Some Finale users have more complex notation needs than others. That makes sense: I would imagine that someone creating avant garde 21st century notation would push notational boundaries more than someone creating a traditional string quartet or big band score.
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing in Finale
Finale includes dozens of plug-ins. I describe Finale’s plug-ins as “little applications that make complicated tasks easy.” One of the coolest plug-ins (and perhaps my favorite to demonstrate) is called “Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing.” This plug-in automatically harmonizes any melody, allowing you to choose from a wide variety of harmonization styles, ranging from two to six parts.
Global Staff Attributes: Let Finale do your heavy lifting
At a recent Finale training in Dallas I spoke to a user who had figured out HOW to do what they wanted to do with Finale, but not how to do it efficiently.
Science Fiction, Speech Recognition, and Finale
Last week my wife, a director of nursing at a major medical institution, came home jazzed about new technologies in health care.
Evolution of the Finale Manuals
The Finale 1.0 box (which held three manuals and more) and the Finale 2011 Quick Reference Guide
Finale has had many different user manuals in the course of the last 22 years.