MakeMusic Finale PrintMusic Windows Music Notation Software Box

New Features in PrintMusic 2014

• Want to change a Sax staff to French Horn? ScoreManager gives you instant access to how your staves look and play back
• See instant feedback when you write out of the range of beginner, intermediate, or advanced players
• Enjoy improved default treatment of rests and accidentals when music is placed in multiple layers
• Smart Shapes, including hairpins and trills, automatically attach to a desired "beat," and snap into place
• Updated, modern look for PrintMusic's mixer, playback controls, and palettes (which now lock on Macs)
• Mid-measure clefs
• Hide/Show Empty Staves helps maximize the amount of music that will fit on the page
• New file format lets you share music as Finale 2014 and 2012 files

Publisher-Quality Sheet Music

• Whether you're writing a lead sheet for your first song, or preparing a score and parts for your next concert, PrintMusic software makes it easy to put your music on the printed page
• Play back your music with great sounds and nuance, providing you with instant feedback on your progress
• Software offers creative suggestions from harmonizing melodies with Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing to providing drum parts with Drum Groove to fuel your creativity and save time
• Setup Wizard configures your key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures and more-instantly
• Want an engraved or handwritten look? It's easy to personalize the appearance of your music
• Should you ever have a question, QuickStart Videos and other resources are available right in the Launch Window

Note Entry

• Click notes into place with a mouse and hear them as you do
• Enter notes in step-time from your computer or MIDI keyboard
• Play any MIDI device, with or without a metronome, and watch your music appear on screen in real-time
• Scan your music with the included SmartScore Lite
• Import MIDI and MusicXML files
• Once your notes are entered you can quickly shape your music any way you wish
• Transpose, cut and paste, rearrange
• Transformations are accomplished instantly

Sounds

• Built-in sounds provide more than 128 instruments including professional marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff
• Integrated mixer lets you balance your music and place it in a sonic space with panning reverb, and more
• Human Playback performs your creations with the nuance of live performers
• Support for all third-party VST/Audio Units instruments and effects (sold separately), providing you with unlimited sonic possibilities

Professional Tools

• From lead sheets to jazz band scores, from guitar tablature to percussion notation, PrintMusic provides all the necessary tools
• Create scores with up to twenty-four staves
• Extract individual parts from your scores
• Want more lyric verses? Need a one-line staff? Every step of the way you have professional tools at your fingertips
• Wide variety of music fonts offering engraved and handwritten appearances are included, and fonts and other preferences are easily accessed simply by selecting a different document style library

Education Tools

• Includes more than thirty ready-made, customizable music education worksheets
• Designed for K-12 students, educator-approved worksheets help teach basic elements of music
• Subjects covered include clefs, scales, key signatures, circle of fifths and more
• Includes classroom repertoire examples and more than one-hundred flashcards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) for classroom use or self-quizzing
• Since they're provided as PrintMusic files it's easy to edit them to your specific needs and print them out, or distribute them via email to be printed by students with the free Finale NotePad

Share Music Files

• Print beautiful sheet music
• Email files that anyone can print and play with the free downloadable Finale NotePad or the Finale SongBook iPad app
• When working with someone using different software you can share MIDI and MusicXML files