Finale 2006 The number one music scoring/notation software, for teachers, students, composers and other music professionals... just got better!
Finale 2006 is the ultimate music notation, sheet music software giving you complete control over every aspect of the printed page while providing powerful control over MIDI input and output, Finale provides unmatched power and flexibility.
Finale continues to innovate.
The original, groundbreaking notation software introduces new features that nurture and fuel creativity. Finale 2006 includes revolutionary tools for teaching students how to create, evaluate and shape ideas into songs, arrangements and compositions.
Those who require the absolute best prefer Finale.
The largest publishers, including Hal Leonard engrave with Finale. Prestigious schools like Juilliard and Berklee College of Music teach with Finale. World-class arts organizations such as the Metropolitan Opera and Jazz at Lincoln Center rely on Finale. Academy Award®-winning movies like Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Sideways, Polar Express, the Village, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ and Finding Neverland are scored with Finale.
If you're looking for the the most powerful and flexible sheet music publishing and composing software then Finale 2006 is for you.
Please Note: Finale 2006 requires that you register the software within 30 days after installation. You are authorised to install Finale on two computers for your own use in locations such as home and office.
The Finale 2006 Launch Window saves you time by putting everything at
your fingertips.
New in Finale 2006 — Easy access to the Installation & Tutorial Guide.
Mouse-over each button to learn about its function.
QuickStart Videos — Buried Treasure
Never before has Finale been so easy to learn. Besides a more intuitive interface, a broader range of short onscreen videos step you through most common functions of Finale. Easily access the videos from the Launch Window.
Setting-up your score — Get started fast
New in Finale 2006 — Select Orff Instruments from the Set-Up Wizard
Just answer a few questions: What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly.
When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template. Over 60 to choose from including SATB, Kodály, solfege and more.
Hear Your Music Come Alive with a Built-in Kontakt® Player and Garritan™ Professional Instruments
The Finale Edition of the highly acclaimed Garritan Personal Orchestra® includes more than 100 studio-quality sounds. Plus, hear your music with stunning realism thanks to the award-winning Kontakt Player.
AUTHENTIC Garritan provides different players to fill the section realistically. Click for a complete list of sounds.
Listen to these orchestral excerpts showcasing the Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds included in Finale 2006:
Capriccio Espagnole – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov mp3 | wav
Pictures at an Exhibition -- Modest Mussorgsky mp3 | wav
Brandenburg Concerto #3 -- Johann Sebastian Bach mp3 | wav
INTEGRATED Kontakt® Player is automatically configured and loaded by Finale’s Setup Wizard. Simply click and play!
EXPANDABLE Exciting libraries of additional instruments are available from Garritan and Native Instruments.®
Advanced Reverb Control – Finale 2006 makes intelligent reverb choices so you don’t have to. Those seeking more control, however, have it at their fingertips.
Windows XP or Macintosh OS 10.2 or higher required to use Garritan sounds in Finale 2006. Click here for complete system requirements.
Finale: Human Playback
New in Finale 2006 — Ultimate integration with the Garritan sounds included in Finale 2006 (including legato and specialized instrument techniques for harp, strings and percussion) and improved drum interpretation including rolls, diddles, and flams. Also includes expanded support for the full version of Garritan Personal Orchestra®.
Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you felt when you wrote it. The new Human Playback feature will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually. And you can choose a variety of musical styles and customize the playback parameters, articulations, range,
and much more.
Edit and save your preferences for Human Playback.
Combine, retain or overwrite existing MIDI data.
More custom settings — reverb room types, marching band options, support for Garritan Personal Orchestra, and more.
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Now you can apply discrete Human Playback styles to specific regions of your piece.
Now you can edit the output of Human Playback with Finale's MIDI Tool.
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Finale 2006: SoundFont
New in Finale 2006 — SmartMusic Soundfont playback is expanded from 16 channels to 128. Plus, you can now combine playback of Row-Loff® Marching Percussion Sounds with standard SmartMusic SoundFont percussion.
Bring your music to life with the SmartMusic SoundFont®
You want your music to look good. Now it can also sound great with the addition of SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. Add this to Finale’s new Human Playback and the results are astounding.
Now turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button and save your Finale files into an audio format for recording onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuances of your music through the fabulous sound font from SmartMusic and our Human Playback feature.
Row-Loff® Marching Percussions Sounds
New in Finale 2006 — Combine playback of Row-Loff Marching Percussion Sounds with standard SoftSynth percussion.
Nothing extra to buy! Nothing extra to install! Sounds include: Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum and Tenor Drums.
Marching bands rejoice! Check out the terrific new percussion sounds in Finale. From Row-Loff Productions — foremost in marching and concert percussion literature.
Bass Drums: Five Drums plus Rims, Unison and Buzz Roll.
Crash Cymbals: Crash Choke, Hi Hat Choke, Open and Closed Hi Hat, Crash Cymbals, Cymbal Smash Ride Cymbal, Ride Cymbal Bell and Crash Cymbal with Stick.
Snare Drum: LH, LH Rim Shot, RH, RH Rim Shot, Gok (both hands, rim shot), Short Guz, Long Guz, LH Rim, RH Rim, Cross Shot, Stick Shot, Stick Click, and Buzz Roll.
Tenor Drums: Four Tenor Drums each with Rim Shot and Buzz Roll, plus Spock Drum, Spock Drum Rim Shot, Stick Click, High Rims and Low Rims.
Quite simply, this tool has been transformed. Create music the way you do with paper and pencil – writing all the music as you go with one utensil. It is all the function of Simple Note as you knew it, plus the power of Speedy Note Entry, with additional control. It may become the way you get most things done in Finale.
Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or input notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ Change octave. Enter rests. Add accidentals. Add notes in a chord to an existing note. Create triplets. Now add grace notes. Break and join beams.
But entering notes is just the start. Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock-in’ an articulation to place on several notes. Change the key or time signature simply with key commands. Flip enharmonics, add expressions and flip ties. Re-pitch existing notes, regardless of their durations, using any of the note-entry methods to re-pitch these rhythms. Change layers or create multiple voice lines on the staff as you write or edit.
Keystrokes are intuitive and a special key map for laptop users is provided. Best of all, if you prefer certain key commands, change the defaults in Finale to whatever you like.
No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale, with its included SmartScore® Lite by Musitek®. Includes:
Secondary voice recognition - counterpoint
Correct transposed instrument recognition
Multiple page scans
Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
Up to 32nd note resolution
New to Finale 2006 — SmartScore Lite now recognizes grayscale images, simplifying the use of scanners, including HP models that save in this format.
Scanning is brought right to your fingertips in the new Launch Window. What's more, Windows users can now scan directly from Finale, and Finale determines the ideal resolution and color depth.
And Finale now imports scanned SmartScore 3.0 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more! (Currently Windows only. Uses FREE Music XML Lite plug-in to convert SharpEye files.)
Take a look for yourself.
Here's the original:
Scanned into Finale: Only 5 easy edits needed.
Another notation product using PhotoScore Lite™: 30 difficult edits needed:
These examples were scanned from original engraved music (no photocopies), using a Canon N670U scanner at 360 dpi. The scan for SmartScore Lite was a line art (black and white) tiff file, and the scan for Photoscore Lite was a grey scale, the preferred file type for Photoscore. Both images were untouched to enhance results. The Photoscore example was transferred, without edits, to the most current version of a competitor's product. The time to correct errors in the two examples- Finale, 10 seconds to add missing rests and tie necessary notes, hence the term 'easy edits' compared to the 2 minutes it took to add voice 2 notes, correct notes, change notes from voice 1 to 2 etc in the competitor's product, thus the term 'difficult' or time consuming edits.
Require more advanced scanning take a look at Sharpeye for Windows.
Hyperscribe
Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard — even record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into Finale simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument. Finale’s new generation of MicNotator is now much more accurate and even easier than ever before. Pick up your clarinet and start making music!
The example below is an unedited flute solo line played in at 90 bpm.
Automatically transforms your melodies, creating up to 6-part hamonies in dozens of styles and voices. Thanks to a partnership with the makers of the popular Band-in-a-Box software, the incredible Auto Harmonizer is FREE with the purchase of Finale.
Rhythm Section Generator
Creates piano, bass and drum accompaniments for your melodies — instantly. Choose from four styles—Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa Nova.
Drum Grove
We've got the beat.
Creating custom drum parts has never been easier. Select any region and apply a pre-created drum groove in the style and feel you want.
You can add to the list of available styles by placing any MIDI file into the Drum Groove folder. The plug-in intelligently copies only the drum and percussion information.
Smart Cue Notes
Never miss an entrance - Smart Cue Notes.
Give your performers an easier way to recognize their entrances after long multi-bar rests by having Finale automatically create cue notes. Tell Finale what decisions to use in creating cue note entrances, and it does all the work for you.
Smart Page Turns
Everyone’s on the same page - Smart Page Turns.
Getting the music aligned in individual parts for natural page turns used to take careful evaluation and a fair amount of re-positioning measures and staff systems. Now, just tell Finale what to consider, and it does the page turn formatting for you.
Plug Ins
Plug-ins let you add capabilities to Finale for specialized notation tasks. The following plug-ins are included in Finale 2006:
Add Cue Notes on any staves in any layer at any percentage.
Apply Human Playback applies discrete Human Playback styles to specific regions of your piece, and allows you to edit the output of Human Playback with Finale's MIDI Tool.
Automatic Barlines can place double-barlines automatically before all key changes and a final barline at the end of the score.
Auto-Dynamic Placement automatically places dynamics on the score based on the key velocity of notes entered.
Auto Slur Melismas analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. (You can even specify dashed slurs in situations with multiple verses!)
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing lets you automatically create an entire orchestration from any melody with or without chord symbols.
Beam Over Barlines lets your easily create beams over barlines.
Canonic Utilities transforms the selected region using inversion, retrograde, transposition or any combination of these. Also use this plug-in to apply or remove accidentals to every note within a selected region and remove ties in any selected region.
Cautionary Accidentals can be added to your score including accidentals displayed on all notes.
Change Font allows global editing of text blocks, staff names, group names and lyrics.
Change Noteheads changes the noteheads of all the notes in the selected region.
Change to Default Whole Rests changes all the whole measure rests in the selected region to default rests.
Change to Real Whole Rests changes all the default measure rests in the selected region to real whole rests.
Check Range verifies the range of notes for selected instruments with settings for beginner, intermediate and advanced players.
Check Region for Durations checks the selected region for any measures that have too few or too many beats.
Classic Eighth Beams beam eighth notes together when using common time over the selected region.
Clear Lyric Positioning resets any changes you’ve made to your lyric baselines in the selected region.
Clear Measure # Positioning clears all measure number positioning in the selected region and sets it back to the default position.
Command Line allows for quick note entry by typing in specific text commands.
Chord Analysis looks at your notes and generates chord names from the harmony, analyzing any number of staves across any region and placing chord symbols automatically according to your specifications.
Count Items displays a count of various items in your score such as measures, notes and articulations.
Create Coda System automatically creates a separate Coda section and adjusts the layout, with space before the coda, text, symbols, and properly configured playback.
Create Tempo Markings is an easy way to make tempo markings that also affect playback.
Cross Staff plug-in moves notes across staves with a single keystroke.
Drum Groove. Add drum parts to your score — add more by simply placing any MIDI file in the drum groove folder — the plug-in intelligently cuts and pastes ONLY the drum and percussion information.
Easy Measure Numbers easily places measure numbers over a region of the score.
Extract Lyrics lets you save your lyrics to a text file and share. (Windows only)
FinaleScript. Apply a change or series of changes using many of Finale’s features and options to a single Finale document, or batch process multiple Finale documents at once.
Find Range finds the highest and lowest notes in the selected region.
Global Staff/Group Attributes applies the same staff or group attributes to any staves or groups.
MiBAC Jazz Rhythm Section Generator can create piano, bass and drum set accompaniment parts for any melody with chord symbols automatically.
Midline Stem Direction changes the stem direction of notes on the middle staff line to follow the direction of the melodic line.
Mid-Measure Repeats makes it easy to put a repeat in the middle of a measure, without impacting measure numbering.
Move Rests moves rests in the selected region to a different vertical position.
Number Repeated Measures places numbers over measures that are repeated again and again.
Patterson Beams applies additional beaming options for the most elegant beams imaginable.
Piano Reduction creates a piano reduction of the selected staves.
Resize Noteheads can resize regions of notes including any specific voices within a staff making it easy to notate harmonization.
Rhythmic Subdivision changes the selected region to eighth notes, or divides all your notes in half.
Score System Divider automatically inserts or removes system separation marks between staff systems on the same page.
Smart Cue Notes. Search an entire score for cue note opportunities, and add them automatically.
Smart Page Turns. Tell Finale to intelligently edit the layout of an entire part to avoid awkward page turns.
Split Measure automates the process of splitting a measure across two systems, right down to the proper flow of measure numbers.
Split Point. This plug-in lets you reset the split point between two staves in the selected region.
Text Search and Replace lets you search and replace text items or phrases.
TGTools lets you align/move dynamics; add easy string harmonics fast; create tremolos for display and playback; write your own script to automate common tasks; and add a playback effect to glissandi, hairpins, and trills; the ability to specify a different split point for selected regions (or automatically analyze your music and make intelligent split point decisions); easily create parts from staves in which multiple instruments have been notated; and automatically minimize rests by expanding preceding notes. New in Finale 2006 is the ability to automatically generate a "handbells used" chart.
Voice 2 to Layer moves Voice 2 entries to the selected layer.
Word Extensions is a very easy way to add or remove word extensions to or from your lyrics.
Selection Tool A feature that new users love and many experienced users haven’t discovered, Selection Tool allows you to click on virtually anything: note, articulation, clef, smart shape, chord, lyric, text block or tempo marking so you can move, edit or delete as you choose. Point. Click. Edit. It’s that easy.
Expression Customization Creating tempo markings (like quarter note = 120) in Finale is easy and now you can edit them just as easily. Many options for expressions have also been added, permitting alignment based on either measure or note.
Contextual Menus
New in Finale 2006 — Key Signature and Mass Edit Contextual Menus
Contextual Menus provide a wide range of editing features in a pop-up menu when Windows® users right-click and Macintosh® users control-click. Here’s one example: click the staff tool to select some music. Right-click or control-click and you get a menu of choices for turning the selected music into a one-line staff, blank staff, slash or rhythmic notation, 1- or 5-line percussion staff, and more. Even customize your own staff style. Most tools in Finale now have this great method of instant editing.
Multiple UNDO's
Forgiveness is a wonderful trait in a musical partner and so we added it to Finale. Now you can undo any number of your last moves in the current session—even past the point that you saved the document. Applies to all actions including
plug-ins.
Introducing Studio View,™ a Revolutionary New Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas
Finale 2006 integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. Now it’s easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.
INTEGRATED SEQUENCER CONTROLS
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves – in real time – with the powerful new mixer.
STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION Build compositions track by track in Studio View’s multi-track recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there’s no need for separate sequencing software that uses complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited.
ALL-IN-ONE Finale 2006 has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multi-track environments.
Mid-Measure Playback Controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want.
Revolutionary Tools for
Teaching Composition and Arranging
Sculpting Musical Compositions
Composing in Studio View is a lot like sculpting: Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale 2006 empowers students to make creative choices.
Unlock the Possibilities for Composition Students
with New Studio View
With Studio View in Finale 2006, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale 2006, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.
How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Click the steps below for examples:
1. CREATE
2. EXPERIMENT
3. CHOOSE
Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback™.
SmartMusic® Accompaniment Wizard
Using Finale to create or save music as SmartMusic Accompaniments® for your solo or ensemble practice needs has never been easier!
The SmartMusic Accompaniment Wizard guides you through the process, simplifying and automating
each step.
It's easy to customize what you need!
Solo works with accompaniment.
Full ensembles.
Exercises that can be assessed and graded!
Choose to display the music in SmartMusic for the soloist to read.
Plus Finale makes it easier than ever to create SmartMusic Markers - one trip to Finale's Edit menu gives you an interface that looks and feels just like SmartMusic, and makes it a breeze to add Intelligent Accompaniment like "wait for note" or any other kind of SmartMusic Markers!
Multitimbral SmartMusic Accompaniment Generation. Create SmartMusic Accompaniments containing many instruments primed for SoundFont playback
in SmartMusic.
Customized part playback lets you practice a part within an ensemble piece
in SmartMusic.
SmartMusic subscription required to use Finale-created accompaniments
in SmartMusic.
Exercise Wizard — Quick Custom Lessons
Over 50,000 customized exercises. Instantly.
You only have five minutes until your band, orchestra, or choir rehearsal begins, and you need warm-up exercises tailored to what you intend to rehearse that day.
You're in luck! You can create an exercise or multiple exercise lessons in an instant. Just select the mode, note duration, intervals, articulations, key and range.
Look how easy it is!
Click on the following screen shots to view each page of the Exercise Wizard and you will see how easy it is to create exercises instantly.
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Select the exercises (page 2 of 4)
Select Key and Articulation for each exercise (page 3 of 4)
Select which ensemble you want the sheet music printed (page 4 of 4): You can also customize your ensemble (i.e. wind ensemble, orchestra, chamber singers), select a pre-defined instrument range level, and how many copies
for each.
PRINT!
It's that automatic! Finale will produce every part for you - in the very best range for your class!
Finale Performance Assessment:
Imagine creating a Finale file for your students. Your students open the file in a downloadable shareware application called Finale Performance Assessment, or FPA. Here they practice the music - adjusting the tempo, even hearing how it is supposed to be played, playing it over and over until ready for a performance - and are automatically recorded in a file they can save to disk for their portfolio, or email to you, their family, or friends. What's more, their performance is assessed on-screen: notes they played correctly appear in green and incorrect notes appear in red. FPA is now a reality for MIDI keyboard, woodwind and brass players!
Create and save a Finale file for Performance assessment. The FPA Wizard walks you through and checks your work.
Students test themselves by performing the music in our freeware FPA application.
They can adjust the tempo, hear how it is supposed to be played and click on notes for fingering charts.
Also available are sample files for use with FPA. If you've installed Finale 2005 (which can create additional FPA files) you have already installed FPA and these sample files.
FPA records the performance. Activating the assessment feature overlays correctly played notes in green (incorrect notes in red) onto the existing notation — providing a detailed view of strengths and weak points.
FPA will even grade the performance — indicating how many correct notes out of all possible notes and the percentage of correct notes played.
Save to a disc — scores, recordings and notation screen shots for a portfolio or e-mailed to teachers, family or friends.
FPA can even assess polyphonic keyboard music.
FPA Samples — Ready to use!
Chromatic scale for 11 instruments
Rhythm exercises for 12 instruments, including MIDI keyboard
MIDI keyboard exercises – 3 each for year 1, 2 & 3 students
FinaleScript is our exclusive, easy-to-use scripting language. In addition to the ability to create your own scripts (or use the dozens of scripts we provide) FinaleScript 1.5 has a handful of new and improved features, including:
The ability to invoke plug-ins no matter how many layers of subfolders they may be hidden. Similarly batch processing can be performed in any ridiculous number of subfolders.
Apply Staff Styles.
Enter notes via FinaleScript.
Expanded ability to execute menu items.
Take a Shortcut - FinaleScript.
This feature could save you days of work. Easily create your own set of commands that Finale will perform with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. Batch file process.
Example: You have a number of Finale files for voice and piano, and you want them to be for Bb saxophone and piano.
Create a script that:
Selects top staff.
Searches and replaces “Voice” to “Saxophone”.
Removes lyrics.
Removes chord symbols.
Lays out the page in Landscape.
Respaces the music.
Updates the layout.
Finished result.
Better yet, Finale comes loaded with dozens of FinaleScripts that are ready to go and guaranteed to save you time.
New:
The ability to invoke plug-ins no matter how many layers of subfolders they may be hidden. Similarly batch processing can be performed in any ridiculous number of subfolders.
Apply Staff Styles.
Enter notes via FinaleScript.
Expanded ability to execute menu items.
SmartFind™ and Paint — attention to detail
Let’s say your score has a rhythmic motif that is repeated throughout the score in other voices with other pitches. If you want the articulations, dynamics and expressions copied to all those other voices, just select this feature and you have instantly transferred the desired selections right where you need them.
Engraver Tuplets & Spacing Controls
Engraver Tuplets
Take control of tuplets with Finale's new Engraver Tuplets. Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with rests, and tuplets now automatically reposition when notes are raised or lowered on the staff. Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines. Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the angle of notes when on the note side.
It's automatic!
More tuplet position options:
Center tuplet number metrically or linearly within tuplet group.
Bracket can extend over full duration of notes or just notes themselves.
Placement options for Beam/Stem side and Above/Below staff.
Specify flat tuplet brackets.
Brackets flip when dragged across staff midline.
Display ratio in multiple forms and ratio + note duration.
Spacing Controls
Take control of "before music" and "after music" space on a
measure-by-measure level.
Specify space between clef and key, key and time, and clef and time.
Additional"before music" space at beginning of staff system and for notes
with accidentals.
Specify minimum distance between grace notes in music spacing and retain manual grace note positioning after music spacing.
Grace Note Spacing
Do you work with multiple grace notes?
You can now specify the minimum distance between grace notes in Music Spacing Options.
Manual grace note positioning can now be retained after music spacing.
Improved user interface affecting grace notes and music spacing in
Document Options.
Create quizzes, textbooks or worksheets by exporting music into word-processing software. Finale allows you to save as TIFF. Macs can also save as PICT or EPS.
Finale can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments.
Enter notes directly into TAB staves using a mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI device. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.
Once the music is in the tab staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from '2' to '3', just select the note and type '3'.
Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.
Finale handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various stem styles are easily applied. Use the "Tab Styles" library that comes with Finale or create your own.
Bends and shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves.
Notating hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and releases is a breeze.
User-defined defaults for guitar bends are standard.
Custom Smart Shapes now contain an expanded list of guitar-specific lines.
Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.
Hear Your Music Come Alive with a Built-in Kontakt® Player and Garritan™ Professional Instruments
The Finale Edition of the highly acclaimed Garritan Personal Orchestra® includes more than 100 studio-quality sounds. Plus, hear your music with stunning realism thanks to the award-winning Kontakt Player.
AUTHENTIC Garritan provides different players to fill the section realistically. Click for a complete list of sounds.
Listen to these orchestral excerpts showcasing the Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds included in Finale 2006:
Capriccio Espagnole – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov mp3 | wav
Pictures at an Exhibition -- Modest Mussorgsky mp3 | wav
Brandenburg Concerto #3 -- Johann Sebastian Bach mp3 | wav
INTEGRATED Kontakt® Player is automatically configured and loaded by Finale’s Setup Wizard. Simply click and play!
EXPANDABLE Exciting libraries of additional instruments are available from Garritan and Native Instruments.®
Advanced Reverb Control – Finale 2006 makes intelligent reverb choices so you don’t have to. Those seeking more control, however, have it at their fingertips.
Windows XP or Macintosh OS 10.2 or higher required to use Garritan sounds in Finale 2006. Click here for complete system requirements.
Introducing Studio View,™ a Revolutionary New Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas
Finale 2006 integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. Now it’s easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.
INTEGRATED SEQUENCER CONTROLS
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves – in real time – with the powerful new mixer.
STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION Build compositions track by track in Studio View’s multi-track recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there’s no need for separate sequencing software that uses complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited.
ALL-IN-ONE Finale 2006 has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multi-track environments.
Mid-Measure Playback Controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want.
Revolutionary Tools for
Teaching Composition and Arranging
Sculpting Musical Compositions
Composing in Studio View is a lot like sculpting: Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale 2006 empowers students to make creative choices.
Unlock the Possibilities for Composition Students
with New Studio View
With Studio View in Finale 2006, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale 2006, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.
How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Click the steps below for examples:
1. CREATE
2. EXPERIMENT
3. CHOOSE
Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback™.
Now Finale 2006 for Windows AND Macintosh can Import and Export Music XML files – right from the File menu. MusicXML Export allows you to save your music so it can be imported by anyone with Finale for Windows 2003, 2004, or 2005.
Want more options? Recordare.com offers plug-ins (sold separately) that allow you to open these files into Finale for OS X (back to 2004), and Finale for Windows (back to Finale 2000). You can even read MusicXML files created in other music notation programs.
Embedded Fonts in Mac EPS files – Finale 2006 embeds TrueType and OpenType fonts as well as Postscript fonts. This ensures that your files look and print the same for others as they do for you. (available with Macintosh OS 10.4 and higher)
Roll-Over Tool Tips – Just mouse-over an icon to view a tool tip.
Smoother On-Screen Graphics (anti-aliasing) – Now slurs, beams and other graphics have the same smooth appearance on-screen as they do when printed.
Speed & Redraw Enhancements
Finale 2006 has faster and less frequent screen redraw, no pre-scan delay before playback and a faster-loading SmartMusic Sound Font.
Auto-Slur Melismas
Finale 2006 analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. You can even specify dashed slurs in situations with multiple verses!
Score System Divider
Automatically inserts or removes score system dividers to mark separations between staff systems on the same page.
Auto Resize When Printing
Need to print an A4 document to an 8.5 X 11 page? Finale 2006 resizes the page automatically.
Advanced Measure Numbering
Additions to the Measure Attributes dialog box makes it easy to “ignore” any measure from measure numbering.
New Key Signature and Mass Edit Context Menus
More time-saving control at your fingertips. The Key Signature tool also allows you to select a region to change.
Smart Lines Libraries
Your customized smart lines like glissandi are easily transferred between files.
Create Tempo Markings
Tempo Markings are generated automatically and can be assigned to staff lists. Allowing you to easily specify that they appear on some staves in the score but all staves in extracted parts.
Composite Library Files
Now, you can save more than one type of library element in a single file. No need to save multiple libraries for clefs, articulations, expressions and more.
New in Finale 2006 — SmartMusic Soundfont playback is expanded from 16 channels to 128. Plus, you can now combine playback of Row-Loff® Marching Percussion Sounds with standard SmartMusic SoundFont percussion.
Bring your music to life with the SmartMusic SoundFont®
You want your music to look good. Now it can also sound great with the addition of SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. Add this to Finale’s new Human Playback and the results are astounding.
Finale 2006: Select Orff Instruments from the Set-Up Wizard
Finale 2006: Create Handbells Used Chart
Automatically generate (to your specifications) a chart that shows which handbells are in use in your score, the total number of handbells used and the number of octaves.
Smart Split Point
Specify a different split point for selected regions or set your preferences and it will analyze your music and make intelligent decisions.
Process Extracted Parts
Easily create parts from staves in which multiple instruments have been notated.
Modify Rests
Minimize rests by expanding preceding notes. Shift rests. Split whole, half and quarter rests based on time signatures. Divide note values in half by inserting rests.
Can open files created by same or earlier versions of NotePad, SongWriter, PrintMusic!, Allegro, Guitar or Finale. For example, users of Finale 2005, Allegro 2005 and Notepad 2005 can share files with each other and read Finale PrintMusic and Finale Guitar and earlier versions of Finale, PrintMusic, Notepad etc. PrintMusic 2002 can read and write Notepad 2002 files but cannot read Notepad 2004 files.
Number of Staves.
Unlimited
32
24
8
Video Tips on CD that shows you how to get started.
Lyric Verses Allowed.
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
6
Automatic Chord Symbols and Guitar Fret boards.
Create Non-standard key signatures
No
No
No
Chromatic and diatonic transposition
Transpose to any key, scale, interval or instrument anywhere.
Standard keys only
Standard keys only
Standard keys only
Step-time (one note at a time) from mouse/ touchpad.
Step-time (one note at a time) from computer keyboard.
Real-time (as you play) entry from MIDI device/keyboard.
Real-time entry from an acoustic single-note instrument.
No
Real-time entry without a click track (Hyperscribe).
With click track only
With click track only
Import/Export MIDI files.
Imports SmartScore, Encore, and Rhapsody files.
No
SmartScore Lite Music Scanning technology included.
No
Pre-designed templates.
68
50
31
No
Save as an audio file
Save as SmartMusic Accompaniment
With Wizards & Markers
With Wizards & Markers
No
No
Human Playback (multiple styles)
User customizable
Standard Style Only
Standard Style Only
Standard Style Only
Includes 100+ Garritan studio quality sounds
No
No
No
Support of Native Instruments VST/AU players
No
No
No
SmartMusic SoundFont
(128 sounds included Free)
Instant Orchestration (Explode feature).
No
No
Studio View and Mixer
No
No
No
Conduct tempo changes with Tempo Tap
No
No
No
Allows multiple/3rd party music fonts.
Limited
Maestro/ Jazz
No
Number of Staff lines available.
0-100
0, 1,5 or 6
1 or 5
5 plus tablature
Import any TIFF (both platforms), WMF (Windows only), or PICT (Mac only).
No
No
No
Export page as a TIFF or PICT file.
Export any section of a page as a TIFF or PICT file.
No
No
No
Ability to edit MIDI data.
No
No
Over 50 Plug-ins that save time like Automatic Tablature, Range Checking, etc.
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A feature that new users love and many experienced users haven’t discovered, Selection Tool allows you to click on virtually anything: note, articulation, clef, smart shape, chord, lyric, text block or tempo marking so you can move, edit or delete as you choose. Point. Click. Edit. It’s that easy.
Introducing Studio View,™ a Revolutionary New Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas
Sculpting Musical Compositions
Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback™.
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.
