![]() The very popular Finale Notepad will soon be getting a major upgrade for its 2009 edition. New features are being added, but this most basic of music notation software programs will no longer be free. In an email sent out to registered users of Finale Notepad MakeMusic has announced the imminent release of its newest version, Finale Notepad 2009.  Until now this bare bones music notation software program has been made available for free (registration required) via the MakeMusic web site. While missing most of the bells and whistles of their commercial versions of Finale, Notepad was still a solid, useful tool for beginning music students to use on their home computers to complete assignments or simply to doodle in the world of composition. According to a September 4th email Notepad 2009 will break with this tradition and instead come with a very modest price tag of $9.95 and will purchased as a download from the MakeMusic web site. MakeMusic is also planning the release of another product, Finale Reader which will reportedly open, play, and print Finale format files but will not allow any editing of the music. A release date for Finale Reader has not yet been published.Īs of the writing of this article the old (free) version of Finale Notepad 2008 was still available for download on the MakeMusic's Notepad page. Anyone that wants to grab a copy of it should act immediately as the old versions are slated to be removed as soon as the new version is officially published in the next week or so.If anyone out there knows the answer I would appreciate to hear from you :-) would be a good bet) and the addition of MusicXML import and export.  So what will the buyer get for $9.95 that was not previously available for free? Only two additions were mentioned in the message, most prominently the addition of expressions (dynamics, accents, etc. ![]() 'Tis Herself - I have the tee shirt to prove it!įirst, we have a bit of a communication problem. I'm thinking that what you are calling tracks are called staves (the singular for staves is staff). A staff is a set of five horizontal lines that generally run from margin to margin.Ī set of staves joined together with a bracket on the left hand side and form a single line of music is called (at least, when using Finale products) a system. ![]() I'm also thinking what you are calling bars are also called maesures, which is what the Finale products call them. a measure is the space on each staff that has been divided by vertical lines (or bars). I'm guessing from what you are saying that when you import the midi file into Notepad, it is putting extra staves in each system. If that is the case, you cannot delete the extra staves. You will have to set up a second document with the correct number of staves, using the Setup Wizard you get when you click on File up at the the top, then click on New in the menu that drops down after clicking File. Then you will have to copy and paste the staves you want from the original document to the new one. To get rid of unused measures, open the selection tool, double click on the first unused measure in the top staff. This will highlight the first unused measure in all of the staves. In spite of being very complicated software with a steep learning curve, Jorgan is very smooth, stable and usually glitch free.Go to the end of the piece, hold down the shift key and click on the top measure (while holding down the shift key).Īs I mentioned in another post, you should check out the sticky post above about Notepad's limitations. Mac Finale NotePad 2009 Undelete 2009 Free to try Protect and recover data, recover. As the name implies, Jorgan is based on JAVA. Finale Finale NotePad 2009 9.95 Create orchestrations of up to 8 staves, and enter notes. Has your development team considered doing a Windows build based upon JAVA? (I am an avid Jorgan user, a VTPO available from Sourceforge. That makes me suspect that the glitches may be mostly related to the Windows XP (SP3) operating system. but at the present time, this software appears to have more bugs than an ant colony.I've found problems such as this with other related music software. This software has wonderful potential, and I am very thankful to the Musescore development team for its tremendous efforts and fair results. While the job eventually got done with beautiful results, numerous glitches, lockups and some crashes occurred along the way, and, in desperation, the final score formatting was done through screenshots and a third party graphics editor. The task of producing a 4.5 mi nute professional looking vocal solo with piano accompaniment proved daunting, to say the least. I used 1.3 on a nine year old Celeron PC with 500mb/ram. Ran about as well as a ballpoint pen that skips badly!.
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