MakeMusic Finale 2007 Notation Software
No matter what your masterpiece looks like—from simple to advanced—if you can imagine it, Finale can help you create it. Compose, edit, arrange, listen to, and print your music with stunning, professional-quality results. Powerful tools, robust productivity features and incredible speed make Finale the ultimate composing and score-writing tool. Finale 2007 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs as well as Windows computers. Finale is the first notation software to take full advantage of today's most powerful computing platforms.
Play notes in via a MIDI keyboard, brass or woodwind instrument, or import MIDI files. Use Simple Note Entry or SmartScore® Lite Scanning. With a score Setup Wizard, QuickStart Video tutorials, and intuitive note entry, you'll be making music in minutes.
New in 2007:
- Linked Parts
- Video Support
- Mac Intel Support - Universal Binary
- Latin Percussion
- Integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2
- Improved Human Playback®
- Quick Change
- Macintosh® Enhancements
- Update Brackets & Groups
- Improved Authorization
- Vertical Collision Remover
- Updated Playback Controls
- Improved Pickup Measures
- Cross-Staff Augmentation Dots
- Enharmonic Spelling in Chromatically Transposed Staves
Launch Window
The Finale Launch Window saves you time by putting everything at your fingertips. Open files, access the Setup Wizard, create SmartMusic Accompaniments, watch videos, access the Installation and Tutuorial Guide and more. Never before has Finale been so easy to learn. Besides a more intuitive interface, a broader range of short onscreen videos step you through most common functions of Finale. Easily access the videos from the Launch Window.
Setting up your score
What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly. When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window. Over 60 to choose from including SATB, Kodály, solfege and more.
The Finale Edition of the highly acclaimed Garritan Personal Orchestra® includes more than 100 studio-quality sounds.
New in Finale 2007—Integrated KONTAKT™ Player 2
The most respected name in playback technology now comes included with Finale 2007—absolutely free! Listen to yoour music played with stunning realism thanks to the integrated KONTAKT® Player 2. One simple process authorizes both Finale 2007 and the KONTAKT Player 2.
Human Playback
Playback with the nuance of live performers – that's what you get with Finale's Human Playback®, now enhanced and improved for 2007. Perfect the performance with customizable instrument techniques, transportable preferences, and expanded support for a wide variety of Garritan and Native Instruments® sounds.
Beyond adding feeling and natural nuances automatically, Human Playback also interprets any kind of musical elements right from the notation, including: crescendo/diminuendo and sforzandi (even on held long notes), accelerando / rallentando, fermatas, trills, tremolos, baroque and jazz ornaments, guitar bends, slurs, rolled chords (guitar, harp, harpsichord, ...), glissandi (piano, harp, strings, ...), piano pedaling, harmonics, pizzicato, mute, and others.
Exciting new choices like Latin Percussion stimulate your creativity. Choose from a variety of authentic rhythms – all correctly notated – to any piece, instantly. Then listen to the results – high-quality Latin percussion sounds are included. A Finale exclusive!
Marching bands rejoice! Check out the terrific new percussion sounds in Finale. From Row-Loff Productions — foremost in marching and concert percussion literature.
Uniting Music and Video
Write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support. Finale 2007 streamlines the technology so you can focus on the art. Finale is the first choice of music professionals in the film and television industry. Recent soundtracks prepared with Finale include The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Million Dollar Baby, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Finding Neverland.
Auto-arrange — Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing
Automatically transforms your melodies, creating up to 6-part hamonies in dozens of styles and voices. Thanks to a partnership with the makers of the popular Band-in-a-Box software, the incredible Auto Harmonizer is FREE with the purchase of Finale. We've got the beat
Creating custom drum parts has never been easier. Select any region and apply a pre-created drum groove in the style and feel you want. You can add to the list of available styles by placing any MIDI file into the Drum Groove folder. The plug-in intelligently copies only the drum and percussion information.
Textured Paper — Easy on the eyes
Choose from over a dozen different paper textures and colors so your on-screen page is easy on the eyes and aesthetically pleasing when entering notes or editing. Create Tempo Markings
Tempo Markings are generated automatically and can be assigned to staff lists. Allowing you to easily specify that they appear on some staves in the score but all staves in extracted parts.
Expression Customization
Creating and editing tempo markings is easy. Many placement options are offered including alignment based on the note or measure.
Take a Shortcut
This feature could save you days of work. Easily create your own set of commands that Finale will perform with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. Batch file process.
SmartFind and Paint™ — attention to detail
Let’s say your score has a rhythmic motif that is repeated throughout the score in other voices with other pitches. If you want the articulations, dynamics and expressions copied to all those other voices, just select this feature and you have instantly transferred the desired selections right where you need them.
Some handy tools for educators:
Introducing Studio View™, a Revolutionary New Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas
Finale integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. Now it’s easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.
INTEGRATED SEQUENCER CONTROLS
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves – in real time – with the powerful new mixer.
STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION
Build compositions track by track in Studio View’s multi-track recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there’s no need for separate sequencing software that uses complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited.
ALL-IN-ONE
Finale has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multi-track environments.
SmartMusic® Accompaniment Wizard
Using Finale to create or save music as SmartMusic Accompaniments® for your solo or ensemble practice needs has never been easier! The SmartMusic Accompaniment Wizard guides you through the process, simplifying and automating each step.
Plus Finale makes it easier than ever to create SmartMusic Markers - one trip to Finale's Edit menu gives you an interface that looks and feels just like SmartMusic, and makes it a breeze to add Intelligent Accompaniment like "wait for note" or any other kind of SmartMusic Markers!
Multitimbral SmartMusic Accompaniment Generation. Create SmartMusic Accompaniments containing many instruments primed for SoundFont playback
in SmartMusic.
Customized part playback lets you practice a part within an ensemble piece
in SmartMusic.
SmartMusic subscription required to use Finale-created accompaniments
in SmartMusic.
Export Graphics
Create quizzes, textbooks or worksheets by exporting music into word-processing software. Finale allows you to save entire pages or sections as a TIFF or EPS file. Macs can also save as PICT.
Import Graphics
New: Embedded graphics allow to easily transport your files to anyone.
Create interesting music with the addition of graphics (embedded or linked). Import TIFF or EPS. Macs can also import PICT.
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.
Useful tools for sharing your music online:
Post your music for the world to see, play and print at www.finaleshowcase.com or post Finale files on your website, a free site hosted by MakeMusic. Anyone can see and play back your music using Finale NotePad. Available for Mac and Windows.
Finale NotePad - This FREE downloadable notation software can be used to create up to 8 staves, but can also open a Finale file from the same version. You can even read the most complex Finale family file, edit notes, or type in text.
Create an assignment or test in Finale, have the students take the test with Finale NotePad. You can also share your music with anyone on the Internet. When they download Finale NotePad, all of your friends, relatives, colleagues, or publishers can play back, print, and even edit the music.
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Backwards Compatibility
Finale can import and export Music XML files—right from the File menu and the launch window. MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone with Finale for Windows 2003-2006 or Finale for Macintosh 2006.
Want more options? Recordare.com offers plug-ins (sold separately) that allow you to open these files into Finale for OS X (back to 2004), and Finale for Windows (back to Finale 2000). You can even read MusicXML files created in other music notation programs.
System Requirements:
Finale 2007 for Windows®
- Windows 2000/XP. Garritan sounds supported in Windows XP only.
- CD or DVD-ROM drive.
- 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
- Minimum 256MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds / Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
- 200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 800MB is required for all Garritan sounds.
Finale 2007 for Macintosh®
- G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.3.9 and higher.
- CD or DVD-ROM drive.
- 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
- Minimum 256MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds / Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
- 200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 800MB is required for all Garritan sounds.
Optional
- MIDI interface
- MIDI input and/or playback device
- Printer
- Scanner
- Microphone required for use of MicNotator®.
- A soundcard (including a DirectSound driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.)
