Dolet for Finale - 4.4

Dolet 4 for Finale is a plug-in for the Finale music notation program that reads and writes MusicXML 2.0 files on Windows and Mac OS X. With Dolet software, you can finally read files created in Finale 2009 with Finale 2007. Read music from Sibelius into Finale by using Dolet for Finale together with our Dolet 3 for Sibelius plug-in. MusicXML files created with Dolet 4 for Finale usually import into Sibelius 4 and 5 better than Finale ETF files do.

Even if you're using Finale 2009, Dolet 4 has three big advantages:

1. It allows you to translate an entire folder of Finale or MusicXML files at one time - an enormous time savings when you have to move a lot of files from one program to another.
2. It has more advanced features, including better export to Sibelius and an import option for MusicXML XSD validation.
3. The Dolet for Finale plug-in is updated much more often than Finale. Finale releases typically have one or two maintenance updates. In our previous release, Dolet 3 for Finale had nine updates which kept making file translations even more accurate.

Do you want to read files from scanners like SharpEye Music Reader and PhotoScore Professional? Exchange files with Sibelius users? Create files for use in digital sheet music players like musicRAIN and MuseBook Score? Dolet 4 for Finale lets you exchange music between applications more accurately than ever before. Finally, the limits to digital sheet music exchange are gone.

Version 2.0 of the MusicXML format makes possible many of the new features supported in the Dolet 4 for Finale software, including:

• Linked page-attached graphics
• Export of linked measure-attached graphics
• Page-attached text after page 1
• Many line width document options
• MIDI pan and channel volume settings
• Piano pedal playback, including half-pedaling
• Text tracking
• Underline and strikeout text
• Tick barlines
• Pluck symbols (p, i, m, a)
• Export of text blocks attached to multiple pages
• Improved page numbering support
• Improved export of chord symbol and fretboard formatting
• Improved lyric elision support

Other new features in version 4 of the Dolet for Finale plug-in are:

• Finale 2008 and 2009 support
• Check for Updates menu item
• Piano pedal line import
• Fretboard import
• Composite time signature import
• Nested tuplet import
• Capo chord symbol export
• Better import of accidentals and ties, especially with MusicXML files created from Sibelius.
• Better metronome mark import and export
• Better export of page, system, and staff formatting
• Less freezing of stem directions on import, leading to improved formatting
• Improved export of overlapping group braces
• Improved import of lyrics when lyrics are present in non-consecutive parts
• Improved tie and slur export when voice 2 is used