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.

Based on the same powerful code as the leading notation program Finale, Allegro provides more power for less money than any other music notation sofware! With the ability to score up to 32 staves, Allegro will meet the needs of most users. You can play your music in using your MIDI keyboard and the program will display it on the screen in standard music notation. Or you may use your mouse or the standard computer keyboard to input the music. You can even import standard MIDI files. If you're looking for a great music writing program, aren't eligible for the academic/church pricing, and don't need thebells and whistles of Finale, this is the program for you!

• New set-up wizard
• Supports up to 32 staves
• Multiple Undo and Redo
• Smart Slurs
• Fast & easy start-up
• Print scores in color
• Import Encore and Rhapsody files
• True Multi-Track Real Time Notation
• Drag and Drop between files
• Save pages as TIFF files
• OMS support
• Reads Encore and Rhapsody files
• QuickStart Interface
• Online video tips

File compatibility so you can:

• Read and write standard MIDI files
• Share files between Finale, Allegro, and Printmusic
• Convert files from Encore and Rhapsody
• Open scanned music form MIDIScan

Beautiful Aqua Interface: the look and feel of Mac OS X now carries into Finale 2004. Elegant new Mac OS X-style icons were designed specifically for Finale 2004. Full MIDI support: Mac OS X MIDI drivers from Apple fully support USB interfaces, eliminating the need for FreeMIDI or OMS. (FreeMIDI and OMS are still required for Mac OS 9 0 systems.) Instantly create PDFs: Finale takes advantage of Mac OS X's 'Save as .pdf' support. Virtual Memory: No need to set up memory partitions and the system will handle virtual memory intelligently. Application Packaging: Finale allows you to hide support files, like resource and program files, in an application package. Finale 2004 is "Carbonized" to run under Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. The OS X version is shipping now and the OS 9 version will be available soon. For anyone serious about creating printed music, Finale is the program of choice. You'll get state-of-the-art transcription, editing and publishing capabilities plus more features and power than any other notation program available! Finale 2004 boasts over 170 graphic improvements including 14 various interface designs (you decide what the toolbars look like) plus, choose from 25 different background graphics for your desktop, you can even create your own. There are new document and program default wizards and, of course, Finale 2004 includes Smartscore Lite, giving you the best quality scanning at the lowest price.

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.