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Finale Songwriter 2007
List price: $49.95
Sale price: $42.99
You save: $6.96 (14%)
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: MakeMusic
Creator(s): Primary Contributor Windows & Macintosh
EAN: 0606776001434
Feature(s): Score Set-up wizardUp to eight staves of musicIncludes guitar and bass chord symbols& fretboard diagramsQuickstart videos show you how to use SongwriterBeautiful, professional quality printed pages
Format(s): CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: Height 7.5 inchesWidth 1.5 inchesLength 5.25 inchesWeight 0.45 lbs.
Label: eMedia
List Price: $49.95
Manufacturer: eMedia
Model: WHR07
MPN: mm00143
Package Dimensions:
Height: 1.6"
Width: 5.3"
Length: 1.6"
Weight: 0.45 lbs.
Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Product Group: Software
Publisher: eMedia
Release Date: 2007-02-01
Studio: eMedia
UPC: 606776001434
Editorial Reviews
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
Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-12
Content: Finale SongWriter
Despite the steep learning curve, I love this software!
I am an adult beginner piano student. I surprised my piano teacher when I presented her with the beautiful, professional score of an original song.
Summary: Music Maker
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-11-09
Content: Finale Songwriter works well if you're low on cash and can't afford the full version. Once learned, even entering complex rhythms becomes fairly easy and quick. There are several limitations to it, however many of them can be worked around. (For example: If you want to enter 4 chord symbols over a single measure with a whole note, you'll have to enter 4 quarter notes tied to get it to work; Also, it won't let you change the number of staves in a piece). There are some other limitations as well, but, overall, a very useful tool for anybody in music. -Darius Sharpe
Summary: Limited but works well for the price.
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-01
Content: I was a little skeptical of the program because earlier reviews seemed that the procedure of writing and printing music was going to be a little more difficult than I could handle. However, the simplicity of this program is incredible! I installed the program, printed and read the instructions, and worked through a little of the tutorial. Then, within about 30 minutes I had entered an old hymn, transposed to another key and printed. I love Finale Songwriter 2007.
Clarese
Summary: Excellent Program
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-10-28
Content: I love this program! I like to doodle around and attempt melodic dictation. Plus it's really helpful since I'm a music major, and can put in music and hear what it sounds like. Although it has no grace notes. Other than that, there's nothing bad I can say about it. It's wonderful. I like that you can change the sounds of the instruments so that if I have to use weird instruments because that staff is weird, I don't have to hear it that way (ex. 4 lines of piano music, with 3 treble clefs and only one bass clef, so I used piccolo, flute, oboe, and bassoon, then changed it so it sounds like piano) And it works beautifully with my Mac, no problems at all. :D
Summary: Pretty dang good for around 30 dollars!
Rating - 2 Date: 2008-10-12
Content: This particular Finale product is too basic for truly advanced composers/musicians. You can't change time signatures or keys mid-song...there aren't even grace notes. It only transposes the most basic music. If you play above an 8 or so, it won't keep up with you. We even tried it at a 5, and it missed some stuff. It works at a basic level, which is why I gave it a 2, but the features are very limited! Go for/use the advanced, expensive programs if you're at that level. We did and are MUCh happier! This particular program would be Great for a beginner, though!
Summary: Ok for beginning to intermediate composers
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