MakeMusic Finale 2010 Notation Software (Mac and Windows)

Finale 2010 - the world's most powerful music notation software - lets you express your creativity and love of music. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.

Entering Notes
From MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale's exclusive MicNotator, no other software offers you more note entry options.

SmartMusic Support and Music Education Worksheets
Exclusive SmartMusic support, over 300 customizable Music Education Worksheets, and Finale's Exercise Wizard are just a few of the many reasons Finale remains the first choice of music educators worldwide.

Linked Parts and other Timesavers
Finale includes dozens of time-saving tools like Linked Parts, Multiple Page Editing, Band-in-a-Box Auto-harmonizing, ScoreMerger(TM), SmartFind and Paint, and more.

Redesigned for 2010
Vast areas of Finale have been updated for 2010. From Percussion Notation and Chord Entry to Rehearsal Marks and Measure Numbering, common tasks have been automated and simplified to save you time and to easily make your music perfect.

World-Class Sounds
More than 350 instrument sounds from the renowned makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, 100+ sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, AND the ability to add any VST/AU Instrument or Effect Plug-in means Finale offers the very best in playback.

Record/Import Audio
Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Only Finale lets you record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback.

What's New in Finale 2010

Percussion Notation
We've simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look - and playback - exactly the way you want them to.

Automatic Rehearsal Marks
Use a keystroke to enter rehearsal marks and Finale automatically sequences them correctly and dynamically updates them when you delete, insert, or move any rehearsal mark or measure.

Music Education Worksheets
Finale now includes hundreds of ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets designed for K-12 students.

Chords
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 correctly.

Garritan sounds
Finale now includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include organ, a variety of electric guitars, five octaves of handbells, and a brush drum kit.

Graphics Support
Export as .JPEG, and .PNG and import as .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, and .GIF in addition to previously supported formats of .TIFF, .EPS.

Broadway Copyist
Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores, the Broadway Copyist hand-written font offers a lighter, classic appearance.

VST/AU Support & Updated Aria Player
Finale now supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects, providing users with unlimited sonic possibilities. Updated for Finale 2010, the Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments.

Measure Numbers
Control measure number alignment, positioning, and fonts separately in your score and linked parts.

Scanning Improvements and More
New Smartscore Lite scanning interface enables you to specify the instrumentation so that your staves will automatically be properly transposed and configured for playback. Also new are transparent selection handles, exporting lyrics to a word-processing document, and improved help documentation.

Technical Info

Finale 2010 for Windows(R)
Windows XP/Vista 32-bit (64-bit compatible).

DVD-ROM drive.

800x600 minimum monitor resolution.

Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds).

500MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2010.

Finale 2010 for Macintosh(R)
G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or 10.5 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).

DVD-ROM drive.

800x600 minimum monitor resolution.

Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds).

600MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2010.

Optional
- MIDI interface

- MIDI input and/or playback device

- Printer

- Scanner

- Microphone required for use of MicNotator(R)

- A soundcard (including a DirectSound AS20 recommended driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.

- Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments.

Authorization
Finale requires that you authorize the software within 30 days after installation. You are allowed to install Finale on two operating systems (multiple licenses excluded). More.

File Compatibility
Finale family software can open files in the same or newer software version, but files created in a newer version cannot be opened in an older version unless converted via MusicXML. More.

System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and other manufacturers. More.