I consider Finale to be indispensable in my compositional process.”
-Jennifer Higdon, Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer
Finale is the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores.
The ultimate music notation program, Finale gives you complete control over every aspect of the printed page, while providing full MIDI capabilities and unparalleled audio output.
For 25 years, Finale’s unique ability to create anything on the printed page has remained undisputed while other software has come and gone. Finale 2012 takes Finale’s trademark freedom and flexibility and makes it easy to use.
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Your creative flow
Experiment freely. Compose the music of your imagination. Read More
Listen as you create
Better sounds. Garritan world-class sounds. Read More
Score high marks
Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection. Read More
Inspire your students
Create SmartMusic accompaniments, customized worksheets, and exercises. Read More
More ways to share
No limits. You get to choose: PDF, audio files, MIDI, or MusicXML. Read More
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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.
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.
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.
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In this video, what you SEE is an orchestra, but what you HEAR are the sounds of Garritan Personal Orchestra.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic® solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and celebrate their success.
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.
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. And, with Finale’s Exercise Wizard, you can create more than 50,000 exercises for your entire ensemble.
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.
And of course, you can always print your music and pass it out. No matter how you want to share, Finale has you covered.
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