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.
System Requirements:
Macintosh
G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
CD or DVD-ROM drive.
800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
325MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.
Windows
Windows XP/Vista.
CD or DVD-ROM drive.
800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.
Optional
MIDI interface
MIDI input and/or playback device
Printer
Scanner
Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
A soundcard (including a DirectSound driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.
Please note that the Rhythm Section Generator is not available for Macintosh.
If you can imagine it, Finale can help you create it. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. New for 2008 – Record or import an audio track - a Finale exclusive.
Superb playback thanks to the integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2. Rich sounds provided by the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra®, included for free. With Finale, you get the best in everything for your music. New for 2008 – more world-class Garritan sounds and integrated sound libraries.
New Features:
Record Yourself
Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. No other notation software offers this capability.
Finale’s audio support opens up a new world of possibilities.
Cut/Copy/Paste/Insert Improvements
Finale’s streamlined, easy-to-use interface lets you focus on the music with less switching tools and more universal menu commands specifically designed to help you finish projects faster.
The most intuitive cut/copy/paste/insert for more efficient workflow
Playback brings it all together with fully integrated sound libraries
Multiple sound libraries now work together seamlessly in Finale 2008. Combine all the included sounds, including Finale’s Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff marching percussion, Jose Cortijo’s Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont.
Add your choice of additional Native Instruments-supported libraries (available separately). Choose your own sounds, hear them all in playback, and save the results in an audio file.
Setting-up your score — Enhanced in Finale 2008
Finale’s 2008’s enhanced Setup Wizard offers more options and control. Make your choices and get up and running quickly.
New in Finale 2008
Just answer a few questions: What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly.
Create the look you want with personal Document Styles
Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own, then use them over and over again. With Document Styles in Finale 2008, you can instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.
It’s easy to create your own Document Styles. Just copy a completed Finale file (including notes) into the Document Styles folder and its settings become the basis for a new Document Style. Finale automatically knows what items pertain to the style, and which, like notes, do not. The next time you visit the Set-up Wizard you’ll be able to select your new Document Style.
Documents Styles control:
New useful colored noteheads
Colored noteheads can be applied regionally within a piece, offer two notehead styles (with or without a “border”), and allow for user customization of colors.
Boomwhackers® Tube Sounds
Finale 2008 even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.
ScoreMerger™ – New in Finale 2008
Easily merge multiple scores automatically using the ScoreMerger™.
Scanning
No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale, with its included SmartScore® Lite by Musitek®.
NEW in Finale 2008
Finale’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:
Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the Launch Window. What's more, Windows and Mac users can now scan directly from Finale, and Finale determines the ideal resolution and color depth.
Finale now imports scanned SmartScore 5.5 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the Music XML files it creates can be read by Finale on Macintosh and Windows computers)
Import and Export MusicXML Files
Finale can import and export MusicXML files—right from the File menu and the launch window. Unlike MIDI files, MusicXML allows you to transfer the sounds and graphical elements in your file to other applications.
NEW in Finale 2008
Backwards Compatibility
MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone with newer versions of Finale for Macintosh or Windows.
Want more options? Recordare.com offers plug-ins (sold separately) that allow you to open these files into Finale for Mac OS X (back to 2004), and Finale for Windows (back to Finale 2000). You can even read MusicXML files created in other music notation programs.
Human Playback - Improved in Finale 2008
Playback with the nuance of live performers – that's what you get with Finale's Human Playback®, now enhanced and improved for 2008.
Human Playback enhancements include support for the following Garritan products: Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0, Gofriller Solo Cello, and Garritan Concert & Marching Band.
Beyond adding feeling and natural nuances automatically, Human Playback also interprets any kind of musical elements right from the notation, including: crescendo/diminuendo and sforzandi (even on held long notes), accelerando / rallentando, fermatas, trills, tremolos, baroque and jazz ornaments, guitar bends, slurs, rolled chords (guitar, harp, harpsichord, ...), glissandi (piano, harp, strings, ...), piano pedaling, harmonics, pizzicato, mute, and others.
Perfect the performance with customizable instrument techniques, transportable preferences, and expanded support for a wide variety of Garritan and Native Instruments® sounds.
Templates — Improved in Finale 2008
When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window. Select from more than 60 pre-made templates (including SATB, Kodály, solfege, and more) then let Finale’s Setup Wizard do the rest, adding text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist) as well as key/time signatures, pickup measures, tempo markings, and the number of measures.
New and Expanded Documentation
Finale’s documentation resources, including the User Manual, Tutorial Guide, and Context Help, have all been consolidated into a single, contextual, interactive, searchable environment.
Prefer to learn by watching a video? Finale also contains a variety of QuickStart Videos.
HyperScribe
Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard — even record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
NEW in Finale 2008
System Requirements:
Macintosh
Windows
Optional
Please note that the Rhythm Section Generator is not available for Macintosh.
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