Product Description

While Finale SongWriter makes it easy to create great sheet music at an affordable price, that’s just the beginning. Finale SongWriter allows you to enter notes from a mouse, computer keyboard, or midi keyboard. You can add chord symbols, fretboard diagrams, and multiple verses of lyrics. Finale SongWriter can automatically add two and three voice harmony to your melodies and instantly add a drum part. The music you create sounds great through your computer’s speakers thanks to Human Playback and 128 professional sounds. You can import and export MIDI files, create MP3 files, and save your work as a standard Finale file which can also be shared with users of Finale Notepad (a free download). If getting music on the printed page is part of your songwriting project, Finale SongWriter is the perfect collaborator.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2856 in Software
• Brand: MakeMusic
• Model: MM00143
• Released on: 2007-02-01
• Platforms: Mac, Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Features

• Finale SongWriter, designed specifically for songwriters, is the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.
• Finale Songwriter lets you print professional-quality sheet music, create MP3 files, even e-mail your songs to band members, friends, and fans!
• Finale SongWriter is the entry-level version of the world-famous Finale music software.
• Easily create melodies and songs, then experiment, explore and experience them using SongWriter¿s powerful features.
• Perfect for creating all types of lead sheets, including Christian music lead sheets, guitar lead sheets, piano lead sheets and more.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Product!
I just got this product today but am very pleased with it so far. I really like the video helps that are included. It helped me to learn the basics very quickly. There are some things that I have not learned yet, but I do not anticipate any difficulty in learning the more complex features either.

I was a Music Education major in college and have studied music theory and composition since I was 12 years old. I just wish there was a product like this when I was learning music theory and composition. It would have been a huge help to me. I highly recommend this product for those who need just a basic song writing software. Unless you need something to help with orchestration and really complex composition, this product should provide all you need to get your music written and printed in a professional format.

great, especially considering the price
I got this product for Christmas, and, considering the prices I have seen for it, it is an extremely cost effective product. I am especially pleased with many of the midi patches. I have done some writing on it thus far, including a duet for organ and cello, and its sounds really good as far as quality goes.

Highest Recommendation
This might be the best software I've ever owned ~ certainly, it is consuming me. I got it for Christmas for my mother, who asked me to install it for her. After I did so, I idly tried it out. Shortly thereafter I purchased my own copy. Now my only regret is that I didn't get the next higher version (I believe it's called Allegro) ~ and I will probably be upgrading. I write church music, and am finding the limitation of only 8 staves per page to be frustrating. Other than that, it's GLORIOUS! One more endorsement: I've never written a review for anything before, and probably never will again. I feel strongly about the power and wonder of the creative potential and immediate feedback of this software. P.S. I use a Macintosh; works well!

Update one year later: If you are a serious composer, I definitely recommend Finale Allegro (at least), or Finale (the "full meal deal"), as they are each much more powerful and satisfying.