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Finale PrintMusic 2010
Studio : MakeMusic!
by MakeMusic!
Brand : MakeMusic!
Model : PHR10
Platform : Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Windows 7, Windows XP
Release Date : 2009-09-22
Publisher : MakeMusic!
Availability : Usually ships in 4-5 business days
EAN : 0606776001915
UPC : 606776001915
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 12 reviews)
List Price : $99.95
Our Price : $78.68
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Music software for arrangers, composers, teachers, students, and other musicians
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Play MIDI keyboard and see music appear instantly; import/export MIDI and MusicXML files
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Share songs with free, downloadable Finale Reader; save MP3 files for an iPod
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Free software synthesizer with 128+ instrument sounds; Human Playback
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Composing and arranging tools; multiple-undo option; quick-start videos for getting started
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Product Description |
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Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life – with professional results. The Setup Wizard helps you create scores of up to 24 staves. Note entry is a breeze, whether you enter with a mouse, MIDI device, microphone, or scanner. Human Playback™ makes your music sound like it’s being performed by live musicians. PrintMusic includes a software synthesizer with over 128 professional grade instrument sounds, plus Marching Percussion from Row-Loff™, and can save MP3s for making your own CDs. Enter notes with a mouse, MIDI keyboard, microphone, or scanner. Play your composition, print publisher-quality sheet music, or make MP3s for CDs of your musical creations. You’ll be proud of the results you get with PrintMusic. |
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Good software with a few specific problems |
I run Finale PrintMusic 2010 on Vista OS computer for a few months. I bought it for very specific project: 1) to scan high-quality printout of a score, 2) make a few small changes to score (and correct scan errors), 3) insert lyrics in cyrillic (Russian). Here are my observations:
1) Scan quality is O.K. - I have to correct only 2-15 notes per page. However, sometimes it misses important things (e.g. it thinks that duration sign 12/8 is a cord of half notes) and scan becomes nearly useless.
2) Compared to Finale Academic (i.e. full version), PM can not do two important (for me) things: A) after scanning, it leaves clefs only at the first system and there is no way to insert them in every system. B) It is impossible to start numbering measures and pages ina document from any number other than "1".
3) What is really bad in this software is handling cyrillic font. Built-in TimeNewRoman/cyrillic font does not allow to cut-and-paste text in text tool and lyrics tool does not work at all. I downloaded another font and now I can type-in using "blind" method, i.e. cyrillic letters appear as latin letters during typing. |
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This Product is User friendly and fun. |
I like this product!!! I composed my music with in minutes after installing it on my Windows Vista (Basic) and watching the quick start videos. They designed the product to be user friendly and fun. Typing in the notes and hearing it play back with the rich tone colors of timpani, harp, piano and electric guitar make the music come alive and then you can export to a wav or mp3 file. I have found the edit features which include add/remove staff, insert a measure, essential in developing a song. You can use a midi keyboard to enter notes but I just use my laptop's mouse for ultimate portability. This product has increased my knowledge and enjoyment of music.:)
P.S. I couldn't add tags. So I would write notation software, music in the tag. |
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Abject Disappointment |
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I purchased Finale PrintMusic primarily to scan in printed music to facilitate arranging edits, transpositions, etc. The product does a poor job of accurately scanning printed music, and the correction process is at best tedious. The scanning software included with PrintMusic is Smartscore LITE by Musitek, which is apparently a crippled version of the top-of-the-line scanning software. In any event, it does not scan within reasonable ranges of accuracy. If the sheet music is in near perfect condition, I find the accuracy to be marginally adequate. In the last page of printed music that I scanned (32 measures), there were more than three dozen errors, including missing slurs, missing measure bars, incorrect notes, and no titles or chords. If you need reliable music scanning capabilities, buy other software. I never tried the MicNotator feature and never will, because the PrintMusic box is now in a round file marked "trash." |
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Not for drummers |
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I purchased this hoping it would replace the shareware software I use for drum kit notation. Unfortunately, its ability to enter drum notation is limited by virtue of the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way to add, delete or modify percussion instruments nor to modify what percussion instrument goes where on the staff. The placement of toms in particular seems to not follow the standards I generally see in drum notation and I would like to have been able to change this. I also tried the scan/import feature and it didn't work as well as I'd have liked. The piece of music I wanted to scan has several measures that are repeated 16 times but, unfortunately, the shareware program I use is limited to 15 repetitions. I hoped to import this into PrintMusic and fix the number of repetitions but it didn't even pick up the repetitions notated on the scanned sheet music. All in all, this was quite a disappointment and I'm returning it. |
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Worth every penny |
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I love Print Music. I had a cheaper, smaller notation software before this one. So far this program has done everything I have needed. I'm not overly tech savvy and this was easy to learn (if I can do it, anyone can). I think it is very user friendly. I use the drop and drag method. I'm an Orchestra teacher and a Church musician. This has handled everything from scores to simple parts. |
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