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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 – Improved in Finale 2011
Finale allows an unlimited number of lyric verses and automatically spaces the lyrics to match the notes they’re attached to.
New in Finale 2011 – Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision. Also new is automatic verse numbering.
Automatic Lyric Placement – Improved in Finale 2011
Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically so that you can have engraver-level quality without manual editing.
We’ve removed additional space at the beginning of measures:
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Punctuation, at the beginning or end of a lyric, can now be ignored for better alignment and centering of different verses.
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Auto-Slur Melismas – Improved in Finale 2011
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.
New in Finale 2011 – The first note of a melismatic passage no longer receives unnecessary space.
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Automatic Verse Numbering – New in Finale 2011
Turn on Auto-Number Verses and appropriate numbers instantly appear at the beginning of each verse. Add a new verse and it’s numbered too. Finale also offers independent control to automatically number choruses and sections.
Easy Edits – Improved in Finale 2011
- Finale 2011 makes it much easier to access multiple fonts and font sizes within lyrics. Now you can easily access the text menu or use common keyboard shortcuts as you're typing into score.
- Lyric fonts, word extensions, and hyphens now instantly update as you enter them and look exactly as they will print out.
- If you don't recall the associated keystroke for a needed umlaut, grave accent or other diacritical character, you can now simply select those items by sight.
- New Lyrics Window lets you switch between typing into score and automatically assigning existing lyrics without switching tools.
Automatic Word Extensions – Improved in Finale 2011
Word extensions automatically draw to the next rest and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
Also in Finale
- Smart Hyphens - Finale offers automatic hyphen placement with precision results even in tight spacing. Plus Lyric hyphens automatically wrap to the next staff system.
- Export all or part of your lyrics to a word-processing document
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Percussion Notation – Expanded in Finale 2011
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 2011
Finale has always offered unparalleled power and flexibility with percussion notation.
Last year we simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look
– and playback – exactly the way you want them to. This year Finale 2011 also lets
you change Percussion Playback Maps on any staff anywhere in your score, making
changes between pitched and non-pitched percussion easy.
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.
- Easily change between pitched and non-pitched percussion by changing percussion
playback maps on any staff anywhere in your score
- 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.
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Chords – Expanded in Finale 2011
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 2011 – Instant Capo Chords
Finale 2011 automates the process of adding capo chords to your music and gives
you the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo
chords, as well as whether they appear in specific sections or the entire piece.
Additional Chord Functionality
Chord symbols in Finale featuring the
Broadway Copyist hand-written font.
- 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.
- 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.
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Repeats and Codas
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.
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.
Create Codas
Finale automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as
controls playback.
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Tablature and Fretboards
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music.
There is little left to do.
New in Finale 2011 – Instant Capo Chords
Finale 2011 automates the process of adding capo chords to your music.
More.
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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Slurs
Finale’s engraver-quality slurs, introduced with Finale 2002, revolutionized
music notation software with their ability to automatically snap to avoid collisions
– even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.
We’ve also fine-tuned slurs to ensure that edits made at high view percentages always
produce the same results when viewed at 100% and when printed – and that on-screen
appearance is consistently representative of high-resolution output so there are
no surprises at the printer.
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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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