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Finale - 2010a

Music notation: create, edit & print sheet music.

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Current Version: 2010a
Release Date: 2009-10-20
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 453
Downloads (all versions): 1,929

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Product Description:

Finale is the most powerful tool for turning ideas into music. Hundreds of features are at your fingertips in Finale's intuitive interface, making it easier to bring your music to life faster. New for 2008, more efficient cut/copy/paste/insert and other interface improvements to streamline workflow.

What's new in this version:

  • New Percussion Functionality including new options in the Percussion MIDI Map Editor that allow you to create custom percussion MIDI maps for ultimate control over the sounds your percussion staves play back.
  • Support for Macintosh OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
  • Enhanced integration of Staff Styles and Linked Parts - Apply Staff Styles to only the part or score you are viewing, and easily update staff styles in a score to match its part and vice versa.
  • 271 Classroom Flash Cards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) and to be used in front of the classroom. Topics include keys, note names, rhythm, vocabulary, and musical symbols.
  • 126 Individual Flash Cards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) and used by individual students for self-quizzing. Topics include keys, note names, and musical symbols.
  • 30 Ear Training Worksheets designed to be used with the free, downloadable Finale Reader. Students can print the worksheets, use the Finale Reader to play the examples, and write the answers on the printed worksheets. Topics include intervals, chords, and melodic dictation.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Finale Usage TipAnd another flaw - Version: 2009b.r3, 9/26/2009 10:11PM PST

dgatwood
Not so much a bug so much a a missing critical feature. When doing multiple parts in a single stave in the score and breaking it out into separate parts in the linked parts, there doesn't appear to be any per-part control over the position of rests. This means that if you need to modify the default position of the rest to avoid a collision with the other part in the score, you'll end up with the rest in entirely the wrong place in the linked part. In short, you merely have a choice about which version looks bad.
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Finale Usage TipAnd several more significant bugs - Version: 2010, 9/25/2009 11:18PM PST

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dgatwood
1. When doing part splits from one staff into multiple separate parts, there's no way to specify that you want things from two layers. So you can't specify that you want layer 1 and layer 3 (cue notes) together in one part. Instead, you have to clumsily hide layer 2. Woe be unto anyone who has more than one set of cue notes for the different parts in such a stave.

2. When doing part splits from one staff into multiple separate parts, there's no way to specify what "note-attached" symbols to include from other staves. The last thing I want is multiple copies of dynamics, one per part, but this means I have to hide every other symbol that IS layer-specific. There's just not enough granularity.

3. When using linked parts, measure width changes to multimeasure rests go away as soon as you switch to another part and switch back. This makes it VERY clumsy to deal with any long text expressions such as "March Tempo (q = 60 M.M.)" or whatever.
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Finale Troubleshooting ReportWon't install at all - Version: 2009b.r3, 12/31/2008 12:17PM PST

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dgatwood
Apparently, MakeMusic doesn't feel it necessary to test their software on case-sensitive HFS+ systems. I filed a problem report more than a year ago about the Finale 2007 compatibility problem along with a simple couple of commands you could use to fix it and asking them to publish that information in their help library. To date, they have not bothered to do so. I hoped that at minimum, this would wake up their testers and get them to actually pay attention to these things. Apparently it failed to do that as well.

We just got Finale 2009. It won't even install. When you click "Install", it just sits there and does absolutely nothing. In the console, it produces the error "2008-12-31 07:48:17.281 Finale Suite[165:10b] launch path not accessible".

A simple "strings" on their install binary told me all I need to know. These two strings:

/applications/utilities/installer.app/contents/MacOS/installer
/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/contents/MacOS/installer

should be:

/Applications/Utilities/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer
/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer


Fortunately, it's fairly easy to work around this problem if you know what you are doing....


Mac OS X 10.5 (with case-sensitive HFS+):

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app
ln -s Contents contents
cd Contents/MacOS/
ln -s Installer installer


Mac OS X 10.4 Server (with case-sensitive HFS+):

I'm not sure if 10.4 had its installer in /Applications/Utilities or in /System/Library/CoreServices. If Installer.app is in /System/Library/CoreServices, follow the 10.5 directions. If not, do this:

cd /
ln -s Applications applications
cd Applications
ln -s Utilities utilities
cd Utilities
ln -s Installer.app installer.app
cd Installer.app
ln -s Contents contents
cd Contents/MacOS/
ln -s Installer installer

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