New Features in Finale 2008 include:

Enhanced Playback
Music comes to life with recorded/imported audio and newly integrated sound libraries:

• Finale can now record/import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback. No other notation software offers this capability.
• More than 250 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of the acclaimed Garritan Personal Orchestra are included free. In addition to orchestral instruments are saxophones, trumpet and trombone mutes, jazz bass and drums, guitar, marching percussion, world instruments and more. See the full list at www.finalemusic.com.
• Multiple sound libraries now work together seamlessly. Combine all the included sounds, add Native Instruments-supported libraries (available separately), hear them all in playback and save the results in an audio file.

 

Increased productivity
The latest interface improvements offer intuitive efficiency and allow users to accomplish more without changing tools:

• Copy music, adjust expressions, transpose, add repeats and much more – all with one tool.
• Intuitive keystrokes can select measures or partial measures horizontally and vertically – without visiting a menu.
• Multiple tools support copy/paste, measure additions, transposition, measure layout, auto-orchestration and much more.
• Streamlined menus, more powerful contextual menus and intuitive keystrokes.
• New ScoreMerger™ easily combines parts into a score AND joins multiple scores/movements into one document – even if they don't contain the same number of staves, or have different instrumentation (another Finale exclusive).

 

Perfect pages
The professional quality sheet music you expect from Finale, now faster and with more options:

• Document Styles can instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics and page layout.
• Enhanced Setup Wizard offers more options and control and provides intelligent page layout – automatically adjusting system position, size and space between staves – to reduce white space on the page.
• Colored noteheads have multiple applications and are especially popular in elementary education Select Boomwhackers® tuned percussion tubes from the Setup Wizard, and Finale automatically configures the noteheads with the Chroma-Notes™ colored music system and ensures this staff plays back integrated Boomwhackers sample sounds.

System Requirements:

Finale 2008 for Windows®

• Windows XP/Vista 32-bit.
• CD or DVD-ROM drive.
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
• 400MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.

Finale 2008 for Macintosh®

• G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
• CD or DVD-ROM drive.
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
• 400MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.

Optional

• MIDI interface
• MIDI input and/or playback device
• Printer
• Scanner
• Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
• A soundcard (including a DirectSound driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.

Please note that the Rhythm Section Generator is not available for Macintosh.

System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and Native Instruments. more.

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