With so much emphasis placed on notation software playback these days, it’s easy to forget that its main purpose is to print music for real musicians to play. A new sound engine from Plogue Art et Technologie, the company responsible for Garritan’s Aria Player, has also been added. Lightweight, fast loading and efficient, these are good quality sounds that are perfectly adequate for notation playback. This time, instruments and orchestral effects from no less than four Garritan libraries have been included – Garritan Personal Orchestra, World Instruments, Jazz & Big Band and Instant Orchestra. New instruments are usually added with each update. Although not crucial for a notation package, this is a big drawback if you use large orchestral sample libraries to play back scores.įortunately, Finale has not fallen into the same trap by trying to emulate a DAW and has continued its implementation of the highly efficient and lean sounds from the Garritan Personal Orchestra.
However, we were disappointed to discover that it’s not yet 64-bit (other products, such as Sibelius and Notion, are). There’s a new file format that will be cross-compatible with all future versions of Finale and the look of the tool palettes and their icons has been redesigned. What’s New? Finale is usually updated annually, but 2013 was given a miss and the latest version, 2014, contains a number of new features. Sheet music can be scanned and a wide variety of file types can be imported, including MIDI and MusicXML. This feature, though, is limited to woodwind and brass and not designed for vocals.
Notes can be entered with a MIDI keyboard, mouse or computer keyboard performances can be captured with a microphone.
Notes, measures, key signatures and most other score elements can all be adjusted, either by dragging or precisely positioning them using dialog boxes. It’s highly flexible and capable of notating just about any type of music imaginable (adventurous composers can even design their own symbols using its built-in graphics program). Other programs come and go, but, apart from its main rival Sibelius, Finale reigns supreme. Finale music notation is now 25 years old and widely recognised as an industry standard for notation software.
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