Finale 2006

Finale 2006 offers endless possibilities for composing, arranging, hearing, and printing your music faster and more powerfully than ever before. New features to nurture and fuel creativity have been added to the original, groundbreaking notation software. Finale 2006 includes revolutionary tools for teaching students how to create, evaluate and shape ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.

Finale features scanning, Internet publishing, Human Playback, creation of SmartMusic Accompaniment files, special notations, and hundreds more.

Nothing less for the best: Who uses Finale?
¢ The prestigious Julliard and Berklee College of Music teach with Finale
¢ The largest publishers, including Hal Leonard engrave with Finale

¢ Metropolitan Opera and Jazz at Lincoln Center rely on Finale
¢ Academy Award-winning movies like Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Sideways, Polar Express, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Finding Neverland are scored with Finale

Introducing a Revolutionary New Way to Experiment with Musical Ideas--Studio View

Finale 2006 integrates key sequencer features with the groundbreaking Studio View. Now it's easy to create, evaluate, and shape your ideas into songs, arrangements, and compositions.

Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume, panning, and patch as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust parameters for all staves--in real time--with the powerful new mixer.

Build compositions track by track in Studio View's multitrack recording environment. Because everything appears in standard music notation, there's no need for separate sequencing software with complex computer symbols. As before, MIDI data can be easily edited.

Mid-measure playback controls offer more detailed feedback and the ability to resume your playback right where you stopped or anywhere you want.

Revolutionary Tools for Teaching Composition and Arranging

Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale 2006 empowers students to make creative choices.

With Studio View in Finale 2006, students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols. With Finale 2006, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.