Garritan Sounds
Hear Your Music Come Alive with Garritan™ Instruments for Finale

Finale includes more than 300 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free sounds include orchestral instruments, jazz brass, saxophones, piano, choirs, drum set, guitar, marching percussion, world instruments, and more (.pdf).

New in Finale 2009
New sounds include: baritone saxophone, vintage electric piano, electric guitar, electric bass, vibraphone, handbells, mellophone group, baritone group, and additional marching percussion cymbals. See a complete list of Garritan sounds (.pdf).

Listen to these orchestral excerpts showcasing the Garritan Instrument sounds included in Finale:

	Pictures at an Exhibition – Modest Mussorgsky mp3 | wav
	Capriccio Espagnole – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov mp3 | wav
	Symphony #9 – Antonin Dvorak mp3 | wav
	Brandenburg Concerto #3 – Johann Sebastian Bach mp3 | wav

Authentic Garritan provides different players to fill the section realistically. Click for a complete list of sounds (.pdf). Expandable Exciting libraries of additional instruments are available from Garritan and TapSpace. More (.pdf). 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. Click here for complete system requirements.

Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ Sounds – New in Finale 2009
Finale now 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.

Hear a sample file playing these sounds.
(.aiff)

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. Complete list of sounds (.pdf).

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 possibiliites 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.

Debbie Duncan Listen to an audio track example, New Orleans Blues, featuring Debbie Duncan, jazz vocalist. Imported into a Finale score.

Row-Loff Marching Percussion Sounds
Nothing extra to buy! Nothing extra to install! Sounds include: Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum and Tenor Drums.

Marching bands rejoice! Check out the terrific percussion sounds in Finale. From Row-Loff Productions – foremost in marching and concert percussion literature.

Download and listen to these MP3 samples:

Beatlicious
from Quad Logic by Bill Bachman (.mp3)
Geek
from Quad Logic by Bill Bachman (.mp3)
Swing Time
from Just Desserts by Edward Freytag (.mp3)
Hip Hop Shebop
from Dr. John's Road Grooves by John Wooton (.mp3)
Four Under the Floor
from Bass Logic by Bill Bachman (.mp3)

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.

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.

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.

New in Finale 2009
Human Playback® enhancements for 2009 include user interface improvements, compatibility with the Garritan Aria player, a new technique set supporting Finale 2009’s open VST/AU abilities, and additional fixes, and improvements. Plus Human Playback Options are now found in the MIDI menu, making them much more accessible.

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 (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.

Listen to the difference:

Listen to this Finale excerpt with no Human Playback and no SmartMusic® SoundFont (.mp3)
    
Now! Listen to the same excerpt using Finale’s Human Playback and SmartMusic® SoundFont. (.mp3)

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.

  

• 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.

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.