Finale SongWriter
 | Format: CD-ROM List Price: $49.99 Our Price: $41.99 Your Save: $ 8.00 ( 16% ) Availability: N/A Average Customer Rating:   |
Features: Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches -- drag them up and down to find the pitches you want
Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly -- or import and export MIDI files, adding your own lyrics and verses
Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard - Try any tempo, transpose to any key and add automatic harmonies
Print great-looking sheet music - Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams, with up to 6 lyric verses; Add dynamics, slurs, articulations & transpose to any key
Editorial Reviews:
Finale SongWriter makes it easy for you to create and print sheet music on your PC or Macintosh. Now you can put down your pen and let Finale SongWriter bring your inspiration and creativity to its utmost potential. Experiment with more than 128 professional instruments, compose your tune and print it out as a professional-quality score.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: DNA's Opinion
Comment: Finale Songwriter---The ideal solution for those who wish to produce
music manuscripts with that professional appearance. Would have had 5 stars --- BUT --- it would have been good to know about the import duty
and to have paid off all expenses in one transaction. Still, I suppose we must support our Lords and Masters in the style to which they have become
accustomed.
DNA
Customer Rating:
Summary: I expect a much better user interface experience from Mac software
Comment: I'm spoiled by Mac software that follows Apple's UI guidelines. This software is, frankly, ugly. My wife was disappointed that you can only play one handed to input your notes. Getting both hands in requires more effort and coordination.
If you're a beginner you may not truly have the need to get notes to paper. If you're more advanced, I think you could spend more money and get a better product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I realy dislike this program
Comment: I tried to put in a simple piano accompianiment. The automatic features were so overriding that I could not do the simplest things. If a beat contained a quarter note in the upper of the baseline but two eighth notes for the bottom, it assumed that the second eighth note went with the upper line and would not budge. It would not let me put a whole note in the bottom of the baseline combined with a moving part above it. I would have had to written each line as a separate score, making it -- no longer piano accompaniment. Seemingly the only notation it would allow was locked chords or what it predicted would happen. It also would not let me tie a whole note to another note in the next measure.
Maybe these things are possible but buried in a terrible manual, which doesn't seem to realize that laptops don't have numeric keypads.
I think it would be a particularly bad teaching device because it would encourage students to write only only in very staid, ultra-conventional ways.
Finally, there's no way to email them that I can find. Perhaps there is but they have buried the information. That also is not user-friendly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: lousy handbook
Comment: Although I was originally amazed at the ability to convert a midi file to paper, I was later very disappointed in the ability to make changes to the music.
There is certainly a lot more in the program than I know of, but the handbook is poorly organized and not very helpful. It does not even explain what the cursor symbols mean. I had to call technical support for that. Their answer to my problem: purchase their other products.
For $30 more, I could have purchased a more powerful product from Intelliscore.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not very simple to use
Comment: Finale songwriter seems to have very little consideration for people who change their minds after the first set-up. I have not found ways to add an instument/voice or change the tempo gradually to the speed I like. I do not really recommend it.
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Technical Details
Binding: CD-ROMBrand: MakeMusic!
EAN: 0606776001090
Feature: Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches -- drag them up and down to find the pitches you want
Format: CD-ROM
Label: MakeMusic!
Manufacturer: MakeMusic!
Model: MM0010
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: MakeMusic!
Release Date: 2005-05-20
Studio: MakeMusic!
