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Finale 2007 Academic (Win/Mac)
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Product Description
"Academic Priced version of the most powerful music notation software, Finale raises the bar with incredible speed, creative control, state-of-the-art enhancements and new productivity features including Linked Parts. Finale lets you create anything you can imagine. Includes all features of previous versions of Finale including: -Garritan Personal Orchestra Fianle Edition -Integrated KONTAKT Player 2 from Native Instruments -Studio View - all-in-one environment for multi-track music creation -Power Mixer - real-time control of volume, panning, patch and more. -TempoTap - conduct your own tempo changes -Music Scanning - with SmartScore Lite 3.0 by Musitek -and more..."
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4873 in Software
- Brand: eMedia
- Model: MM001033
- Released on: 2006-07-27
- Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP
Features
- Linked Parts for maximum productivity; video support; Latin percussion
- Ultimate composing and score-writing tool for creating music
- Compose, edit, arrange, and print music with professional-quality results
- Powerful tools, robust productivity features, and incredible speed
- Score Setup Wizard, QuickStart Video tutorials, and intuitive note entry
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
No matter what your masterpiece looks like--from simple to advanced--if you can imagine it, Finale can help you create it. Compose, edit, arrange, listen to, and print your music with stunning, professional-quality results. Powerful tools, robust productivity features, and incredible speed make Finale the ultimate composing and score-writing tool.
Features:
- Get up and running quickly: with a score Setup Wizard, QuickStart Video tutorials, and intuitive note entry, you'll be making music in minutes.
- Linked Parts for maximum productivity: intelligently link your score and parts to save time.
- Video support: import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code.
- Latin percussion: add authentic Latin rhythms and sound.
- Mac momentum: Runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs as well as Windows computers. Finale is the first notation software to take full advantage of today's most powerful computing platforms.
- Enter music your preferred way: Play notes via a MIDI keyboard, brass or woodwind instrument, or import MIDI files. Use Simple Note Entry or SmartScore Lite Scanning.
Customer Reviews
Excellent Upgrade
It's a great program for music writing. With multiple ways to input, the most realistic sounding midi system to date, and the ability to save files as mp3s or other audio formats, it's definitely the best on the market. I'd recommend it to any aspiring or professional musicians.
PC users: get this product!
I can see the point of view of the reviewer that says to try out Finale and Sibelius before committing. Good advice.
However, if you have a PC, I recommend this product. It is used by more workshops, schools, and musicians worldwide than any other, and it's the most compatible. Many schools require compositions and orchestrations be put on Finale, not Sibelius or anything else, so they can digitally open it with their own computer and also so they can help you and give you tips with how to use the program.
It takes a bit to learn, but with speedy entry and the mass edit tool, you can whip something up very quickly. Because this program is so in-depth, you will have to dink around with it for a while and get accustomed to it before you can make something very quickly, but once you get to know it, it's very simple.
The reason I don't 100% support it for Mac users is that Sibelius seems to run better and interface better with Macs. Finale seems to have a few glitches with Macs that it doesn't with PCs. I don't have extensive knowledge of this, so I would still recommend Finale, but at the same time, perhaps you should try Finale on a Mac before you buy it and see if you like it alright.
The thing about Finale is that you either have to buy the full package, like this one, or you have to be prepared for severe limitations, like only being able to view and print music, or not being able to save your compositions, or having limited amount of measures or instruments. It's worth your money, in my opinion, to buy this version straightoff. It is true, you can upgrade and pay only the difference, but I wouldn't bother with that hassle, because if you are really going to be using it, then you're going to end up buying this version anyway.
I love Finale, I use it everyday, and I've orchestrated a piece for full orchestra on it, including expressions and extracting parts so that it can be played by the actual musicians. I've also done other compositions and orchestrations, but that was the largest and I did it completely with Finale with no frustrations with the program. Loved it the entire time.
Do yourself a favor and try Sibelius 5 before buying Finale.
I have been using Finale for several years and, while it is sufficient most of the time, I am constantly frustrated by how totally unintuitive it is. Even after going through tutorials and guidebooks, I still found it slow going. I finally got a copy of the new version of Sibelius and am just floored by how much better I like it. As a Mac user, I especially appreciate the ease and aesthetics of the Sibelius user interface. Plus, there are some Sibelius-specific features that are just really thoughtful (especially the Ideas palette -- great for sketching out compositions or saving alternative melodies). Music notation software is expensive: do yourself a favor and try both before committing.
