Finale
2011
Hybrid
- Choose from
over 14 various interface designs! Large, medium or
small icons. Even keep the Traditional look if you
want. Also, choose from 25 different background
graphics or create your own. In total we've added over
1700 graphic improvements!
- New
Document and Program Options let you easily customize
your Finale default settings, save them as a Library
and apply those settings anywhere,
anytime.
- Now you can
set the number of systems for one page, a range of
pages or all pages.
- Ready-to-use
templates for Worksheets, Kodaly and Auto-Stick
Notation now come ready for you to use. Easy.
Flexible.
- Harmonizes
your melody and creates your piano, bass and drum
accompaniments instantly. Choose from four
styles—Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa
Nova.
- New
Selection of Fretted Instruments
SmartFind™
and Paint
If you have
frequently repeated rhythmic patterns that require the
same slurring, articulations and expressions, this
feature will save you hours of painstaking work. Select a
group of notes with a desired articulation and SmartShape
pattern and mark that pattern as a "style." Then simply
apply to any other selected region—even an entire
part or score! SmartFind and Paint will search out all
rhythmically identical regions and place slurs,
expressions, articulations,
etc.—instantly.
Band-In-The-Box®
Auto
Harmonizing adds harmonies automatically. Powered by
Band-in-a-Box, for years among the most popular music
software programs, this incredible FREE plug-in lets you
automatically create an entire orchestration from any
melody with or without chord symbols.
The Exercise
Wizard
Over 50,000
customized exercises. Instantly.
You only have
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.
The Composer's
Assistant
New Tools that
spark your creative imagination. The Finale 2005
Composer's Assistant offers incredible artistic power
never available from any notation software program until
now.
- Want to
morph one melody into another? Easy!
- Want to
find the smoothest progression between two chords?
Voilà!
- Want to use
a melody to create a rhythmic tapestry? Simple!
FREE
MIDISCAN LITE Version fully-featured scanning technology
Musitek’s MIDISCAN, the world’s best-selling
music scanning software, is integrated into Finale. Open
any tiff file and the MIDISCAN
technology scans music up to 16 staves and turns it into
a Finale file automatically! In addition, Finale 2005
imports SmartScore®
files for those users who prefer that popular music
scanning technology.
The "state
of the art" in music notation
- Finale is
the #1 selling notation program in music retail
channels
- Finale is
#1 compared to any music software in the academic
market
For professional musicians and
educators who want publisher quality notation that's easy
to use, Finale provides more power and flexibility than
any other notation program. Nothing else even comes
close. Finale is the world's #1 music notation software
used by more publishers, educators and other
professionals, making it the standard against all others
compared.
Real-Time Notation
only with Finale's Hyper Scribe
See your score entered
virtually as fast as you can plot it-with Hyper
Scribe. Our patented real-time note entry method. Play
your music the way you want to and Hyper Scribe
notates it just as quickly as your computer will
allow. Hyper Scribe trims hours off your production
time. And imagine what it will do for your musical
creativity!
Drum Mapping gives
you, fast accurate playback
With Finale's Drum
Mapping you can easily specify which note heads belong
where on your score and then map the notation to the
note on a MIDI instrument that uses percussion sound.
And that gives you absolutely accurate notation and
playback.
flexibility in notating
fretted instruments.
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