Finale

Updated Scanning Technology. Updated scanning recognition technology provides improved scanning results

and expanded support for Canon-brand scanners

Additional Expression Menu Commands. Four additional commands now allow convenient copying of expressions to adjacent staves.

Updated Broadway Copyist Font. The Broadway Copyist Text Extended font now includes additional characters including Æ, Ø, Œ, ¡, ¿, and others.

Improved Font menus and dialog boxes. Finale's updated Font menu and dialog box make selecting and editing fonts easier. (Macintosh only) Improved Quality for Exported Graphics. Exported bitmap graphics are now cleaner and sharper. (Macintosh only)

Bug fixes

Improved Lyric Entry and Spacing

Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they'll print out, and are automatically spaced with engraver precision.

Easier Staff Layout

New Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, and never lose a note.

Garritan sounds

Finale now includes more than 375 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include bass trombone, brass section, children's choir ahs, flute section, electronic drum kit and more.

Music Education Worksheets

Finale now includes more than 800 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets and flashcards. New this year are jazz improvisation worksheets and more than 100 titles of classroom repertoire.

New Fonts

Hundreds of new font characters are included for percussion, mallet and handbell graphics.

Finale AlphaNotes Font

Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names or solfège syllables inside noteheads.

Expanded Percussion Playback

Last year we simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to. This year Finale 2011 makes it easy to switch between pitched and non-pitched percussion anywhere in your score.

Updated Aria Player

The Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. Updated for Finale 2011, the Garritan Aria Player has an integrated Ambience reverb and the ability to save Ensembles.

Instant Capo Chords

Automatically add capo chords to your music with the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo chords.

Improved Pickup measures and more

Pick-up measures automatically insert the correct rests when you start your score, improved file support for multiple-user environments, and a new Quick Reference Guide that shows you how to complete common tasks quickly and easily in Finale.

Chords

Deleting a measure stack no longer deletes chords in the subsequent measure.

Copy/Paste

Time Signature changes now copy correctly when notes are excluded in the Edit Filter dialog box.

Graphics

Exported EPS files without embedded fonts now properly refer to the system's fonts upon viewing. (Mac Only)

Linked Parts

Expressions and chord symbols in the score no longer move when their corresponding items are moved across a barline in a linked part.

Percussion

All Row-Loff percussion sounds are now defined correctly for MIDI input.

Selection

Problems regarding non-contiguous measure selection have been resolved.

Staves

Special Part Extraction now works properly for staves requiring multi-measure rests.

Worksheets

Chord playback has been corrected in some ear training worksheets.

# New Percussion Functionality including new options in the Percussion MIDI Map Editor that allow you to create custom percussion MIDI maps for ultimate control over the sounds your percussion staves play back.
# Support for Macintosh OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
# Enhanced integration of Staff Styles and Linked Parts – Apply Staff Styles to only the part or score you are viewing, and easily update staff styles in a score to match its part and vice versa.
# 271 Classroom Flash Cards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) and to be used in front of the classroom. Topics include keys, note names, rhythm, vocabulary, and musical symbols.
# 126 Individual Flash Cards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) and used by individual students for self-quizzing. Topics include keys, note names, and musical symbols.
# 30 Ear Training Worksheets designed to be used with the free, downloadable Finale Reader. Students can print the worksheets, use the Finale Reader to play the examples, and write the answers on the printed worksheets. Topics include intervals, chords, and melodic dictation.

Finale 2009c solves an authorization issue in Macintosh OS 10.5.7 and adds support for Aria-based Garritan Sound Libraries that are sold separately.

Percussion Notation

We've simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to.

Chords

Change or delete notes without changing your chords. Attach chords to measures – whether or not they contain notes or rests – and have the chords appear and playback correctly.

Garritan sounds

Finale now includes more than 350 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include organ, a variety of electric guitars, five octaves of handbells, and a brush drum kit. Learn more.

Automatic Rehearsal Marks

Use a keystroke to enter rehearsal marks and Finale automatically sequences them correctly and dynamically updates them when you delete, insert, or move any rehearsal mark or measure.

Music Education Worksheets

Finale now includes hundreds of ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets designed for K-12 students.

Graphics Support

Export as .JPEG, and .PNG and import as .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, and .GIF in addition to previously supported formats of .TIFF, .EPS.

Broadway Copyist

Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway scores, the Broadway Copyist hand-written font offers a lighter, classic appearance.

VST/AU Support & Updated Aria Player

Finale now supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects, providing users with unlimited sonic possibilities. Updated for Finale 2010, the Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments.

Measure Numbers

Control measure number alignment, positioning, and fonts separately in your score and linked parts.

Scanning Improvements and More

New Smartscore Lite scanning interface enables you to specify the instrumentation so that your staves will automatically be properly transposed and configured for playback. Also new are transparent selection handles, exporting lyrics to a word-processing document, and improved help documentation.

Exported EPS files now properly display ties.

* Many more time-saving enhancements to the entry of expressions, including Staff Assignment Lists, an expanded category designer, layer assignment improvements, more Score Lists (formerly "Staff Lists") and additional powerful timesaving keystrokes. More
* Ambience Reverb is now included for Intel-based Macs, offering advanced control over great–sounding reverb. Macintosh playback problems, where users of specific audio interfaces only heard the left channel, have been resolved.
* SmartScore Lite Scanning Improvements – Support for triplet recognition and improved results when scanning polyphonic music.
* Improved Cross-Platform Font Handling. If you share Finale files between Mac and Windows computers, you've probably been puzzled by "MacSymbolFonts.txt" messages. Never again. Now Finale makes intelligent decisions for you AND offers better control if you need it.
* Improved placement of articulations. Fermatas and other articulations entered on a rest will automatically center correctly.
* Clearing Staff Styles is Now Easier. With the Staff Tool selected, press the Clear or Backspace key to clear any existing Staff Style in the selected region, and press the same key twice to clear the music.
* Graphic Export Settings are now preserved between Finale sessions.
* The appearance of Finale's interface in Windows Vista has been updated.
* Dozens of other improvements, including the playback of slurs, Human Playback, Cautionary Accidentals, EPS and PostScript output, and much more.

New Features in Finale 2009:

- Categorized Expressions -- Finale's new Expression categories allow all markings of a similar type (e.g. dynamics) to share font, positioning, and staff list settings.

New Expression Positioning -- Expression positioning is now part of every expression category's definition, and can also be assigned individually.

Drag-apply Expressions -- You can now click and drag over multiple staves to apply expressions en masse.

Simplified Staff Lists -- Staff lists are now part of expression categories, which makes editing, copying, and assigning expressions that apply to the full score easier.

Easier Metatool Assignment -- You can now assign several metatools at once in the Expression Selection dialog box.

Attachment Indicators -- Each expression is now equipped with an indicator that displays its attachment point on the staff (relative to the beat or measure). Expressions can now be dragged to different beats, measures, or staves to change their attachment point.

Selection Dialog Box Zooming and Resizing -- New "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons, and resize functionality have been added to Finale's selection dialog boxes for easier navigation. Some dialog boxes that benefit from this are the Expression Selection dialog box, Articulation Selection dialog box, and Shape Selection dialog box.

Multiple Page Viewing and Editing -- Finale now displays more of your score at once with multiple pages accessible for convenient editing.

Finalescript 2.0 -- Finale's scripting language is now capable of calling virtually any command, whether in a dialog box, menu, or list. Press any button, check any check box, or enter a value into any text box. With an integrated dictionary and dynamic text coloring, creating powerful scripts is easier than ever.

Updated Human Playback -- Human Playback Enhancements include user interface improvements, compatibility with the Aria player, a new technique set supporting Finale 2009's open VSTAU abilities, and additional fixes and improvements. Plus Human Playback options are now found in Finale's MIDI menu, making access to different styles – as well as techniques and preferences – much more accessible.

New Aria Player -- The Garritan Aria Player is included FREE and is fully integrated into Finale 2009. It offers superior sound, more control, and a vastly improved user playback experience.

Full VST/AU Instrument Support -- Use any VST instrument plug-in and accompanying instrument libraries.

Improved Playback Performance -- With new ASIO drivers, Finale's playback engine has been retooled to allow for higher playback quality.

Updated SmartMusic Accompaniment Creation -- Creating SmartMusic Accompaniments (.SMP files) has never been easier with improvements to both Finale's saving mechanism and SmartMusic's interpretation capabilities.

Updated Music XML -- With support for MusicXML 2.0, +90 new features and a more transportable compressed file format, sharing documents between notation programs and between different versions of Finale is more accurate than ever.

Tapspace Virtual Drumline Sounds -- Finale now includes a library of performance-quality marching and concert percussion sounds by Tapspace.

Garritan Sounds -- Additional Garritan sounds include baritone sax, vintage electric piano, electric guitar, electric bass, vibraphone, handbells, mellophone group, baritone group, additional marching percussion cymbals, and more.

Enhanced VST/AU plug-in management -- Now specify which VST/AU plug-ins load, eliminating conflicts and assisting troubleshooting.

Fixes in Finale 2009:

Exercise Wizard

The session specific Items To Copy no longer affects the Exercise Wizard (i.e. if notes are not selected to be copied, the exercise will no longer be empty [no notes present]).

Expressions

Copy Multiple no longer causes Expressions to be duplicated.

The Begin Playback at 'Position in Measure' setting of the Expression Assignment dialog box now functions properly.

Default file extensions are no longer uppercase.

The "Allow Individual Edits Per Score" setting no longer causes expressions to jump when selected or nudged.

The mouse cursor is now hidden while dragging Expressions.

Unnecessary full redraws no longer occur when using the arrow keys in the - Expression Selection dialog box.

Unmodified keys (i.e. D) no longer modify objections in the selection dialog box.

In an overfilled measure, you can now assign expressions to beats outside the normal time signature.

Human Playback

Fermatas no longer hang some files during playback with Human Playback.

Human Playback now considers tempo when applying tempo changes to "rit." expressions.

Miscellaneous

The Mass Edit Tool can no longer be accessed by using the traditional tool palettes.

Ossia

Ties in the source measure are no longer ignored in ossia measures.

Page Layout

Scrolling no longer deselects Page Layout handles.

Horizontal scroll now works at low view percentages.

Page View

Show Postscript Preview no longer only shows one page.

Playback

The window frames for VST plug-ins are no longer resizable.

With HP set to None, Measure expressions with key velocities no longer playback incorrectly.

Scroll View

Setup Wizard's default time signature is now 4/4 (instead of C).

Setup Wizard

The mnemonic for the Measure control no longer indicates the letter A.

Selection

The Expression Designer in Finale for creating SmartMusic Marker Expressions no longer uses the 1-100 scale for IA instead of 1-10.

A warning appears no longer while trying to do a SmartFind and Paint function recommending you turn on partial measure selection.

Selection between optimized staves no longer produces unexpected results.

Smart Shapes

Custom Smart Shapes no longer cause certain files to hang.

Slurs attached to notes with articulations no longer draw and print with unduly high slur contours.

Staff Tool

Staff styles are no longer duplicated on Paste Multiple.

Applying a staff style no longer causes manuscript paper to be absent from pages 2 and up.

Chord symbols on staves set to a chromatic transposition are now transposed properly.

Nombreuses corrections de bugs, concernant le menu Edit, l'outil Mesure, le plug-in Human Playback

Finale Performance Assessment (FPA) : Finale 2005 peut créer des fichiers musicaux que les étudiants peuvent lire et jouer grâce à l'application FPA (disponible en téléchargement gratuit sur www.finalemusic.com). Ceci permet aux étudiants de modifier le tempo, de visualiser leurs fautes, de s'enregistrer pour auto-évaluation.

amélioration de la gestion et de l'affichage des triolets et autres subdivisions irrégulières

amélioration de la fonction Human Playback

répétitions intelligentes

améliorations de la gestion des espacements

nouveau plug-in TG Tools

listes de portées déplaçables

possibilité d'enregistrer des données continues dans HyperScribe

support des polices tierce-partie

...

Export EPS

Export EPS

Cette mise à jour dispose d'une nouvelle fenêtre de gestion des fichiers et corrige un nombre de bugs assez important : sauvegarde audio plus rapide, export en 300 dpi tiff plus rapide, et corrections d'erreurs dans presque la totalité des outils et menus (outil triolet, outil portée, saisie rapide, panoramique Midi désormais fonctionnelle avec les H.P. internes,...).

Cette mise à jour dispose d'une nouvelle fenêtre de gestion des fichiers et corrige un nombre de bugs assez important : sauvegarde audio plus rapide, export en 300 dpi tiff plus rapide, et corrections d'erreurs dans presque la totalité des outils et menus (outil triolet, outil portée, saisie rapide, panoramique Midi désormais fonctionnelle avec les H.P. internes,...).

amélioration du "simple note entry"

extensions de mot intelligentes

tourne de page intelligente

liaisons intelligentes

améliorations de la gestion des voix (layers)

plug-in de regroupement de notes par-dessus les barres de mesures

plug-in de regroupement de notes entre plusieurs portées

mélanges de polices dans les "expressions"

playback "humain"

police SmartMusic

amélioration de l'accompagnement SmartMusic

plug-in "drum groove"

fonction de sauvegarde en fichier Audio CD

amélioration du MicNotator

FinaleScript (écrire des macros pour Finale)

Support Mac OS X

... et bien plus