There are some complications for notation systems like Express Stave or Twinline where more than one note may occupy the same line or space (in the Finale staff style). If you are using one of the simpler chromatic-staff systems where only one note goes in each line or space, you can then use your mouse to enter notes by clicking on the chromatic staff just as with a traditional staff. To write music, first apply the alternative staff style from a template file to an empty staff or staves in Finale or Finale NotePad 2006 or 2007. With this method it is also possible to compose music directly in an alternative notation, or edit music that has been transnotated. Editing music on a chromatic staff in Finale or NotePad 2006 If you are interested in giving this method a try, please contact us. NotePad 2008 and later versions do not have this ability to paste staff styles over existing music.Īfter you have created a score in an alternative notation in Finale NotePad 2006 or 2007, the file can then be imported into a later Finale application, in which the original template file itself would not work (such as NotePad 2008 or 2009). So NotePad can be used to transnotate music from traditional notation into alternative notations, when it is combined with the relevant notation template file(s) and possibly a custom music font (depending on the alternative notation system). However, if you just have NotePad 2006 or 2007 you can still use staff styles by copying them from pre-existing template files. Creating the template files that contain these custom staff styles requires the full version of Finale. The method involves pasting custom (alternative) staff styles onto existing (traditionally notated) music. They did not want them to compete with their new NotePad 2009 (which they began selling for $10, along with the free Finale Reader that is read-only and offers no editing functions – more details from our blog). These earlier versions of NotePad were available as a free download until the fall of 2008 when MakeMusic pulled them from their site. Using Keller’s Finale conversion method requires the full version of Finale ($600 or $350 academic pricing) or a copy of Finale NotePad 2006 or 2007. Using Finale with Alternative Music Notation Systems You can see how it works in the following video he created. To see the results of his efforts check out the musical works we have available for Express Stave which he created with his “Finale Notation Converter.” His method makes it possible to transnotate music into his Express Stave and other alternative notation systems. How will you put a free NotePad to good use? Which A&W menu item offers the best metaphor? Please share your thoughts by clicking on “Comments” below.John Keller, a notation designer from Australia, has pioneered a way to use Finale music software with alternative notation systems. I can also make great use of NotePad when I’m away from my computer (but near anyone else’s) and inspiration strikes. My music educator friends can create assignments and tests with Finale that thier students can open and complete in NotePad. A free NotePad simplifies collaboration with nearly any computer owner: I simply remind my co-conspirators to download NotePad to view, play, and print Finale files I send them AND to make any necessary edits. While this is clearly great news for folks who want to create music notation who don’t currently own any software, it’s also great news for people, like me, who already own Finale. Or maybe the Teen Burger.įinale NotePad 2012 will also include select features new to Finale 2012, including Unicode font support (providing access to all characters in any font and facilitating the creation of music in any language) and aspects of Finale’s new ScoreManager™, which simplifies the control of playback sounds. To use my favorite A&W menu metaphor, if Finale is the Poppa Burger, NotePad is the Baby Burger. NotePad is, of course, entry-level music notation software. MakeMusic announced today the upcoming release of Finale NotePad 2012, which will be available for download on February 15, 2012.Įven bigger news is that Finale NotePad 2012 will be free.
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