New Features Include:

• Vista Compatible
• Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback.
• More than 250 world-class sounds from the creators of Garritan Personal Orchestra®. Free new sounds include saxophones, choirs, guitar, marching percussion, world instruments, and more.
• Multiple sound libraries now work together seamlessly in Finale 2008. Combine all the included sounds, including Finale's Garritan Instruments, Row-Loff™ Marching Percussion, Jose Cortijo's Latin Percussion, and the SmartMusic® SoundFont.
• Use intuitive keystrokes to select measures or partial measures horizontally and vertically. No need to visit a menu. Consistent clipboard- and drag-copying make it easy to copy all measure items, even between documents. Quickly drag and drop music, even over highlighted regions. Make small adjustments easily, like shifting music a beat or two right or left. Paste faster: no need to highlight the entire destination when clipboard-copying. Get improved visual feedback when pasting and inserting.
• A powerful new Selection Tool has inherited all the functionality of the former Mass Edit Tool. Adapted for selecting measure regions, the Selection Tool is now Finale's universal editing utility.
• Personal Document Styles - Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own. New and expanded text inserts. Now you can specify the arranger, lyricist and a sub-title in addition to the composer, title and copyright. Expanded spacing control - Just click the "Add Vertical Space" button for more space between staves. Intelligent page layout that automatically adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on the page. Specify the number of measure in your score.
• With Document Styles in Finale 2008, you can instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.
• New useful coloured noteheads. Colored noteheads have multiple applications and are especially popular in elementary education.
• Finale 2008 even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colours are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.
• Easily merge multiple scores automatically using the ScoreMerger™.
• Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
  
• Easier Scanning - Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within Finale. With a compatible scanner, Finale 2008 provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. * All you have to do is click "Final Scan".
• Finale can import and export MusicXML files—right from the File menu and the launch window. Unlike MIDI files, MusicXML allows you to transfer the sounds and graphical elements in your file to other applications.
• Human Playback enhancements include support for the following Garritan products: Stradivari Solo Violin 2.0, Gofriller Solo Cello, and Garritan Concert & Marching Band.
• When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window. Select from more than 60 pre-made templates (including SATB, Kodály, solfege, and more) then let Finale’s Setup Wizard do the rest, adding text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist) as well as key/time signatures, pickup measures, tempo markings, and the number of measures.
• Finale’s documentation resources, including the User Manual, Tutorial Guide, and Context Help, have all been consolidated into a single, contextual, interactive, searchable environment.
• Improved Hyperscribe. Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard - even record continuous data including the sustain pedal.
  - Record your live vocal or instrumental performance - an exclusive Finale feature.
  - Recording first and second endings with HyperScribe is now seamless — Finale skips over the first ending on the second pass allowing for smooth transitions
  - Specify a playback tempo before you record or Finale can record at the tempo you use when playing your MIDI keyboard.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows XP/Vista 32-bit.
  
• CD or DVD-ROM drive.
  
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
  
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
  
• 400MB hard drive space required for software and user manual.
• An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.
  

• G4 or higher recommended. OS 10.4 or higher (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
  
• CD or DVD-ROM drive.
  
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
  
• Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds/Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds).
  
• 400MB hard drive space required for software and user manual.
• An additional 1.6GB hard drive space is required for all Garritan sounds.
  

• MIDI interface
  
• MIDI input and/or playback device
  
• Printer
  
• Scanner
  
• Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
  
• A soundcard (including a DirectSound driver) is required for playing the Garritan sounds in Windows.
  
• Please note that the Rhythm Section Generator is not available for Macintosh.

Educational Pricing:

* Price Per User
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