Makemusic Finale 27 Professional Music Notation Software For Students & Teachers – Academic Only (Download Card)

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars | 5 ratings

Price: 99

Last update: 11-21-2024


About this item

This item is sold and shipped as a download card with printed instructions on how to download and install the software and a serial key to register and authenticate it.
Advanced sharing functionality: Finale 27 lets you quickly and easily share your music notation with anyone. You can upload and share privately or publicly, without ever leaving the app.
Support for Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL): SMuFL is a growing comprehensive standard that organizes musical characters into a common layout so music fonts are displayed correctly across every notation program that supports it — so you can spend more time creating and less time searching for music symbols.
Revised instrument list: Finale 27 sports a revised and expanded instrument list that ensures your notation looks great — no matter what instrument you’ve selected — and that you hear the proper sounds when playing back a document.
MusicXML 4.0: The latest version of MusicXML captures more information then ever, giving you even more control when transporting your compositions, so you’ll be able to confidently and efficiently move files between today’s major music software apps.

Top reviews from the United States

Crewman Jordan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, easy to use software
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
Excellent product. The software is surprisingly easy to learn. I've used Sebelius for the last 20 years, and find Finale a bit easier. Print looks sharp. Pretty hard to beat at the price.
APNEWZ
3.0 out of 5 stars Way Too Many Changes
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2023
I'm very unhappy with Finale 27. I've been using Finale for 10 years and I didn't want a complete remake of it, like going in for a haircut and getting your hair died purple and shaved on one side. And now, when I go back to the old Finale there are features that used to work that don't work any more. I don't have time to memorize brand new icons and view numerous tutorials just so I can do what I already knew how to do on old good Finale. You fixed things that weren't broken and broke things that were fixed. Stop trying so hard.
medsmon
3.0 out of 5 stars Amazing potential, but filled with bugs
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2022
I did not buy Finale 27 through Amazon, as I originally bought Finale over 10 years ago and just a few months ago upgraded to Finale 27 directly through the discounted price on the MakeMusic website. However, the MakeMusic website provides no method to rate their product (very wise on their part), so I'm hoping this review will get posted here. Back 10+ years ago, Finale was fairly nice, but literally fraught with bugs that made it annoying and frustrating to use. "Surely", I thought, "they've worked most of the bugs out by now." How wrong I was!
I am a recently retired software engineer - Finale 27 is a classic case of focusing on providing vast functionality at the expense of quality and testing. Multiple times per hour I run into numerous bugs with this program. Don't get me wrong - its capabilities are tremendous, and you can eventually get to a great sounding piece of music. But your day will be filled with mutterings, curse words and the occasional "note to self - never spend money on this product again." And you are unlikely to get nicely spaced and appropriately sized measures if your piece includes lyrics - Finale 27 seems to arbitrarily choose a few measures here and there to space and size in ways that will just have you shaking your head in distraught amazement. This makes PDF'ing a piece for, say, choir use a bit of an embarrassment.
So... on the one hand, yes, Finale 27 can produce some awesome sounding music - kudos to the developers for that. On the other hand, you will be astounded at how many bugs you run into - far and away the most bugs I've ever seen in a commercial software product. Rotten tomatoes to the developers for lack of quality and testing, and apparently no concern for either since Finale has not improved in this regard for over a decade. But... if you have a high threshold of exasperation, Finale 27 will get you to a truly quality-sounding piece of music... eventually.

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