Finale® 2014

Creating your musical legacy starts with Finale. Easily arrange or compose publisher-quality music notation that plays back with world-class sounds, and share the results. From lead sheets and guitar tabs, to band charts and orchestral scores, Finale is the forward-looking choice. Finale offers: * More note entry options---Play a MIDI keyboard, use a mouse and computer keyboard, scan existing music, or import a variety of file types. * More sounds---With 400+ Garritan instruments and Human Playback, your music becomes a life-like performance. * Powerful features---Enjoy Linked Parts, Music Educator Resources, Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing, MicNotator, Video Support, TempoTap, and many other innovative features. * Help Resources---Enjoy free support, video tutorials, and the industry's best Help resources. And only Finale can create SmartMusic accompaniments. * Not available in Germany. Finale 2014.5, a free-of-charge upgrade for all Finale 2014 owners, is now available Finale 2014.5 incorporates new features, bug fixes, and significant modernization of Finale code, including many Mac-specific updates resulting in performance improvements and full compatibility with Apple’s OS X El Capitan operating system.Features added in this release include: The ability to save SmartMusic accompaniments with premium VST/AU instrument sounds, including the provided Garritan sounds A means to quickly and easily reorder stavesEnhanced MusicXML and EPUB support Options to automatically create double barlines before key changes Updated SmartScore X2 Lite scanning software, with many improvements in core musical features such as beams, augmentation dots, and tuplets All plug-ins provided with the update have also been modernized, and many have been enhanced, including FinaleScript, Global Staff Attributes, Latin Percussion, TG Tools Lite, Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing and more. Finale’s documentation has been overhauled, offering vastly improved search results and compatibility with any device, including smartphones and tablets. (This could allow you, for example, to have Finale’s documentation displayed on your iPad while you work on your laptop or desktop computer.)