New Features in Finale 2008 include:
- "Streamlined
user interface;Enter music with MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard or
mouse;Scan existing sheet music;Exercise Wizard instantly generates
practice pieces;Video Support, import video plus send and display SMPTE
- "Record
or import an audio track for unprecedented realism;More than 250
world-class Garritan instrument sounds;Human Playback®, makes your
music sounds like musicians are playing;Integrated KONTAKT™ Player
2;Powerful Mixer;Save Audio Files
- Free, Finale NotePad® lets you share your Finale files with anyone;Linked Parts intelligently links your score and parts
- Supports Windows Vista and Mac Intel/Power PC;Save Audio Files (including .MP3) to create CDs or save to an iPod®
- "Record or import audio tracks;Studio View™, an all-in-one view for multi-track music creation
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.