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Finale 2009

Professional  $600.00    Your Price    $550.00

Special November Pricing - $525.00

Academic  $350.00    Your Price $332.50

Special November Pricing $315.00

Finale 2009 – 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.

Finale is the world’s best-selling music notation software, preferred by professional musicians, composers, engravers, and educators.

Finale is the world’s best-selling music notation software, preferred by professional musicians, composers, engravers, and educators.

Features: Entering Notes

Enter notes with your computer keyboard and/or mouse.

Use your MIDI keyboard (or any other MIDI device) in combination with your computer keyboard and mouse to enter notes and chords.

Play a MIDI keyboard and watch your music appear on-screen in real time.

Use Finale’s exclusive MicNotator® to play notes into your microphone with a brass or woodwind instrument.

Scan existing sheet music. Import MIDI, MusicXML, or SmartScore files.

No other notation software offers this breadth of note entry options.

Educator Tools

Finale’s easy to use, time-saving features help you customize music curriculum to meet the individual needs of all your students.

SmartMusic® Support Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed music learning software for band, orchestra, and choir.

Instant Exercises Finale’s Exercise Wizard helps you create custom exercises or lessons – for your entire ensemble – in minutes.

Share Files with Students Full compatibility with the free, downloadable Finale NotePad® lets all students – at home or on school computers – use NotePad to complete tests or assignments created in Finale.

Teach Composition Finale’s exclusive Studio View™ is perfect for teaching and practicing composition and arranging using the language of music notation.

More

Video support to sync your marching band show with your score Marching percussion sound libraries from Tapspace Virtual Drumline™ and Row-Loff

Customized educator templates to create quizzes and worksheets

Create worksheets or quizzes by exporting music into a word processing program Colored Noteheads and Boomwhackers® sounds

Academic pricing discounts for single and multiple licenses are available for Finale in addition to Finale Advantage, a maintenance program for educational institutions with a Finale site license.

Record/Import Audio

Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. No other notation software offers this capability.

A new world of possibiliites Finale’s audio support allows you to:

Record a vocal track to a soprano aria.

Add a trumpet solo to a jazz chart.

Import a stereo mix of a rock band and add a horn arrangement.

Import audio for transcription/take-down.

Create learning files for choir students with accompaniment and sung text. Import an audio recording of music, use the TempoTap® feature to line-up notation barlines and times, then add additional orchestration.

 

Finale Allegro

$199.00    Your Price $189.00

Special November Pricing $179.00

Finale Allegro A lower cost alternative giving educators, performing musicians, composers, arrangers and worship directors all the MIDI and notation tools they need to create publisher-quality scores, while leaving out the detailed engraving options found in Allegro's "parent", Finale.

 

Finale PrintMusic 2009

$99.95    Your Price    $94.95

Special November Pricing    $89.00

From the makers of Finale, PrintMusic is perfect for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders.

PrintMusic 2009 is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life - with professional results. The Setup Wizard helps you create scores of up to 24 staves. Note entry is a breeze, whether you enter with a mouse, MIDI device, microphone, or scanner. Human Playback™ makes your music sound like it’s being performed by live musicians. PrintMusic includes a software synthesizer with over 128 professional grade instrument sounds, plus Marching Percussion from Row-Loff™, and can save MP3s for making your own CDs.

 PrintMusic supports Windows XP and Vista and runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC Macs.

PrintMusic2009

 ü  Notate up to 24 staves

ü  Enter music with a mouse, MIDI keyboard, or a scanner

ü  Guitar chords and TAB

ü  Amazing playback sounds

ü  Save as audio file

 

Finale SongWriter

$49.95    Your Price $47.95

Designed specifically for songwriters, Songwriter is the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.

 

 

Windows XP/Vista, CD or DVD-ROM drive, 800x600 min. monitor resolution, Min. 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 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.

G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC), CD or DVD-ROM drive, 800x600 minimum monitor resolution. Min. 256MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds), 325MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 1.6GB hard drive space 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.

Please note that the Rhythm Section Generator is not available for Macintosh.