Anyway the input-methods are great, if you do composing, the speedy entry (with MIDI-keyboard) is fantastic (you can play/try your music at the keyboard and Finale will only write down when you type together the rhythmic values). The core of this app is brilliant, I love entering notes real time by MIDI-keyboard (if you're not very good at it, you can first tap the rhythm with the hyperscribe-tool and then the correct pitches with the repitch-tool), the "engine" for those things is very good.
That takes time, as Finale allows for more customisation than any other app in this field, it is very versatile many give up on it during this process, but once you have "set up" the app for you and your needs, Finale shows its strengths. I think the key for using Finale well, you have to make your own templates, and find your own workflow. I use both apps (and some other, more specialised software), and both have their positive and negative points. It's the quasi industry standard, in its segment challenged only by Sibelius. How will you put a free NotePad to good use? Which A&W menu item offers the best metaphor? Please share your thoughts by clicking on “Comments” below.Everybody who gets into music notation/composing knows Finale. I can also make great use of NotePad when I’m away from my computer (but near anyone else’s) and inspiration strikes. My music educator friends can create assignments and tests with Finale that thier students can open and complete in NotePad.
A free NotePad simplifies collaboration with nearly any computer owner: I simply remind my co-conspirators to download NotePad to view, play, and print Finale files I send them AND to make any necessary edits. While this is clearly great news for folks who want to create music notation who don’t currently own any software, it’s also great news for people, like me, who already own Finale. Or maybe the Teen Burger.įinale NotePad 2012 will also include select features new to Finale 2012, including Unicode font support (providing access to all characters in any font and facilitating the creation of music in any language) and aspects of Finale’s new ScoreManager™, which simplifies the control of playback sounds. To use my favorite A&W menu metaphor, if Finale is the Poppa Burger, NotePad is the Baby Burger. NotePad is, of course, entry-level music notation software. MakeMusic announced today the upcoming release of Finale NotePad 2012, which will be available for download on February 15, 2012.Įven bigger news is that Finale NotePad 2012 will be free.
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