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Finale Songwriter

Win/Mac CD-ROM

$49.95    (US and Canada only)

Experiment with Melodies.  Explore Your Arrangements.  Experience Your Songs.

With Finale Songwriter™ you can print professional-quality sheet music, create MP3 files, even e-mail your songs to band members, friends, and fans!

Overview

Finale Songwriter™, designed specifically for songwriters, is the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music. As a low cost, complete basic notation program, Finale Songwriter™ offers many great features, such as:

  • Score set-up wizard
  • Note Entry with your mouse, computer keyboard, or any MIDI device
  • Up to eight staves of music
  • Up to six verses of lyrics
  • Change clef or key/time signatures
  • Opens, plays, and allows editing of any Finale family file from the same or earlier version of the software
  • Will write 2- and 3-part harmonies
  • Will create drum grooves and rhythms
  • Includes guitar and bass chord symbols, and automatically created fretboard diagrams
  • Basic articulations, slurs, and dynamics
  • QuickStart Videos show you how to use SongWriter
  • Human Playback® – playback sounds like a real performance
  • Slash notation for lead sheets
  • Save as .MP3 files

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From our partner MakeMusic.

Features

Getting Started

  • Create scores up to 8 staves.
  • Transpose to any key.
  • Launch Window
  • Setting up your lead sheet.

Easy Entry

  • Simple Note Entry – Just pick a note and 'click' it on the staff. That's all it takes
  • Guitar and bass tablature (TAB)

Composing & Arranging

  • Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing
  • Drum Groove
  • NEW – Create Coda Systems
  • Intelligent Repeats
  • Engraver Tuplets
  • NEW - Textured Paper
  • Automatic lyric placement and up to six lyric verses.
  • Chord symbols, fretboard diagrams, and percussion notation.
  • Automatic note spacing, dynamics, slurs, and articulations.
  • Multiple Undo – Everyone makes mistakes. This makes it easy to change them.

Incredible Sound

  • Human Playback™ – Choose from a variety of musical styles
  • Free Software Synthesizer Included

Sharing Your Music

  • Save as MP3 files.
  • Connecting to Finale NotePad® – Open Songwriter™ files with Finale NotePad for FREE!

Finale Songwriter™ is developed by MakeMusic®.

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Requirements

System Requirements

Windows®:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista*
256 MB RAM, 200 MB of free hard disk space
CD-ROM
* Windows Vista 32-bit computers also supported with SongWriter 2007a,
which is available via free download to registered SongWriter 2007 users. 		Macintosh®:
G4 (or faster), Intel OK
MacOS X 10.3.9 or 10.4
256 MB RAM, 250 MB of free hard disk space
CD-ROM
Optional: MIDI interface. MIDI input and/or playback device. Printer. Soundcard for audio playback in Windows.

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.