Finale 2011 for MAC

Finale provides easy access to everything you need to compose, arrange, play, and print music. Whether you’re creating orchestra film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, your music comes alive with Finale.

Preferred by musicians worldwide
Finale is the world standard for music notation software. More than 2.5 million professional and aspiring musicians, composers, engravers, arrangers, and educators use the Finale family of
notation products.

Finale is for everyone
Finale 2011 provides you with the flexibility, freedom and power to create any music you
can imagine. Instead of forcing you to adapt your creative process to the software,
Finale adapts to you. The result? You can quickly and easily turn your inspiration
into applause.

Finale has always offered you unlimited power to create any music you can imagine. Finale 2011 builds upon that power by transforming the creative process. Now, the way you create can be as flexible as what you create. Finale 2011 adapts to the way you work.

    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, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, and never lose a note.
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    Garritan sounds
Finale now includes more than 375 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. Free new sounds include bass trombone, brass section, children’s choir ahs, flute section, electronic drum kit and more.   

    Music Education Worksheets
Finale now includes more than 800 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets and flashcards. New this year are jazz improvisation worksheets and more than 100 titles of classroom repertoire.

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

    Finale AlphaNotes™ Font
Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names or solfège syllables inside noteheads.

    Expanded Percussion Playback
Last year we simplified the process of getting notes on percussion staves to look – and playback – exactly the way you want them to. This year Finale 2011 makes it easy to switch between pitched and non-pitched percussion anywhere in your score.

    Updated Aria
Player
The Garritan Aria Player simplifies the process of changing MIDI channel assignments. Updated for Finale 2011, the Garritan Aria Player has an integrated Ambience reverb and the ability to save Ensembles.

    Instant Capo Chords
Automatically add capo chords to your music with the freedom to control whether they replace or appear in addition to non-capo chords.

    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 a new Quick Reference Guide that shows you how to complete common tasks quickly and easily in Finale.

System Requirements
G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.5-10.6 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
DVD-ROM drive.
800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
750MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2011.