Finale 2007 from MakeMusic! represents the pinnacle of achievement in commercially available music notation software. Actually only one product within an outstanding range, which allows you to enter at a price point and level of functionality to suit your needs.
This suite of products allows unprecedented levels of communication in the musical medium between teachers and their students, and between band leaders and bandmembers.
Where, in the past, many musicians and students have struggled to produce viable scores using inappropriate recording software, this suite of products removes the need to settle for anything less than total satisfaction by providing a powerful, elegant solution that is at once comprehensive and cost effective.
Finale allows you not only to compose your score, but listen to the result played back at high quality using the incredible sounds of the Garritan personal orchestra. If you are not used to scoring music and hearing it played perfectly straight away, this alone will have you in raptures. But further imagine that you are working with a student band, and you would like them to quickly grasp the concept of a new score that you have just written or arranged? Or perhaps you are writing for a school or college project, and you previously had no way to fully realize the sound of the music you have just created - at last, now you do. Hear it; understand it; enjoy it; improve it! Better yet is the fact that your students or bandmembers can download the music you write and practice it before the rehearsal, simply by using the free Notepad software.
