FINALE 2008
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by Coda Music Technology

Finale® is the world standard for creating, editing and printing sheet music.

Used by more professional musicians, educators, composers, students, performers and music ministers than any other notation program.

With more power and speed than ever before, Finale offers endless possibilities for composing, arranging, hearing and printing your music.

Finale 2008 includes new revolutionary tools to create, evaluate and shape ideas into songs, arrangements and compositions.

 
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- Music Printing/Scoring Software -

• Integrated software synthesizers Kontakt® Player, Garritan Personal Orchestra Finale Edition (more than 250 world-class sounds), Row-Loff® Marching Percussion Sounds and SmartMusic SoundFonts® bring your music to life!
   
• Human Playback feature allows natural playback that sounds like a live performance!
   

• Studio View™ (an all-in-one environment for multi-track music creation) and Mixer (real-time control of volume, panning, patch, and more)
   

• TempoTap™ (conduct and record your own custom tempo nuances for your scores)
   

• Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing -- Automatically generates up to 6-voice harmonies for your melodies.
   

• Support has been added for third-party soundfonts
  so you can choose your own favorite soundfont playback samples
   
• Save your Finale scores as Audio Files for creating your own audio CD's and MP3's!
   
• Mic-Notator feature - play your monophonic instrument (trumpet, flute, sax, etc.) into a microphone...Finale notates what you play!
   
• Music Scanning recognition and import with the new SmartScore Lite 3.0 included FREE!

Finale is the world's #1 music notation software, used by more publishers, educators, music ministers and other professionals, making it the standard against which all others are compared.

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!
 

Finale continues to lead the industry again by making new breakthroughs for music creation. Finale can create harmonies and accompaniments to any melody you can dream up, in any of 30 or 40 musical styles and voicings. In addition, it has 10 other tools to create percussion parts for your music, create musical bridges, create key changes and more! 

Finale also delivers over 56,000 exercises that educators can customize into lessons and print out transposed parts with a click. The latest version of Finale adds many other new automatic features that makes Finale now as easy or easier than any other notation program on earth!

Finale provides more ways to create, enter, edit, hear, view, lay out, and ultimately print your music than any other notation product. With exclusive features like MicNotator®, built-in SmartScore® music scanning recognition, automatic web publishing, and Finale Plug-ins (Over 40 Plug-Ins that save time like Automatic Tablature, Range Checking, Auto-harmony, etc.) that offer solutions to specific notation needs, Finale offers a superior union of power and ease of use.

Export any section of music (or even an entire page of music) as a TIFF,or PICT file for use with page layout programs or graphic programs! You can even import any TIFF & EPS, WMF (Windows only) or PICT (Mac only) and integrate your own graphic illustrations into any music page you create with Finale! The graphics-support features of Finale are terrific for creating illustrated children's music books, or any type of music publishing where you want to incorporate graphic illustrations.

You can use Finale right away - without learning the entire program. That's because Finale offers its varied features on an “as needed” basis. If you don't need a particular feature, you don't need to learn it. It’s great to know, however, that Finale provides you with so many possibilities. New Quick Start Video Tutorials are included on the Finale CD to help you get started! It's easier than ever to learn more of Finale's finer details - thanks to excellent help features and on-line documentation. Find answers to your questions with a simple click of your mouse.

Want to convert your old Encore (3.0 and higher) or Rhapsody files into Finale? No problem! Finale can directly import music originally created in Encore or Rhapsody.

Finale is the only music notation program that lets you use multiple music fonts. So now the look of your score can be as unique as your music! Choose the fonts included with Finale, like the Finale Engraver Font, or use third party fonts for an entirely different look!

• Real-time HyperScribe® music entry
• Simple Note "click" entry with your mouse
• Speedy Note step-entry with or without a MIDI keyboard
• Imports and prints Standard MIDI Files
• Publisher- quality, professional music printing
• Notate and print scores with an UNLIMITED number of staves
• Over 33 included music templates of common layouts
• Easily create your own custom music templates to fit your style!
• Transpose and reprint your music in any key for any instrument or voice
• Over 1,700 graphic improvements with user-selectable interface styles. Choose from over 14 different designs, 25 different background graphics...or create your own!
• Over 300 user-customizable options to set your preferences for exactly the way you want to work!
• More than 250 world-class sounds from the creators of Garritan Personal Orchestra® (click here for complete sound list)
• SmartScore® technology for converting scans of existing music to on-screen notation more accurately than any other notation program!
• Harmonizes your melody and creates your piano, bass and drum accompaniments instantly. Choose from four styles—Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa Nova for an instant ensemble! Fast and Easy.
• Guitar TAB set-up Wizard: over 40 instruments and tunings can be selected for TAB (guitar, bass, lute, dulcimer, etc.) Customizable guitar fretboard symbols, too.
• Easier Score Set-up Wizard for selecting instruments, staff names, transpositions, groupings, clefs, key and time signature, font styles and other details for automatic score set-up
• Rhyming Dictionary included FREE. Type in any word and all known English rhymes appear... a great tool for help with writing song lyrics!
• New Educator Worksheets, Kodaly and Auto-stick notation templates, improved Exercise Wizard, new staff spacing options and much, much more!
• Make your scores interactive by posting your music on your own personal website...View, play, transpose and print any Finale, Allegro, or PrintMusic! file saved as a web page.
• Publish and share your scores for free on the new Finale Showcase™ site
• Automatic Chord Analysis (great for making lead sheets!)
• Export pages as TIFF, PICT, or WMF graphic files for use in word processing or graphic programs
• Import TIFF, EPS, PICT or WMF files directly onto a Finale score page
• Enhanced MIDI playback controls for notes and musical symbols
  

System Requirements Mac:
• OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC)
• G4 or higher
• 1 GB RAM or more (256 MB if not using software synth sounds)
• 325 MB available hard drive space
• 1.6GB additional space to install all Garritan Orchestra Sounds1.6GB
• CD-ROM drive