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Finale is the world-wide industry standard in music notation software. Anywhere music appears on the printed page, Finale likely created those pages. Finale helps the choir to sing, the band to march, the students to learn, and the orchestra to raise the excitement level in the latest blockbuster movie.
Part of what sets Finale apart is its unique ability to create anything on the printed page. Where other software offers paint-by-numbers solutions, Finale offers complete freedom and flexibility. As a result, musicians around the world rely on Finale to create, edit, audition, print, and publish the widest variety of musical scores.


Finale also offers breathtakingly realistic music playback, and more ways to share music with others. Twenty-five years in the making, Finale 2014 represents the latest evolution in music notation software, making Finales signature freedom and flexibility easy for everyone to use.

Own the Future
To notate music is to look forward to the performance, and beyond. Whether youre creating a simple lead sheet, making worksheets for your students, or composing your magnum opus, Finale helps you easily capture your musical ideas, produce beautiful notation, and quickly share the results. For 25 years, Finales unique ability to create anything on the printed page has remained undisputed while other music notation software has come and gone. Finale 2014 is the forward-looking choice with new innovations, making Finales trademark freedom and flexibility easy for everyone to use.

Focus on your art, not the details
When inspiration strikes, Finale takes care of the details so you can focus on your music. Capture ideas as fast as you can with no obstacles to slow you down.

Your music, your way
In an instant you can move measures, change keys, or perform dozens of edits to capture, arrange, perfect, and print anything you can imagine. Finale even offers creative and editorial input, from automatically harmonizing your melody to indicating when an instrument is out of range.

Enter notes your way
The choice is yours. Play in your notes with a MIDI keyboard, mouse, or computer keyboard. Scan sheet music or import a wide variety of file types, such as MIDI and MusicXML. You can even capture a brass or woodwind performance with Finales MicNotator.

Prepare to be blown away
Sound quality makes a difference. With Finale you get a selection of world-class instrument sounds from Garritans Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, Concert & Marching Band, and World Instruments libraries. Finale also includes sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline.

Your music sounds better with Human Playback
Whether you enter your notes with a MIDI keyboard or a mouse, Finales exclusive Human Playback ensures that your music plays back with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance of a live performance.

Print it out
Finale makes it easy to achieve printed perfection. Whether youre creating a lead sheet for a folk song or pushing the boundaries of music notation, Finale lets you achieve anything you can imagine.

Publish perfect scores
Personalize your music to fit your style. From music fonts to chord symbols, from time signatures to music spacing, from lyrics to percussion notation, how your music appears is up to you.

SmartMusic integration, a Finale exclusive
Instantly save your Finale creations as SmartMusic solo or ensemble accompaniments. Assign the piece to your students, assess their performance, and then celebrate their success.

Creative resources
Finale provides hundreds of customizable music education worksheets. Quickly produce flashcards, puzzles, and exercises for classes in general music, theory and ear training, composition, arranging, and jazz improvisation.

Music is a universal language
How you choose to communicate is up to you. When youre ready to share your music with the world, Finale provides you with more options than any other notation software.

Share your music as:
- Audio files (including .MP3, .WAV, and .AIFF)
- MusicXML and MIDI files
- PDF files from entire pieces to small excerpts
- Finale files that can be shared with users of the entire Finale family of products: Finale PrintMusic, Finale SongWriter, and the free Finale NotePad

Finale 2014 offers notation perfection with less effort
- For 25 years Finales reputation as the only choice for music notation perfection has remained unchallenged. With Finale 2014 you enjoy that same level of perfection weve just shortened the path.
- Included are many improvements, based on your requests, that impact how your notation looks before you edit anything. Better automatic results mean you spend less time fine-tuning.
- With Finale 2014 you get exactly the notation you desire quicker and more efficiently than ever before.
- If youre passionate about the placement of every rest and accidental, your job just got easier.
- If youre not, your music notation just got a whole lot better.