Finale NotePad is a version of the famous music notation software Finale. NotePad allows you to make simple scores, with a number of basic features borrowed from its sibling Finale. It's also critical to compatibility, since users who don't own Finale can open any file made with a Finale-family program in NotePad.New in 2012. Full compatibility with Finale 2012 files. Unicode font support provides access to every character in your fonts and facilitates the creation of music in any language. It's now FREE!New in 2011.
Furthermore, Finale also allows you to edit sound and create your own MP3 files, using multiple MIDI instruments incorporated. It also has hundreds of exercises for keeping your musical talent in shape. The best songs come from the heart. Finale makes it easy to express them. Trial version Limitations: - It adds a Watermark in the output file. Well, it worked - SORTA - I had to use Adobe Acrobat to make the TIFF file (Reader wont do that function). Once I Imported it over to my FINALE 2009, it worked for only a few measures and well, it was a jumbled mess. I was hoping to play this composition back and hear what it sounds like. It is a composition for Viola and piano by Joseph Jongen.
Full compatibility with Finale 2011 files. Enhanced lyric spacing and improved lyric entry.
Expanded multi-user support.