Editorial Review:Product Description:Are you the next Mozart, Richard Rodgers, John Lenon? Finale 2007 can help you become a musician extraordinaire. Compose, edit, arrange, listen to, and print your music with stunning, professional-quality results. Powerful tools, robust productivity features and incredible speed make Finale the ultimate composing and score-writing tool. Everything in Finale is built to support your creative process. More options and an intuitive interface give you complete creative control of your music. Into music more than computers? Check out the Setup Wizard! 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, etc. Finale 2007 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs as well as Windows computers. Finale is the first notation software to take full advantage of today's most powerful computing platforms. Integrated KONTAKT Player 2 - The most respected name in playback technology now comes included with Finale 2007?absolutely free! Listen to yoour music played with stunning realism thanks to the integrated KONTAKT Player 2. The Authorization Wizard has been updated so that one simple process will authorize both Finale 2007 and the Native Instruments KONTAKT Player 2 included with Finale. Now there's no need to go through a separate registration process with Native Instruments in order to use the 100 Garritan orchestral sounds included with Finale Finale integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View - easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions For Windows XP / Mac OS 10.3.9
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sorry I "upgraded"
I was used to Finale 2006, and regret having purchased this upgrade. It locks up; plug-ins don't work the way they should; and tech support is useless- the fixes they suggest have already been tried, and perhaps they don't realize that the program doesn't always work the way it's supposed to. I've reinstalled it twice, and still have problems. Some plug-ins and staff styles can be applied to scores (if they work), but will be cancelled in linked or extracted parts! I hate it.
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NOT THE FULL VERSION OF Garritan Orchestra
Just beware, this does NOT contain the FULL version of Garritan Orchestra.
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Good but difficult
Recommended, but allow yourself a few months to learn this one. However, within a year this software can be a great timesaver for the professional musician.
A lot of features but very difficult and complex to learn if you want to score and listen back before printing and heading to the recording studio or rehearsal.
Complications are due to inaccessible instructions. Simple procedures are disguised in the manual index behind many uncommon terms used in place of standard music-notation and orchestration vocabulary. Plan to spend quite some time searching for answers anytime the software doesn't cooperate with you. The manufacturer appears to be overwhelmed with questions for help from consumers; submitting a question to their customer service usually results in their sending a list of clip/pasted references from the difficult manual. Be very patient and persistent and a customer service agent will usually get back to you in due time.
A competitor could knock their socks off by coming out with a simpler version.
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Nearly unlimited options, but maybe that's too many.
You would be hard pressed to find something you need in your musical score that you can't do in Finale. That comes with a price however because the endless list of options means endless hours learning how to use them all. You may also find yourself spending a lot of time skipping through option windows over and over again just to repeat a simple task. But I am pleased to say that much of this work can be eliminated if you are quick with a keyboard. It just takes a while to memorize all of the hundreds of different hot keys. In short, Finale is a BIG program, so if you are BIG into creating scores then get it. Otherwise, you should get one of the downgraded Finale programs like Allegro or Print Music which have fewer options to sift through. They are also much cheaper.
BEST FEATURE: Finale comes equipped to playback your scores with Garritan Personal Orchestra. It sounds incredibly real (and much better than NOTION) provided your computer can handle it. And you can get expansions from Garritan if you need more instruments than just the standard orchestra.
WORST FEATURE: There is still no option (that I'm aware of) to easily insert new staves anywhere in your score using the staff wizard or otherwise. You can do it of course, but it is a needlessly laborious process. You always have to resort all the staves and then respace them. This should be automatic. But I will continue to search the endless chasm that is the user manual in case I missed it.