Of course, it's possible to start with a more or less blank page and add one staff at a time as you decide you need them. The next easiest setup option is the Setup Wizard, and as you might expect, Finale 2004 guides you through the process of naming your score, choosing its page size, choice of instruments from a huge collection, their order, initial tempo and time signature, pickup bar, font and so on.
The templates are ready to go in all ways, including the correct handling and playback of transposing instruments. Once you've spent some time with Finale, you may find that you'll be saving your own template scores, for recall later.
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Choose one of the 30-plus template scores, including jazz band, full orchestra, concert band, piano and voice plus various educational score types. First of all, you need to decide what sort of document you'll be putting your notes into, and the software starts helping right away.
Let's have a quick look at Finale 2004, alluding to the new features when they arise. It needs a little editing to remove redundant slurs. MakeMusic! simply add refinements and new tools rather than offering major changes with each new upgrade.Īmongst the many arrangement plug-ins is one that creates automatic piano reductions, such as this example derived from the score featured in this review's main screenshot. Finale will always benefit from the newest developments in computer technology, but not at the expense of maintaining a familiar and comprehensible notation environment. To be honest, not a lot seems to have changed, though without completely gutting the program and starting from scratch, not a lot has to. Now marketed by MakeMusic! (with exclamation mark), Finale was last reviewed in SOS in its 2003 livery back in January 2003. It's easy to think of Sibelius (version 3 of which was reviewed in July 2004's SOS) as a newcomer, and it's now nearly 10 years old! Perhaps Sibelius 's closest competition is the subject of this review, however: the latest version of software that was launched by Coda Music as a Macintosh-only package in the late '80s, Finale 2004. Leland C Smith's SCORE, for example, is still in development and started life in 1967. There have been a surprising number of scoring packages over the years, and what's even more surprising is that many of them have actually lasted for years. They'd rather see software development and processing power channelled to aiding their goal of getting the notes and allied graphic elements into a score in as fast and intuitive a way as possible, arranging the layout on the page, and outputting a readable or publishable result, whether direct to paper or to some form of exportable graphic file. But this aspect of MIDI sequencers isn't nearly fully enough developed for composers, arrangers, engravers and educators who simply don't need the audio processing and data manipulation typically offered by such programs.
Notation programs often seem superficially similar to standard MIDI sequencers, and many sequencers offer note input via score editors and various layout and printout options. If this is true of MIDI sequencing software, it becomes even more so when we move into the relatively rarified atmosphere of scoring/notation software. Within any software milieu, there will be the main players, the enthusiastic wannabes and the also-rans. The latest incarnation of a well-established scoring package holds few surprises, but plenty of power for the asking price.
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