From inspiration to applause,
bring your music
to life with Finale.
Compose. Arrange. Teach. Share. Unleash your potential with Finale.
Your creative flow
Experiment freely. Compose the music of your imagination.
Listen as you create
Better sounds. Garritan sounds.
Score high marks
Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection.
Inspire your students
Create SmartMusic accompaniments, customized worksheets, and exercises.
More ways to share
No limits. You get to choose: PDF, audio files, MIDI, or Music XML.
Your creative flow
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Generate and format all the parts to your score – automatically
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Harmonize in dozens of styles and voices
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Write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support
Focus on your art.
Leave the rest to Finale.
When inspiration strikes, Finale takes care of the details so you can focus on your music. Capture ideas as fast as you can – with no obstacles to slow you down.
Music Comes Alive with Finale
video introduction to Finale 2012
Your music. Your way.
In an instant you can move measures, change keys, or perform dozens of edits to capture, arrange, perfect, and print anything you can imagine.
Finale even offers creative and editorial input, from automatically harmonizing your melody to indicating when an instrument is out of range.
Enter notes. Your way.
The choice is yours. Play in your notes with a MIDI keyboard, mouse, or computer keyboard. Scan existing sheet music or import a wide variety of file types, including MIDI and MusicXML.
You can even capture a brass or woodwind performance with Finale’s MicNotator®.
No more barriers between inspiration and applause.
“I consider Finale to be indispensable in my compositional process.”
– Jennifer Higdon, Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer
Listen as you create
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
Prepare to be blown away.
Sound quality makes a difference.
With Finale you get a selection of world-class instrument sounds from Garritan's Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, Concert & Marching Band, and World Instruments libraries.
Finale also includes sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline.
Experience the quality of Garritan instrument sounds:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky
Human Playback®
What’s more, whether you enter your notes with a MIDI keyboard or a mouse, Finale’s exclusive Human Playback ensures that your music plays back with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance of a live performance.
Listen to the difference:
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Claude Debussy
Finale excerpt without Human Playback
Same excerpt, with Finale's Human Playback
Make your music come to life with the best sound quality in the industry.
“I’m thrilled with Finale. Anything I want to do with music, it will do. And the sounds are great!”
– Mike Bjorklund, arranger and performer
Score high marks
Print it out.
Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection.
Whether you’re creating a lead sheet for a folk song or pushing the boundaries of music notation, Finale lets you achieve anything you can imagine.
Publish perfect scores.
Personalize your music to fit your style.
From music fonts to chord symbols, from time signatures to music spacing, from lyrics to percussion notation, how your music appears is up to you.
Simply choose a Document Style from Finale’s Setup Wizard, and Finale handles all the details. However, should you choose to customize ANY aspect of your music, Finale lets you do that, too.
Your music is as unique as you are. Now it can look as unique as it sounds. Only Finale provides you with the flexibility to create anything you can imagine.
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Music fonts make anything possible
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Percussion notes
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Lyrics & chords
“Finale is and continues to be the standard for professionals in the industry. In my business looks are everything and Finale just looks better.”
– D.B. Long, music engraver/copyist
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®
A Finale exclusive!
SmartMusic integration.
Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic® solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and celebrate their success.
And, with Finale’s Exercise Wizard, you can create more than 50,000 exercises for your entire ensemble.
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.
Creative resources at your fingertips.
Finale provides hundreds of customizable music education worksheets.
Quickly produce flashcards, puzzles, and exercises for classes in general music, theory and ear training, composition, arranging, and jazz improvisation.
Whether you’re creating music for beginning students …
… or guiding advanced students through harmonic
analysis …
… you have the customized tools and resources you need to teach and inspire your students.
“Using Finale to create custom SmartMusic accompaniments has been an invaluable tool in my teaching!”
– Lisa Galvin, asst. director of bands, Hilliard Bradley High School, and university music technology lecturer
More ways to share
Music is a universal language.
How you choose to communicate is up to you.
When you’re ready to share your music with the world, Finale provides you with more options than any other notation software.
Share your music as:
And of course, you can always print your music and pass it out. No matter how you want to share, Finale has you covered.