Finale (Software)

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OS
  • IOS

Finale is a computer program of the U.S. company MakeMusic for music notation. It allows you to create and print scores, and can handle all common tasks of classical music engraving. The music entered can be played through the sound card via MIDI, the included Garritan sampling library or via the VST interface with other sampling libraries. The program also has a film window to input music is synchronized to the film through images. Import and export functions for MP3, WAV, or MusicXML files complement the possibilities. Final is available for the current Windows and Mac OS X versions. In the German-speaking finals by Klemm Music Technology is sold.

Functions

Finale has different working views. The touch screen can be displayed as a leaf, as a roll or the so-called studio view, which is the look and feel inspired by sequencers. To set of characters or to edit the musical text as icons must be selected for each step of the sidebars. The tool- oriented workflow, such as we know about Photoshop is also criticized by some users especially in comparison to its competitors as unintuitive. This contrasts with the great wealth of options and additional features in the multimedia connectivity. In addition to a blender and a film window has finals on numerous music fonts and supports the VST standard.

Family

Depending on the demands and needs there are various editions of Finale, each graded functions. Listed are each some characteristics that are different compared to the next lower version.

  • Finale ( infinitely many staves, no restrictions)
  • Finale Allegro (up to 32 systems, various staves, free placement of clock and key changes, Conductor Score) - set
  • Finale PrintMusic ( scanning notes, 24 systems simultaneously, lecture characters inserted, drum notation, more control on the page layout, ability to import from other notation programs )
  • Finale Songwriter ( inserted additional opportunities for input such as keyboard or MIDI output in MP3 format, simultaneous recording and playback, chord symbols and fretboards )
  • Finale Notepad Plus ( such as Finale Notepad, but with advanced MIDI support ) - discontinued in 2007
  • Finale Notepad ( simple touch sets can be written )
  • Finale Reader (only for reading, viewing and printing of notes) - Set 2012
  • Finale iPad Music Viewer ( only reading scores on the iPad ), from 2012

History

The original and first version of Finale appeared in 1989. Initial program writer and programmer was Phil Farrand, who worked for the company Coda Music. Later Net4Music bought the software and was called some time later in order MakeMusic. Until the final 3.7 followed by the version numbers of the releases of the classic name, thenceforth changed the editor to year numbers as identification and brought every year a new edition of the final out, starting with Finale 1997. 2012, it was announced that the annual rhythm is interrupted and 2012, no 2013 version will be.

Finale 2004 for the first time on Mac OS X runs, but only from 2005 finale finals should also be first delivered hybrid for Windows and Mac OS. In 2005 appeared the first time the stripped down version of Finale Allegro. Finale NotePad was chargeable in the versions from 2009 to 2011. In the meantime, there was a free way to watch Finale files with Finale Reader. 2010 variants Notepad plus and Allegro were hired.

The 2012 version was published in Autumn 2011 and offers new features such as the Score Manager, support for text in Unicode format, the direct creation of PDF files from within the program, an updated notes Wizard (Wizard ), improved sound management and a more extensive Garritan library. The version of Finale NotePad 2012 will be offered free of charge again.

Versions

Extensions

The music notation program Finale is extensible through plug-ins. For example, the music scanning program SmartScore be integrated via an interface. About the Plug- in Recordare MusicXML files can be imported and exported. Medieval realized ancient notation styles. The TGTools enable simplified commands ( such as the setting of reps with repetitive acts). Since 2008, a Band-in- a-Box plugin exists. With its help can be generated for a melody chords provided with an automatic instrumentation. Further extensions are available Braille Music Kit, Classic transposition, Forza! , Tuplet Copy, Tuplet Mover, Staff sets, Patterson Beams and Settings Scrapbook.

Others

The platform Net4Music.com users could distribute their created with Finale files directly. This, by the manufacturing company MakeMusic! powered platform was shut down on 1 October 2002.

Finale Notation Software also served as the basis for film music, so among other things, in the Oscar-winning films like Ratatouille in 2008, Michael Clayton, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Elizabeth - The Golden Age, The Golden Compass; and Oscar- nominated films such as Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End, Death train to Yuma, August Rush, Enchanted and Transformers.

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