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Finale - 2009a

music notation: create, edit & print sheet music

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Selected Version: 2009a
Release Date: 2008-10-28
License: Update
Downloads (version 2009a): 382
Downloads (all versions): 1,975

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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:

  • Many more time-saving enhancements to the entry of expressions, including Staff Assignment Lists, an expanded category designer, layer assignment improvements, more Score Lists (formerly "Staff Lists") and additional powerful timesaving keystrokes. More
  • Ambience Reverb is now included for Intel-based Macs, offering advanced control over great-sounding reverb. Macintosh playback problems, where users of specific audio interfaces only heard the left channel, have been resolved.
  • SmartScore Lite Scanning Improvements - Support for triplet recognition and improved results when scanning polyphonic music.
  • Improved Cross-Platform Font Handling. If you share Finale files between Mac and Windows computers, you've probably been puzzled by "MacSymbolFonts.txt" messages. Never again. Now Finale makes intelligent decisions for you AND offers better control if you need it.
  • Improved placement of articulations. Fermatas and other articulations entered on a rest will automatically center correctly.
  • Clearing Staff Styles is Now Easier. With the Staff Tool selected, press the Clear or Backspace key to clear any existing Staff Style in the selected region, and press the same key twice to clear the music.
  • Graphic Export Settings are now preserved between Finale sessions.
  • The appearance of Finale's interface in Windows Vista has been updated.
  • Dozens of other improvements, including the playback of slurs, Human Playback, Cautionary Accidentals, EPS and PostScript output, and much more.

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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