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Finale PrintMusic 2007 Win/Mac


Finale PrintMusic 2007 Win/MacFormat: CD-ROM
List Price: $99.95
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Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5

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Features: Easy Note Entry: From MIDI Keyboard, playing brass or woodwind instrument into your microphone, or scanning sheet music
Incredible Sound: 128 Instrument Software Synthesizer, Human Playback¿, Band-in-a-Box® Auto-Harmonizing, Automatic Drum Grooves
Download MIDI files and see them notated instantly
Transpose to any key and for any instrument
Beautiful, engraver-quality printed pages


Editorial Reviews:

Finale's new PrintMusic 2007 is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life! It's perfect for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders. PrintMusic! gets you there faster than any other notation program on the market. No other notation software provides output of such exceptional quality at this price. Play your composition, print publisher-quality sheet music, or make CDs or MP3s of your musical creations. You'll be proud of the results you get with PrintMusic. See and hear your creations Create lead sheets with lyrics, chord symbols & guitar fretboards

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Finale is my computer-software friend
Comment: If friends could come in a box, this program would be one. As both a middle school music teacher and a church musician & arranger, Finale PrintMusic has been a valued program on my computer for years. 2007's version is excellent. Finale actually considers the box you see to be 2006, so when I ordered mine, it came in a red & yellow box. Both are easy, but I prefer 2007 because of the overhaul in the cut & paste feature, making it more like cutting & pasting in an average Word document. An excellent buy!

Customer Rating: Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5
Summary: Finale Print Music Definitely Not The Last Word
Comment: I bought it for its sheet music scanning feature since I am often asked to transpose music to lower keys for fellow choir members whose range "just ain't what it used to be". Scanning works but it accepts only black and white tif files. It was difficult to insure black and white scans. Once the scans were made, the resultant transcriptions contained numerous errors(about one third of the entries). Many editing features are quirky and the help files are not easy to use since they are organized in a "user's manual descriptive" format(Who reads a Manual cover to cover before using anything, except possibly a chain saw?). On the plus side, it does display bar lines below and above the staff, making insertion of these notes easier than with Noteworthy Composer.

The numerous scan errors make it difficult to justify the increased price(double)that of Noteworthy Composer.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5
Summary: Good program overall, but a bit of a pain if you have to reload
Comment: Overall I find that manual entry into the program is simple. Playback feature is nice, as I have used this for re-arranging pieces for my flute choir (to suit abilities) and I can listen for problem areas before having the choir play the pieces. I have been a bit disappointed with the scanning recognition - seems to be about 65% accurate with simple pieces but misses a lot if you get into dotted rhythms or 16th notes. Scanning does not work for grace notes, instrument cues, or ornaments. One other annoyance for me is that the licensing needs to be redone if you have to reload the program (disc failure, reformat, etc). Being out of the US, this was a bit tedious for me. MS Office used to have this kind of security, but manages to allow reloading of the software now. It would sure be nice if Finale was so simple...

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: Improved product
Comment: This is the third version I've bought of Print Music. As a performing musician, I use it to write the music for fellow band members. It's generally a highly capable product. I enter via a mouse--not a musical keyboard. Entry is user-friendly, especially since they've refined entering triplets. A major feature is the ability to transpose an entire song in two key strokes. This is fabulous if you have a song written in Bb that your singer can only sing in F#. They are still a few quirks--I'd like to change the print colors but can't; as you enter the last measure in a line, the program bounces you between lines--it's hard to describe, but it's truly annoying. This product is well worth the price.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: musical notation
Comment: Great entry level software for writing out songs and parts. The selection of instruments in the templates could offer a bit more than is available but that is a minor point I suppose.


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Technical Details

Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: MakeMusic
EAN: 0606776001366
Feature: Easy Note Entry: From MIDI Keyboard, playing brass or woodwind instrument into your microphone, or scanning sheet music
Format: CD-ROM
Label: eMedia
Manufacturer: eMedia
Model: PHR 07
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: eMedia
Release Date: 2006-11-21
Studio: eMedia


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