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Finale Songwriter

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Overview

Put down your pen use your computer to bring your inspiration and creativity to its utmost potential!

Finale SongWriter makes it easy for you to create and print sheet music on your PC or Macintosh.

Experiment with melodies
¢ Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches--drag them up and down to find the pitches you want
¢ Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly
¢ Import and export MIDI files
¢ Add lyrics with multiple verses

Explore different arrangements
¢ Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard
¢ Try any tempo
¢ Transpose to any key
¢ Add automatic harmonies

Experience your songs
¢ Print great-looking sheet music
¢ Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer”no hardware required!
¢ Use Human Playback to make songs sound like they're performed by live musicians
¢ Save as MP3 files and create audio CDs
¢ E-mail band members, friends and fans

Share the music
¢ Print a professional-looking score, along with your name and song title
¢ Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams.
¢ Create up to six lyric verses
¢ Transpose to any key
¢ Add dynamics, slurs, articulations and more
¢ Generate guitar and bass tablature automatically
¢ Create drum grooves with notation automatically

Features

  • Note Entry with your mouse, computer keyboard or any MIDI device
  • Input and play back via a MIDI device and interface
  • Import/export MIDI files
  • QuickStart Videos show you how to use SongWriter
  • Launch Window and Setup Wizard guide you through any project
  • Instruments are automatically transposed
  • Transposed instruments appear as written or in concert pitch
  • Slash notation
  • Automatic drum grooves
  • Automatic 2- and 3-voice harmonization
  • Articulations (including staccatos and accents)
  • Smart Shapes (including crescendos and slurs)
  • Chord symbols and guitar fretboard diagrams
  • Guitar and/pro bass tablature
  • Control the number of measures on each system
  • Change clef or key/time signatures
  • Up to eight staves of music
  • Up to six verses of lyrics
  • Automatic music spacing
  • Human Playback adds the nuance of live musicians
  • Automatic swing playback
  • Over 128 professional sounds included
  • Saves audio files, including MP3, to burn audio CDs
  • Beautiful, engraver-quality printer pages

Discover how easy SongWriter can make your creative process. Order now!

Specs

Finale Songwriter Specifications:

  • System Requirements:
  • Finale SongWriter for Windows:
  • Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
  • Monitor with 800X600 resolution.
  • CD-ROM drive
  • 256MB RAM recommended (128 MB may be sufficient in older Windows operating systems)
  • Finale SongWriter for Macintosh:
  • G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.2 and higher
  • Monitor with 800X600 resolution
  • CD-ROM drive
  • 256MB RAM recommended
  • Optional:
  • MIDI interface
  • MIDI input and/or playback device
  • Printer
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