Features

• Arrange full ensembles and extract individual parts
• Play your music with professional sounds and nuance
• Share your music with iPod-ready MP3 files
• Click notes into place 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 (included)
• Import MIDI and MusicXML files
• Play a brass or woodwind instrument into a microphone using Finale's exclusive MicNotator
• Free Software Synthesizer with 128 instrument sounds and marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff.
• Add more sounds with external sound libraries. (VST/AU instruments and effects libraries are sold separately.)
• Human Playback gives your music nuance, as if performed by live musicians
• Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing adds harmonies to your melodies
• Save your music as an audio file to burn CDs or save on an iPod
• Powerful mixer fine-tunes your playback

Entering Notes

• Enter notes with your computer keyboard and/or mouse.
  
• Play your MIDI keyboard – with or without a click track – and watch your music appear on-screen in real-time.
  
• Use your MIDI keyboard in combination with your computer keyboard and mouse to enter notes and chords.
• Scan existing sheet music.
  
• Import MIDI, MusicXML, SmartScore, or Finale family notation files.
• Use the exclusive MicNotator® to play notes into your microphone with a brass or woodwind instrument. 

Easy Note Entry
Enter notes with your computer or MIDI keyboard.

Using Simple Note Entry, click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or enter notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ But entering notes is just the start. You can also:

• Change octaves
• Enter rests
• Add accidentals
• Create triplets
• Add grace notes
• Add notes in a chord to an existing note
• Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock in’ an articulation to place on several notes
• Change the key or time signature simply with key commands
• Add expressions like dynamics or tempos
• Enter a rhythmic pattern using a single note and then re-pitch the repeated notes using your MIDI or computer keyboard

Keystrokes are intuitive and a special key map for laptop users is provided.

MicNotator^® – No MIDI Required

This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into PrintMusic simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument.

Pick up your flute and start making music!

The example below is an unedited flute solo line played in at 90 bpm.

Scanning

No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as PrintMusic, with its included SmartScore^® Lite by Musitek^®.

PrintMusic’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:

• Improved accuracy with XML technology including triplet recognition and better results when scanning polyphonic music.
• Easier Scanning – Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within PrintMusic. With a compatible scanner, PrintMusic provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. *All you have to do is click "Final Scan".
• Secondary voice recognition – counterpoint
• Interface to specify the instrumentation so that your staves will automatically be properly transposed and configured for playback.
• Multiple page scans
• Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
• Up to 32nd note resolution
• Improved recognition of multi-measure rests, grace notes, and repeat measures (slash & dot symbol).
• Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format

PrintMusic imports scanned SmartScore and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the MusicXML files it creates can be read by PrintMusic on Macintosh and Windows computers)

SmartScore Lite is designed to scan original engraved music – not handwritten scores.  Scanning directly from SmartScore Lite within PrintMusic is supported by nearly all Windows scanners and Epson scanners on Macintosh.

SmartScore Pro may recognize lead sheets or hand-written scores provided the notation approximates offset printed sheet music. The closer the manuscript resembles printed music, the better the recognition will be. To upgrade to your SmartScore Lite click here to go to our main SmartScore / Musitek page .

SmartScore Lite Upgrade Comparison Chart

Hearing Your Music

Over 128 sounds included FREE!

PrintMusic has over 128 sounds with minimal system requirements (compatible with nearly any computer) which offers consistent playback when your PrintMusic files are heard in Finale NotePad®, and other MakeMusic products. You can also combine these sounds with the selection of included Row-Loff™ Marching Percussion Sounds. 

External Sound Library Support

PrintMusic supports all third-party VST/AU Instruments and Effects, providing users with unlimited sonic possibilities. (VST/AU libraries are sold separately.)

Fine-tuning your playback

But that’s not all. PrintMusic also offers more features to fine-tune your music including a mixer with integrated sequencer controls, and Human Playback®, which  makes even notes entered with a mouse play back with the nuance of live performers.

Click here for the PrintMusic 2011 User Manual

Click here for PrintMusic Tutorials

Finale PrintMusic for Windows^®

• XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit compatible)
• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution
• CD-ROM drive
• Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended
• 350 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual

Finale PrintMusic for Macintosh^®

• G4 or higher recommended. OS X 10.5-10.7 (Mac-Intel or Power PC)
• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution
• CD-ROM drive
• Minimum 512 MB RAM recommended
• 450 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual

Optional

• MIDI interface
• MIDI input and/or playback device
• Printer
• Scanner
• Microphone required for use of MicNotator^®