- Click here to purchase or upgrade your existing version to Finale 2008.
Finale has always been the world-wide standard in music writing, but now Finale 2008 adds new ground-breaking features that re-define how people write music.
Finale 2008
Audio Features
For the first time ever, the industry-standard notation program has the ability to record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. The possibilities are endless:
- Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track
- 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
- Record a vocal track to a soprano aria
- Add a trumpet solo to a jazz chart
- Easily control playback of recorded/imported
audio with staff controls and mixer
Playback features
- New Garritan sounds – Our newly-added Garritan sounds bring the total number of sounds in Finale to over 250. The competition gives you half that number
- Combine any of Finale’s 128 general MIDI sounds with Garritan sounds
- Save any new sounds in Finale as an audio file to burn to audio CD or iPod®
- Human Playback® support is added for additional
sound libraries
Productivity Features
- Enhanced Document Setup – determine all aspects of a file in one easy wizard
- Improved Scanning – never has it been easier to get notes into Finale with an even cleaner result
- Simplified Interface – productivity is improved with many new speed features
- Five cut/copy/paste features added to improve your workflow
- ScoreMerger™ – Easily combines parts into a
score and joins multiple scores/movements into one
More Enhancements
- Colored Noteheads – now included along with Boomwhackers® tuned percussion tube sounds
- New documentation – Fully searchable and interactive
- Import files – Expanded XML support allows import of Sibelius files
- Vista support
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