Attention songwriters of all levels! Finale SongWriter makes it easy for you to create and print sheet music on your PC or Macintosh. Now you can put down your pen and let Finale SongWriter bring your inspiration and creativity to its utmost potential.
Experiment with melodies
Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches—drag them up and down to find the pitches you want.
Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly.
Import and export MIDI files.
Add lyrics with multiple verses.
Explore different arrangements
Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard.
Try any tempo.
Transpose to any key
Add automatic harmonies
Experience your songs
Print great-looking sheet music.
Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer—no hardware required!
Use Human Playback™ to make songs sound like they're performed by live musicians.
Save as MP3 files and create audio CDs.
E-mail band members, friends and fans.
Share the music
Print a professional-looking score, along with your name and song title.
Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams.
Create up to six lyric verses.
Transpose to any key.
Add dynamics, slurs, articulations and more.
Generate guitar and bass tablature automatically.
Create drum grooves with notation automatically.
Finale SongWriter Features
Note Entry with your mouse, computer keyboard or any MIDI device
Input and play back via a MIDI device and interface
Import/export MIDI files
QuickStart Videos show you how to use SongWriter
Launch Window and Setup Wizard guide you through any project
Instruments are automatically transposed
Transposed instruments appear as written or in concert pitch
Slash notation
Automatic drum grooves
Automatic 2- and 3-voice harmonization
Articulations (including staccatos and accents)
Smart Shapes (including crescendos and slurs)
Chord symbols and guitar fretboard diagrams
Guitar and/pro bass tablature
Control the number of measures on each system
Change clef or key/time signatures
Up to eight staves of music
Up to six verses of lyrics
Automatic music spacing
Human Playback adds the nuance of live musicians
Automatic swing playback
Over 128 professional sounds included
Saves audio files, including MP3, to burn audio CDs
Beautiful, engraver-quality printer pages
System Requirements:
Macintosh
G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.2 and higher
Monitor with 800X600 resolution
CD-ROM drive
256MB RAM recommended
Windows
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Monitor with 800X600 resolution
CD-ROM drive
256MB RAM recommended (128 MB may be sufficient in older Windows operating systems)
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