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Finale 2011 Academic [OLD VERSION] Product Description:

• Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music
• Exclusively for the use of qualified faculty, college students, music ministers and music ministry representatives
• New Garritan sounds with an updated Aria Player, plus external sound library support for VST/AU instruments and effects
• New music education worksheets, expanded percussion playback and much more
• Multiple options to enter your music using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic, or scanner

Product Description

From inspiration to applause, music comes alive with Finale. Easily compose, arrange, notate, and print publisher-quality sheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Whether you're creating orchestral film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, Finale offers you the power, flexibility, and freedom to create any music you can imagine. Finale 2011 frees you from software constraints so you can focus on music. This new version includes many new features including: improved lyric entry and spacing, easier staff layout, new Garritan sounds with an updated Aria Player, new music education worksheets, expanded percussion playback and much more. From lyrics and staff layout to Garritan sounds and new fonts, Finale 2011 is more intuitive, efficient, and flexible.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Finale rocks
By Music Hack
I got Finale 2011 Academic on Amazon for my son, a college student. He loves it. He quickly got it registered online and started using it for his music classes. I used it for writing a couple songs and found it slow going until I found the Quick Start Videos under the help Menu. Made a huge difference. Once you get going, it's pretty straightforward. My son's theory prof says he told students to get Finale because it 'does everything.' I'm looking forward to doing more with it when he berings his laptop home for Christmas.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The 21st Century Orchestrion
By Mitch S. Meador
Last year I was struck by the realization that there are two ways of notating music in Finale 2011. One is for print, the other for audio. If I want other musicians to have a clean score to read, I take the first approach. But more and more, I'm going the other route because of the high quality of the digitally sampled sounds in Garritan Instruments.For those who don't recognize the word, the orchestrion was essentially a player piano, but with more bells and whistles. There were many different types. I have seen one with eight functioning instruments that played off a giant piano roll on which 12 numbers were punched.I view Finale 2011 as an extension of the player piano technology. It can be used as an orchestrion, but its possibilities are so much more than any orchestrion I have ever heard.The program itself is mind-boggling. You could spend a lifetime with it and still not know everything it has to offer. It's really open to whatever the user can conceive. It's flexible and forgiving, and it's amazing what it can do.As with any software program this elaborate, there are a few things that could be improved. Hopefully, the software designers will remedy these in upgrades to come. Personally, I would like for the cornet staffs to have the actual sound of cornets rather than trumpets, because the cornet is essentially the viola of the brass section, and its mellow tone was meant to handle the inner voices. Also, the sand block staff currently defaults to a maracas sound (sorry, not even close). If the tempo of a piece has to be changed, the first measure stays in the old tempo, and the only way around the problem is to insert a blank measure at the beginning of the score. Another problem is with the triplet tool -- if the triplets are in 16ths and you want to use an eighth note at the beginning, you have to delete a 16th rest in the middle and go back and retype an eighth note over the first 16th note. But you can only do this for the first three triplets in a 2/4 measure. It won't work on the fourth one unless you type in two 16th notes and tie them together.These are minor quibbles. Overall, the product is outstanding, and I love, love, love using it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Finale does it the capital-R "Right" way!
By Robert Parker
I have been using Finale ever since it hit the market (let's not talk about how many years ago) and I couldn't imagine moving to another music-creation platform. Its MIDI nuances are not as easy to control than my multitrack sequencer, but its notational power leaves those sequencers in the dust. And, my publishers tell me that they prefer Finale to "other packages"; in some packages, slurs and ties are just curved lines, but in Finale, everything that goes on the page has its own identity and its own function. I've written soundtrack music, concert-band scores, oratorios for symphony orchestra and chorus, and songs for high-school choirs. It does EVERYTHING, and I love it! And every year, it gets easier to use, not because I'm better at IT, but because IT'S better in dealing with ME--what's not to ESPECIALLY love about THAT?

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