Finale SongWriter enters musical notes into your
computer with a mouse or your MIDI keyboard and prints great-looking
sheet music. Explore musical options with SongWriter 2010 tools like
Drum Groove and Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing, and hear your music
play with hundreds of built-in sounds and a powerful new mixer. Share
your music with the free downloadable Finale Reader, and save
iPod-ready MP3 files.
Entering notes with Finale SongWriter
2010 is easy. Enter notes with your computer keyboard and/or mouse and
hear their pitches. Click notes onto the staff or enter notes with the
numeric pad and keys 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' 'D,' 'E,' 'F,' and 'G.' Then drag
notes up and down to find the pitches you want. You can also play your
MIDI keyboard (or any other MIDI device) and see the notes appear
instantly. Use your MIDI keyboard in combination with your computer
keyboard and mouse to enter notes and chords. SongWRITER 2010 also
allows you to import MIDI files and MusicXML 2.0 files.
Finale
SongWriter takes the work out of composing and arranging and lets you
concentrate on the inspiration. Transpose to any key and try different
tempos. Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar
fretboard.
Running low on inspiration? SongWriter offers
composers and arrangers idea-generating tools to save time and suggest
creative options:
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing automatically turn your melody into
two or three voice harmony
Drum Groove easily add custom drum parts in a variety of styles. Add
to the list of available styles by placing any MIDI file into the Drum
Groove folder
Don't
like something you tried? Multiple Undo lets you reverse any number of
changes you made in the current session (even past the point you saved
your score).
With Finale SongWriter 2010 you can also print
professional-quality sheet music; create MP3, WAV, or AIFF files
press one button and save your SongWriter files into an audio format
for recording onto an audio CD or save as MP3 to play on an iPod;
export MIDI or MusicXML files; and post your music at the Finale
Showcase, a free site hosted by MakeMusic where people can see, play,
and print your music.
Features:
- Click notes onto the staff and hear their pitches drag notes up and down to find the pitches you want
- Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly
- Import and export MIDI and MusicXML files
- Add multiple lyric verses
- Try any tempo
- Transpose to any key
- Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard.
- Select automatic drum grooves for different styles
- Add automatic harmonies
- Experience Your Songs
- Print great-looking sheet music
- Save MP3 files to create audio CDs or to play on an iPod
- Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer and over 128 sounds with no hardware required
- Use Human Playback to make songs sound like they're performed by live musicians
- Share your music with others using the free, downloadable Finale Reader
