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MakeMusic! Music Notation Software

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MakeMusic! Finale Music Notation Software

MakeMusic, Inc. is the world leader in notation software and systems for music educators and musicians. Among their leading products are Finale®, the world’s best-selling music notation software and SmartMusic®, the complete music practice system that features Intelligent Accompaniment® and the world’s largest interactive accompaniment library.

MakeMusic! Finale 2008 Retail
MakeMusic! Finale 2008 Retail
Finale is a very powerful tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale 2008’s intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. The software can help you compose a classical piece or an instant classic. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. With the integrated KONTAKT Player 2, you’ll enjoy superb playback. Features for the 2008 edition: More rich, world-class sounds from the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra and integrated sound libraries; more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow; and the ability to record or import an audio track, something no other notation software offers.

MakeMusic! SmartMusic Starter Kit
MakeMusic! SmartMusic Starter Kit
SmartMusic, the complete music practice system, guides development for students in band, orchestra, and choir. Package includes an instrumental and vocal microphone as well as a one-year prepaid SmartMusic subscription.SmartMusic students progress rapidly thanks to skill-building methods, stimulating practice exercises, helpful assessment tools, and accompaniments for more than 30,000 titles. SmartMusic is an interactive, computer-based practice system that provides students a richly personalized learning experience.With SmartMusic loaded on a computer, students plug in a vocal or instrumental microphone and begin practicing. They play or sing their part with accompaniment and receive, in real time on the computer, detailed feedback on their performance. Ideal for woodwind, brass, string, and vocal musicians of all levels.

MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software
MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software
Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software is a simple and easy-to-use solution for getting your musical ideas on the same page, literally. Starting with the straightforward launch window you can choose between creating new music, opening existing music, or heading to the learning center. The Create New Music section offers a Setup Wizard where you can open up a predefined ensemble or create one of your own. The Default Document button takes you to a blank document with one staff line where you can start writing your music. The Templates area offers up 31 preset professional templates ready to go for different styles of music. Utilizing SmartScore Lite by Musitek, the Scanning button allows you to scan a finished page of music which then shows up on a score sheet with the notes in their proper place with a high percentage of accuracy. With all of these options you can create scores with up to 24 staves for exporting and print out.In the Open Existing Music section you can open up PrintMusic or other Finale product files, MIDI files, recent files, or import MusicXML files, and more.Need help? The Learning Center portion not only gives you a Tip of the Day, but it also has QuickStart ‘How to’ videos, the user manual, and a tutorial guide.This edition of the Finale PrintMusic software allows you to import and export graphics, choose over a dozen different paper textures and colors, and add lyrics too. You also get Row-Loff marching percussion sounds and a free software synth to listen to your composition. Or you can use the included MicNotator to play melody from a brass or woodwind instrument directly into your score. Add drum parts with Drum Groove, or let the Band-in-a-Box auto harmony turn your melody into two or three voice harmony. It also includes a guitar and bass tablature option. There’s been several enhancements for Mac users, and several ways in which you can share your music, from audio files to exporting MusicXML or MIDI files.Overall, Finale PrintMusic 2008 is an uncomplicated, affordable musical notation software solution.

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MakeMusic! Finale 2008 Academic
MakeMusic! Finale 2008 Academic
A great addition to any classroom for one-on-one tutoring, Finale is a top-selling music notation software. Finale is a very powerful composition tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale 2008’s intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. This music software can help you create a classical piece or an instant classic. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. With the integrated KONTAKT Player 2, you’ll enjoy superb playback. With Finale, you get the best of everything for your music. Features for the 2008 edition: More rich, world-class sounds from the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra and integrated sound libraries; more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow; and the ability to record or import an audio track, something no other notation software offers.

MakeMusic! Finale 2008 LabPack (5 user)
MakeMusic! Finale 2008 LabPack (5 user)
An exceptional way to teach aspiring musician’s and composers, this 5-user LabPack of top-selling music notation software would be an incredible addition to your classroom and curriculum. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale 2008’s intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. It can help you create a classical piece or an instant classic. More choices and options mean unlimited musical possibilities. Create anything, and perfect the smallest detail. With the integrated KONTAKT Player 2, you’ll enjoy superb playback. With the Finale software, you get the best of everything for your music. Features for the 2008 edition: More rich, world-class sounds from the makers of the Garritan Personal Orchestra and integrated sound libraries; more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow; and the ability to record or import an audio track, something no other notation software offers.

MakeMusic! Finale Educator Solutions Suite
MakeMusic! Finale Educator Solutions Suite
You can get both Finale 2006 and SmartMusic in the Educator Solutions Suite from MakeMusic! Already one of the premiere music notation software suites available, Finale 2006 raises the bar with even more power and speed, revolutionary tools for teaching composition and arranging, and professional-quality Garritan sounds. SmartMusic: the complete music practice system that makes practicing fun. Finale 2006 Finale 2006 software has it all: professional notation and key sequencer features for creating in multitrack environments. Featuring over 20,000 Intelligent Accompaniments, band and string methods, 50,000 exercises, recording, on-screen assessment, practice loops, transposition. Get better faster!Finale 2006 provides you with robust tool sets, unlimited options, and total control. With more power and speed than ever before, Finale offers endless possibilities for composing, arranging, hearing and printing your music. The original, groundbreaking notation software introduces new features that nurture and fuel creativity. Finale 2006 includes revolutionary tools for teaching students how to create, evaluate and shape ideas into songs, arrangements and compositions.Studio View Studio View is an advanced way to experiment with musical ideas. Finale 2006 integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. Now it’s easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.Integrated Sequencer Controls Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves—in realtime—with the powerful mixer.Standard Music Notation Build compositions track by track in Studio View’s multitrack recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there’s no need for separate sequencing software that uses complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited. Studio View Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Composing in Studio View is a lot like sculpting: Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale 2006 empowers students to make creative choices.With Studio View in Finale 2006, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale 2006, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.SmartMusic SmartMusic a complete music practice system with over 30,000 titles, featuring our proprietary Intelligent Accompaniment technology that listens to musicians sing or play through a microphone and follows their spontaneous tempo changes.

MakeMusic! Finale 2007
MakeMusic! Finale 2007
Finale 2007 offers powerful composition and score writing tools combined with robust productivity features and incredible speed. All of the amazing features that have made Finale a powerhouse composition tool are included in the 2007 version. You also get fresh features that make notation easier than ever.Notation options include traditional point-and-click entry, MIDI input, a unique and easy-to-use computer keyboard entry system and Finale can now notate brass or woodwind instruments by microphone input. Once your masterpiece has been entered into Finale, the 2007 version includes more than 100 sounds from the Garritan Personal Orchestra sample library for amazing playback of your orchestral scores.Special upgraded features for Finale 2007 include linked parts, video support, Mac Intel support—Universal Binary (plus other Macintosh enhancements), latin percussion sounds, integrated KONTAKT Player 2, improved Human Playback mode, Quick Change features with easy update for brackets and groups, a vertical collision remover, updated playback controls, improved pickup measures, cross-staff augmentation dots, and enharmonic spelling in chromatically transposed staves.Linked parts Managing a score and individual parts is effortless with Finale 2007. Create a score and Finale generates and formats all the parts automatically. Change something in a part and Finale updates the score simultaneously. This tremendous time-saver is yours when you upgrade today.Video support Write for video and film with seamlessly integrated video support. Finale 2007 streamlines the technology so you can focus on the art. Finale is the first choice of music professionals in the film and television industry. Recent soundtracks prepared with Finale include The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Million Dollar Baby, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Finding Neverland.Improved Human Playback Playback with the nuance of live performers that’s what you get with Finale’s Human Playback, now enhanced and improved for 2007. Perfect the performance with customizable instrument techniques, transportable preferences, and expanded support for a wide variety of Garritan and Native Instruments sounds.Quick change Easily change expressions and articulations—while retaining positioning—with simple keystrokes. Change one or several at once. You can also change multiple brackets and groups simultaneously, even on previously optimized scores.Vertical Collision Remover Easily adjust white space between staves, systems, and instrument groups.Improved Pickup Measures Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility: Entering extra notes for tuplets or grace notes in pickup measures has been simplified. Pickup measures have been perfected in extracted and linked parts. Pickup measures are now fully compatible with staff styles. Additional improvements to copying, pasting, and inserting pickup measures and partial measures.

MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 5-User Lab Pack Notation Software
MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 5-User Lab Pack Notation Software
Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software is a simple and easy-to-use solution for getting musical ideas on the same page, literally. With this 5-user Lab Pack Edition, you can introduce your music students to this incredible software.Starting with the straightforward launch window, students can click between creating new music, opening existing music, or head to the learning center. The Create New Music section offers a Setup Wizard where they can open up a predefined ensemble or create their own. The Default Document button offers them a blank document with one staff line where they can start writing their music. The Templates area provides 31 preset professional templates ready to go for different styles of music. Utilizing SmartScore Lite by Musitek, the Scanning button allows you to scan a finished page of music which then shows up on the screen with a high degree of accuracy. With all of these options your students can create scores with up to 24 staves for exporting and print out.In the Open Existing Music section they can open up PrintMusic or other Finale product files, MIDI files, recent files, or import MusicXML files, and more.If they’re having trouble, the Learning Center portion not only gives a Tip of the Day, but it also has QuickStart ‘How to’ videos, the user manual, and a tutorial guide. That way, if you’re busy with one student, they can still get the answers they need.This edition of Finale PrintMusic software allows pupils to import and export graphics, choose over a dozen different paper textures and colors, and add lyrics if they want. They get Row-Loff marching percussion sounds and a free software synth to listen to their finished composition. They can also use the included MicNotator to play melody from a brass or woodwind instrument and have it directly added to their score. Drum parts can be incorporated with Drum Groove, and the Band-in-a-Box auto harmony effect turns melodies into two or three voice harmonies. There’s a guitar and bass tablature option as well as several ways in which the finished music can be shared, from audio files to exporting MusicXML or MIDI files.Finale PrintMusic 2008 is a great way to introduce your students to musical notation and how music was traditionally created.

MakeMusic! Finale Allegro 2007 Music Notation Software
MakeMusic! Finale Allegro 2007 Music Notation Software
Just like the musical term it is named after, Finale Allegro 2007 Music Notation Software is quick and lively when it comes to meeting your music notation needs. The launch window gives you simple, single mouse-click options, including a Setup Wizard, pre-designed templates, and default documents for starting new projects. There’s also several ways to automatically open and import existing files. For teachers, the Exercise Wizard button takes you to an area where you can create quizzes, tests, and worksheets that students can later open, edit, print and play with via the free, downloadable Finale NotePad. For the student, or those just learning the software, the bottom half features a Tip of the Day as well as buttons for getting you to the QuickStart Video tutorials, user manual, and a tutorial guide so you get the most of your music software.Finale Allegro 2007 features a powerful mixer and intuitive Human Playback function allowing you to chose from a variety of musical styles. Using SmartMusic SoundFont’s over 128 sounds, the Row-Loff marching percussion sounds, and softsynth included, you’ll get to hear a real world version of your composition with every bit of subtlety in the phrasing and dynamics that you envisioned. Other components that make your composing life easier are Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing which creates two- and three-part harmonies, and automatic lyric placement which spaces lyrics to the notes they’re attached to for you. You also get customizable percussion notation, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards, all with multiple undo.Using the included SmartScore Lite by Musitek program, you can accurately scan pre-notated music, or import SmartScore 3.0 files and download MIDI files and have them automatically notated as well. MicNotator will even allow you to play your brass or woodwind instrument into a microphone and do the notating for you.Don’t be andante, get Finale Allegro 2007 and your musical notation process will be forte, facile, and piacevole.

MakeMusic! Finale Allegro 2007 5-User Lab Pack Notation Software
MakeMusic! Finale Allegro 2007 5-User Lab Pack Notation Software
With 5 user agreements, this lab pack of Finale Allegro 2007 Notation Software is an incredible classroom solution for teaching composition in a clear and concise manner.Just like the musical term it is named after, Finale Allegro 2007 Music Notation Software is quick and lively when it comes to meeting notation needs. The launch window gives simple, single mouse-click options, including a Setup Wizard, pre-designed templates, and default documents for starting new projects. There’s also several buttons ways for automatically opening and importing existing files. The Exercise Wizard button makes teaching a snap as it takes you to an area where you can create quizzes, tests, and worksheets that your students can later open, edit, print and play with via the free, downloadable Finale NotePad. For your students, the bottom half features a Tip of the Day, as well as buttons for the QuickStart Video tutorials, user manuals, and a tutorial guide, giving them even more guidance when you’re unavailable.Finale Allegro 2007 features a new powerful mixer and intuitive Human Playback function offering a variety of musical styles, from marching bands to symphonic orchestra. Using SmartMusic SoundFont’s over 128 sounds, the Row-Loff marching percussion sounds, and softsynth included, students will be able to hear real-world versions of their composition with every bit of subtlety in the phrasing and dynamics that they envisioned. Other components that will help make their composing life easier are Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing which creates two- and three-part harmonies, and automatic lyric placement which spaces lyrics to the notes they’re attached to. They also get customizable percussion notation, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards, all with multiple undo - a great necessity for when you’re learning.Using the included SmartScore Lite by Musitek program, you can accurately scan pre-notated music, or import SmartScore 3.0 files and download MIDI files and have them automatically notated as well for your students to learn. MicNotator does the same thing, notating the music you play on brass or woodwind instruments into a microphone.Don’t be andante, get Finale Allegro 2007 and your notation teaching will be forte, facile, and piacevole.

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