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increased productivity

enhanced playback

finale’s streamlined, easy-to-use interface lets you focus on

the music. new features help you work more efficiently.

With Score Setup Wizard, QuickStart Video tutorials, and intuitive note entry, you’ll be making music in minutes. The Setup Wizard now supports Orff and marching percussion instruments.

Easy startup

− Play in notes via a MIDI keyboard or brass or woodwind instrument.

− Click with a mouse or use Simple Note Entry on your computer keyboard.

− Scan with SmartScore® Lite.− Import MIDI and MusicXML files.

Enter music your way

Create a score, and Finale generates and formats all the individual parts, automatically. Change something in a part and Finale updates the score simultaneously.

Automatic linked parts

Create customized exercises for your entire band, orchestra, or choir.

instant exercises

Finale works behind the scenes to make your music look great with smart features like automatic note and lyric spacing, beaming, instant orchestration, and more.

Smart automation

A Finale 2008 exclusive: Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. Finale’s audio support opens up a new world of possibilities:– Record a vocal track to a soprano aria.– Add a trumpet solo to a jazz chart.– Import a stereo mix of a rock band and add a horn

arrangement.– Import audio for transcription/take-down.– Create learning files for choir students with

accompaniment and sung text.

Finale includes – for free – the highest caliber of orchestral instrument samples from the acclaimed Garritan Personal Orchestra®.

Plus, for Finale 2008: more instruments have been added from additional Garritan libraries. From saxophones to choirs and from guitars to world instruments, more than 250 Garritan sounds are now included to add depth and realism to Finale’s superb playback.

There’s nothing to configure – these sounds are fully integrated into Finale and play back via the KONTAKT™ Player 2, included with Finale absolutely free!

fREE garritan sounds

Combine sounds from Garritan Instruments for Finale, Row-Loff™ marching percussion, José Cortijo’s Latin percussion, Boomwhackers® tuned percussion tube samples, and all the instruments of the SmartMusic® SoundFont. Add Native Instruments-supported libraries (available separately). Choose your own sounds, hear them all in playback, and save the results in an audio file.

multiple sound libraries work together seamlessly

give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track

− Finale supports Windows Vista and runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

− Studio View™ integrates key sequencer features to help students create, evaluate, and shape ideas into compositions. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation.

− Cutting-edge scanning recognizes notes, key and time signatures, clefs, instrument transposition, and layout from the printed page – and turns it all into a working Finale file, instantly.

− Only Finale lets you create full-featured accompaniments for the acclaimed SmartMusic® learning software.

− Import video directly into Finale to compose for video and film. See how the music and video relate, sync automatically, fit to time, send SMPTE/MTC time code, and more.

− Share your music with Finale by creating audio files (including .MP3) to burn to disc or save to an iPod®. Or share working Finale files with the free, downloadable Finale NotePad®. With NotePad, your colleagues and students can open, edit, play, print, and save your Finale file – all for free.

− Finish projects faster with intuitive cut/copy/paste/insert improvements in Finale 2008.

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perfect pages

and more

Instantly personalize new documents. Control text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout. Get the visual results you want, and save time. Finale gives you complete control over the appearance of your music.

Document styles

Notate Boomwhackers tuned percussion tubes and other instruments that use the Chroma-notes™ colored music system. Finale even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.

Colored noteheads

Since its inception, Finale has been known for beautiful, engraver-quality sheet music, making it the preferred choice of professional publishers the world over. New options for adding style to the printed page include:

FINALE 2008 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows®: Windows XP/Vista. 200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual.

Macintosh®: G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 and higher. Mac PowerPC or Mac Intel. 325MB hard drive space required for software and user manual.

Both: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 800x600 minimum monitor resolution. Minimum 256MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/KONTAKT Player 2: more RAM = more available sounds.) An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.

Optional: MIDI interface. MIDI input and/or playback device. Printer. Scanner. Microphone required for use of MicNotator®. A soundcard (including a Standard DirectSound driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.

Vista Compatible

Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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Textured manuscript backgrounds

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• �ScoreMerger™ easily combines parts into a score and can join multiple scores/movements into one

• TempoTap™ lets you conduct tempo nuances with a simple tap of your finger

• Customizable Human Playback® lets you listen to your music played back with the nuance of live performers — even if you entered your notes with a mouse

• Explore more musical possibilities with powerful features like Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing, Row-Loff™ marching percussion, and Latin percussion

• Customizable tablature for guitar, bass, and many other stringed instruments

• Import/Export MIDI Files and MusicXML

• MicNotator® — Play a brass or woodwind instrument directly into your score

EVEN MORE FEATURES

• Instruments are automatically transposed

• Transposed instruments appear as written or in concert pitch

• Import and export TIFF, EPS, and other graphic file types

• Slash, rhythmic, and other types of notation

• Over 50 plug-ins that save time including range checking, FinaleScript®, etc.

• Customizable clefs, key/time signatures (including non-standard)

• Control reverb type and amount

• Automatic music spacing

• Music fonts including options for a handwritten or engraved appearance

• Automatic Swing Playback

• Auto-resize printing

• Instant Orchestration (Explode Feature)

• Customizable fingerboard diagrams

• Unlimited lyric verses

TempoTap™ lets you conduct tempo changes with the tap of your finger

Record or import an audio file

Easily control playback of recorded/imported audio with staff controls and mixer

Customizable percussion notation

Staff controls let you define instruments, panning, level, muting, and more…

Automatic chord symbols

Playback controls display elapsed time, time code, and partial measures