It uses text-based input to create beautiful, complex scores, and, is therefore provided you are willing to learn the syntax an excellent alternative for those who would like free, advanced music notation software. Guest Nov 19 I'm a professional musician and find this useful. As for the critics below: Didn't you see the name - Notepad? If you have a notepad or notepad widget for text etc. You can paste the ideas made with Finale Notepad to the full program and even to Sibelius.
Guest Nov 18 This app is more than limited. But it's free. It is a real drag. It looks more than ugly. It is anything but intuitive. You will go off because it won't do what you intended. It ist useless for any non-beginner. Nuff said? Guest May 13 Would be easier to just notate out stuff in GarageBand2 I know the app is free and all but, who cares if it's not usable. Guest Sep 30 This program is not a MIDI sequencer It is a notation utility the idea behind this software is to put notes on the page.
Guest May 5 This free version is too crippled to be of any use to musicians. But it is free. Guest Apr 27 Finale NotePad isn't actually a demo. N95, KN95, KF94 masks. GameStop PS5 in-store restock.
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First of all, there are a lot of palettes — collections of tools for notes, clefs, expessions, articulations and so on — and they can all live on your desktop, scattered around the page you're working on. You won't need them open all the time, so get used to focussing on what you actually use.
Secondly, the menu options, at the top of the page, can change depending on which tool is selected. This is particularly relevant with the Mass Edit tool. Experienced MIDI sequencer users may wonder why they can't just highlight, cut and paste notes to move around the page.
The answer is that Mass Edit, the tool dedicated to just these functions, has to be selected first. Remember also the drop-down Plug-ins menu. This hides a lot of Finale 's power, as well as offering some unexpected creative tools. There are plug-ins for adding 'smart page turns' which works out how to format an entire part so that a performer won't be lumbered with inconvenient page turns , another automatically adds cue notes to sections with long rests, and yet another offers search and replace options.
If you work with words, Finale can now add hyphens and word extensions automatically. You have the final say, though, and can override a result that doesn't lie the way you want it to. Other plug-ins create new music from chords or melodic material in ways that ordinary sequencers don't. And if you find yourself doing a particular operation, or operations, repeatedly, you might like to investigate 's built-in scripting.
With this, a series of changes to a document — or in batches to a series of documents — can be quickly automated. And on the subject of DTP, it is perfectly possible to combine blocks of text on a Finale page with music, as one might for exercises in the classroom, or when creating handouts.
The program is flexible enough to help you create a very tidy job — and the music can always be played back while on-screen! However you do it, you can be assured of professional-looking results that musicians will be pleased to play from.
Finale may be one of two or three high-profile and well-known scorewriting packages, but there will definitely be more out there than you think. This is as comprehensive a list as I've seen, with links to commercial, shareware and freeware packages for all sorts of platforms, ancient and modern. Just a few more features to point out amongst the list of remaining tweaks.
If you need to run the software on two computers, this can be done: each package has two authorisations. Once you're familiar with the software, nearly everything can be accessed from the computer keyboard.
Playback performance has been enhanced: the Human Playback option interprets on-page expressions, articulations and other markings in response to a preset style — jazz, baroque or reggae, for example — that can be further refined using a good collection of playback controls.
This can be convincing, and helps you visualise audiolise? If the presets don't impress you, try to do better by tweaking the playback settings yourself.
When it comes to manuals, Finale is well-equipped. In the box, you're supplied with an installation and tutorials guide, running to over pages. You may need no more, since even newcomers will get their head round the basic, and some not-so-basic, concepts, if they go slowly. A 'Quick Reference Card', 10 pages long in the Windows version, neatly summarises Finale 's tools and palettes, keyboard shortcuts and the Maestro font character set.
Topping it all off is a very handy visual index that offers an even tighter summary of what's going on screen via a heavily annotated example score. Users with experience of music software, composers with some computer exposure, or anyone who hates reading manuals, may well find this chart helps get them going in the shortest time. As if this wasn't enough, there's the exhaustive complete user manual, provided as a collection of excellently cross-referenced PDF files.
In general, I'm not keen on PDF manuals, but this is a doddle to navigate and very well written — and at least a lot more than the basics are covered by the supplied printed material. To top it all off, there are the quick-start videos, accessible from within the program, so if the idea of software really does not compute, these videos are the next best thing to having a Finale expert sitting next to you. Auto-accompaniment features have been available for a couple of versions of Finale, and as the main text notes, Band In A Box technology joins a wealth of various automatic arrangement and playback tools.
But Finale also features a neat twist on this theme, in the form of a link to Smartmusic. The new Smartmusic accompaniment option is controlled from this window, accessed from the Save Special menu item.
Though essentially an auto-accompaniment system, Smartmusic's special focus is that it's an educational tool, providing learning musicians with interactive accompaniments to test pieces, scales and exercises.
They don't need a patient pianist or tame orchestra at home: their computer, and the Smartmusic system, fill the gap. The system is sold on subscription, via the www. Understandably, the vast majority of subs so far have gone to schools in North America.
A sub gives you access to the software and a library of 20, accompaniments and accompaniments to a further 50, scales and exercises. Finale users can save files in Smartmusic format, and anyone with an SM sub can use that file as an accompaniment.
So teachers with Finale can provide classes full of students with standardised or individual accompaniments to suit whatever curriculum or regime is in place. And Finale comes with hundreds of exercises as instantly accessible templates for teachers to check out, tweak, and hand out amongst pupils.
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