Finale 2012
Take your
music further
See what’s new in Finale 2012
Creative control
With Finale’s new ScoreManager™, your staves look and sound perfect.
World-class sounds
The best playback. Even more Garritan sounds.
Share without boundaries
Write in any language – Unicode support. Share files that always play back.
Inspire your students
More tools and resources to help your students excel.
Did you know?
Finale 2012 includes multiple years of innovation!
Creative flow and control
Changes in Finale’s ScoreManager™ are simultaneously visible in your score.
Focus on your art.
Leave the rest to your manager.
Finale’s ScoreManager™ takes care of the details – controlling how your staves look and sound – so you don’t have to.
Easily change a flute staff to a clarinet staff. Switch between flute and clarinet on the same staff. The ScoreManager knows how a clarinet staff transposes, looks, and sounds, so it makes all the necessary arrangements. The ScoreManager also handles playback and sound setup, so you don’t have to navigate to various players or assign correct MIDI channels.
See the ScoreManager™
in action
In one setting, the ScoreManager lets you change staff name, order, transposition, clef, and playback sounds. Let Finale’s new ScoreManager handle all the details, so you can focus on the music.
“Over the years, Finale has become so much faster and easier to use and truly you are only limited by your imagination! There isn’t anything Finale can’t do.”
– Chris Opperman, ASCAPLUS award-winning composer and president of Purple Cow Records
World-class sounds
Hearing is believing.
In this video, what you SEE is an orchestra, but what you HEAR are the sounds of Garritan Personal Orchestra.
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400+ Garritan sounds are built in
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Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ sounds
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External sound library support
The highest-quality virtual instruments.
Improved sound management.
You already know that Finale’s sound libraries are without equal. Listen:
Capriccio Espagnole, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
With Finale 2012, you have access to even more Garritan sounds. Based on your requests, new instrument sounds include:
- Soprano sax
- Celeste
- Mandolin
- Accordion
- Euphonium solo
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- Recorder
- Pipe organ – Baroque Plenum Reed stop
- Pipe organ – Pedal stop
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Of course, in addition to more than 400 instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, Finale also includes sounds from the makers of Virtual Drumline and more.
Sound setup.
With the updated Setup Wizard, you simply indicate what instrument you’re writing for. No need to specify a sound library first. Finale automatically associates the instruments you’ve selected with the sound libraries on your computer, even if you’ve added Garritan libraries not included with Finale. It even remembers which sound libraries you prefer.
“My day begins and ends with Finale. I simply could not live without it. I estimate that Finale gives me an extra three months every year to compose compared to my pen and paper days.”
– David Ott, director of music, First United Methodist Church, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Share without boundaries
More ways to communicate.
Unicode text support.
Easily write and share your music with Finale 2012’s Unicode font support. Now you can use all the characters in your fonts. Want to correctly type Dvořák’s name? Are you translating a hymn to Korean? Need to add a hard-to-find symbol? Today’s Finale can display any character you wish.
Create PDF files.
Now it’s simple to create PDF files within Finale, whether you use a Mac or a PC. Easily combine all your pages into a single document, share a single page, or any excerpt of a page.
Your files always play back.
Send a Finale file to someone who doesn’t have the same software libraries installed, and all your staves will play back the instruments you intended – even if they’re using a PC and you’re using a Mac. Finale uses the libraries you’ve specified whenever possible, and provides the best alternative when they’re not. No matter how you share your music, everyone gets the best possible playback – automatically.
Take your music further
with Finale 2012
“I use Finale for every aspect of instructing my students. Whether it be making exercises, transcribing recordings, arranging and composing pieces for my students or just instructing them how to write a piece themselves, Finale is the only program of choice.”
– Bruce Wurst, music educator and president of BAW Enterprises, Phoenix, Arizona
Inspire your students
Challenge, equip, and empower your students.
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Go to the SmartMusic website
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Education worksheets, flash cards
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Students can compose on their own with Finale NotePad
More tools and resources
SmartMusic integration – a Finale exclusive!
Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic® solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and celebrate their success.
Don’t forget, with Finale’s Exercise Wizard, more than 50,000 exercises are at your fingertips, and ready to use in SmartMusic.
What is SmartMusic?
SmartMusic provides the ideal practice environment for students, including access to the world’s largest accompaniment library and instant feedback on each performance.
An expanded library of resources.
Finale now provides more than 1,000 examples of music education worksheets, repertoire, and more for you to use or to customize for your needs.
New to Finale 2012: Renaissance music, early jazz piano repertoire, intermediate piano pieces, holiday titles, manuscript paper templates, chant notation, and Schenkerian analysis.
The Finale Numerics font
The Finale Numerics font makes it easy to type in Roman numeral or harmonic analysis. Simplifying the stacking of numbers, it’s also ideal for notating figured bass and can even be used to create Schenker graphs.
“Whether I’m using the variety of Finale’s well-crafted speed tools to keep up with my creative output, or using the latest advancements in Linked Parts to prepare my final printed scores and parts in a flash, I know that I can count on Finale.”
– David Shipps, Nashville-based arranger/orchestrator and composer
Did you know?
Popular Finale Features
See full chart of what features were added, and when.
Using an older version of Finale?
Every year we make Finale better.
If you haven't upgraded in a while, Finale 2012 offers multiple years of innovation!
New in Finale 2011
Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing
Enter your lyrics and they instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, automatically spaced with engraver precision.
Easier Staff Layout
Simple and intuitive ways to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets.
From previous years of Finale
Expanded Percussion Playback
Notes on your percussion staves look – and play back – exactly how you want them to.
Simplified Chords
Enter chord symbols by typing in their names, playing them in with a MIDI keyboard, or by alternating between these two entry methods – all without visiting a menu.
Automatic Rehearsal Marks
You can automatically create rehearsal marks in any score.
Linked Parts
Finale’s intelligent linking knows when to enforce consistency and when to allow differences.