Finale PrintMusic 2011 by MakeMusic!

Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results.

The fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results.

• Arrange full ensembles and extract individual parts
• Play your music with professional sounds and nuance
• Share your music with iPod-ready MP3 files

From the creators of Finale, the world's leading music notation software, PrintMusic is perfect for arrangers, composers, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students, and other musicians.

Easy Set-up

Get started right away. The Setup Wizard configures key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures, and more–instantly. Want an engraved or handwritten look? Select a document style to personalize the appearance of your music.

Easy Entry

PrintMusic lets you compose and arrange the way you want. Easily put notes on the page with these flexible options:

• Click notes into place with a mouse–and hear them as you do.
• Play your MIDI keyboard with a metronome and watch your music appear on screen in real time.
• Enter notes in step-time from your computer or MIDI keyboard.
• Scan your music with SmartScore Lite (included).
• Import MIDI and MusicXML files.
• Play a brass or woodwind instrument into a microphone using our exclusive MicNotator.

Incredible Sound

Your compositions sound great with PrintMusic's advanced playback features:

• Free Software Synthesizer with 128 instrument sounds and marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff.
• Add more sounds with external sound libraries. (VST/AU instruments and effects libraries are sold separately.)
• Human Playback to give your music nuance, as if performed by live musicians.
• Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing adds harmonies to your melodies.
• Save your music as an audio file to burn CDs or save on an iPod.
• Powerful mixer fine-tunes your playback.

More

• Create up to 24 staves and print your score or parts: Finale technology ensures world-class output.
• Unlimited number of lyric verses. Lyrics are automatically spaced with publisher-quality precision.
• Transpose to any key and for any instrument.
• Add dynamics, tempos, percussion notation, chord symbols, guitar fretboards and tablature, articulations, handbell graphics, and more.
• Share your music with others using the free, downloadable Finale Reader.
• QuickStart videos show you how–on your computer screen–and a quick reference guide for common tasks is included.

Powerful mixer fine-tunes your playback.

What's New in PrintMusic 2011

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.

New Fonts

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

Handbells Used Chart

PrintMusic can automatically create a chart at the top of your handbell music that lists every bell used.

Music Education Worksheets

PrintMusic now includes more than 150 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets and flashcards.

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 updated screen display colors.