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Finale PrintMusic 2009

Win/Mac CD-ROM

$99.95    (US and Canada only)

Compose music.  Play and hear your creation.
Print publisher-quality sheet music.

Finale PrintMusic® is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results. From the makers of Finale®, the world’s leading music notation software, PrintMusic is perfect for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders.

Overview

Finale PrintMusic® 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.

In addition to the features found in Songwriter™, Finale PrintMusic® adds these powerful features:

  • New for 2009! - Streamlined workflow
  • New for 2009! - Drag and Drop Expressions
  • New for 2009! - Intuitive Metronome Markings
  • New for 2009! - Scanning Improvements
  • New for 2009! - Updates to MusicXML
  • New for 2009! - Improved Engraver Slurs
  • As of 2008 - Improved scanning allows you to scan existing sheet music into PrintMusic®
  • As of 2008 - New powerful mixer for precise volume and panning control
  • As of 2008 - Import and export graphics
  • Save as audio file: .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF
  • Up to 24 staves of music
  • Enter music using a wind instrument and microphone
  • Print individual parts from a score
  • Create pick-up measures
  • Guitar and Bass Tablature (TAB)
  • Several barline types to choose from
  • Move and re-size staves
  • More powerful regional editing
  • Turn off courtesy time, key, and clef settings
  • Easily enter percussion notation
  • Rhythmic notation and single-measure repeats

Click here to download a comparison chart of the Finale products.

From our partner MakeMusic.

Features

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Finale PrintMusic

Enter notes with a mouse, MIDI keyboard, microphone, or scanner. Play your composition, print publisher-quality sheet music, or make MP3s for CDs of your musical creations. You’ll be proud of the results you get with PrintMusic®.


Getting Started

  • Create scores up to 24 staves and print out parts
  • Transpose to any key and for any instrument
  • Launch Window
  • QuickStart Videos – 'How-to' demonstrations right on your screen
  • Setting up your score.

New for 2009!

  • Streamlined Workflow – The creation, entry, moving, and editing of dynamics, tempo indications, and other text and markings has been reinvented and streamlined.
  • Drag and Drop Expressions – Simply drag dynamics, tempo markings and other expressions anywhere in your score.
  • Intuitive Metronome Markings – Easier to create and dynamically linked to playback so changes to the metronome marking affect your score’s playback tempo.
  • Scanning Improvements – Triplet recognition and improved results when scanning polyphonic music.
  • Updates to MusicXML – Import and export MusicXML 2.0 files including embedded graphics and compressed files.
  • Improved Engraver Slurs – Slurs now appear consistent in all view percentages and in print-outs.

Easy Entry

  • Scan music
  • Simple Note Entry – just pick a note and 'click' it on the staff. That's all it takes
  • Guitar and bass tablature
  • Download MIDI files and see them notated instantly. Import and export MIDI files
  • MicNotator®
  • Play the melody from a brass or woodwind instrument directly into your score
  • NEW-Import and Export Music XML files
  • Play your MIDI keyboard and watch your music appear on-screen in real time.

Composing & Arranging

  • Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing
  • Drum Groove
  • NEW – Create Coda Systems
  • Intelligent Repeats
  • Engraver Tuplets
  • Lyrics – unlimited numbers of verses and automatic lyric placement
  • Textured Paper
  • Percussion notation
  • Chord symbols & guitar fretboards
  • Automatic note spacing and more
  • Multiple Undo – Everyone makes mistakes. This makes it easy to change them.

Incredible Sound

  • Human Playback™ – Choose from a variety of musical styles
  • Row-Loff™ marching percussion sounds
  • Free Software Synthesizer Included

Sharing Your Music

  • Save as Audio File
  • Connecting to Finale NotePad® – Open PrintMusic® files with Finale NotePad for FREE!

Finale PrintMusic® is developed by MakeMusic®.

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Requirements

System Requirements

Windows:
Windows XP/Vista 32-bit, CD-ROM drive
800 x 600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 256MB RAM, 235MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. 		Macintosh:
MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5,
G4 or higher recommended (Mac Intel or PowerPC).
CD-ROM drive, 800 x 600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 256MB RAM, 270MB hard drive space required for software and user manual.
Optional: MIDI interface. MIDI input and/or playback device, printer, scanner, higher quality computer microphone required for use of MicNotator®. A soundcard for playback in Windows.

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.