| | |  | Action | Home » » » » Printmusic 2010 | | | | | | | Description: | | Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life – with professional results. The Setup Wizard helps you create scores of up to 24 staves. Note entry is a breeze, whether you enter with a mouse, MIDI device, microphone, or scanner. Human Playback™ makes your music sound like it’s being performed by live musicians. PrintMusic includes a software synthesizer with over 128 professional grade instrument sounds, plus Marching Percussion from Row-Loff™, and can save MP3s for making your own CDs. Enter notes with a mouse, MIDI keyboard, microphone, or scanner. Play your composition, print publisher-quality sheet music, or make MP3s for CDs of your musical creations. You’ll be proud of the results you get with PrintMusic. | | | Features: | |
• 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard / Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger / Windows 7 / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Title titleDec 04, 2009
By Braden E. Bost
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).
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Second only to FinaleDec 22, 2009
By Dcf
I was looking for a music notation program that would allow me to write full orchestral scores that sounded and played back as realistically as possible. When looking into the Finale products, this included human playback and VST plugin support. In the 2009 versions, this would have been the expensive Finale only. But I didn't need the Garritan Personal Orchestra (I already have it as a standalone program and VST library) that comes with Finale, and some of the extra features in the expensive Finale were not THAT necessary to me.
I was previously looking at the Printmusic 2009, but I just couldn't bring myself to purchase that, since I really wanted that VST plugin support (the SoftSynth integrated sounds are good, but I don't think they're realistic enough). The 2010 version of Printmusic is much more powerful than the 2009 version. It includes the VST Plug-in support so you don't have to use the integrated sound library if you want to go with a more realistic sound library. I use the Garritan Personal Orchestra library as a plug-in which has an excellent sound. As with previous versions of Printmusic, it also includes the Human Playback feature which is a must have in my opinion.
I do mouse-click note entry, and this works well for me. Sure, it's SLOW, but it suits my needs. I'm not in a hurry when putting together lines. I can't comment on the Hyperscribe technology since I've never used it (probably never will).
There are a couple limitations (i.e. things keeping it from perfect) to this SW so far as I've seen. But neither of these would warrant a lower rating. One is that you can only use 24 staves (expensive Finale has unlimited). This isn't too bad because you can always double up instruments (such as horns I, II, and III) onto on a single staff, etc. so you can still get a full orchestra sound if you want. The other limitation is on the human playback. There is a tab selection on the menu for "customize", but it is always grayed out, so you're left with the human playback capabilities which are built into the system, but there are a lot to choose from and they are good. Hopefully, they will include the customizable playback feature in the future.
In all, this product is the best to get if you don't want the expensive Finale. Aside from the full Finale version, I think this one is better than any other Finale product. It's powerful and it's very easy to use!
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful, but could be just a bit better!!!!Feb 12, 2010
By Archimedes
"archimedesz"
I agree with all the positive remarks above. I'm simply going to suggest some different ways the Finale gang could do their interface! The program has obviously been created by musicians, rather than a team of musicians and ordinary folks. Musicians tend to learn one way of doing things, and twist everything around to do it that way, even if it isn't the easiest. Consequences are:
Page setup is just a little different than in most editing/wordprocessing programs. I think the similarities between Printmusic and something like Word, for instance, are greater than the differences, but the page setup is significantly different.
The way "handles" work are just a little too hard to figure out. (Handles are the little gaphical square points from which you can grab something, like a box, as you do in Excel or Powerpoint.) In Printmusic, there is a handle that's associated with a system, for instance. ("System" = one full bunch of music lines bundled together. For instance your page could contain two full lines of music (2 systems), each of which has, say, five staffs, for some 5-voice piece.) But there are so many of these handles floating around that it's difficult to guess which one goes with what. Potentially the same problem exists with Powerpoint, for instance, but one is never at a loss. In Excel, too, when you click on a graph, there are handles for the box, then handles for the axes, and handles for the elements of the graph, etc etc. Ideally some way of handling "handles" will emerge, but I don't think Finale has got it yet.
But the pro's far outweigh the cons; I can get slurs in exactly the way they should be; courtesy accidentals (which you throw in for extra clarity, for instance returning from some modulation); the playback is awesome, if only I understood the finer points of MIDI; the printed output is gorgeous.
Staffs, transposing instruments, clefs, there's just a lot of control over everything. (I did, however, not find out how to switch instruments, if you change your mind and want to replace a violin with, for example, a flute. You can make it sound like a flute, you can label the staff "Flute", etc, but somehow Printmusic seems never to forget that it started out being Violin.
Note: "A4" and "Letter" are not the same; make sure that you choose the same in both the Page Setup in the File menu, as well as the Page Setup in the Page Setup Menu (! What's that all about???)
A really nice piece of software.
Arch
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
This Product is User friendly and fun.Apr 15, 2010
By Ann Rodela
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.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Worth every pennyMar 18, 2010
By J. Carlson
I love Print Music. I had a cheaper, smaller notation software before this one. So far this program has done everything I have needed. I'm not overly tech savvy and this was easy to learn (if I can do it, anyone can). I think it is very user friendly. I use the drop and drag method. I'm an Orchestra teacher and a Church musician. This has handled everything from scores to simple parts.
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