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Sharing your music online and across programs.
Finale Notepad and the Finale suite of notation products are the most well-connected programs you can imagine. You can share lyrics and text blocks with word processing programs, and transfer music between MIDI sequencers, or other notation programs. With the Finale Showcase, you can even post your files on the Finale music website www.finalemusic.com/showcase and share with friends across the globe.
One of the most useful examples of Finale NotePad’s cooperation with other software is its ability to handle standard MIDI sequencer files. These special files contain MIDI playback data. Most sequencer programs (Digital Performer, Sonar, Cubase, and so on) can generate and read them, and so can Notepad. That means that you can create your music in your favorite sequencer; when it’s polished and ready to be notated, save it on your disk as a MIDI file and open it with NotePad; it will turn into standard notation. When you attempt this process, you’ll discover that Notepad offers several options for separating and recombining the music on the various tracks of the sequencer file. If you want, Finale will even retain the velocity, rhythmic “feel,” and controller information from the original sequence. See MIDI Files in the User Manual for more details.
Note, too, that Finale NotePad 2012 can read files created in other music notation programs from MakeMusic, including Finale®, Finale SongWriter®, Finale PrintMusic®, and Finale NotePad®. Files created in earlier versions of Finale NotePad, as well as any of MakeMusic’s notation programs, can be opened in Finale NotePad 2012 directly, even from the opposite platform. For example, files created in PrintMusic 2011 for Windows can be opened in Finale NotePad 2012 for Macintosh. You can also read older cross-platform files, including those from Allegro® and Finale Guitar.
Note. None of MakeMusic's older products can read Finale 2012 files directly.
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