From inspiration to applause, music comes alive with Finale®. Easily compose, arrange, notate and print engraver-quality sheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Whether you're creating orchestral film scores or MP3 files for your iPod, Finale offers you the flexibility and freedom to create any music you can imagine.

Finale makes quick work of common tasks, offering:

• The most note entry options: Play a MIDI keyboard, use a mouse and computer keyboard, scan existing music, capture a brass or woodwind performance, or import a variety of files.
• More sounds: With 400+ Garritan instruments, 100+ Tapspace instruments, and full support for other VST/AU instruments and effects, you have complete control of your sound.
• Finale exclusives: Create SmartMusic® accompaniments. Share your music with others via the free downloadable Finale Reader®. No other software includes Band-in-a-Box Auto-harmonizing, MusicXML import/export, MicNotator®, Record/Import Audio, and more.
• Even more: Linked Parts, Music Educator Resources, Video Support, Save Audio Files, TempoTap®, Human Playback® and video tutorials are just a few of the tools included with Finale.

Finale is the world standard for music notation software. Whether you're a professional or aspiring musician, composer, engraver, arranger or educator, Finale is for you.

Manage your scores with ease
Making music is about creativity, not managing score and stave layout. Let Finale 2012 take care of the tedious score management with the new ScoreManager. ScoreManager knows what you want and how to implement it quickly and easily. It will place new parts in their appropriate location in the score, and even take care of sound and MIDI setup for you. If you change flute part to a clarinet part, Finale 2012's ScoreManger will not only change the name and score placement, but it will also transpose it for you automatically. Spend more time composing and less time managing the score with MakeMusic's Finale 2012.

Share your music as you never have
Whether sharing a composition with friends or sending out parts for the next gig or session, you'll love Finale 2012's new sharing options. Long known for its engraver-quality printing, Finale makes it easier to share in today's digital world. Now you can send PDFs of your scores to anyone. Finale's PDF files support Unicode, so you can use any text font you want, even foreign languages. You can also send audio of your scores in MP3, AIFF, or WAV file formats. MakeMusic's Finale 2012 has added a new playback feature that ensures great playback on other machines. When you send out a Finale file, it looks for the sound libraries originally used in the file, and if they are not available on the new computer, then it will look for the closest sounds available and use them automatically. In other words, Finale 2012 seeks out the best sounds to accurately represent your work the way you intended it to be heard.

Educational materials built into Finale
Other expanded content includes a library of over 1000 classroom-ready music education worksheets designed for K-12 students. These worksheets include material that's appropriate for general music, theory, band, orchestra, and choir classes. For younger students, there's the updated Finale AlphaNotes font, which puts note names, solfege, or even smiley faces into the noteheads. You'll love the new colored notehead option, especially in elementary classrooms. Overall, MakeMusic Finale 2012 is loaded with new improvements that will benefit anyone using the program or the music composed in it.

What's New in Finale 2012 ?

- ScoreManager controls how staves look and sound 
- over 400 Garritan sounds
- over 1,000 music education worksheets and 50,000 exercises
- easier to share your creations than ever
- import graphics into PDFs
- updated Setup Wizard
- numerics and Finale copyist fonts
- improved MIDI setup
- unicode text support

Finale 2012 for Windows(R) System Requirements

- XP/Vista/Windows 7 (64-bit compatible)
- 600 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual
- 800 x 600 minimum monitor resolution
- minimum 512 MB RAM (1GB or more recommended)
- additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all included VST/AU sounds

Finale 2012 for Macintosh(R) System Requirements

- G4 or higher recommended
- OS X 10.5 or 10.6. Mac Power PC or Mac Intel
- 700 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual
- 800 x 600 minimum monitor resolution
- minimum 512 MB RAM (1GB or more recommended)
- additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all included VST/AU sounds