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Finale 2004

Intuitive interaction, natural ease of use, unsurpassable results

By understanding the needs of musicians, educators, composers and engravers, Finale continues to evolve and grow. The advancements that went into 2004 were based on two principles: natural ease and enhanced musicality.

Now Finale takes full advantage of Mac OS X’s functionality, ease of use and great beauty. A new reality in Finale 2004. Complete with built-in USB MIDI.

Human Playback

Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you felt when you wrote it. The new Human Playback feature will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually. And you can choose a variety of musical styles and customize the playback parameters, articulations, range, and much more.

SmartMusic SoundFont

Bring your music to life with the SmartMusic SoundFont®

You want your music to look good. Now it can also sound great with the addition of SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. Add this to Finale 2004’s new Human Playback and the results are astounding.

Save as audiofile

Save As .WAV, .AIFF. Even compressed file formats.

Now turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button and save your Finale files into an audio format for recording onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuances of your music through the fabulous sound font from SmartMusic and our Human Playback feature.

Simply Note Entry

The Need for Speed.

Quite simply, this tool has been transformed. Create music the way you do with paper and pencil – writing all the music as you go with one utensil. It is all the function of Simple Note as you knew it, plus the power of Speedy Note Entry, with additional control. It may become the way you get most things done in Finale.

Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or input notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ Change octave. Enter rests. Add accidentals. Add notes in a chord to an existing note. Create triplets. Now add grace notes. Break and join beams.

But entering notes is just the start. Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock-in’ an articulation to place on several notes. Change the key or time signature simply with key commands. Re-pitch existing notes, regardless of their durations, using any of the note-entry methods to re-pitch these rhythms. Change layers or create multiple voice lines on the staff as you write or edit. Best of all, if you prefer certain key commands, change the defaults in Finale to whatever you like.

Quick and easy edits

Quick and easy edits

Expression Customization
Creating tempo markings like this is easy and now you can edit them just as easily. Many options for expressions have also been added permitting alignment based on either measure or note.

Finale 2004’s new expression interface allows you to use multiple fonts for the same expression, align expressions with automatic placement options and add a description for each expression.

Expression Placement
Expressions are automatically placed above or below the staff, and can be centered or justified left or right.

Cross-staff beaming Improvements
Creating cross-staff beaming used to be a multi-click process. Not any more. Just select the notes you want to move to the bass staff.