Great for amateur recording musicians as well as professional recording studios, this pack includes all of the building blocks necessary for composing and recording a complete drum part in a variety of styles. 101 basic beats are featured, plus hundreds of variations, such as intros, fills, accents,endings and a complete set of 'one-shots' on CD-ROM. Files are in standard.wav format for use with any looping program, including Sonic Foundry's ACID and Fruity Loops. As a bonus, packs also include an audio CD with 99 tracks for demo and play-along, and a book with standard notation.

From inspiration to applause, music comes alive with Finale. Easily compose, arrange, notate, and print publisher-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 power, 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 support of external sound libraries including VST/AU instruments and effects, your music can sound like a performance.
• 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 3.0 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.

SongWriter lets you enter notes with a mouse or your MIDI keyboard and print great-looking sheet music. Explore musical options with tools like Drum Groove and Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing, and hear your music play with hundreds of built-in sounds and a powerful new mixer. Plus you can share your music with the free downloadable Finale Reader(TM), and save iPod-ready .MP3 files. From the creators of Finale, the world's leading music notation software, SongWriter is perfect for songwriters, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students, and other musicians.

From the creators of Finale the worlds leading music notation software PrintMusic is perfect for arrangers, composers, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students and other musicians. Easy Set-up Get started right away. The Setup Wizard configures key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures and more. Easy Entry PrintMusic lets you compose and arrange the way you want. Easily put notes on the page with these flexible options Click notes with a mouse and hear them as you do. Play your MIDI keyboard with a metronome and watch your music appear on screen in real time. Enter notes in step-time from your computer or MIDI keyboard. Scan your music with SmartScore Lite. Import MIDI and MusicXML files. More Create up to 24 staves and print your score or parts. Finale technology ensures world class output. Unlimited number of lyric verses. Transpose to any key and for any instrument. Add dynamics, tempos, percussion notation, chord symbols, guitar fretboards, and tablature, articulations and more. QuickStart Videos show you how on your computer screen.

Enter, edit, and manipulate data-rich notation instantly from your workstation or your MIDI instrument. The designer of the acclaimed MusicPrinter Plus has now created the most intuitive score entry ever, with all the advanced features you need to create the most complex score. For the first time, you can compose directly to the orchestra without file conversions, patches, sequencers, or separate sample batches. What you write is what you hear. The NOTION interpretive sample playback engine is notation-driven, capturing every nuance of composition.

• Sounds of the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios
• No external hardware or software needed
• Over 1,000 voice polyphony
• MIDI keyboard entry
• NotionPlayer: real-time "conducting" of the score
• MusicXML import
• Scalable reverb from natural, recorded decay
• Instrumental audio mixer: mute, solo, and balance

PhotoScore Ultimate is the new name for PhotoScore Professional and reflects its wealth of powerful new features. Version 5 offers the following major improvements over 4:

• Handwritten score recognition!

You read correctly! Neuratron has been very busy and has made a massive technological breakthrough with the world's first and only music scanning software designed to read handwritten, as well as printed, scores. Currently optimized to read freshly written music (rather than old archives) PhotoScore Ultimate 5 gives musicians the freedom to compose music away from their computer, perhaps next to their favorite instrument, or relaxing in a field a long way from civilization!

• Dual-engine printed music recognition- sends accuracy through the roof!

By combining the two most accurate printed music scanning engines in the world (each independently developed), PhotoScore Ultimate achieves recognition accuracy far greater than the sum of the engines; it really has to be seen to be believed!

• Edit while PhotoScore reads

PhotoScore now reads in the background, leaving you free to edit or rearrange each page as it is recognized

• Advanced scanned image management system

Worry less about managing scanned pages with the new Pages Pane- it completely replaces the Scanned Pages dialog

• Repeat ending, Coda and Segno recognition
• Cross-staff note and beam recognition
• Recognition of ornaments such as trills, mordants and turns, in addition to pedal on and off markings
• Now a Universal Binary application, so it runs at full speed on all Macs
• Improved recognition of text, now in up to 120 different languages

ScoreCleaner is a groundbreaking software program that automatically notates for you while you play a MIDI instrument. You'll streamline your composing, enhance your teaching and put the emphasis where it belongs - on learning to play and on creating music. Best of all, ScoreCleaner is so simple that you can use it immediately. No manuals. No advanced computer skills. No complex commands to learn. ScoreCleaner makes notation easy for musicians and students of all ages and abilities. Notate your original music instantly as you hear it, without stopping to plan out elements of music theory. Jot musical notes, write a new song or score an entire arrangement. A simple double-click 'cleans' the score - and your composition is immediately ready to print, share and play with others. Prepare a seamless learning experience for students. Create an ideal environment for teaching notation and theory, for creating shared improvisations and for scoring any arrangement you want, even during your music lesson or rehearsal. Re-arrange a piece in a new key or with new instrumentation on the night before rehearsal or on the fly while students are rehearsing. Play and learn a hit song with your ensemble - right now. Arrange it together, print, distribute and keep rehearsing. Assign homework from music that arises during class: play it, print it or e-mail it to your students. Let your students compose and then trade off, playing each other's compositions. Test skills like timing and musical understanding while your students play and then let them examine the actual results themselves. Teach note values, tempo, syncopation, voice arrangement and chords, making a natural connection between playing by ear and understanding music through playing it. With ScoreCleaner, the creative possibilities are unlimited!

The Sibelius Site License offers you a great way to make the most of your institution's situation. Do you have 5 Mac and 10 Windows computers? A single Sibelius Site license will handle that. Does your institution work on a network with one central server? Sibelius Network Site License will handle that. In fact, every teacher or district should consider a site license plan before buying a number of single copies or Lab Packs. Sibelius Site License requires a minimum purchase for 5 users. A Site License is for use on networked or non-networked computers on an Institution site. The customer site may consist of multiple buildings on the same campus or location, or comprise an entire school district with schools in multiple locations (but not educators' homes). The network site license is to be used in conjunction with only one server. Academic version can be registered only in the USA, Canada, Central and South America Terms and Conditions of Promotion: This offer applies only to Sibelius 7 multi-user licenses- minimum five-seat multi-user-license- either new licenses or upgrades. All seats in an existing multi-user license must be upgraded at once; additional seats can be added to a customer's license at the same time This offer is valid from May 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012

Here's an ideal way to make the switch to Sibelius without losing all of what you paid for Finale, Encore, or Mosaic! The Sibelius Competitive Upgrade is now available for purchase by users of Finale, Encore, or Mosaic. Over 20,000 Finale users have switched already! This special offer is being made for users ready to switch from their current program to Sibelius. This fully-functioning copy of Sibelius can only be unlocked and registered if the terms below are met. Competitive Upgrade terms: The competitive upgrade is only available to Finale, Encore, and Mosaic users residing within North, Central, or South America. Limit one copy. Proof of ownership must be provided by mailing the first and second pages of the table of contents in the user manual or original program CD. Photocopies will not be accepted. If terms cannot be met, registration will be denied. No returns accepted, except defective product.