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

Finale includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free sounds include orchestral instruments, jazz brass, saxophones, piano, choirs, drum set, guitar, organ, handbells, marching percussion, world instruments, and more (.pdf).

New in Finale 2010
New sounds include church organ, a variety of electric guitars, five octaves of handbells, steel guitar, and a brush drum kit containing 50 additional sounds. 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. See a complete list of sounds (.pdf). Expandable Garritan sounds can be used with the Tapspace Virtual Drumline, Latin Percussion, and Row-Loff Marching Percussion sounds included in Finale and combined with other VST/AU Instruments and Effects. Exciting libraries of additional instruments are also available for purchase from Garritan and Tapspace. More. 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. See complete system requirements.

Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ Sounds
Finale 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).

Interested in using the complete set of Virtual Drumline sounds with Finale?
Buy Virtual Drumline 2.5

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.

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.

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)

Your music sounds better with Human Playback

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.

  

• Compatible with the Aria player and third party VST/AU Instruments and Effects
• 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.

VST/AU Instruments and Effects – Expanded in Finale 2010

What's more, Finale now offers an expanded dynamic range, and greater control over VST/AU playback volume, letting you control relative volume of various sound libraries as well as overall volume of your mix.

Finale checks plug-ins for compatibility before loading, and tracks which plug-ins were previously checked for better performance. Third-party VST/AU instruments and effects can also be combined with the sound libraries included with Finale.

Aria Player – Updated in Finale 2010

New in Finale 2010

The Aria player offers superior sound, more control, and a vastly improved user playback experience. Aria works so well, you’ll take it completely for granted and concentrate on making music.