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 flexibility and freedom to create any music you can imagine.

Finale makes quick work of common tasks, offering:

• Streamlined user interface is more efficient, intuitive, and consistent
• Setup Wizard configures your score beautifully in seconds
• Multiple options to enter your music using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic, or scanner
• Scanning: existing sheet music goes directly into Finale. From there you can change the key, edit, and more
• Linked Parts intelligently link your score and parts to save you time
• Customizable and printable Music Education Resources including worksheets, flashcards, classroom repertoire, fonts, puzzles, and games
• Video Support – import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code
• TempoTap® – conduct your own tempo changes
• Playback – here are just a few reasons why Finale’s sound is unsurpassed:
  • Exclusive ability to record or import an audio track for unprecedented realism
  • More than 400 world-class Garritan instrument sounds and integrated Aria Player
  • More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline™
  • Human Playback® makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it—even if you entered your notes with a mouse!
  • External sound library support for VST/AU instruments and effects
• Save Audio Files (including .MP3) to create CDs or save to an iPod®
• Document Styles let you instantly personalize the appearance of new documents
• MicNotator® lets you enter notes by playing your brass or woodwind instrument
• Special noteheads and colored notes for younger students
• QuickStart Videos for those who don’t like to read manuals

Finale remains the world standard with many features not available in any other music notation software:

• Record or import an audio track
• Band-in-a-Box® Auto-Harmonizing – automatically generates up to 6-voice harmonies for your melodies
• Exercise Wizard – instantly generates up to 50,000 practice pieces for your band, orchestra, or choir without entering a single note
• Studio View™ – an all-in-one environment for multi-track music creation
• The ability to import and export MusicXML 3.0 files to and from other music software
• Free, downloadable Finale Reader® lets you share your Finale files with anyone who can then view, print, and play your music!