After more than 35 years, we have decided to retire Finale music notation software and all of its related products (PrintMusic, Notepad, Songwriter). We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of our loyal and enthusiastic users. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of the wonderful music you have created over the years. For more information on the decision to retire our Finale product line, please see the letter from MakeMusic President Greg Dell'Era.

Make Music Finale 27 Features

Envision Your Way Finale offers a level of control unmatched by other notation software, enabling you to create anything you can imagine. When you compose with Finale, you can be confident that your score will sound great, your parts will be ready, and your musical vision will be clearly communicated.

Create your way. We're committed to creating software that adapts to your needs. Finale is the only tool that gives you the flexibility, intelligence, and efficiency to create efficiently, without sacrificing functionality. The world's foremost musicians rely on Finale to perform at their best.

Share Your Way Sharing music makes it better, and with Finale, there are more ways to share than ever before. Whether you're using Finale's interactive sharing through SmartMusic, MusicXML, or Audio Musicians, collaborating with your peers has never been easier.

Write any music you can imagine. Capture musical inspiration. Share your artistic vision with others. Every musician is unique, and everyone uses Finale software to compose music, making it easy to create any musical notation you can imagine. And work in a way that best supports your creativity. From simple lead sheets to preparing Hollywood film scores, Finale is the reliable path to optimal output.

Create Your Way Finale gives you the freedom to create what and how you want to create it. Whether you're imagining a simple main line, a Broadway score, or something truly unorthodox, you have the flexibility to make music the way you want. Produce in the order and manner that best supports your inspiration.

Editing Importing music into Finale immediately gives you the freedom to move bars around, change the key, and even transform your music in a variety of ways, such as indicating when notes are out of range for an instrument.

Hear beautiful sounds to inspire you – Finale's unique Human Playback feature brings the nuances of a human performer to any musical playback, and Finale also includes a vast library of world-class Garritan instrument sounds, which you can hear below.

Share Music is meant to be shared, and you can share files with Finale users and others – with built-in MusicXML support and web-based interactive sharing, your shared musicians' music can be played by others. Complete accompaniment and practice tools in SmartMusic.

What's new in Finale 27

Advanced Music Sharing: Finale now enables you to quickly and easily share your annotation documents with anyone without leaving the app. You can upload and share privately or publicly.

Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) support SMuFL is a comprehensive and evolving standard that organizes musical characters into a common layout so that music fonts display correctly in every notation application that supports it, allowing you to spend less time searching for or creating music symbols and more time making music.

Revised Instrument List Our revamped instrument list ensures your sheet music looks great the first time (regardless of the instrument you choose) and that you hear the correct sound when you play your document. We've also added a list of instruments you can use when you start playing a new document or editing an existing one.

MusicXML 4.0 The latest version of MusicXML provides more control when transferring your productions. With more information captured in MusicXML files than ever before, you'll be able to send files efficiently and confidently between virtually any modern music software.

System requirements:

Operating System X 10.10 - 10.14. Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, Intel i3 and above recommended. 2 GB RAM, 4 GB or higher recommended. Minimum display resolution 800x600, recommended between 1366x768 and 1920x1080. Internet connection for download and installation, or USB port for USB installation.

WIN installation method:

0. Uninstall the previous version.

1. Install the full version or compressed version.

Compact version – Program + Fonts
Full Version – Compressed + Outdated VCRedist + Garritan ARIA Player

We recommend that you install the compressed version.
All Garritan libraries are now available:
Plogue.ARIA.Engine.v1.9.7.7.Incl.Patched.and.Keygen-R2R
Garritan.ARIA.Player.v1.959.REPACK-R2R
Garritan.*-R2R

2. Take your computer offline or block access to "ws.makemusic.com".

3. Run Finale.
Click [Authorize Now].
The Finale Authorization Wizard starts.

4. Run our key generator and a serial number will be generated.
Enter the serial number and other information into Finale.
Click [Next]. Finale says it can't connect to their servers.
Click [Continue] to start offline authorization.

4. Copy the computer ID to the key generator.
Generate an authorization code.
Copy the authorization code to Finale.
Click [Finish] to complete.

MAC installation method

0. Uninstall the previous version.

1. Installation.

2. Take your computer offline or block access to "ws.makemusic.com".

3. Run Finale.
Click [Authorize Now].
The Finale Authorization Wizard starts.

4. Run our key generator on Windows to generate a serial number.
Enter the serial number and other information into Finale.
Click [Next]. Finale says it can't connect to their servers.
Click [Continue] to start offline authorization.

4. Copy the computer ID to the key generator.
Generate an authorization code.
Copy the authorization code to Finale.
Click [Finish] to complete.

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