Finale PrintMusic 2010 [Old Version]

3 3 out of 5 stars | 14 ratings

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Last update: 09-04-2024


About this item

Music software for arrangers, composers, teachers, students, and other musicians
Play MIDI keyboard and see music appear instantly; import/export MIDI and MusicXML files
Share songs with free, downloadable Finale Reader; save MP3 files for an iPod
Free software synthesizer with 128+ instrument sounds; Human Playback
Composing and arranging tools; multiple-undo option; quick-start videos for getting started

Top reviews from the United States

RAC
1.0 out of 5 stars Abject Disappointment
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2010
I purchased Finale PrintMusic primarily to scan in printed music to facilitate arranging edits, transpositions, etc. The product does a poor job of accurately scanning printed music, and the correction process is at best tedious. The scanning software included with PrintMusic is Smartscore LITE by Musitek, which is apparently a crippled version of the top-of-the-line scanning software. In any event, it does not scan within reasonable ranges of accuracy. If the sheet music is in near perfect condition, I find the accuracy to be marginally adequate. In the last page of printed music that I scanned (32 measures), there were more than three dozen errors, including missing slurs, missing measure bars, incorrect notes, and no titles or chords. If you need reliable music scanning capabilities, buy other software. I never tried the MicNotator feature and never will, because the PrintMusic box is now in a round file marked "trash."
Mike
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for drummers
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2010
I purchased this hoping it would replace the shareware software I use for drum kit notation. Unfortunately, its ability to enter drum notation is limited by virtue of the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way to add, delete or modify percussion instruments nor to modify what percussion instrument goes where on the staff. The placement of toms in particular seems to not follow the standards I generally see in drum notation and I would like to have been able to change this. I also tried the scan/import feature and it didn't work as well as I'd have liked. The piece of music I wanted to scan has several measures that are repeated 16 times but, unfortunately, the shareware program I use is limited to 15 repetitions. I hoped to import this into PrintMusic and fix the number of repetitions but it didn't even pick up the repetitions notated on the scanned sheet music. All in all, this was quite a disappointment and I'm returning it.
A. Sadovnikov
3.0 out of 5 stars Good software with a few specific problems
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2010
I run Finale PrintMusic 2010 on Vista OS computer for a few months. I bought it for very specific project: 1) to scan high-quality printout of a score, 2) make a few small changes to score (and correct scan errors), 3) insert lyrics in cyrillic (Russian). Here are my observations:
1) Scan quality is O.K. - I have to correct only 2-15 notes per page. However, sometimes it misses important things (e.g. it thinks that duration sign 12/8 is a cord of half notes) and scan becomes nearly useless.
2) Compared to Finale Academic (i.e. full version), PM can not do two important (for me) things: A) after scanning, it leaves clefs only at the first system and there is no way to insert them in every system. B) It is impossible to start numbering measures and pages ina document from any number other than "1".
3) What is really bad in this software is handling cyrillic font. Built-in TimeNewRoman/cyrillic font does not allow to cut-and-paste text in text tool and lyrics tool does not work at all. I downloaded another font and now I can type-in using "blind" method, i.e. cyrillic letters appear as latin letters during typing.
Ann
4.0 out of 5 stars This Product is User friendly and fun.
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2010
I like this product!!! I composed my music with in minutes after installing it on my Windows Vista (Basic) and watching the quick start videos. They designed the product to be user friendly and fun. Typing in the notes and hearing it play back with the rich tone colors of timpani, harp, piano and electric guitar make the music come alive and then you can export to a wav or mp3 file. I have found the edit features which include add/remove staff, insert a measure, essential in developing a song. You can use a midi keyboard to enter notes but I just use my laptop's mouse for ultimate portability. This product has increased my knowledge and enjoyment of music.:)

P.S. I couldn't add tags. So I would write notation software, music in the tag.
Braden E. Bost
5.0 out of 5 stars Title title
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2009
I've had this for roughly a month and I love it. Let me go through my uses and skill level so you understand what I've needed so you can determine if this is the right one for you. (I spent a lot of time debating since there's such a huge price difference between this and the full version, or even Allegro).

First - understand that you can always update your version to Allegro or full via the Finale website for the difference in price. That helped me be even more comfortable with my purchase.

I am a musical hobbyist and (very) part-time instructor. I use Finale to write out my musical ideas so I can mess around with other instruments and parts which I may not have available or even know how to play. Often, being able to SEE what I've written allows me to arrange better--some people need to hear and play, and I am not like this. At least not yet. I also love taken written songs and creating new arrangements for them. I'm a big geek so I love arranging video game songs on piano or guitar. It's so easy to find midi files online and I just open the file in Print Music and viola! I have the whole song written out. Saves me hours upon hours of listening and re-listening and frustration until I'm tired of the song. If I had to find a gripe, the only one would be that the tabbing tool is poorly put together, and that sucks since my primary instrument is guitar. But honestly it doesn't ruin anything, it's just annoying (I'd ding it .01 stars for that if I could).
chazz
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018
Got it for my brother, format would not work, seller refused a refund.
Teodorico Zurlo
4.0 out of 5 stars un ottimo software
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2009
se si cerca un software di notazione musicale adatto al 98% delle esigenze quotidiane Finale Print Music 2010 è la soluzione;
economico, potente, non avido di risorse, completo, ricco di dotazioni che si spingono fino all'integrazione di un modulo di scansione per l'acquisizione delle partiture stampate, viene offerto ad meno di un quinto del prezzo di campioni come lo stesso Finale o il suo diretto antagonista Sibelius (entrambi potentissimi ma sovradimensionati per l'utente medio) complimenti quindi a chi ha pensato a questa modulazione di prodotto.

consigliatissimo

Teodorico Zurlo
Roma, Italia

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