What the pros use!
Finale 2008 provides composers with an intuitive and easy way to create and manipulate scores, freeing them to concentrate on their compositions. All the tools you need to quickly and easily bring your music to life are right at your fingertips, and you can instantly hear amazingly humanistic playback thanks to the built-in Kontakt player and instruments from the Garritan collection. New this time around in Finale is the ability to record audio into straight into Finale, a first for notation software. Note entry can be handled in a variety of ways, from using a MIDI controller to the innovative MicNotator to scanning the score into the computer. Finale lets you easily realize your creative vision!
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makemusic Finale 2008 at a Glance:- Record Audio into Finale
- Easily manage an entire score
Record Audio into Finale
Finale 2008 breaks new notation software ground with the ability to record audio into the program. This is great for adding vocal passages to classical pieces, adding horns to a jazz chart, or even import a rock tune to add horns using the built-in compositional and playback tools. This is the first time that a notation software has merged with the audio recording world, and it opens up a ton of options for really adding the human element to your projects. You will enjoy adding personal touches to classics, such as a putting your vocals to Broadway scores, jazz standards, and much more.
Easily manage an entire score
Finale makes managing a score and effortless. Features like Intelligent Linking ensure your score is always up to date. Change an individual part, and Finale will automatically update the score. Additional compostional and arranging features in Finale include Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonize, which generates 6-part hamonies from your melodies with dozens of styles and voices to choose from. From a performance standpoint, you can have Finale create Smart Cues so performers never miss an entrance after a long, multi-bar break. You will love the ease at which their compostitions come together with the powerful tools included in Finale, the pro's choice for notation software!
- Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback
- MicNotator allows note entry via an external microphone
- More than 250 world-class sounds from the creators of Garritan Personal Orchestra and Human Playback
- Additional libraries from Row-Loff marching percussion, Jose Cortijo's Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic SoundFont
- Support for additional Native Instruments libraries (available separately)
- Built-in Kontakt Player
- Export compositions as MP3, WAV, or AIFF for CD burning
- Enter notes via MIDI controller, MicNotator, scanning, or manually
- Intelligent Linking ensures score is updated every time individual parts are changed
- Integrated video support allows for on-screen scoring to video
- Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonize for automatically generated
harmonies that follow melodies - Create or save music as SmartMusic Accompaniments for solo or ensemble practice
- Create custom warm-up exercises or multiple exercise lessons in an instant using Exercise Wizard
- Create tablature for a wide variety of fretted instruments
- Undo any number of recent changes in the current session even past the point that you saved the document
- Import and export MusicXML files
- Apply a pre-created drum groove to any region in the style and feel you wantStreamlined user interface is more efficient, intuitive, and consistent
- Set-up Wizard gets your score set up beautifully in seconds
- Get your music into Finale using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, or scanner
- Scan existing sheet music directly into Finale. From there you can change the key, edit and save as a Finale file
- Linked Parts - intelligently links your score and parts to save you time
- Video Support - import video plus send and display SMPTE time code
- TempoTap - conduct your own tempo changes
- Powerful Mixer (real-time control of volume, panning, patch, and more)
- Document Styles let you instantly personalize the appearance of new documents
- Colored Noteheads and integrated samples of Boomwhackers tuned percussion tubes
- Supports Windows Vista and runs natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs