Product Description: Finale Songwriter 2007 makes it easier and more productive to experiment with melodies, explore new arrangements and experience your songs! Work with a full orchestra of instruments, and adjust tempos to give your songs more energy. Use the Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing to create a full sound. Print professional-quality sheet music, create MP3 files, even e-mail your songs to band members, friends, and fans! Transpose to any key Type a chord name to hear how it sounds - and see its guitar fretboard Select automatic drum grooves for different styles Add automatic harmonies Experiment with over 128 professional instruments Print great-looking sheet music Save MP3 files to create audio CDs or to play on an iPod Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer-no hardware required Use Human Playback to make songs sound like they're performed like live musicians Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing Automatic lyric placement - up to six lyric verses Chord symbols, fretboard diagrams and percussion notation Automatic note spacing, dynamics, slurs, and articulations Multiple Undo
Finale Songwriter I've found this product easy to use and was more than worth the price I paid for it. I'm impressed with the ease of transposing my music into what ever key I wish to use.
The only problem I've had is being able to access this on my 2 computers. I have a computer in my studio that I would like to use sometime, but I would have to buy a second copy, even though I am the only user. I will buy a second copy because I believe it's worth it.
One Stop Music Transcription for Songwriters Are you a songwriter who wants to write notes for your melody, add some lyrics, hear the song played back, print it and save it as an mp3 for easy sharing on the web? If so, with this tool your search has ended. Excellent tutorial videos and help included. Many operations are intuitive just by reading the text in the upper part of the screen.
Where are the grace notes? For the most part Finale Songwriter was very good. The computerized instruments that allowed me to hear my music before I printed it was great. It was not completely the same as a real musician, but I know that will never be possible. The note placing on the staff was so easy and allowed me to write chords so much faster than by hand. Many of the advanced techniques that I wanted to use such as grace notes were not there. I expected all Finale products to have these features. I was severely disappointed when I found that these features were missing. It is very frustrating to me to purchase Finale Songwriter just to find out that I need to purchase the more advanced, more expensive Finale.
Easy Writer Writing music is so easy with Finale Songwriter software. I wish I'd found it sooner. Thank you Finale.
Sure beats transcribing by hand - simple to use (relatively) Speaking as an amateur musician who takes songwriting very seriously - Finale SW writes my charts flawlessly. The interface for manually editing is simple to use, albeit time consuming. I mention this not as a fault of the software but as a warning that if you play your midi device as I do, not well, there is a lot of manual editing after.
I do most of my stuff on this using the manual entry features. I get faster with practice and the charts it produces are beautiful.
I've tried many programs and this is by far the best I've used.
An additional benefit I'm sure not intended by Finale; My keyboard skills are beginning to improve as I try playing more acurately thus reducing the time spent correcting.
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