Finale 2012

From inspiration to applause, music comes alive with Finale®. Easily compose, arrange, notate, and print publisher-quality sheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Whether you′re creating orchestral film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod®, Finale offers you the power, flexibility, and freedom to create any music you can imagine.

New Features in Finale 2012:

• ScoreManager – Finale’s new ScoreManager helps musicians quickly make their creations look and sound any way they wish. Advanced control over staff playback and appearance are now in one convenient place.
• Unicode text support – Musicians can easily access any character in today’s fonts, facilitating the creation of music in any language and the use of previously elusive font characters.
• Music education tools – Finale 2012 saves music educators time while helping them provide more for their students. More than 1,000 customizable worksheets and repertoire titles are included, as well as fonts created for music education and exclusive support of SmartMusic, the interactive music software for band, orchestra and voice.
• File sharing – Expanded.PDF support and graphic capabilities bring music to word processing and graphics programs. Music XML 3.0 offers collaboration with users of hundreds of other music programs, and additional enhancements redefine playback with other Finale products.
• Improved sound management - With Finale 2012, you have access to even more Garritan sounds. Based on user requests, new instrument sounds include:
  • Soprano sax
  • Celeste
  • Mandolin
  • Accordion
  • Euphonium solo
  • Recorder
  • Pipe organ – Baroque Plenum Reed stop
  • Pipe organ – Pedal stop
• Additional improvements – New staff spacing tools, new fonts, auto-detection of MIDI devices, new tutorial guide and user manual with integrated video, and more...

PLUS... Finale makes quick work of common tasks, offering:

• Streamlined user interface is more efficient, intuitive, and consistent
• Setup Wizard configures your score beautifully in seconds
• Multiple options to enter your music using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic, or scanner
• Scanning: existing sheet music goes directly into Finale. From there you can change the key, edit, and more
• Linked Parts intelligently links your score and parts to save you time
• Customizable and printable Music Education Resources including worksheets, flashcards, classroom repertoire, fonts, puzzles, and games
• Video Support - import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code
• TempoTap® - conduct your own tempo changes
• Playback - here are just a few reasons why Finale′s sound is unsurpassed:
  • Exclusive ability to record or import an audio track for unprecedented realism
  • More than 375 world-class Garritan instrument sounds and integrated Aria Player
  • More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline™
  • Human Playback® makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it - even if you entered your notes with a mouse!
  • External sound library support for VST ⁄ AU instruments and effects
• Save Audio Files (including .MP3) to create CDs or save to an iPod®
• Document Styles let you instantly personalize the appearance of new documents
• MicNotator® lets you enter notes by playing your brass or woodwind instrument
• Special noteheads and colored notes for younger students
• QuickStart Videos for those who don′t like to read manuals



Finale remains the world standard with many features not available in any other music notation software:

• Record or import an audio track
• Create SmartMusic® accompaniments
• Band-in-a-Box® Auto-Harmonizing – automatically generates up to 6-voice harmonies for your melodies
• Exercise Wizard – instantly generates up to 50,000 practice pieces for your band, orchestra, or choir without entering a single note
• Studio View™ – an all-in-one environment for multi-track music creation
• The ability to import and export MusicXML files to and from other music software
• Free, downloadable Finale Reader® lets you share your Finale files with anyone who can then view, print, and play your music!