Finale 2012 Academic + FREE Garritan Sound Library
This is the academic version of the full Finale notation suite. Verification is required for registration. It includes the critically acclaimed Garritan sound library, a complete set of orchestral voices as well as a wide complement of sounds from rock, jazz and blues idioms.

From inspiration to applause, Finale helps bring your music to life. Compose, arrange, teach and share. Compose the music of your imagination, and listen as you create. Finale has made a commitment to high quality sounds and natural sounding playback in notation. They understand that music must speak to the composer, and that the old generic tones associated with General MIDI playback do very little to excite a composer’s imagination.

Sound quality makes a difference. With Finale you get a selection of world-class instrument sounds from Garritan’s Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, Concert & Marching Band, and World Instruments libraries. Finale also includes sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline. Finale’s exclusive Human Playback ensures that your music plays back with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance of a live performance.

Additionally, Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection and inspire your students. You can make customized worksheets and exercises, wholly apart from complete scores and individual parts. You can share completed projects in many ways beside traditional print. You get to choose: PDF, audio files, MIDI, or MusicXML.

Generate and format all the parts to your score – automatically Harmonize in dozens of styles and voices. You can write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support. That way you can focus on your art and leave the rest to Finale. When inspiration strikes, Finale takes care of the details so you can focus on your music.

Capture ideas as fast as you can – with no obstacles to slow you down. In an instant you can move measures, change keys, or perform dozens of edits to capture, arrange, perfect, and print anything you can imagine. Finale even offers creative and editorial input, from automatically harmonizing your melody to indicating when an instrument is out of range.

Enter notes any way you like. Play in your notes with a MIDI keyboard, mouse, or computer keyboard. Scan existing sheet music or import a wide variety of file types, including MIDI and MusicXML. You can even capture a brass or woodwind performance with Finale’s MicNotator. No more barriers between inspiration and applause

Whether you’re creating a lead sheet for a folk song or pushing the boundaries of music notation, Finale lets you achieve anything you can imagine. Publish perfect scores. Personalize your music to fit your style. From music fonts to chord symbols, from time signatures to music spacing, from lyrics to percussion notation, how your music appears is up to you. Simply choose a Document Style from Finale’s Setup Wizard, and Finale handles all the details. However, should you choose to customize ANY aspect of your music, Finale lets you do that, too. Your music is as unique as you are. Now it can look as unique as it sounds. Only Finale provides you with the flexibility to create anything you can imagine. Percussion notes Lyrics & chords Students can compose on their own with Finale NotePad.

Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and celebrate their success. And, with Finale’s Exercise Wizard, you can create more than 50,000 exercises for your entire ensemble.

SmartMusic provides the ideal practice environment for students, including access to the world’s largest accompaniment library and instant feedback on each performance. Finale provides hundreds of customizable music education worksheets. Quickly produce flashcards, puzzles, and exercises for classes in general music, theory and ear training, composition, arranging, and jazz improvisation. Whether you’re creating music for beginning students or guiding advanced students through harmonic analysis you have the customized tools and resources you need to teach and inspire your students.

Music is a universal language. How you choose to communicate is up to you. When you’re ready to share your music with the world, Finale provides you with more options than any other notation software. Share your music as: Audio files including .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF MusicXML and MIDI files PDF files, from entire pieces to small excerpts Finale files that can be shared with users of the entire Finale family: PrintMusic, SongWriter, and the free Finale NotePad And of course, you can always print your music and pass it out. No matter how you want to share, Finale has you covered.