PrintMusic 2009 Retail

Bring your music to life with professional results, compose with greater ease, and print your music with the fast, easy and affordable Finale PrintMusic. From the makers of popular notation software Finale, PrintMusic is an ideal solution for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders who want to print publisher-quality sheet music.

Easy Set-up
Get started right away. The Setup Wizard configures key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures, and more”instantly. Want an engraved or handwritten look? Select a document style to personalize the appearance of your music.

Easy Entry
PrintMusic lets you compose the way you want. Easily put notes on the page with these flexible options:

Play your MIDI keyboard with a metronome and watch your music appear on screen in realtime.
Play a brass or woodwind instrument into a microphone using the MicNotator.
Click notes into place with a mouse and hear them as you do.
Enter notes in step-time from your computer or MIDI keyboard.
Scan your music with SmartScore Lite (included) and import MIDI and MusicXML files.

Incredible Sound
Your compositions sound great with PrintMusic's advanced playback features:

Free Software Synthesizer with 128 instrument sounds and marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff.
Human Playback to give your music a realistic nuance, as if performed by live musicians.
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing adds harmonies to your melodies.
Save your music as an audio file to burn CDs or save on an iPod.
Powerful mixer fine-tunes your playback.

PrintMusic allows you to print your score or parts. Finale's technology ensures you'll get world-class output. It gives you an unlimited number of lyric verses, and lets you add dynamics, tempos, chord symbols, guitar fretboards and tablature, articulations, and more. Included QuickStart Videos show you how to do all of this.

No matter your musical emphasis (classical, jazz, rock, etc.) Finale PrintMusic music composition software provides high-quality results without the expense of our more comprehensive products, Allegro and Finale 2009. PrintMusic music-making software is geared towards educators, musicians, composers, and others who don't need the advanced engraving capabilities of Finale 2009 or the other advanced features in Allegro, yet still want professional quality composition software results.