Create, publish, and share your music with the world with MakeMusic Finale 2012 music notation software. With this version, Finale has been significantly updated with a number of new features designed to make scoring, arranging, and educating easier and faster.

Finale 2012 introduces the new ScoreManager, which intelligently controls the way music looks and sounds. Finale 2012 also includes Unicode font support, broadening Finale's visual possibilities; additional Garritan sounds for high-quality playback; and several other advances facilitating greater collaboration between composers and performers, educators and students, and so forth.

According to MakeMusic, Finale 2012 redefines how music is created, shared, seen and heard, thus better enabling musicians to focus on their inspiration.

"Finale 2012 continues to expand on the renowned power and flexibility that has established Finale as the leading notation software product in the world," said Karen van Lith, MakeMusic president and CEO. "Musicians  I've spoken to are extremely excited about the new ScoreManager because it lets them perfect their music -- to their individual taste -- more quickly than ever before."

Highlights of Finale 2012:

• ScoreManager: Finale's new ScoreManager helps musicians quickly make their creations look and sound any way they wish. Advanced control over staff playback and appearance are now in one convenient place.


• Unicode text support: Musicians can easily access any character in today's fonts, facilitating the creation of music in any language and the use of previously elusive font characters.


• Music education tools: Finale 2012 saves music educators time while helping them provide more for their students. More than 1,000 customizable worksheets and repertoire titles are included, as well as fonts created for music education and exclusive support of SmartMusic, the interactive music software for band, orchestra, and voice.


• File sharing: Expanded .PDF support and graphic capabilities bring music to word processing and graphics programs. Music XML 3.0 offers collaboration with users of hundreds of other music programs, and additional enhancements redefine playback with other Finale products.


• Additional improvements: More Garritan sounds, new staff spacing tools, new fonts, auto-detection of MIDI devices, new tutorial guide and user manual with integrated video, and more.

By providing advances in appearance, playback and new ways to share music, Finale 2012 enables musicians to achieve the highest quality results in less time, MakeMusic says.

For more information on Finale 2012, please visit finalemusic.com.