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Quickly Create, Customize, and Share Music Notation

Finale PrintMusic empowers every musician to quickly create and customize music notation that looks and sounds great!

With PrintMusic musicians can arrange full ensembles of up to 24 staves, extract individual parts, and hear their music play back with professional sounds and nuances. Notes can be entered in a variety of ways, and users can choose between a handwritten or engraved appearance, host VST/AU plug-ins for professional playback, import and export graphic files, and much more. Best of all the results can be shared as printed sheet music and PDFs, as well as MP3 audio files, and as Finale and Music XML files that can be opened in other programs.

PrintMusic is the affordable choice for arrangers, composers, teachers, band/choir/orchestra directors, worship leaders, students, and other musicians who don't require the more advanced features in Finale.

Publisher-quality made easy

What will you create today?
Whether you're writing a lead sheet for your first song, or preparing a score and parts for your next concert, PrintMusic music writing software makes it easy to put your music on the printed page. But that's just the beginning. With PrintMusic your music plays back with great sounds and nuance, providing you with instant feedback on your progress. PrintMusic offers creative suggestions - from harmonizing melodies to providing drum parts - to fuel your creativity and save time. Most importantly, PrintMusic produces great sheet music that will inspire your performers to play even better.

Getting started
The Setup Wizard configures your key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures and more - instantly. Want an engraved or handwritten look? Its easy to personalize the appearance of your music.

Questions Answered
Should you ever have a question, PrintMusic includes QuickStart Videos and other resources, right in the Launch Window.

More Note Entry Methods

Once your notes are in PrintMusic, you've entered a new world - a world where you can quickly shape your music any way you wish. Transpose. Cut and Paste. Rearrange. Transformations that would have required starting over with pen and paper are accomplished instantly in PrintMusic.

Because no two musicians think alike, PrintMusic lets you enter your notes any way you wish:

• Click notes into place with a mouse - and hear them as you do.
• Enter notes in step-time from your computer or MIDI keyboard.
• Play any MIDI device, with or without a metronome, and watch your music appear on screen in real-time.
• Scan your music with SmartScore Lite (included).
• Import MIDI and MusicXML files.

Creative Suggestions
PrintMusic offers creative suggestions. Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing can harmonize your melodies with 2-3 voices in a variety of styles.

Need a drummer? With just a few clicks Drum Groove adds pre-created drum parts to your piece.

Sheet music that plays back - beautifully

With PrintMusic, your music plays back, giving you instant feedback as you proof and refine your work. What's more, it plays back beautifully. Built-in sounds provide more than 128 instruments including professional marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff.

Control and Nuance
PrintMusic's integrated mixer lets you balance your music and place it in a sonic space with panning reverb, and more. Human Playback performs your creations with the nuance of live performers.

External Sound Library Support
PrintMusic supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects (sold separately), providing you with unlimited sonic possibilities.

Professional Tools

With PrintMusic, you are capable of more.
From lead sheets to jazz band scores, from guitar tablature to percussion notation, PrintMusic gives you the all the necessary tools.

Create scores with up to 24 staves. Extract individual parts from your scores. Want more lyric verses? Need a one-line staff? Every step of the way you have professional tools at your fingertips. A wide variety of music fonts - offering engraved and handwritten appearances - are included, and fonts and other preferences are easily accessed simply by selecting a different document style library.

Education Tools

PrintMusic boasts more than 30 ready-made, customizable music education worksheets. Designed for K-12 students, these educator-approved worksheets help teach basic elements of music. Subjects covered include clefs, scales, key signatures, circle of fifths and more.

Also included are classroom repertoire examples and more than 100 flashcards designed to print double-sided (with the answers on the back) for classroom use or self-quizzing. Because they're provided as PrintMusic files it's easy to edit them to your specific needs and print them out, or distribute them via email to be printed by students with the free Finale NotePad.

Print your music and so much more

You've created a great piece. Now you need to share it. With PrintMusic you can print beautiful sheet music. You can also email files that anyone can print and play with the free downloadable Finale NotePad or the Finale SongBook iPad app. Working with someone using different software? You can even share MIDI and MusicXML files.

Sharing Pictures and Sounds
PrintMusic lets you export JPEG graphics of any section or page, to add music to any word processing document. Need something for the iPod? Its also easy to create MP3, WAV, or AIFF audio files.