PrintMusic 2009 Installation and Tutorials

Before you begin

Thank You for Choosing Finale PrintMusic!

 

PrintMusic is a powerful integrated program for music transcription, notation, playback, and publishing. Incorporating elements of a word processor, a graphics designer, a sequencer, and a page-layout program, PrintMusic has all the power you need to create beautiful looking sheet music and a quality MIDI performance. Easier than ever to learn and use, this program has the potential to help you produce more music—both printed and played—faster and better than ever before.

Take a moment to look over the contents of your PrintMusic package. It should include:

About these tutorials

In these pages, you’ll learn how to start putting PrintMusic to work right away. From installing the software, to entering music, to printing the score, and everything in between, we’ll cover all the basics you need to know to get up and running fast. The Windows and Macintosh versions of PrintMusic are similar enough that we have incorporated instructions for both into this one book. You will notice, however, that there are two separate versions of the Installation instructions—one for Windows users and one for Macintosh users. These chapters provide platform-specific installation and setup instructions. Beyond these initial chapters, the book applies to both platforms; any differences will be indicated by separate instructions for each platform, given in parentheses. (The majority of these differences will involve keystrokes—e.g., for Windows, or for Macintosh).

Throughout this manual, you’ll find tip boxes; one is shown at right. These tip boxes contain helpful hints and tips that relate to the text where they’re found.

 

Tip boxes look like this. In these boxes, you’ll find helpful tips and tricks along the way.  

 

Learning PrintMusic won’t be difficult. Though the program offers hundreds of features and options, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with ignoring the ones you’ll never use. Don’t have a MIDI instrument? Then skip those sections of the book. Don’t plan to use guitar fretboards? Then don’t bother learning that feature. You may need some of the other options another day—or never, depending on the kind of music you want to create; that’s perfectly OK. To help you get a jump start, we’ve divided Tutorial 1 into separate entry methods. If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard, you can skip Tutorial 1c. After reading chapter 1a, if you feel comfortable using Simple Entry as your primary entry method, skip tutorial 1b.

Be sure to look at the Read Me file, which the PrintMusic Installer copies to your hard disk and installs in the PrintMusic folder. This document contains important information about PrintMusic that wasn’t available when this book went to press.

Authorizing/getting help

Your copy of PrintMusic must be authorized within 30 days of installation, after which, printing and saving are disabled. To access the Authorization Wizard, click Authorize Now when you launch PrintMusic (or, from the Help Menu, choose Authorize PrintMusic). You have the option to authorize over the Internet, or by phone, fax, or mail. You will be asked to provide the serial number located on the interior of your PrintMusic 2009 CD/DVD case. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of PrintMusic, your serial number has not changed, and can be found in the About box of your previous PrintMusic version (under the Help or PrintMusic 2009 menu).

If you have a question about PrintMusic and can’t find the answer in this book, the User Manual, or the QuickStart Videos, additional help is available. Authorized owners may contact MakeMusic for customer support at www.PrintMusicmusic.com/support.

MakeMusic can also be reached by fax at (952) 937-9760, or by mail at 7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M, Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3848.

 

Remember that extensive help is always at your fingertips: from the Help Menu, choose User Manual.

In addition to receiving customer support benefits, authorization means you can also be notified of free maintenance updates and discounts on future upgrades and new products.

Please visit www.finalemusic.com to download maintenance updates, learn about other PrintMusic resources, and find more information about the PrintMusic family of notation products. Here you can also search our Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions, and participate in PrintMusic’s online community through interactive forums.

Remember that extensive help is always at your fingertips: from the Help Menu, choose User Manual.

 

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