Finale 2012 Notation Software: Upgrade From Finale 2011

We recommend that you visit the official Finale site (www.finalemusic.com) to see and hear all the features of this fantastic software for yourself. As a UK stockist, we can offer you the boxed software and direct access to UK-based phone support. The brand new features of 2012 Finale are summarised below

• Score Manager lets you quickly change staff name, transposition, clef, and playback with one setting, and provides automated bracketing and staff order. Easily control - in one convenient place - every aspect of how your staves look and sound.
• More than 1,000 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets, flash cards, and pieces of repertoire. Ready access to classroom resources you can customize, distribute as-is, or use as models for your own projects.
• Built-in "Save as PDF" support for Windows and Macintosh. Save all or part of any Finale file, as a shareable, printable.PDF file, all within Finale.
• New file-sharing capabilities make your Finale files more portable. Your music always plays back correctly, no matter what sound libraries or computers you or your collaborators use.
• Space Systems automatically positions your staff systems evenly on each page. Your pages look perfect in less time.
• Unicode text support gives you access to ALL the characters in any font. Greatly increases your flexibility, allowing you to write in any language and include any character.
• Additional Garritan sounds, handwritten and harmonic analysis fonts, auto-detect MIDI devices, expanded Finale AlphaNotes support, graphic tool enhancements, improved help, and instant download.

System Requirements

Finale 2012 for Windows

• XP/Vista/Windows 7 (64-bit compatible).
• DVD-ROM drive.
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
• 600MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.

Finale 2012 for Macintosh

• G4 or higher recommended. OS X 10.5-10.7 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
• DVD-ROM drive.
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
• 700 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.

Optional

• MIDI interface
• MIDI input and/or playback device
• Printer
• Scanner
• Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
• A soundcard (including Standard Direct Sound, MME or ASIO drivers) is required for playing the Garritan and other VST sounds in Windows.
• Better processor and hard drive speed is required for simultaneous use of more VST/AU instruments.

Finale requires that you authorize the software within 30 days after installation. You are allowed to install Finale on two operating systems (multiple licenses excluded).

File Compatibility. Finale family software can open files in the same or newer software version, but files created in a newer version cannot be opened in an older version unless converted via MusicXML.

System requirements vary for additional products by Garritan and other manufacturers.