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Features:
Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
Dynamics and Tempo Markings
In Finale, expressions include dynamics, tempo markings, rehearsal marks, technique text like arco and pizzicato, and expressive text.
Reinvented and streamlined
Selection, entry and placement of expressions or articulation markings is quick and intuitive. Once in your score, they are easily moved – now with transparent selection handles, so they never obscure the object you’re editing. You can instantly change the appearance of an entire category of expressions or articulations
Drag and drop expressions
Simply drag the text anywhere in your score. Now you simply drag text items anywhere. Clear visual feedback instantly shows you what each selected expression is attached to, which changes dynamically as you drag – even across pages. Drag expressions and rest assured they’ll always change playback – and appear in linked parts – just the way you want them to.
Plus, you can now drag-apply expressions to multiple staves at once. No matter how you enter these markings, Finale continues to apply the same collision avoidance rules so you don’t have to think about it.
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Lyrics
Finale offers unlimited lyric verses and the following time-saving enhancements.
Automatic Lyric Placement
Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically.
New in Finale 2010 –
Export your lyrics to a word-processing document
- Export all or part of your lyrics
- New controls to edit your lyrics – with verse or chorus designations not found in your score – before you export
Easy Lyric Font Changes
Lyric fonts can be easily changed after lyrics are entered.
Automatic Word Extensions
Word extensions flow into the score automatically and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
Smart Hyphens
Finale offers automatic hyphen placement with precision results even in tight spacing. Plus Lyric hyphens automatically wrap to the next staff system.
Auto-Slur Melismas
Finale analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. You can even specify dashed slurs in situations with multiple verses!
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Percussion Notation – Improved in Finale 2010
Whether you’re an expert user customizing percussion scores, or not sure where a bass drum goes on the staff, Finale gets your percussion notation to look and sound perfect in no time.
New in Finale 2010
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation – now it’s also incredibly easy to use! We’ve simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to.
Easy to Enter
- Simply drag the cursor over the staff and on-screen feedback indicates whether you’re about to enter a snare, bass drum, or other percussion instrument – and displays the appropriate notehead.
- Dragging notes up and down the staff scrolls smoothly through all available instruments.
- Seamlessly copy music back and forth between percussion and standard notation staves.
Automatic Playback
- Automatic playback configuration – your snare will playback with a snare sound – and so forth – without any manual intervention.
- Easily re-map your percussion playback without changing your score. Change playback from one instrument library to another – or to an external midi device. If you use built-in sounds in the office, and external MIDI sounds at home – Finale 2010 was made for you.
Plus:
- Create custom percussion MIDI maps for ultimate control over the sounds your percussion staves play back.
- When more than one instrument appears on the same line or space, you can now control which appears first – you don’t have to switch from side stick to snare.
- Choose to retain staff position or MIDI pitch when copying between percussion and standard notation staves.
- On-screen feedback indicates when a staff contains notes not found in that staff’s percussion layout.
Percussion MIDI Map Editor is included with Finale 2010b which is a free downloadable update for Finale 2010 registered users.
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Chords – Improved in Finale 2010
Enter chord symbols by typing in their names, playing them with a MIDI keyboard, or by alternating between these two entry methods – all without visiting a menu. Simple, intuitive keystrokes make it easy to move to the next beat or measure as well as delete or edit existing chords.
New in Finale 2010
- Change or delete notes without changing your chords.
- Attach chords to measures – whether or not they contain notes or rests – and have the chords appear and playback exactly how you wish.
- On-screen feedback lets you instantly see what beat or measure each chord is attached to even if you manually reposition your chords.
- Enter chords before entering notes.
- Easily create chord-only charts.
- Chords and fretboards automatically resize as your page resizes – plus you have easy scaling controls for fretboards and chords in document options.
- New and intuitive QWERTY and MIDI keystrokes let you move the cursor to the first beat of adjacent measures (plus it’s easy to move to adjacent beats) and vertically stack chords.
- Chords attached to whole rests or notes automatically appear at the beginning of a measure.
Chord symbols in Finale 2010 featuring the new Broadway Copyist hand-written font.
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Repeats
Repeats are easy to add and edit and they automatically play back.
Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select
"Create first and second ending." You’re done.
Finale automatically does the rest of the work for you:
- All numbers and brackets are entered and lined up.
- Repeat numbers are automatically followed by periods.
- Backward Repeat Bars or Repeat Endings can be defined to find their targets automatically.
You can also choose to:
- Add mid-measure repeats without affecting your measure numbering.
- Specify where text and brackets appear in your score and parts.
- Align Brackets and Reset Bracket Position.
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Create Codas
Finale automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.
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Measure Numbers – Improved in Finale 2010
Measure numbers are essential for synchronizing an ensemble during rehearsals and performances. Finale offers unprecedented flexibility and control of measure numbers.
New in Finale 2010
- Control alignment, positioning, and fonts separately in your score and linked parts.
- Separate positioning for measure numbers under multi-measure rests.
- Control the alignment and positioning of measure numbers that appear at the start of each system separately from numbers in the rest of your score.
Finale also features automatic rehearsal marks that dynamically update when you delete, insert, or move measures in your score.
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Tablature and Fretboards
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.
Finale can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments.
Enter notes directly into TAB staves using a mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI
device. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and
vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.
Once the music is in the tab staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit.
For example, to change a fret number from '2' to '3', just select the note and
type '3'.
Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear
in orange when out of fret range.
Finale’s handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various
stem styles are easily applied. Use the "Tab Styles" library that comes with
Finale or create your own.
- Bends and shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves.
- Notating hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, and releases is a breeze.
- User-defined defaults for guitar bends are standard.
- Custom Smart Shapes now contain an expanded list of guitar-specific lines.
- Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.
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Trading Up?
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Owners of
PrintMusic,
Allegro,
SongWriter
and NotePad can
Trade up
to Finale.
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