the lastest innovations from Finale 2007
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.
Setting-up your score — Get started fast
New—Select Orff Instruments from the Set-Up Wizard
Just answer a few questions: 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.
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QuickStart Videos — Buried Treasure
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.
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- Linked Parts for maximum productivity
- Mac Momentum
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.
- Enter music your preferred way
Play notes in via a MIDI keyboaard, brass or woodwind instrument, or import MIDI files. Use Simple Note Entry or SmartScore® Lite Scanning.
Everything in Finale is built to support your creative process. More options and an intuitive interface give you complete creative control of your music.
Always evolving, Finale continues to innovate exciting features to help bring your music to life. Preferred by composers, engravers, educators, and students, Finale sets the standard for music notation software
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.
It's easy to customize what you need!
- Solo works with accompaniment.
- Full ensembles.
- Exercises that can be assessed and graded!
- Choose to display the music in SmartMusic for the soloist to read.
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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!
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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
Garritan™ Sounds
Hear Your Music Come Alive with a Built-in KONTAKT™ Player and Garritan™ Professional Instruments
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.
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Listen to these orchestral excerpts showcasing the Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds included in Finale:
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Pictures at an Exhibition -- Modest Mussorgsky
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Capriccio Espagnole – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Symphony #9 -- Antonin Dvorak
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Brandenburg Concerto #3 -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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INTEGRATED
The
KONTAKT™ Player is automatically configured and loaded by Finale's Setup Wizard. Simply click and play!
Human Playback further enhances the integration of Garritan Personal Orchestra in Finale by including customized legato and a variety of instrument techniques.
EXPANDABLE
Exciting libraries of additional instruments are available from Garritan and Native Instruments.®
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Advanced Reverb Control –
Finale makes intelligent reverb choices so you don’t have to. Those seeking more control, however, have it at their fingertips.
Studio View™ & Powerful Mixer
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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.
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ALL-IN-ONE
Finale has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multi-track environments.
Mid-Measure Playback Controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want.
Revolutionary Tools for Teaching Composition and Arranging
Sculpting Musical Compositions
Composing in Studio View is a lot like sculpting: Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale empowers students to make creative choices.
Unlock the Possibilities for Composition Students with New Studio View
With Studio View in Finale, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.
How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Click the steps below for examples:
Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback™.
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Video Support—New in Finale 2007
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.
SEE MORE in the Finale 2007
- Watch & Listen
Import digital video and Finale automatically synchronizes it with your music. View the resizable Movie Window as you compose, edit, and play back your score, enjoying new video features like "Fit to Time."
- Professional Quality
Finale’s integrated video support empowers you to set frame rates, write time code into your score, AND send SMPTE/MTC to external devices.
Human Playback® - Improved in Finale 2007
New in Finale 2007
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.
- Techniques for strings, woodwinds, brass, harp, timpani, and other instruments dramatically improve playback.
- With dozens of playback techniques to choose from, Human Playback makes the most of Garritan Personal Orchestra® and Garritan Jazz & Big Band libraries.
- Jazz-specific techniques create the unique sound of live musicians.
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Create and merge multiple sets of custom preferences and attach custom preferences to your Finale files.
- New interface gives you complete control over playback effects, allowing smooth and in-depth compatibility with a wide variety of sound libraries.
Your music sounds better with Human Playback
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 pedalling, harmonics, pizzicato, mute, and others.
Listen to the difference:
- Edit and save your preferences for Human Playback.
- Combine, retain, or overwrite existing MIDI data.
- More custom settings — reverb room types, marching band options, support for Garritan Personal Orchestra, and more.
- Apply discrete Human Playback style to specific regions of your piece.
- Edit the output of Human Playback with Finale's MIDI tool.
