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.

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.

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.

Video Support

Write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support. Finale streamlines the technology so you can focus on the art.

Finale is the first choice of music professionals in the film and television industry. Recent soundtracks prepared with Finale include Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Sherlock Holmes, Princess and the Frog, District 9, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

• Watch and Listen
  Import digital video and Finale automatically synchronizes it with your music. View the resizable Movie Window as you compose, edit, and play back your score, enjoying new video features like "Fit to Time."
• Professional Quality
  Finale’s integrated video support empowers you to set frame rates, write time code into your score, AND send SMPTE/MTC to external devices.

Import and Export MIDI files

You have the perfect MIDI file of your favorite song, but you don’t have the sheet music to arrange it for your ensemble. There is a simple solution. Finale can open midi files and display notation.

• Finale recognizes the time and key signatures from MIDI information, and plots the pitches on the staff lines for you.
• Skip right to the editing stages and prepare the song for your next rehearsal.

Save notation as MIDI and save time sequencing

You’ve notated your film score with hundreds of time changes and twice as many tempo changes. Now it’s time to create a background track in your sequencing program, before your soloist arrives to record.

• Save your Finale file as a MIDI file, and open it into your sequencer.
• Your time and tempo changes will be written with MIDI information.