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Finale 2010—the world's most powerful music notation software—lets you express your creativity and love of music and helps you perfect it faster. Compose, arrange, notate and print engraver-quality sheet music.

Entering notes

From MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale's exclusive MicNotator, no other software offers you more note entry options.

Redesigned for 2010

From Percussion Notation and Chord Entry to Rehearsal Marks and Measure Numbering, common tasks are automated and simplified to save you time and to easily make your music perfect.

SmartMusic support and Music Education Worksheets

Exclusive SmartMusic support, over 300 customizable Music Education Worksheets and Finale's Exercise Wizard help make Finale the first choice of music educators worldwide.

World-class sounds

More than 350 instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, 100-plus sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, and the ability to add any VST/AU Instrument or Effect Plug-in gives you the very best in playback.

Record/import audio

Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Only Finale lets you record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback.

Percussion notation

In Finale 2010 it's much easier to get 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.

Features

• Streamlined user interface that's more efficient, intuitive and consistent
• Setup Wizard configures your score beautifully in seconds
• Enter your music using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic or scanner
• Scan existing sheet music directly into Finale; from there you can change the key, edit and save as a Finale file
• Linked Parts intelligently links your score and parts to save time
• More than 300 customizable and printable Music Education Worksheets
• Import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code
• TempoTap to conduct your own tempo changes
• Record or import an auditrack for unprecedented realism
• More than 350 world-class Garritan instrument sounds
• More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline™
• Human Playback makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it
• Compatible with Mac and PC

Did you notice?

Exclusive features such as record or import an auditrack, create SmartMusic accompaniments, Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing that automatically generates up to 6-voice harmonies for your melodies, and an Exercise Wizard that instantly generates up to 50,000 practice pieces for your band, orchestra or choir without entering a single note.

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Composing, arranging and notating your music and then printing it in the form of high-quality sheet music.

System requirements

Mac

• PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.4, v10.5 or later
• 512MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds)
• 600MB of free hard-disk space (Additional 2GB is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2010
• DVD-ROM drive
• 800x600 minimum display resolution

PC

• Windows XP/Vista 32-bit (64-bit compatible)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Aria Player: more RAM = more available sounds)
• 500MB of free hard-disk space (Additional 2GB is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2010
• DVD-ROM drive
• 800x600 minimum display resolution

What's in the box?

• Finale 2010 DVD

Mfr. Part No.: MM00180